Category: Verbs

As the empty Coke can sitting near my elbow sputters and pops—no doubt mocking me—it’s starting to sound like it knows what I know. In fact, the can may also know what I try to ignore. Namely, that even after the last drop is shaken from its gut, there’s still something in there. Nothing can… Continue reading Timbre #80: The End Is Far

Over the course of recent history, as the outside has pushed in on skateboarding and smooshed us between prefabricated boundaries, skaters have managed, for the most part, to giggle loudly and sidestep the literal and figurative roadblocks dropped in front of us—many times using the barriers to skate on, through, or over—evolving our movements as… Continue reading Timbre #77: Move Us

I feel like I know you well enough now to tell you that it’s Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. and I’m still sitting here in my undies. Yeah, it’s that kind of morning—not a morning that I feel like I know you or an undies-only morning, but a Wednesday morning. Another one. You know what I… Continue reading Timbre #76: Get Wet

A few weeks ago, I instituted a work stoppage of heroic proportions. It involved absolutely no one except me. I’m my own hero. So stumblingly large were the piles of shit I had building up around me, that shoveling to freedom was really the only thing I could think to do, so I did it.… Continue reading Timbre #73: Lullaby For The Working Class

For quite a while—much longer than my memory stretches—I’ve admired a cute little saying from afar. I felt like it applied to me a little bit, but also, the slow and steady way that things of any significance happen. Whenever I’d hear it, I’d smile and whisper to my inner whisperer, “That’s us, man.” Dan… Continue reading Timbre #72: Don’t Show Up

The very first in The Good Problem’s FROM Series, FROM PHOTOS is out now and available in The Good Problem shop. FROM PHOTOS is nothing if not a 20-page booklet of illustrations born from a healthy fixation on skateboarding’s most royal of visual media — the skate photo. Introduction from the tracer. Made in the… Continue reading FROM PHOTOS ZINE (LARB FEST 4 REPRINT) OUT NOW

The Good Problem‘s second in the FROM Series, FROM DOODLES is out now and available in The Good Problem shop. It’s 32 pages filled with a calendar year’s worth of incidental, paper-and-pencil scribbles, redrawn for effect, and photocopied in the style of the ham fisted but enthusiastic midwestern friend-to-many. Introduction from the doodler. Made in… Continue reading FROM DOODLES Zine Out Now

I’d like to spill the beans and say that I’m more interested in how skateboarding’s done and the way it looks than I am in the person or people doing it. I’d also like to be the man on the mountain, inviting you to come on up and listen to the incredible ways I see… Continue reading Timbre #71: Loving Cup

What’s the effect on those who are cried wolf to? The two birds forgotten once there’s one held in the hand? The friend, indeed, who’s never in need? The enemies kept farther away than allies? He who laughs last, but in silence? Hard telling, but they (and by they, I mean we) are the hinges… Continue reading Timbre #70: Shook-Down Street

We people the people, in order to form a more perfect union, share an exceptional bond with our canine companions. We see our best in all their puppiness and dogginess, and we hope to provide a life for them that’s as ego free, as loyal, and as loving as one they present to us. It’s… Continue reading Long Live Crash Dog: Corey Duffel Interview

Brian Anderson has some news that he’d like to share with all of you: He’s on a team again! The Good Problem got ahold of our favorite Antihero to talk about getting on companies, breaking up with family, and what it means to be a. hero in the face of all that is dangerous and… Continue reading A. Hero’s Welcome: Brian Anderson Interview

Each year on 9/11, I dust off this little essay and push it out into the world again because I don’t know what else to do. I always try to include one of Grant’s WTC photos with it, too. He has a couple good ones that, even though there’s no skating in them, still feel… Continue reading Never Forget: Skateboarding Matters

If imitation is the most sincere form of flattery but flattery is considered most insincere, then there really may be nowhere to turn—no hope for this world we’ve screeded and hammered and shaped for our own shredding devices. It’s a tough call, to be sure. On one hand we’re expected, by our own definitions, to… Continue reading Timbre #68: Do Not Duplicate

The philosophers have long argued—as philosophers are known to do—about what time is and what time isn’t. To some, it’s one of the fundamental building blocks of our entire universe, and along with stuff like distance, velocity, etcetera can be used as an example that other things exist or are parts of each other. In… Continue reading Timbre #66: Time On

Yesterday afternoon, on the heels of an eleventh-hour lawsuit against the International Skateboarding Federation and the International Olympic Committee, and on the eve of the 2016 Summer Games in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, the IOC made its official announcement that skateboarding will be included the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, Japan. The Good Problem caught… Continue reading Skateboarding’s Olympics: Neal Hendrix Interview