One of the most beautiful surfers of all time!
I had the great pleasure of profiling Lisa Andersen in the latest Surfer’s Journal. I think she is one of the most beautiful surfers to ever live and not just physically beautiful, though she is that too, but her style. The way she rides waves.
A big Lisa project is in the works right now and you’ll start to see snippets here, soon, but in the meantime take a little taste of hangover food before heading over to the Journal for a wonderful video feature!
“I remember looking up the cab service in the Yellow Pages,” Lisa Andersen is saying while ignoring her shrimp ceviche, “calling and saying, ‘How much does it cost to get to Orlando in a cab from here? One way…”
“…from here…” is Daytona Beach or more speci cally Ormond Beach. A dead-end Florida town most famous for being home of the last living Civil War officer, a carpetbagging damn Yankee who died in 1933. Not famous for surf.
Her shrimp ceviche looks good si ing there in a reddish broth next to a bowl of delicate corn chips. And she is recounting her running away from home, running away from a boozed dad and a scared mom and a two-year stint in juvenile hall at the tender age of 16.
“How much was it?” I ask mid bite of bacon-wrapped hotdog. I am severely hungover and need the doubled pork. She should be scowling at me but understands. Understands that I need a bacon-wrapped hotdog, cheese-drenched refried beans, an al pastor taco and Tijuana street corn just to stay upright.
Because she has been through the wars too.
Subscribe to read more you cheap bastards!
oh. i shall read this. the coffee shop has the journal so i can mooch.
Part II should be BG demographic friendly with an interview smorgasbord of Derek, Chas, Sabre and Lisa all in together. I’d lean towards Derek penning the piece while Chas nurses his hangover with a BloodyGrit Mary.
First thing I read, absolutely love Lisa..
Nah fuck off, cancelled my subscription a year or two ago, only so many shit articles about douche bags who paint or mosaic waves that one can tolerate! Shame as there is the odd good article lost amidst the art nonsense!
Needless to say, I enjoyed reading this much more than reading that old whiny bastard bitch about being ostracized his entire life because he was a maverick conservative.
All right Chaz, thanks for bringing us the Lisa Anderson story. You have earned an exemption from me busting your balls on this one.
Rightttt…..