The most fun thing : dispatches from a skateboard life

9781538754115
1538754118

First edition

ix, 301 pages ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references

Preface: On benches
For whom is the fun thing fun?
You're not me
On firsts
A chronicle of doing it
On direction
The deep seams
On bad kickflips
A very large puzzle : on Andrew Reynolds
On this ugly world
Making up legends in the era of zero-budget skateboarding
On the obvious
Toward a poetics of skateboarding
On nostalgia
Pretend we haven't grown
On narrative
A most mundane perfection
On how
Clearing a space for meaning
On younger
"Nearly"
On bafflement
On Bitul Zman
Good Old Street League
On the technology of a secret
A day with Chaz Ortiz
On Tampa Pro
Primitive progessivism
On pushing boarders
A serious man : Mark Suciu's "Verso"
"The monk's posture"
Seven small bafflements
On animal play
Inappropriate places
On a decision
The Dylan period
Still
Epilogue: Loveletters

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