Matt Warshaw needs you! Will you answer the call?
Do you consider yourself a “global citizen?” Did you cry this morning when you read that Donald J. Trump is planning on opting out of the Paris Accord? Is your monthly “donation” budget tied up between Greenpeace and the Surfrider Foundation?
Of course not! You are a BeachGrit-er!
But there is one thing you can do with your extra pennies that are not being sent to Greenpeace or the Surfrider Foundation. You can send them to your favorite Matt Warshaw in support of his epic Encyclopedia of Surfing and History of Surfing!
The Encyclopedia of Surfing and the History of Surfing are both true works of art. Matt Warshaw has taken it upon himself to actually commit the only thing we truly care about to eternity. He has read, sorted, logged it all from Bronzed Aussies to Zelda . Without him, without these two works, all of our memories would vanish. He has done a hard and thankless work and it matters. The entries are brilliant. The reading is gold. And here we are.
I don’t ask for much but I beg for this because it is good and unlike Greenpeace and Surfrider actually does something. It gives us our past and in a strange way it gives us our future. Without Matt Warshaw we are stuck in a perpetual now. A perpetual BeachGrit.
Can you imagine anything more horrifying? I can’t.
Come on you bastards! Let’s leave the invading Russians with something that is actually fun!
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the wsl needs a lineup shot of all the guy that are prematurely balding. bobby, julain, owen
I finally cleared my bookshelves of my Encyclopedia Brittanica volumes to make room for Warshaw’s Encyclopedia of Surfing. Now my bookshelf cabinet looks like shit with just an iPad and nothing else. Fuck, it makes me look stupid and un-encyclopedic.
It only takes $3 per month to give Warshaw the cyber BJ? Who could turn that down?
Is there anything more buzz-killing than running into a paywall on the Internet? Especially when whatever it is was free before.
being a starving writer is pretty buzzkilling too, though? idk.
Personally, I see a potential opportunity for advertising revenue that could be way more lucrative than a sub-based model. Maybe he already tried that and It didn’t work?
Yeah, Matt would have to speak to his particular case, obvs. But making money as a media thing on the internet by relying on advertising is hella hard these days.
maybe, but a) surfers love nothing more than to accuse any surf media outlet of sucking the corpo/ad dick and b) the warshaw empire is a non-profit.
I think the whole surf industry is pretty much “non-profit” these days!
Your right about that chas–being stuck in a perpetual Beachgrit would be a nightmare. Maybe its time for you to get right with God….
Ah… that’ll be why i prefer going left.
Freed from the shackles of those baby boomer fetishizers at Surfer, nonetheless!
less encyclopedia of surfing and more covfefe.
Bqhatevwr !!
The History of Surfing is incredibly readable, I must say. I bought it to beat insomnia, but I found myself reading till 4 in the morning.
I’ll drop some coin if he writes a scathing appraisal of Paul Speaker’s contribution to killing professional surfing as we know (knew) it. Speaker must rank more than a mere footnote.
I think you’re on to something. 200$ if he does a brilliant write up of me. Heck I’d settle for one of Wiggoly’s Paddling Style.
400$ dollars if he does a write up on Laird’s Menstrual Controversy.
I would chip in on that one. Long live Laird’s menstruation!
Get some pics together of you charging your local shorebreak and send them to him with 200 bills stapled to the cover letter. He’s only human. I think.
If Matt would just do a little more around the house, I’m sure his Wife would increase his monthly allowance to cover this… I’d suggest a big ticket clean like washing the windows.
Hall pass for one night with Ciaramella, and this would be funded for the next 20 years.
Not plumbing then? BTW best of luck with the CWC this weekend.
Cheers!
‘Chemical Weapons Convention’?
That sounds like a far better paying gig…
Cold Water Classic.
Ah yes the annual carnival for Water Sommeliers.
Ooooh! the ardent passion for picking just the perfect eau to match a challenging palette of food. Marvellous. I salute you Sir.
Boire bien!
Yo CB, you alive?
I’m a nihilist.
Is there anything more nihilistic than surfing?
Surfing without supporting surfing?
Beside not giving time, effort or money to causes you should or even care about? Than yes, nothing more…
doing heroin in the bath and then reading Crime and Punishment in the nude on a cold bathroom floor with a needle sticking out of your arm?
I know what I’m doing tonight! Thanks for the advice.
have a friend ready to call for assist if you OD mi amigo
Gracias! I Just Say No these days.
That got dark quick.
right? heroin and russian novels, fuck.
sheesh. who does heroin anymore? spice and black mamba all the way!
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That’s essentially what I look like after most of my sessions, as I trudge back home thinking about how well I surf these days.
…except with a lot less hair…
thats hideous! is that a Man U hoodie?
I contemplated a serruptitous monkey spanking in my cubicle today but then realized I didn’t have the energy for it.
Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don’t know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.
Chas,
You forgot to mention “Above the Roar” — that’s my favorite of the THREE Warshaw sites.