Mazel Tov, Jenkem (yeah, your new writing correspondent is Jewish, deal with it).

As it gets nippy and the sun gets lazier and lazier, we figure there’s no better time than now to take a short holiday hiatus.

You wouldn’t want us thinking about content when we should be thinking of ego-crushing comebacks for our family around the holiday ham, right?

Anyways, if you find yourself with some holiday cash burning a hole in your pocket this year, pick up a Vol. 3 book or Front Blunt hat while we’re gone. If you’d rather buy a PS5, we understand, but while you’re playing the new Call of Duty keep thinking of ridiculous pitches for our DM’s.

Thanks for another year of support and tuning in. If we could, we’d send a bottle of champagne to each and every one of you, but that’s not in the budget, so raise a Bud Light, a Modelo, or a seltzer (we got you sober homies) and join us in a cheers to another year wrapped up. We’re saving up some content for January we’re proud of, including a non-skate doc we shot that we’re curious about.

In the meantime, if you are bored AF at home / with the family, scroll on down and enjoy some site highlights from 2023.

• Dragged Jamie Thomas back to that damn stairset that tested his Faith.
• Checked in Efron Danzig and Alexis Sablone.
• Wrapped Jenkem Volume 3 with back to back, bi-coastal bangers.
• Collected beads during Mardi Gras with Nora
• Wished farewell to Enjoi with a Louie Barletta interview and met a skater from his new venture.
• Nerded TF out with Christian Maalouf and found other secret hobbies.
• Interviewed the legendary ringleader of Big Brother, Dave Carnie.
• Watched snowboarders unlock the Hollywood 16.
• Learned about how skateboarding can help kids deal with trauma.
• Laughed as our intern turned writer tried to lose some weight.
• Entered the world of Satan, kind of.
• Deep dove some Gen Z interests like fingerboarding and TikTok.
• Revived the tour video with Adidas up the East Coast.
• Reminded ourselves (and hopefully others) how to watch a skate video.
• And of course, got nerdy about this, that, and yes, the third.

Words by: Ben Komins
Art by: Wilson Lucas
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