I usually don’t get all corny on Thanksgiving each year and spout all sorts of reflective shit about thankful this and thankful that, I usually just drink too much red wine and alienate friends and loved ones. But this year my Thanksgiving was super mellow and in the absence of copious amounts of wine I actually did get to being thankful about some shit. Then today I woke up (early I might add) and got the news that the story I did for ESPN Skateboarding about the Tony Hawk Show in Paris had achieved page one status on ESPN.com. That’s the world leader in sports yo! Needless to say I was buggin. A story on skateboarding hammering it out on the ESPN home page in the heat of college football season and on the same day Tiger Woods gets into an accident! If I didn’t already know it, today would have sealed the deal, we are here to stay! But the real point here is about thankful-ness, so this year I want to make it completely clear that I am a super thankful motherfucker. Most of all I am thankful for opportunity. If you take it, opportunity is the gateway to everything in life. Aside from opportunity, and completely in tandem with it as well, I am thankful for my friends and family. Every opportunity I’ve ever had has come through the amazing bunch of people I’ve come to know and love in this short life. Thank you. But enough blubbering. For this project in particular I want to thank Catlin and Shana for making it happen and to Tracy and Adam for pushing it through. And I thank skateboarding and snowboarding for changing my life. My video interviews (edited by Salo) are above and a bunch more of my photos from the event are after the jump. Paris J’adore!

I’m really proud of this. While I’m skating around and bullshitting trying to have as much fun as possible my mom is actually out making a difference. Yesterday she was quoted in the New York Times as part of an article about incentives being given to grocers to bring healthier food, especially fruits and vegetables, to low income supermarkets. She’s in there because she helped work to make the program a reality. Well done mom! Check out the original here.

Woohoo! My favorite magazine in the world, Antenna, just dropped their spankin new summer issue. As always, its bangin! I’ve got two pieces in this issue, a frank commentary on the perils of Porn 2.0 and a spread on Oslo, Norway’s raddest shop Hunting Lodge. I’ll prolly scan these in in a day or so but for now – go cop a copy! Word to Kaity!

Watch out y’all, High Snob is going big in India! I just came across this writeup in The Financial Express, an English language financial newspaper serving India. A whole bunch of us get shoutouts for being “leading names in fashion, design, retail, and beyond.” Word to David! Read the original here.

With sections that are named Highsnobiety, Highsnobette, Selecticism Curated and Rad Collector, www.highsnobiety.com is after after a true snob’s heart.

There are also ‘The Columns’ that have personal blogs by some leading names in fashion, design, retail, and beyond —BKRW, Village Slum, Tim Brodhagen, Azita, Nick Walker and others. The site also has interviews and commentary.