Fight for Your Right to Shred

Recently, The Boston Herald featured an article about the supposed ‘crack down’ on skateboarding on city property. The issue became notable because the city had recently spent $4,300 to skate-stop the Copley Fountain, and within three days most-all of them were removed by four-wheeled vigilantes.

 I think this ‘crack-down’ is nothing more than an easy story for the Herald to write, but also is message from the Boston Police Department and the city meant to scare skaters away while not having to actually use recourses to build a spot for us to skate or to up enforcement to kick out skaters.

I was delighted to see that skateboarders are willing to band together and get their hands dirty, in making spots their own, or in this case, keeping them that way. 67 removed skate-stoppers is an impressive number and probably took more than one loyal enthusiast.

Don’t fear shredders of Boston, I have a feeling no actual crack-down is in place. 

Buy Local.

Skate-shops

Cult-like, filthy

Chilling, lurking, conversing

Truth, family, degradation, profit

Stylizing, commercializing, hard-selling

Greedy, shallow

Boutiques

I Used to Skate.

There once was a boy who pushed mongo,

He didn’t skate for that long. No.

With his front foot he pushed.

Oh how his pride was smushed,

So he traded his board for a bongo. 

On Skateboarding

Embody the musings of Gnaroclese

Like the deformed adolescent Tesudines.

Moving paintings on Saturday morning

Stealthily shape the youth. No warning.

We take what we want and break what we need.

No drugs, just ecstasy, trees, and speed.

Mt. Olympus must serve Mtn Dew,

Holy water gallons, and Slim Jims too.

Only through faith may we taste the nectar.

Satan makes a concubine of Sheckler. 

Bummer.

Skateboarding was cool.

Welcome To Hell and Sorry

Now we have X-Games.