hopeless old men on skateboards

I envy the kids their quickness and the spring, faster healing and flexibility, not to mention a generation of dudes paving the way for them, literally – but maturity has it’s advantages.

Someone tried to comment on the site insulting the Portland city government and a friend of mine for their efforts to build free public skateparks in Portland, while simultaneously praising the new plaza-style skatepark. In particular he liked the number of good places for him to take a marijuana break.

He’s missing the link between the money to build that skatepark or any skateparks in Portland with the efforts of both Portland city government and the skatepark advocate he was maligning.

I just designated his comment as spam. I have no problem censoring people with uninformed opinions. There’s enough stupid noise out there.

I think people should worry about their own morality. I mean what if someone supported a constitutional amendment that discriminated against bloateed evangelicals?

Enjoyed skating Newberg last Saturday with Grover, Jack, Rich, Kathleen, Jeremy, Morris and Matt. The light was great. I made a little movie – 52 seconds 7.54MB – and added it to the texture-gazing post I did a couple of days ago. Watch the clip after the jump.

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I need to come up with some more characters this year.