Blogging about my baby on the way at teomoore.com!
Found on FFFFound and kind of like FFFFound is yay!everyday.
Great piece on nytimes.com this morning about Andy Kessler, NYC skateboarding legend, entitled “The End of Falling.”
Such community is why skaters who never met him feel like they’ve lost a friend with whom they used to seek out drained swimming pools. For all of their perceived destructiveness, for all of their purported unthinking and lawless mischief, skateboarders are a creative and compassionate breed. Often, especially when Kessler was nurturing what would become the East Coast scene, the kids who gravitated toward skateboarding were misfits and malcontents, the shy outcasts who’d been intimidated and sullied by the complex pressures of social interaction. Skateboarding gave them an identity and voice, and Kessler, by example, gave them the confidence to declare themselves to society.
What is surprising and beautiful to me too, is that I caught the piece featured on the front page, above the fold, in the upper right corner. Awesome that it was written by the Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, a lifelong skateboarder.
I would love it if my child grew up to be a skateboarder one day.
Posted August 14, 2009 | ∞ | File under: link, nytimes, skateboarding
Of course it happens like this. The minute after we move from Chelsea to Brooklyn, the High Line opens.
Oh well, we have Prospect Park now, a much better park, where we lounged in the grass and read books this past Sunday.
Posted June 9, 2009 | ∞ | File under: link, nyc, parks in the sky
Google Wave looks very very interesting.
Posted June 4, 2009 | ∞ | File under: google, google wave, link, maybe the next leap in online communication
This one is for Doobie, the man who loves publishing and tattoos: Man publishes magazine as tattoo on his leg. A Swedish graphic designer who publishes his own ‘zine has tattooed Issue 3 on his left leg.
Posted May 22, 2009 | ∞ | File under: art, design, link, not for everyone but amazing nonetheless
Becky and I played Yahtzee last night and I won best two out of three. In my third game I scored 401, with two Yahtzees, the upper section bonus, and no empty boxes.
Becky would have preferred to play Scrabble, but I don’t like to play Scrabble against Becky much anymore because she always wins. But if we had Lawn Scrabble (and a lawn) I would.
Posted May 13, 2009 | ∞ | File under: becky, games, link, scrabble, yahtzee
Posted May 12, 2009 | ∞ | File under: atheism, eroding the influence of superstition in our world, link, sam harris
