Thursday, November 25, 2010

Before Skateboarding Gets Cool Again, Replacing Fixies and Demonstrating Yet Again How Generic Cool-looking People Are

In New York City cool men have skateboards. Gliding from Williamsburg's bike lanes to Soho's tarmac, New York City skateboarders are not trashy teenagers with a lot of teenage angst, they are cool creative minds wearing Barbour jackets and Yuketen bootsIt's a slow but emerging trend and I predict that in five years time skateboards will have replaced fixies. 

Since I have found fixies to be a ridiculous embarrassment to the human race (humans = lambs), before I get just as upset about how trendy skateboards are about to be, here is a touching
mini-doc on a young Charity in Afghanistan called Skateistan: