Recent Entries

• Why We're All Wrong About Celebrity Apologies

  by Dez Fontaine May 24
  You ever notice how the second somebody famous does something messy, we immediately start keeping score like we're judges on some invisible court? Yeah, I been doing it too. But I realized something watching all these public meltdowns and Instagram apologies that don't really apologize - we're expec...

• The Weird Grief of Outgrowing Your Skate Crew

  by Dez Fontaine May 16
  I'm sitting in my apartment at like two in the morning and I'm thinking about how skateboarding communities are basically families you choose, except sometimes you have to break up with them. And that's the part nobody really talks about.See, when you're young and hungry, your crew is everything. Yo...

• The Loneliness of Getting Really Good at Something Nobody in Your Family Understands

  by Dez Fontaine May 16
  I landed my first kickflip when I was thirteen, and my mom didn't know what that meant. Still doesn't. I tried explaining it to her once and she just nodded like I was telling her about a dental appointment. My dad asked if it was like a gymnastics move. That's not a dig at them, it's just the reali...

• Why Skateboarding Teaches You Economics Better Than Any Business School Ever Could

  by Dez Fontaine May 16
  I dropped out of my economics class junior year because the professor kept talking about supply and demand like it was some abstract concept that lived in a textbook. Then I spent three hours at the skate park watching how a single good board gets passed around like it's made of gold, and suddenly I...

• Skateboarding Made Me Stop Apologizing for Taking Up Space

  by Dez Fontaine May 16
  I never thought about space until I stopped having it. Growing up in a cramped apartment where your bedroom was half the living room and your mom could hear everything, you learn real quick to make yourself smaller. Quieter. Less. You learn to apologize for existing in the way that kids from tight s...