I’ve updated the sidebar with a few new sites that I’ve decided are noteworthy. My morning ritual involves checking each and every one of them. I’m the worst employee ever.

Lifelounge
I Love New Work
Boing Boing
Meathaus
ArtSkills
It’s Nice That
NotCot
ffffound
Thrasher Magazine
Mice To Meet You
Kitsune Noir

Globe skate shoe company has a little short film project going on called United By Fate. Their first episode featured mainly Paul Machnau (but cameos from everyone else they sponsor) and was sick in extremis. The second episode, the Chris Haslam episode, just went live today and it is brilliant. Chris Haslam looks like an angry Jesus via Easy Rider and skates like gravity is a relative force. There’s even a cameo from rad little David Gonzalez, the Colombian Kid. Dude skates better than a lot of pros and he can’t even grow a mustache. Go watch the new episode of United By Fate. It made me want to skate and I’m not out of my pajamas yet. They’re pretty spacious jammies; I could probably pull it off.

United By Fate
Globe

There’s never been any love lost between cops and skaters, and as skaters we know we aren’t in for any kindness from the police. But this just goes too far. You don’t need to choke out a kid for skating just because you’ve been a cop for 10 years with no promotions or decent arrests or anything to show for it. Get over yourself, dude. I hope these kids fuck the city government up the ass for this shit.

I’m actually blogging while waiting for a Tom Penny video part to load so I thought it’s be a good time to mention Go Skateboarding Day. The holiday finally has an official nod from Congress so you can try and finagle a day off from work. Just tell your boss that you’re a skating Buddhist, like Shao-Lin only with skateboards instead of ass kicking. So next Thursday, the 21st, I’ll see you on the streets.

Go Skateboarding Day