Category: Uncle Someone
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Uncle Someone: The Guide to Rough Paris
Eleven years ago this week, January 1999, we went to Paris and got in a gunfight. The story was rejected by Sidewalk. Probably because I compared the Gliss’Expo trade show to an arms fair and that our photos really were rubbish. We pooled together our snaps of the event and sent them to the magazine […]
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Uncle Someone: Krooked Krillas
Originally published in Sidewalk about 1999. This was a popular story that generated a lot of responses. [DDET Krooked Krillas, or The Development of the Ollie ] Part 1 Standing at the far end of the narrow path stood Spectrum (real name Steven Trumble). He gripped his brand new board by the nose and tapped the […]
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Uncle Someone: Granny Bottlechurch
Click to read a marvellous letter originally published in Freeride magazine about 2000. [DDET Uncle Someone: Granny Bottlechurch] Dear Granny Bottlechurch, You asked me to write to you about our new neighbour in the village, well here is the story, verbatim, and recorded from their strange bearded gardener called ‘Dagger’. “Runs upon the Tyne, oblong […]
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Uncle Someone: On Winter
Originally published in Sidewalk Surfer magazine, around 1999. Click below to expand full text. [DDET Uncle Someone’s World of Something: On Winter] First off, apologies for absence. My hectic (lazy) summer schedule meant I couldn’t bring you any musings from the edge last month. But thanks for the continuous communications via atoms and bits, keep […]
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Uncle Someone: The Ideas Man
This column was never published or even submitted to Sidewalk, as I never got round to incorporating any skateboarding into the story. However, ten years on, it doesn’t need any skateboarding, it’s crazy enough already. [DDET The Ideas Man] I remember watching the Gentleman in a Jet Pack fly around at the end of the […]
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Uncle Someone: The Fisherman
Originally published in Sidewalk Surfer magazine, around 1998. Click below to expand full text. [DDET Uncle Someone’s World of Something: The Fisherman] There he sat, reading the skate magazine. He had watched a couple of skate videos earlier, and flicked through old magazines all day. He wore skate shoes with holes in, big jeans, and […]
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Uncle Someone: Does God Exist?
Originally published in Sidewalk Surfer magazine, around 1998. Click below to expand full text. [DDET Uncle Someone’s World of Something: Does God Exist?] “Uncle Someone,” one of my skate nephews might say, “does God exist?” Well I’ve been asked this enough times now, it’s time I found out the truth. God is an old mate […]