Email: September 1.2005

Here it is, just from one issue of Thrasher.  Just stuff I never heard of, found interesting, didn't know or understand.

Searching for ways to describe understandings, awarenesses, experiences I'm having that are new and seemingly outside conventional or accepted language.  As language frames our ability to be critical, to "know," well, if we are seeing new things, and seeing things anew, maybe old words or categories will fail us, ultimately, if we are in the midst of things, situations, shifts that the world has never before experienced.

What do we call it when we realize that today 1 in 6 are squatters, and in 20 years or so, 1 in 4 people worldwide will be squatters?  Is it a catastrophe?  Maybe not.  A tragedy.  Who knows.  A triviality.  Maybe.  A trainwreck?  (That's a skater term.)  A frontside grind?  Maybe that's the best. And if so, how do we respond?

I've got "Skateboarding" magazine sitting on my desk at home.  Can check it out if we need more.  Maybe you write the brief description/introduction, for now.  You had a great sense of it the other day when we were talking.
Wes.


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