Reposting for all the new adherents of Worm Theory.

Ratatouillied by the worm Tampa Pro 2026, Dalton Dern and the worm, the ick and wonder of a promotional campaign, is a skateboarding trick ever yours? and more.

This week, which Tampa Pro finalist is sponsored by a laser hair removal clinic? An argument for submitting to the worm, a really long and meandering essay about promotional campaigns in and out of skateboarding, and more.

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[new trick] Thursday

For the love of the game. It happened, though, I swear.

Did a switch 360 flip today. It has been seven years since I last did one. Can't wait to do another in 2033.

The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman Check out The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman - <p><b>A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.</b></p><p> When Wilco's 2007 album <i>Sky Blue Sky</i> was infamously critic...

Next month is the one year anniversary of the release of my debut book, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, and to celebrate i would love to sell out the initial print run. It's a goal that's already close!

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For the afternoon crowd: hot goss

The boycott of the Giller Prize is over, as all three demands have successfully been met

Reporting from @rdassaly.bsky.social for @thegrindto.bsky.social here:

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Campaign statement here:

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Photoshopped graphic of the Earth setting behind a giant Spitfire Formula 4 wheel as the Artemis spacecraft floats in front.

This week, we're feeling feelings about Antwuan Dixon, space travel, new skateboarding tricks, and more.

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The rare New Clip Thursday that is also an Old Clip Thursday (and a fine one at that)

Jimmyjam season

An excellent essay by Cole Nowicki about David Macfarlane's new book ON SPORTS

❤️🙏!

Happy to be back in @thetyee.ca this weekend with a piece about enjoying sports, not enjoying the deleterious effect sports gambling is having on most everything, and really enjoying David Macfarlane’s new book “On Sports.”

Thanks to @jackie-wong.bsky.social for the supreme edits, as per usual.

The Sports Curse | The Tyee Gambling and financialization is intensifying. But athletic excellence stirs something deep within us.

”That space between awe and extraction is where the business of sport thrives. We’re at a point where it’s almost impossible to tell the two apart,” writes @colenowicki.com. 🏀💸

The Sports Curse | The Tyee Gambling and financialization is intensifying. But athletic excellence stirs something deep within us.

"If you are a person concerned with the best parts of being human, those feelings and that sense of community are hard to put a dollar amount on."

Thank you @colenowicki.com for this wonderful @thetyee.ca essay on the tricky business of sports. 🏀

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Thank YOU, Jackie!

For the weekend peckers

❤️🙏!

Really fantastic article. "But ours is not a home with permanence — there is no “forever home.” As Bachelard said, “A nest is a precarious thing, and yet it provokes confidence and security.”

I gotta start praying into my hat P-Rod's SHS takes PSL, Brian Glenney's little bit of misery, the bright side(?) of corporate parasitism, a woodpecker pecks, and more.

This week, @skateorphi.bsky.social returns to talk Bachelard and little miseries, I declare myself the only living PSL beat writer, a woodpecker pecks, and more.

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For the afternoon crowd, a closer look at an increasingly bizarre pro skateboarding league with Gary Payton II as its celebrity figurehead, which is faking it (i.e. lying about easily disprovable things) so hard that they might actually be making it (getting an arena built with their name on it).

Thank you!

Quote from the Visit Big Bear CEO that reads: "I sure hope I don't end up with egg on my face here."

The future of sport doesn't wait to get imagined.... it gets built! A conversation with the CEO of Visit Big Bear about the Skate Board Association and IDM Arena, the springtime of dis(awesome)content, not now, Andrew Pott! And more.

This week, I spoke to the CEO of Visit Big Bear about the Skate Board Association and the proposed IDM Arena, and whether he's concerned about partnering with an organization that hasn't produced a single event and routinely misrepresents itself to the public.

www.simplemagic.ca/the-future-o...

Sk8 park sign that says BE KIND

Going down to skate park with my friends to BE KIND.

A story true of a “gift economy”

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You telling me STREET UNI X, the game with almost entirely positive reviews?? Where you do stunts on a unicycle?? Made by a beautiful transgender and their friends?? is on sale for less than 20 dollars?? On Steam?? Right now??

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For the afternoon crowd: a lil blog about how I became cursed by this signed Brady Tkachuk Ottawa Senators jersey.