The difficulty with running a website based on a weather-permitting activity in a city with unfriendly winters is that the activity stays confined to either a skatepark, or a thin sheet of dust during January, February, and sometimes March. This winter, being particularly unfriendly in the sense that it is the worst one I remember since 1996, has basically left me with nothing to post here, even though my planned post-Christmas vacation should have ended long ago. I highly doubt skateboarding is really in anyone’s immediate thoughts right now, and if it is, they probably haven’t looked out the window in the past two weeks, so there’s no reason for you to be here in the first place.

On a brighter note, the new Hopps Skateboards commercial is really sick, and evokes the sort of fun-skating-through-the-middle-of-the-streets vibe that made the older Zoo York videos so much fun to watch. It just makes me sad that it isn’t seventy five degrees outside. And I’ve posted it before, but you should watch Jahmal’s part in the DNA video, he skates to John Coltrane and does tricks very well.

I’ll figure out something to post here in the meantime.