So you know how people like to account where they were and what they were doing during epic events in history? I believe being drafted onto a Gotham home team counts as one of these events.
So I drive a beater, I call her Lucille. I started driving this beat-down beauty at first to annoy and embarrass those that love me dearly, my family. It was part of my birthright to make my family
second guess their convictions, and squirm in reaction to the decisions I made in my life. Lucille was just another loving f-u to them and to anyone else that bought into the product that I just could not consume. I loved her for that.
Engaged in Play
by Rockquelle Damage, Wreckin’ Roller Rebels, Denver, Colorado
We are engaged in play.
We are playing a game.
You know how baseball players and football players and basketball
players get paid a lot of money, and all the public school teachers
(me included) shake their heads and say, “They get paid THAT MUCH for
playing a GAME?”
I've been wearing the same pajamas for three days. The ones I put on when I got home from the bout on Saturday. For the first time ever, I didn't feel like the after party. I took a hit that knocked me on the ground and shot my ankle out to trip another skater. Low block - Major. No one was seriously hurt but I hurt like I was in a car accident. My breath was taken away and I was confused. I screamed some profanity in the midst of shoulder and ankle pain and watched my team, just points away from a giant comeback, skate away while I took every bit of my three seconds to get up.
It continues to amaze me how much of this game is about what's going on in my head. I love how it pushes me to the edges of my self belief and stretches it further, constantly making it bigger and stronger.
Anyone within striking distance of Atlanta, Georgia who is a fan of derby has this weekend's hot ticket to what will be a standing room only event - the World Premiere of the long anticipated documentary film Derby, Baby! On Saturday March 31, at 4:30 pm in Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, the Atlanta Film Festival will screen the film, an
