hopeless old men on skateboards

Happy Halloween.

First panel paraphrases Jan Tschichold, The Form of the Book and the third is from John Frohnmayer, “Beyond Individualism” in Oregon Humanities. Why do my friends and I all run independent skateboarding websites? For the same reason that dogs lick their genitals. Is that true about Canadians by the way of has the disease spread north of the border?

Looking a little crappy with all the overpainting of unskilled graffiti. On the bright side, the painted areas are smoother than the raw crete.

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Murray Silverstein, In The Boys Room: Twelve Mothers Respond to an Architectural Pattern. I have attended many skatepark-design meetings and keep waiting for someone to suggest, “we need a feature like the Pier Park pipe where we can smoke weed and the cops can’t see us from the street.”

By the way, Pier Park skatepark turned three on October 14th. I spaced it. I went over there today under threatening skies, swept and toweled the bowl dry and skated by myself for an hour. I love that place.

It was a tough pool to skate but we had some fun for a couple of days. Dave also posted up another shot on his blog.