blade or die

Ah, yes, this funny thing called life. It’s amazing, isn’t it? Think of all what we have. Really, just stop for a minute. Last week, I wrote about that crazy little thing called love. It was fun to write because I didn’t waste any unnecessary time thinking about bad things, except for, you know, war, […]

If you’re reading this, you’re human. Congratulations on that. Think of every animal that is jealous of you. Sure, it’d be super bad ass to be a bear or an eagle, or something, but every slug, pigeon, rat, and low-level organism would rather be human. Sure, being human has some drawbacks. There’s war… There’s genocide… […]

Y eah, I know I’ve been gone for a while more often than not. I’d like to say my time has been well spent, but for those of you looking for your weekly batch of nonsensical babble that is this column, you don’t want to hear about it. Basically, I’ve been thinking. I know it’s […]

Well, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? Now that the BCSD hangover and detox phase is finally over, it’s time to get back to business. And by business, I mean drooling nonsensical bullshit… The Island Country Skating has always been kind of a big deal in Asia. They view it a bit differently than in […]

They say the greatest journeys start with a single step. But little do many of them know that the first steps are normally under drug-i or alcohol-induced circumstances followed by these fateful words: “Hey, watch this!” We have created a culture around that. That’s the basic elements of what we do—we alter our perceptions and […]

If you’re like me and live in an area where a rain of week causes widespread depression and illness—which is immediately cured with a week of sunshine and 50-degree weather—then a four-day venture back to the Midwest better be for something spectacular. And I’m not talking about the Testicle Festival spectacular. I’m talking about Bitter […]

Man, what a fucking week. Let’s just skip through all the cutsie bullshit and get right to it. Murda Kills Pro In case you haven’t heard, Mike ‘Murda’ Johnson is done with professional rollerblading. Done. Over. It all started with a simple Facebook status update. Now, of course, this was going to be a big […]

Where have I been? Where have you been? You’ve been missing all of the fun, kids! Maybe I was too busy getting drunk as fuck (and spending lots of time cleaning up after myself) watching the Super Bowl trophy go back to the city where the trophy’s namesake became famous. I mean, c’mon, he’s the […]

This is a very hard part of the year. Sure, the weather sucks for a lot of people, but that’s not it. It’s the fucking waiting. Wait, wait, wait. Waiting for the Bitter Cold Showdown!!! Trade Show The nice thing about the Bitter Cold Showdown, disregarding the the fact it’s in Detroit in February, is […]

Looking back on the salad days when England and USD were the illest companies out, Julio, Latimer, Shima, Gillan showcased how cool blading was with the videos Volume and Coup De Tat. At that age, it was a time where instead of biking or walking, blading was the preferred form of transportation.  It gave the […]