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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YASSSS.
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Increase in real performance, better experience, or both?
Isn’t it a little early in your oeuvre for an autobiography?
you had better interview everyone at pipe ona macking swell..im sure everyone there is cokded outt here mind, bruce, kala, fucken everyone
Looking forward to it! Hope it’s full of bitchy gossip – the best kind!
“Cocaine is a hell of a drug…”
Recommended read: Snowing in Bali. Surfing + cocaine + sex + gangs + murder
And weirdly enough sorta un-entertaining to boot, because everyone in it is dull.
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.
Perhaps you could give us your recommendations for the best illicit drugs for performance surfing? Wiggs has written his view on the topic
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.
Haven’t you already covered this topic in your best selling Pulitzer Prize winning book? It’s gotta be speed yeah?
If i railed a lock of JonJon’s gingery fro would it help my surfing, in your learned opinion?
I’m calling you so soon about this……….
i do not sniff the coke i only smoke sensimilla
me 2
we have to wait a year? dude.
but also, congrats, will read. 🙂
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
Cool to see that Chas’ announcement has brought caveira to Beachgrit. Joy.
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 “
Being a fascist at heart, I feel jealousy at your ability to blacklist and to erase free speech
mozel mozel. fast eddie making a return? please say yes.
Good luck
This is good news. Will there be a Russian translation? Asking for a friend.
Ukrainian or Kosovo dialect?
U mean albanian?
Maybe he does. Not many Ukrainians or Kosovos still alive. War and Genocide etc etc
I’ll take this as sign (face disappears from frame, pops back up) yeah surfboards!!!!!!!
i would think the cocaine would be “the damned thing.”
nope. yet again we must confront the scourge that books represent.
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
freebase that shit!