The last hurrah!
There was a wake last night for Surfing magazine (RIP) that was very well attended. A veritable who’s who of surf industry stalwarts, lower tier professional surfers, surf media personalities and hangers-on said goodbye to Surfer magazine’s better half by drinking booze, fighting, cursing, fighting, getting drunk, kicking, cursing, drinking booze, puking, throwing bottles, fighting, drinking, kissing, kicking, cursing.
I didn’t feel sad, personally. Surfing magazine was most useful at bringing people together, I think. Some of the greatest I know from Travis Ferre to Evan Slater to Taylor Paul to Jimmicane to Peter Taras to Chato Aganza walked those halls and none of them are dead so… whatever. Right? So long, Surfer. I mean Surfing.
As fate would have it, I got a chance to speak with Taylor Paul and Chris Binns yesterday during the Volcom Pipe Pro about the state of surf media. Taylor once edited Surfing and Chris once edited Australia’s Surfing Life (RIP) (RIP). I used my time to shit on The Inertia and will also crash its wake when nature finally murders it.
My memory of specific events from last evening is, anyhow, very fuzzy but I did manage to catch some video.
ITS NOT AN INDUSTRY GET TOGETHER WITHOUT CHRIS COTE STICKING HIS DICK UP EVERY PRO SURFERS ASS!
Hey Blah, I’ve deleted the other 3 of your comments today… Come on man!
Only the ones’ that accept it, nothing forced.
Uh huh yep
The grit needs to get on that Mavs edit that surfline dropped earlier. Its epic.
Really? Tell that to the three different print journals, all of which are about $15/pop, stacked on my coffee table right now. There’s definitely a market for print media. People who enjoy reading do not enjoy reading on a screen. There are lots of us. Like at least 10-11 of us.
Yes. But you are old tom and probably dead soon.
as if any of us on earth will survive the next 6 months
Fuck! Yet another drunk-fest in memory of Surfing magazine that I missed. I’m sick of this! Everyone’s having fun except me.
Unrelated, but how is Kaipo getting away with being a double agent right now? Surely the WSL will crush him like imperialist overlords?
And Ross fucking Williams?! Has the WSL finally folded while I’ve been asleep?
It’s a wsl event bud. Qs 3000
Has it always been? And then why are Red Bull broadcasting it? I’m both confused and ill informed, it would seem!
Because the WSL are giving in to commercial reality and understanding that they need more help to foot the outlandish bills pouring in the door from the pro surfing exercise.
Yes Nick. With that irrefutable logic you’d reckon the WSL might rethink their ideas about ditching the Margaret River Masters from the world tour. It is an event largely funded by the Government, also an event that the majority of pro surfers consistently record their highest scoring rides on the entire world tour. Plus Margs is one of few ‘deep water’ reef breaks on the tour which adds more variety, never mind the added allure of The Box next door. Imagine if the WSL gets North Point cranking this year too, then still goes ahead and ditches Margs from the tour? Crazy or what?
Desperate times to finally give in to your arch nemesis.
We should all crash the Inertia’s wake! But, it would probably just be a bunch of nerds doing yoga and crying in Venice.
i’ll bring my yoga pants
How did I not see you?
Because you weren’t there. You didn’t get invited since you were just an intern for six months.
he works for beachgrit now..atleast thats what he tells people in california
You guys didn’t carpool?
FUCK OFF MICHAEL.
Change of heart, Negatron? Did you realise that it wasn’t a good look for you?
Wasn’t a good look? It wasn’t Mikes article so my comment had less relevance. I can re-post it if you want…
Exactly. Which means you misread the tone of the thread. Anyway, police it how you please. It’s your gig. Just bear in mind that the only reason people are still here is probably for the comments. It sure as fuck isn’t for the content.
No policing involved in deleted comment. Ah fuck it here’s the comment. I don’t need this to turn into a soap opera.
#We get it Chazz. Just don’t read his articles if you don’t like him/them. Another cool feature on Disqus is the block function, you can hit it and never see another comment from that person again.
What would you prefer? High School Musical? Or maybe a nice, stern period drama?
I’m getting my inspiration from The Man in the High Castle as of late.
In hindsight I probably should have just told you I’d prefer if you didn’t tell other commentators to “fuck off” as it doesn’t encourage discussion or debate just shit slinging and hate.
But I didn’t, because there’s small part of me that agrees with you.
Great tip! Now I can block that whiny little turd Chazz Michael Michaels. Like stumbling onto the set of “Mean Girls” every time one of the Rory Replacements writes anything.
Making Disqus Fascist Again
First thing tomorrow I’m going to buy myself some jackboots.
Please do, Bieber. I’ve never seen you contribute anything worthwhile anyway.
Chazz, it’s important to learn to play well with the other kids
WTF? Nothing makes better reading than a complete shitstorm. Is this not one of the last bastians of safety for us trolls? NEGATRON you used to be one of my heros.
Does it work for articles written by writers who aren’t good that we don’t want to read or scroll past #1stworldproblems
Holy shit, you did it. You went full-on Starscream.
Good for you.
Yip, cheers for the advice… it was an exciting Saturday night selecting the appropriate Avatar.
I came here for the hoe?
Here ya go mate
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