Fin manufacturer goes into hiding after fun making!
This morning I wrote a story about a dead snake that washed up on a little surfed California beach one year ago. It was not my finest moment, of course, but let us be very honest. None of these past two years worth of moments have amounted to much more than a hill of beans. In any case, as part of the narrative arc (pretend it had one!) I included a ditty about Kolohe Andino changing his fins by banging them on a bench.
Do you remember that video? It came out 3ish months ago and starred your fourth favorite blonde pro surfer under 26 smashing his FCS II fins on a boat bench in order to get them to pop out of his board.
I can’t recall specifically what I was drinking at the time but the whole thing seemed very funny and so I made fun of it. Knowing me I made fun of it a few more times. And when I went to make fun of it again today I realized it had been ripped down! Scrubbed off the entire Internet. Scrubbed from Vimeo, from Facebook, from YouTube. Like it never existed!
I almost fell off of my kitchen stool laughing. It means that my gentle barbs so disturbed the content producers at FCS that they had the thing pulled down. They had it vanished like a poor Italian shopkeeper who couldn’t pay his protection money!
Poof! Gone!
But once I stopped laughing I realized the potential power of mighty BeachGrit. I realized that with enough fun making anything can happen. How then should we use this power? What would you like to see made fun of until it goes away?
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FCS SUCKS!!
surfing.
how bout them goofy coffey sisters
Student loans.
Maybe he’s jumping to Futures?
THE INERTIA AND / OR WEISBERG…I mean…I just saw some article posted about the history of the shaka written by some epic office dork haole from da mainland. Come on Chas.. for da boyz yeah..
ISIS
“None of these past two years worth of moments have amounted to much more than a hill of beans”. Well you got that fucking right! Make fun of yourself and then go away!
potts
Joel Tudor
Strider’s top button
That goddamn Corona ad and for that matter Corona! It’s the only good reason to build a wall along the Rio Grande!
While I believe in the power of mockery, alienation, and shaming (and especially in all three at once), it’s more likely that some dumb fucks banged their FCS2 plugs out of their boards, pitched a fit to retailer/rep/distributor/SurFCStitch (RIP), and media guys nixed Klowe’s ads to avoid having to reimburse fuckwits for being fuckwits.
Mom jeans and those sissy BG trunks. and twin keel fish.
The small-mouthed yet very poisonous yellow bellied sea snake.
People who rock 100% hawaiian shirts that don’t have a drop of hawaiian blood in their body.
That’d be almost every non-Hawaiian professional in Hawaii.
How about local boardriders members who somehow feel the need to surf thier local break like they are in a CT heat everytime they paddle out. It only takes two of the cunts to ruin everyone’s day.
Crowds. Can you pay out surfing until i’m we’re all perceived in the same light as a 35y/o Rollerblader/ScooterRider/DickDragger.
Oh that’s already happened……. We are all those things!
How is a 42 year old scooter rider perceived? cool? please tell me yes.
But what about Microsoft’s new web browser? And all the new features that are making web search a sheer joy?
Dammit man, that’s the REAL story!
MOD work at Surfermag.com alittle quite today Tomhouse?
Faherty.
I feel like this should become a contentious epithet. But against whom?
Anyone can be a Faherty.