Words by Colin Bane 
First: Simple pleasures. Last night -- for the first time in kind of a while, unfortunately -- I went skateboarding solely for the sake of getting from one place to another very quickly. How did I lose track of how fun that is? Hauling ass through the hilliest part of Washington, DC and hitting a few great spots near the Zoo and Woodley Park before crossing the bridge into Adams Morgan, two thoughts occurred to me: 1) The childhood rush and simplicity of riding a skateboard is still there, and always will be, and that is extremely reassuring. 2) What with all the DC King of New York and DC King of LA stuff going down, clearly somebody is missing out on the awesome symmetry of possibilities in a DC King of DC contest. Memo to the folks at DCshoeCo: Get on that! Just head over to The Forgotten City to meet the people and places necessary to put that together for you properly, or even put your own man Darren Harper on it. Harper is as DC as DC gets. Related: I've been linking to some great skate websites lately, but also getting increasingly psyched on being involved in this one. So today's link is onsite: Click here to see Banquet's chronicle of each stop on the DC King of LA contest tour , which hit great spots like Lockwood, Bancroft, Barker Hangar, and Los Angeles Community College before crowning its king.