I'm often touched by the physically inventive oddities of
Angeleno life. For instance, skateboarding.
Okay, the skateboard scene, fine, it's a sport, it's an
industry, it's a mild form of vandalism and an
attractive nuisance for annoying teens... Now look at this
cruelly ingenious ANTI-SKATEBOARDING
CLAMP, sunk right into the cement of a
public seat at a mall.
So, see, young Mr Sk8rboi and his pals, they
are trying to hop up and do a grinder,
an ollie, whatever they call those semi-airborne stunts,
but... ugh... they encounter a whole little legion of these
spiteful things!
You know what? These devices are literal spoilsports.
I'm thinking that only a Californian EX-SKATER
could have built and patented those. Maybe he
was trying to design a board, but couldn't get a look-in
inside the industry... not hip enough... too geeky...
something about him that skaters just didn't trust...
and now, behold his vengeance.
