Filling in the Blanks

Please forgive me. I was naive. I thought I was going to build a home for a couple of opinion-oriented stories, between curb-wax scented mind-fart and hopeless buoys in the ocean before El Niño. Alas, an app and my brain decided otherwise.

Admittedly, there is a long list of skate stories I’d love to read and hear –the underlying truth of the actual plans behind the plans, as Frank Herbert put it– but I wasn’t ready for an uncooperative grid.  Yet, if anything, it fed the overthinker part of me.

The “Skateboard Movies” piece is a prime example. I had already dived into the subject at the International Skateboard Film Festival, but reading posts on Instagram reignited the fire to dig into some backstories and chain reactions. 

Suddenly, a good, I hope, problem arose: I couldn’t, in good conscience and for the sake of my background in print publications, leave a piece surrounded by nothingness. 

So there… Carte Blanche [Skateboarding].