“If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.” - Tony Bennett Hiya Friends, I’m sure you heard the sad news that the legendary singer, Tony Bennett passed away on Friday at age 96. I read and heard many wonderful tributes to Bennett over the weekend and the takeaway for me was this: Tony Bennett was one hell of a mensch. Everyone adored the guy and had a tough time finding anything unkind to say about him.

Snarky Puppy’s Colorado weekend continued last night at Denver’s Ogden Theatre. After an amazing first night in Breckenridge, the 11-piece band brought the heat once again for an Empire Central-heavy set, celebrating the first anniversary of the album’s release. Nate Wood’s fOUR project once again opened the night with a 45-minute set of virtuosic playing, and my proximity to the stage gave a much more drum-heavy experience than in Breckenridge.

Heads up, this essay is a little longer than normal. I wanted to dig into the subculture side of skater fashion and do skaters justice. So grab a cup of tea, coffee, or tequila, and sit back and relax. Because it's 5 o’clock somewhere, right? Skateboarding has gone from backyard pastime to big business, embodying an adrenaline-fueled world full of challenges, thrills, and vibes. And the fashion industry wasted no time sinking its claws into this cultural juggernaut.

A law professor at Georgetown Law School, Sandra Sellers, has been fired because she is racist. She revealed her racism in a Zoom conversation with her colleague David Batson who nodded along to what she said. Batson is now on leave. Racism is everywhere, it’s our job to stamp it out, and Sellers’ racism was smoked out. She’s out. Social justice has been done. Sandra Sellers is a racist because she said this:

Theorygram is a subculture of Politigram. On Theorygram, you are likely to see memes about philosophers and nonsense internet in-jokes. (Sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference between the two.) Part of this subculture emerges from the maturation of teenage meme posters, who, as they grow into adulthood, become more intellectually curious about the theoretical side of politics. Another contributing factor is the narrowing parameters for online speech that result in shadow bans or deplatforming for accounts who continue to post political content.