A Brief History of Skaters Smoking Cigarettes While Skateboarding | An unfortunate trend

 

This article is hilarious for a number of reasons. Firstly, smoking is gross. Secondly, and the best part of all is the author calling Brandon Biebel, “sort of the American Tom Penny, when you really think about it.”

WHAT!!!!

That is the most ridiculous thing we’ve ever heard.

 

Sample:

Andrew Reynolds’s part in Stay Gold is the culmination of a career, the last full showcase of one of the all-time greats. It’s nearly perfect, marred only by its overly twee indie soundtrack, and there’s no posturing when the Boss smokingly switch frontside flips a large four block near the end. He just lands and brings his right hand up to his mouth. Reynolds’s pre-trick “madness” is well documented, and one gets the sense that he was resting with a cigarette in between tries when he was struck with a burst of bravery and didn’t want to wait for the cigarette to be finished, lest the confidence (or whatever emotion allows a man to jump down a head-high set of cement, switch) dissipate. The shot does not linger on the cigarette but instead quickly advances to the next trick, a huge fakie 360. I bet that Reynolds, who transformed himself from a preeminent Piss Drunk into a genuine role model, would have cut the cigarette entirely if he could have.

See the 4:00 minute mark.

 

 

 

 

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