Yesterday was the first official London Skate of the new year, and while it did mean I had to miss out on a free gig by The Clientele, I knew I couldn't miss the inaugural skate of 2005. And it was a great night- good turnout, the weather never turned bad (as it was threatening to), and everyone was smiling and happy, all the way through town and up T.Court Road. I don't know if they planned it, but How Soon Is Now? started playing as we rolled into Camden, and it couldn't have been more perfect.
Ah, Joe, how I wish I could just record the entire experience and just dump it wholesale into your brain, so you could just see how much fun it is. Unfortunately I can't, so you can watch these crappy-resolution movies I took using my cameraphone (they're in some format called 3gp, which realplayer seems to be able to play, so good luck with that)
Here's the first few moments of the skate as we come out of Hyde Park.
Here's us coming into Trafalgar Square
This one is as we come up to Piccadilly Circus.
Some comments from my fellow skaters during the interval.
Some footage I took especially for Adrian, to encourage him to come on the skate.
I'll try and take a decent camera next skate, as my cameraphone really doesn't deal too well with movement.
This is a 
You know, besides common thought I don't actually run around dick in hand chasing girls. My entire sole motivation to do things is not based around how much totti there is. I get that in the gym every morning, and it's not like I'm shagging all the fit birds in the gym. Hell I'm not even talking to them.
So your answer to the question: "Do you enjoy being in the presence of attractive women?" would be "No", then?
I guess I've misread you, man. I apologize.
The answer would be yes. But if the question was, would the presence of attractive women be the motivation for me to do somthing, unless the something is "get laid" then no.
I, on the other hand, am much more shallow than that and would be tempted to take up skating this weekend.
You should, SPS. I'm forming a 'posse' of bladers, we will all have walkie-talkies and we will have pizza delivered to us at half-time. Soon we will be undefeatable!
am I the Joe you're referring to here?
Also, as a more general comment: I know you enjoy doing this sort of thing and I think that's great, but don't you have the sense when you look at these pictures that you all look like, you know, a bunch of tools?
I mean, obviously, that shouldn't keep you from skating if you enjoy it, but it would me.
If I avoided activities that looked stupid, I'd never have sex.
And of course you are, Joe. All my blogs are to you.