Recent Entries

• Sneakers Are Just Receipts of Who You Actually Are

  by Dez Fontaine May 28
  I used to think sneaker culture was about the shoes. Like, genuinely believed it was about rubber and leather and whether your Jordans had the right air bubble or if your Dunks matched the hype machine that week. Took me way too long to realize that's the surface level conversation, the thing people...

• Skateboarding Is A Conversation You Have With Your Own Limits

  by Dez Fontaine May 24
  So I was at this spot last week, nothing special, just a ledge by an old warehouse in a neighborhood that's already half-gentrified and half-forgotten. And I'm watching this kid, maybe fourteen, trying to kickflip onto the thing. He's been at it for like two hours straight. Not landing it. Not even ...

• The Skateboard as a Time Machine You Never Knew You Needed

  by Dez Fontaine May 24
  I was watching my little cousin learn to push mongo the other day and it hit me different. Not because it's wrong or whatever, but because I realized something most people never think about when they picture skateboarding. We talk about tricks and spots and style all the time, but nobody really talk...

• Stop Waiting for Pop Culture to Mean Something

  by Dez Fontaine May 24
  You ever notice how we treat pop culture like it owes us answers? Like a movie or album or TV show has some hidden message that's gonna crack open how we understand the world, and if we just analyze it hard enough, we'll finally get it? We'll finally understand ourselves?That's the game everybody's ...

• The Ones We Hate Are Just The Ones We're Scared of Becoming

  by Dez Fontaine May 24
  I been thinking about how we treat the pop culture figures we actually despise, and it's wild how much energy we throw at people we claim not to care about. Like, if you really didn't care, you wouldn't be in the comments typing paragraphs about why they're trash. You'd just scroll past. But we don'...