I imagine a lot of skaters are somehow part of ‘the Shadow Economy’- and it probably makes accounting for a skate/bike/kayak type store an unenviable task all over the country.
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Again today, I talked to a reader who only shows up for the comic strips, thus missing out on all the weird and fun sidebar content. That’s fine, I guess, but you’re doing yourself a disservice. Check down the page. There’s fun things. I encourage you especially to check out ‘Talk About Toys’ where all the product reviews and such are. Good stuff. If you really prefer cartoons, then you can certainly look at ‘Other Toons’, and see more silly drawrings. Enjoy. Also, be a buddy and Vote Hubris, Join us on Facebook, Google+ Hubris, StumbleUpon, and Reddit and Twitter and Pinterest and all that stuff! Man, the world in our computers is one crazy place.
I have (after much dawdling) designed, ordered, paid for and received a batch of Hubris helmet stickers. I’ve already put two on my truck to see how they handle the outdoors and muck and sunshine and rain and filth. All the bikes and skateboards get ’em next.
I owe a great many to Jeff Outdoors and some to Won for having written lavishly nice product reviews for this site. (If you haven’t bothered to look at the ‘Talk About Toys’ section of the site, shame on you. You’re missing out on some extra humor and some good insight about outdoors stuff, plus coconut bras and testicle fires.)
I’m not saying a few stickers are good compensation for spending your time writing reviews about your outdoor stuff. I’m not even saying that giving said stickers to your buddies will make you popular or even treated better than you are at the moment.
All’s I’m saying is that if you’re kind enough to write Hubris a usable product review about whatever toys you play with outdoors, I’ll happily mail you five or six stickers to slap on helmets or skate decks or bikes or snowmobiles… anything you own (meaning please don’t slap ’em on skateparks or bike racks that you didn’t pay for… c’mon, we all gotta play nice or the stuff we play on goes away and the grownups scowl at us for not being responsible for ourselfs.)
Okay, I’ve got a couple more of the old originals, but I’ll intersperse them with new stuff. Mostly ’cause even I’m tired of seeing the black and white. So if you missed the bright colors yesterday, click back and check it out. And of course, more brightly colored fun tomorrow.
The local police have to go by the new skatepark and enforce the helmet law. I’m sure the police aren’t thrilled about having to listen to a bunch of teens and twentysomethings swear and moan and wheedle. And I’m sure the teens and twentysomethings would rather not have to moan and wheedle. They seem to like the swearing, though there’s less of that than most people figure there is at a skatepark.
Bottom line? You can’t make someone whose biology is dumping hormones into his bloodstream stand still and do something that’s going to endanger his place in the sociological pecking order. Wearing a helmet is not cool. In other words. Rebelliousness, recklessness and Cool are far more important than whether your Mom is going to sue the city if you crack your skull. Seriously, 99% of skaters aren’t going to crack their skulls, but there will be that one kid who does. And we’re going to have to watch his mom- with tears and dollar signs in her eyes- explain how the city was remiss and now little (20 year old) Darnault (his friends called him ‘Hump’) can’t feed himself and she ain’t gonna do it and who gon’ pay for the nursing home?
On the upside, the last time we were at the skatepark and the cops announced that you couldn’t skate without a helmet, my son got to skate the big bowl for nearly ten minutes solid- him being one of the, I guess, five people who had a helmet on to start with. It took ten whole minutes for the older kids to quit complaining at the cops, go get their helmets, swallow their pride (the hardest part of the ordeal), and put on their helmets to resume skating. Couple of guys had that Laaaaast little bit of rebelliousness they had to fly, so they wore their helmets…gasp… without strapping them on. Means they had to skate with one hand absurdly holding the tops of their heads. Looked dumber than dirt, but at least they didn’t have to strap up the helmets. That would have been… I dunno, something harsh on them.
How much more quickly would they have put on headgear if the headgear itself proclaimed how much they disdained it?
I should have custom helmets made to sell out there. Really.
Well, the visit from Mom has been nice, but I’m tired of drawing them inside the store. Time for her to go home and I think I want to draw some more bikes and skateboards. Or something sillier. You’ll have to wait til Monday to see what pops up. Don’t forget to come back here over the weekend. Flapdoodle will update for you, and if they FINALLY get our new skatepark open, maybe I can break a bone to photograph.
Don’t forget to StumbleUpon or Google+ us, and Vote Hubris. If we can get a large enough regular following, I might be able to print up some helmet/board/computer monitor stickers to send around and give away. Thanks, kiddies!
Now, go play outside!
New month! Please click on the ‘vote Hubris’ button to the right and vote as often as you can. Thank you very good!
Look. Family dynamic, fiscal responsibility, AND skating in the same cartoon. I know, right?
Also… in my head, Hubris’ stepdad’s name is pronounced all French Canadian… “Dah-Vee”. But maybe I’m just not happy with the performance of my retirement portfolio, and I’m lookin’ to taunt some brokers.
Well! We’re at 150 Hubris comic strips in the archive now! Cool! Or, in the case of today’s cartoon, Kühl! (they make tough, outdoorsy, farm and/or quasi-military looking pants and such) Ha.
Thanks for being here. I hope you’ve read all the Hubris there is so far, and will stick around for the next 150. Next month, I’m going to run some of the old original ‘Because It’s There’ cartoons featuring Hubris because this website will have been around for… ONE YEAR! We’re just slapping milestones around here at the Hubriscomics.
Wanna Shop some hefty Farmy Surplus Pants? click on these here britches- also handy for mountain climbing, camping and generally oozing outdoorsiness:
