I was driving past the skate park. A brand new concrete cubist strategic game board the size of an Olympic pool is nestled in the crotch of a busy east/west highway and the main north/south thoroughfare. Behind a chain link fence and some scraggly blackberry bushes it speaks quietly of a post apocalyptic LA as depicted by Disney. The rails and ramps look like the recreated bone gray ruins of an industrial structure long ago burned down, sand blasted and picked clean. The community built it and probably tried to enforce the use of helmets for the first 5 hours of its use. Helmets are only for sanctioned competition. If you want to know where your kids are you better let them ride tough without the lids. They
