Rocket powered skateboard

Best / Worst Dad ever

I have a son who is nearing two years old. I hope that I will be the kind of dad who, like this one, decided that if he was going to go through the trouble of risking a divorce by making a rocket powered skateboard for his son, he would at least pad him up […]

Snow Day in Portland

Snow Day

It doesn’t snow very often in Portland Oregon. When it does, it rarely sticks on the ground or amounts to much of anything. When we get a snow day we like to maximize it by calling in to work “Oh.. it’s too slippery. I can’t possibly make it in to work today” and then piling […]

Skateboarder attacked by Coyote

Skateboarder attacked by Coyote. Police search for TNT.

Denver’s Channel 7 News reports that a skateboarder was attacked by a Coyote. Two different residents said a boy was attacked by a coyote while riding his skateboard. They said he was able to fend off the coyote with the skateboard. A certain Wile. E. is being sought as an animal of interest. Apparently, Wile […]

Skate Safe

The ghost of Barry Zaritsky in Skateboard Sense

Hold on to your mustaches, it’s a skateboard safety film from the 70’s. There have been a couple of educational films made over the years that deal with the subject of skateboard safety. I’ve seen bits and pieces of some before, but the full versions have always eluded me. Thanks to the folks at I-Mockery, […]

Satanic cult worship concerns local police

Satanic cult worship and vague, general feeling of being “out of touch” concerns local police.

At the urging of Old Man Army, Recent Skate and Annoy conscript Elder Skelter (long first time reader, first time caller) sent us this newspaper article scanned from the November 12, 1987 issue of the Valley Times. Things must have been pretty uptight in Geauga county Ohio for the authorities to get that bent out […]

Harriet Miers Quits White House, Wants to Spend More Time Skateboarding

Instant punchline: Skateboarding adults

Skateboarding adults are funny. Lulu Maude gives it the old Onion try in her post titled Harriet Miers Quits White House, Wants to Spend More Time Skateboarding Check it out here. Lulu’s profile says she is a “a retired schoolmarm.” What’s a schoolmarm anyway? Did she retire in the 1920’s? Just in case Take Your […]

World's longest grind?

When is a grind a grind?

If you are tired of discussing the merits of found pools versus skatepark replicas, you can move on to arguing about when is a grind a grind? Enter this so-called World’s Longest Grind video. Watch the video and we’ll break it down for you after the jump.

turd patrol

All the animals come out at night.

Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets. Sent in from EPM – How to clean a turd out of your skatepark: 1. Wall anomaly detected 2. Recon of bogey and turd confirmed 3. Tactical unit activated 4. Precision targeting 5. Enemy neutralized 6. Extraction unit mobilized Your full […]

A 10,000 acre skatepark.

SPS Wouldn’t Make This Mistake

A 10,000 acre skatepark. It could happen. From The Onion: In print and excerpted for The Onion Radio. Source: Skatedaily.net Park officials said the typo went undetected, as it was a minor rider to the “Healthy Forests Initiative,” which granted timber companies greater access to public forests. By the time the error was identified, state […]