Gold glimmers in a river of shit | Paris 2024 Olympic skateboarding primer
Contenders, wildcards, predictions, moral failings, and more.
Cole Nowicki
A generally well-mannered person. Author of a couple of books and a newsletter called Simple Magic.
It's not you, it's our limited synergies | Simply Ranked
Plus: RIP Alltimers (officially), RIP Supreme (eventually), Michael Mackrodt is fishing, Jhancárlos González Ortiz is clocked in, and more.
Two guys getting to do their stuff | Simply Ranked
Plus: Is this skateboarding? Vol. 26. Andy Anderson and Jacopo, There Skateboard's warm and fuzzies, the three strains of Olympic skateboarding stories, and more.
How to spend $850k and alienate people | Simply Ranked
Plus: Jimmy Butler goes Xtreme, ASICS takes over NYC, Vans debuts a new shoe in... Roblox, and more.
PROs on the mound | Simply Ranked
Plus: Olympic skateboarding stats and consultants, time stops for Alltimers, some additional whinging, and more.
Donkey on deck | Simply Ranked
Plus: Tony Hawk makes iced coffee at home, some whinging about consumerism, Nyjah Huston is a free-spirited creative badass(?), and GO OILERS.
Special Correspondence
Team Old-Timey Butterscotch Flavor Pork Rinds for the win | Simply Ranked
Plus: a dispatch from special correspondent Max Harrison-Caldwell, Stu Kirst's wall, Eldridge and Wilson besmirch the humble toothpick, and more
Real life happens in between
Don Luong on Toy Machine’s "Real Life Sucks" and making skate videos with heart.
A swoosh is a swoosh is a swoosh | Simply Ranked
Plus: Durao vs. Cybertruck, Cordano's chicken broccoli soup, Skateboarding Hal of Fame, and more.
A quarter-century of spin | Simply Ranked
Plus: Sole Tech sells, Last Resort's Doom(ed From the Jump), put a logo on it, and more.
Mythologizing Failure
On lessons real and imagined.
Reblogulate the planet | Simply Ranked
Plus: There will be no white flag above Gabriel Summers' door, an uncomfortable truth, ducks in awe, Jeffrey Cheung: ripper, and more.