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Happy Friday.

Where do I find #SkateTwitter stuff here? The tag appears out of use. I've been MIA from socials for a bit...

Haha the story that started it all for me! My daughter is nine and the story ran the day she was born. weird.

Been warring with this for a few weeks. Slowly coming together.

How Easy Rawlins Built a Real Estate Empire, One Crime Novel at a Time (Published 2024)

I wrote this story a year ago and it remains the funnest thing I've worked on since 2020 or so. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

Scott Wiener Defeated California’s NIMBYs. Can He Fix America’s Housing Crisis? By running for Nancy Pelosi's seat, he's putting the "Abundance" theory to the test.

1/ If you're interested in housing and the debates within the Democratic party about how much is needed and how to get it built, you need to read this profile of CA NIMBY slayer @scottwiener.bsky.social by @jetjocko.bsky.social.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Predator: Badlands was so freaking great.

Reality TV’s Bad Boyfriend Is Angry Again. This Time, He’s Yelling at Gavin Newsom.

I don't watch Reality TV, but life takes weird turns. My story: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...

My favorite newspaper movie is "The Paper." The single-day-in-a-newsroom conceit appealed to me more than movies about big investigations. Keaton's obsession about getting something right on deadline felt true and honorable. And Spalding Gray's (RIP) spoof of The Times was pretty great.

dude! perfect! found it in beware the flare.

Yes, exactly

It's this spot (this is footage of the Muska). Carroll ollied it roughly like this but it was shot from the bottom of the stairs. What you can't see is that the landing is crazy narrow.

Dear #SkateTwitter: Years ago Mike Carroll ollied this massive double hubba at the entrance to UCLA. It's one of those "way gnarlier in person" spots. I know there was an ad with a still shot and footage of it in some video, probably a Transworld thing, but cannot seem to find. Anyone know it?

Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’ DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.

I need #SkateTwitter to discuss: www.wired.com/story/dhs-te...

I broke my radial head in the Chelsea Bowl many years ago, then on the day I came back tried to ease in by skating the Tribeca skatepark, because it's tiny and what could possibly happen, then broke the exact same arm/elbow on that baby wedge ledge. In other words, I know your pain. Feel better.

I don’t schedule vacations around the trade deadline because that’s ridiculous. What if the Giants make a big trade? It’s better to schedule vacations for mid-June, when nothing happens.

The mix of Padilla and immigration politics is giving this old school Californian huge 187 vibes.

‘The only good settler is a dead 1’: Manny’s cafe hit with vandalism during anti-ICE protest 'The only good settler is a dead 1' -- spray-painted slogans outside Mission café target Jewish owner and generate community support

Really sucks that Manny's was hit by vandals. The targeting of him and his business—which does more to promote and support progressive causes and authors and educate the public than just about anything in SF—is a fringe and poisonous disinformation campaign. missionlocal.org/2025/06/mann...

Thanks dude! Nollie flips forever.

Also, double digit growth over a loss could mean they made $20.

A San Francisco Plaza Was Down and Out. Then Skaters Moved In.

Ted...sorry, Dr. Barrow is up in the Times today circling around that famous Ocean Howell point re: skateboards as brooms of gentrification

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

A San Francisco Plaza Was Down and Out. Then Skaters Moved In.

Skateboarding? Check.
Urban Planning? Check.
Referring to not one but TWO skaters as "Dr."? Check.

Aside from video games and Bosch, this story I wrote, on how skateboarding revived an urban plaza in San Francisco, hits all my buttons.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

The more I play with AI the more I'm convinced that the best and most legally defensible way to make money in the future will be to buy valuable land and do nothing with it. Oh, wait.

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it writing code. I don't know enough about it. But on the surface it seems less dystopian. There is so much structured data in that industry, it would see like its teed up for it.

Good times with Bret Anthony Johnston, my skate homie and acclaimed novelist. Growing up, I thought writers and skaters were the two coolest kinds of people on all of planet earth. Now I'm 47 getting a doubles clip with an author I admire. An ordinary day is extraordinary when you appreciate it.

Thanks!

So sad.

My Switch 2 experience: 45 minutes of pressing "Place your order" on the Target website and having it not go through. Then my card got canceled, it got removed from my cart, and now my daughter will be crying in the AM.

Have you no respect for skateboard history?