Cocaine + Surfing: a love story!

Like Romeo + Juliet except super chatty!

Yesterday, if you had happened to be perusing the Publishers’ Marketplace alongside your morning coffee you would have seen this happy announcement.

And can you even believe? The follow-up to 2014’s eighth best surf book about Oahu’s North Shore gets a sequel!

Finally!

In truth, this damned thing is why I’ve been such a disaster in every part of my life lately. Books are strange vampires. They suck the very life out. They stay awake at night. They demand, they fuss, they change their minds. They obstinately get in the way of things that really matter and turn invisible in the mirror and die when staked and decapitated. But there’s almost nothing I’d rather be doing than writing one. Oh, I know I know I know publishing is dead and who reads long-form anything anymore and what a waste of time and energy but the heart wants what the heart wants.

I don’t sleep any more, I lose everything, I write garbage here, I can’t focus.

Like a teenager in love!

And what’ll it be about? Duh! But also….. stay tuned!

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Cat Woods
Cat Woods
8 years ago

YASSSS.

Tom House
Tom House
9 years ago

oh

Jocks
Jocks
9 years ago

Increase in real performance, better experience, or both?

Mapski
Mapski
9 years ago

Isn’t it a little early in your oeuvre for an autobiography?

nyc surfing golden boy
nyc surfing golden boy
9 years ago

you had better interview everyone at pipe ona macking swell..im sure everyone there is cokded outt here mind, bruce, kala, fucken everyone

Jimmy the Saint
Jimmy the Saint
9 years ago

Looking forward to it! Hope it’s full of bitchy gossip – the best kind!

slater thenewdonkey
slater thenewdonkey
9 years ago

“Cocaine is a hell of a drug…”

omlete
omlete
9 years ago

Recommended read: Snowing in Bali. Surfing + cocaine + sex + gangs + murder

Nick Carroll
Nick Carroll
9 years ago
Reply to  omlete

And weirdly enough sorta un-entertaining to boot, because everyone in it is dull.

Nick Carroll
Nick Carroll
9 years ago

It’s a pretty shit love story though isn’t it, I mean surfing on cocaine is just silly. Maybe Wiggs has other ideas about it but almost nothing could be more calculated to throw you off! It’s awful. You just want to catch a wave and run home and snort more cocaine.

Jocks
Jocks
9 years ago
Reply to  Nick Carroll

Perhaps you could give us your recommendations for the best illicit drugs for performance surfing? Wiggs has written his view on the topic

Nick Carroll
Nick Carroll
9 years ago
Reply to  Jocks

Yeah OK. I don’t know about enhancing actual performance but I think it is very hard to go past a small dose of acid. Dope is just a bit vague and anything obviously “up” just fucks up your sense of what’s happening. Actually I think surfing is much better without any substances whatsoever, the feelings arising from contact with water and waves shit on any stupid drug.

Jocks
Jocks
9 years ago
Reply to  Nick Carroll

Haven’t you already covered this topic in your best selling Pulitzer Prize winning book? It’s gotta be speed yeah?

Italo Post Heat Interview
Italo Post Heat Interview
9 years ago
Reply to  Nick Carroll

If i railed a lock of JonJon’s gingery fro would it help my surfing, in your learned opinion?

Chas Smith
Chas Smith
9 years ago
Reply to  Nick Carroll

I’m calling you so soon about this……….

Poulet
Poulet
9 years ago
Reply to  Nick Carroll
dickie toledo
dickie toledo
9 years ago

i do not sniff the coke i only smoke sensimilla

Caveira é Baitola
Caveira é Baitola
9 years ago
Reply to  dickie toledo

me 2

Jen See
Jen See
9 years ago

we have to wait a year? dude.

but also, congrats, will read. 🙂

Black Rubber
Black Rubber
9 years ago

This is fantastic news if you actually got people to talk. So many rumors, so many whispers but no one on the record. Let’s get the straight story.

If this doesn’t feature some high profile CA surfers in El Salvador in the 80s, I’m going to have questions

omlete
omlete
9 years ago

Cool to see that Chas’ announcement has brought caveira to Beachgrit. Joy.

NEGATRON
NEGATRON
9 years ago
Reply to  omlete

Oh, it’s not his first time here! He pops in now and again… Worth noting he holds the record for the most blacklisted commentator with about 13 accounts.
Also the most posts in a day (about 80 from memory) He hasn’t been here for awhile, I think he finally realised that it only takes me about 2 seconds to put him on the blacklist which deletes the previous two hours of his “commentary “

Jocks
Jocks
9 years ago
Reply to  NEGATRON

Being a fascist at heart, I feel jealousy at your ability to blacklist and to erase free speech

Matty
Matty
9 years ago

mozel mozel. fast eddie making a return? please say yes.

elduderino
elduderino
9 years ago

Good luck

NUG
NUG
9 years ago

This is good news. Will there be a Russian translation? Asking for a friend.

Dumb Florida Redneck
Dumb Florida Redneck
9 years ago
Reply to  NUG

Ukrainian or Kosovo dialect?

Italo Post Heat Interview
Italo Post Heat Interview
9 years ago

U mean albanian?

Jocks
Jocks
9 years ago

Maybe he does. Not many Ukrainians or Kosovos still alive. War and Genocide etc etc

Dumb Florida Redneck
Dumb Florida Redneck
9 years ago

I’ll take this as sign (face disappears from frame, pops back up) yeah surfboards!!!!!!!

A Kid from Kansas
A Kid from Kansas
9 years ago

i would think the cocaine would be “the damned thing.”

bitter guy
bitter guy
9 years ago

nope. yet again we must confront the scourge that books represent.

Jocks
Jocks
9 years ago
Reply to  bitter guy

Wouldn’t worry about it. Señor Trump has just declared a nationwide festival of book burnings

Chas’s book is right at the top of the list

bitter guy
bitter guy
9 years ago
Reply to  Jocks

freebase that shit!


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