Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts

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: