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An appreciation of a beautifully shitty pre-fab skatepark.

on learning to drop in. This is the third dispatch in Sensuous Skateboarding, a series from Dirt x [Simple Magic](https://www.simplemagic.ca/). You can read the second dispatch [here](https://dirt.fyi/article/2025/05/paved-with-desire).

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"Skateboarding works in millimeters."

on the embodied practice of skateboarding and moving forward a millimeter at a time.

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The unknown radius

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Thomas Moser's road not traveled.

on the late furniture maker Thomas Moser.

Shaker legacies

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The new world struggles to be born. 

asks: what’s in a scene? This is part one of a two-part series. 

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Where will the next literary movement come from?

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“Ca-thunk. Ca-thunk. Ca-thunk.”

on riding a skateboard over bricks. This is the second dispatch in Sensuous Skateboarding, a series from Dirt x [Simple Magic](https://www.simplemagic.ca/). You can read the [first dispatch here](https://dirt.fyi/article/2025/05/under-the-overpass). 

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Paved with desire

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“A very millennial shot”

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In defense of the underhand serve

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On 9/11, a nurse was texting saucy messages to thousands of strangers across the country. But the nurse was really a 21-year-old man, bored in an office in London. 

writes about delivering “the last orgasm at the end of the world.” This essay was originally published in [The Fence](https://www.the-fence.com/).

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Hold the Phone

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Skateboarding among the dirt and grime, there’s a smell, a feeling divine.

with the first dispatch in Sensuous Skateboarding, a series from Dirt x [Simple Magic](https://www.simplemagic.ca/) that takes a look, whiff, listen, taste, and feel of skateboarding’s effect on the senses.

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Under the overpass

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