when i was in middle school i used to inline skate. this was during the brief 3-4 years where inline skating was super trendy and skatepark attendees were split just about 50/50 inliners/skateboarders. (by about 1999 the skateboarders basically teased and tourtured inlining to it’s demise and every kid either switched over or quit entirely.) during those glory days, a brand of shoes came out called soaps. they looked like this:

the middle of the shoe was basically a big piece of plastic/rubber used to grind curbs or rails. the “movement” was dubbed “freestyle walking” and lasted about a month. if you were B+ skater or better, these were totally unacceptable to own. for everyone else, they were sweet…(for that month.) i secretly wanted a pair, but didn’t want to get made fun of. i get reminded of soaps every time i see these stupid roller shoe things around:

i wanna push over every little kid i see scooting about on there heels. drives me nuts.
bring back soaps. i’m going on ebay and me and paul are both buying the pairs we always secretly wanted but were too cool to buy…and will probably get bored in 15 minutes.
but hey, anything to help bring down with the idiotskate.

oh yeah, this tour has been awesome. i think i’ve used my computer about 6 times.

“those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”
-alexander hamilton