Franzen’s latest short story “A Talent For Seeming” is hilarious . . . The last I read of him was Cross Roads as it was so real and traumatizing I had to abandon and skit to the end . . . A Talent For Seeming good right out the gate and I’m not even done with it
Every day this month I’ve skated only vert sessions while listening to Metallica, Ratt, Alice and Chains and Stone Temple Pilots unironically at South Side and this is the happiest I’ve probably been ever 👀
Listening to smashing pumpkins with team mates half my age -really going through a fantastic smashing pumpkins renaissance-was never obsssed over them, but they were such an extraordinary band forever associated with a girl from high school I can never forget-pumpkins R SK8Tawk
@Billy I jus assumed the late 90’s hiphop golden age (seemingly transcendentally furtile period, hundreds of groups and everyone had a gem) ascending past a soon 2 be Emo poisoned death knelled rock—i.e. from 95 on, WUTang clan owned Sk8boarding,where at begining of 90’s it was NOFX
@faboles Closest approximate guess is Natas mid to late eighties - but who knows?? Probably happened in Venice I’d imagine - it’s like trying to find the origin of language
Really having moments with the Billy Corgan podcast 😐😭 The SP song from Colby Carter’s part in H-St Next Generation we listen to at South Side in 2026 and it makes me so thankful for skateboarding and music and life - this is what it is all about for me 🫡🙏🏽
Skating Tampa next month with the Southside Team - been talking about my “comeback” for over a decade (returning higher than past peak) - looks like it’s here . . .