This week, pick your SOTY, Alexis Ramirez puts up numbers, LFG!!, Tim Pool cuts his losses, and more. simplemagic.ca/masterful_gamb…

This week, a winner is announced, a noted business understander understands business, the brand collab as a Faustian bargain, "Triple or Nothing," and more. simplemagic.ca/cool-marketing…

It’s the third annual SSOTYs, an effort to catalogue and celebrate some of the best skateboarding-related writing in the year that was 2024. Happy reading. simplemagic.ca/ssoty-skateboa…

The fact that Canadian politicians and pundits are spiralling into hysteria over a protest at a shopping mall but silent over this is astonishing

The best skate writing of the year, BTS of Jace's Reggaeton Ledges ollie, Maine scene videos, and a round-up of year-end content on the QS Monday Links round-up today — quartersnacks.com/2024/12/damn-t…

Wow, Simple Magic’s 4th annual year-end sports and culture gambling column is back. Here you’ll find the world's most trusted skateboarding-related futures predictions and betting odds. simplemagic.ca/ive-got-5-cad-…

Any remaining year-end stuff, tons of new edits, new Gino interview, Kate Bush in skate videos + way more on an extendo-edition of the first Monday Links round-up of 2025 — quartersnacks.com/2025/01/twenty… 📷 via Baker

This week, the Nidecker Group cuts costs (people), a pair of griptape brands get stuck together (merge), Guy Mariano goes hard (for the 'gram), and more. simplemagic.ca/please-sir-i-w…

the Cole Nowicki newsletter is really just one of the best ways to keep in touch with skating without losing your mind

New thing alert: follow @knowngaslighter on bluesky and I chop it up about what's up with skate videos simplemagic.ca/doubles-the-st…

This week, Gerwer leaps at the half-century mark, measuring the value of public space, Shawn Hale, Lakai's rebound hook-ups, and more. simplemagic.ca/some-intractab…

New NYC video from the youth, ATLiens, MTLliens, the MACBA renovation situation, spikes on turnstiles + more on QS Monday Links today: quartersnacks.com/2025/01/still-…

In this 'sletter series debut, roCKy breaks down a T.S. Eliot classic to see what the Modernist icon can tell us about grinding through the skate-stoppers of the mind simplemagic.ca/waxing-poetic-…

something for the anxious, aging skateboarder... the kind of skater who might say, like Prufrock: “Shall I cut my t-shirt’s hem? Do I dare skate down the rail? No, I shall wear tan tapered chinos, and kneeslide when I bail.”

If you didn’t get to Slow Impact I’ve got the answer to your burning question: pants? simplemagic.ca/the-pants-repo…

Ian Browning Gramicci G116-OGT in Greige

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Spring Reading Round-Up — Adam Abada offers up some blurbs on recent books penned by skaters, including titles from bob crawford, Cole Nowicki & José Vadi. Full piece on QS: quartersnacks.com/2025/04/spring…