Guest Ed

You should learn to skateboard.
It is cheap and fun.
It is something you can do when you are alone
or with friends.

Once you learn, you can hang out late at night in parking lots for hours and hours
(and you don't even have to be high).
Also you can talk to others about skateboarding
and it will make them think you are cool

and they will give you things

like free stickers or invitations to parties

with lots of guys at them

If you get good

you can jump over all sorts of things

like cars, and european streets, and statues, and off small buildings.
and people will take pictures of you
which is nice (For later, to show your kids).

If you get really good,
maybe someone will pay you

to take pictures, and make videos of you jumping off all sorts of crap

and they will put you on billboards

and benches where homeless people sleep

and you name will be on thousands of pairs of shoes.
maybe you will have a video game with you in it

or a TV show where you shoot your friends with weapons

Or maybe not.

Maybe you will just keep doing it and no one will really care how good you are

and you will just use your skateboard to ride down the street

to buy some beer

when your "old lady" takes off with the car

It's up to you I guess
Like anything else

But you should definitely learn.
It will be worth it
in the long run

I Promise

- Dallas Clayton (Skateboard Mag May 2009)

I've been meaning to post this nice poem for awhile, but havent had the time.
so here it is.