It's is the day for love!
It is Thanksgiving morning in America, the time that most of us prepare bountiful feasts to share with our loved ones and ponder all of the many things for which we are grateful. I am grateful for getting my loved ones to agree to skip the bountiful feast (I hate turkey etc.) and I am grateful for you!
I am grateful for Derek Rielly because he is the best pal ever and makes BeachGrit sing.
I am grateful for Steve “longtom” Shearer because he makes me believe that surf writing can rival any other sort.
I am grateful for Negatron because he sets the tone for our conversation.
I am grateful for Julian’s Postie, mullet, turts, Chazz Michael Michaels, PacificNorthPest, OttoBeenThere, Wig’s Paddling Style, Mattysez, Building the Revolution, Nik Karol, Nick Carroll, Abscessed Lalama, dickie toledo, Ck T, Tired old guy, SleevePocket, stewie, Ami Lost, J H, Krill, Paulo De Tarso Duarte, pubes, Rusty Shackleford, Captain Clark, Twillsy, Angelo Pappas, david f, mybrothersajunkie, Nick D, nastrabrahmus, seven5seven6, ricmatic, Karl Von Fanningstadt, DrunkenAngel, thevoiceofnoreason and all the rest for making me smile each and every day.
I am grateful for The Inertia and Stab because of the never-ending stream of funny that flows from Venice-adjacent.
I am grateful for the World Surf League because it entertains on so many levels both purposefully and not.
I am grateful for Album surfboards and my sponsorship/pro surfer status.
I am grateful for the people because you showed me that I don’t need cold Michelob Ultra to be happy just Africanized trash bees and God’s too hot sun.
I am grateful for Joel Tudor’s black belt and Kelly Slater’s blue belt because I imagine they are difficult to earn.
I am grateful for Scott Hulet and The Surfer’s Journal because it makes surfing feel classy.
I am grateful for Matt Warshaw because without him surfing’s grand history would only stretch back to 2003.
I am grateful for my wife because, as the saying goes, behind every great surf journalist is a woman who accidentally married a surf journalist and somehow doesn’t leave him.
Thank you all and Happy Thanksgiving!
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I’m grateful you fired Rory. That guy was the worst!!
By the way,..I used that exact Napoleon Dynamite gif to send to my cousin who was enduring a hellish Thanksgiving at his mother-in-law’s.
Even during a pagan holiday us I-talians (well…at least 50-ish percent of me is I-talian) eat WELL. His in-laws are some sort of Northern Europeans mutts who believe that herring are actual food and not bait. So sad…
Thank you, Chas. And a very Happy Thanksgiving to you and the family!
Your the sand in my bed gentlemen and lady. Thank you..
grateful for Laird Hamilton’s never ending dumbness.
Awww! Love you too bro-bra. Gonna have a little glass of post-feast whiskey in your honor
thanks for making me laugh all the time!
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I am very great full just to make the cut of being thanked.
Personally I am thankful for the fashion advice Chas has bestowed upon us. I now no longer look like an unkempt bogan.
Hmmmm…
The problem with naming people in lists of thanks is that when they get left out or shoved into ‘all the the others’ they tend to fell a bit butthurt, even if subconsciously.
See: the bad fairy in Sleeping Beauty for reference. (kids books eh? Who knew?)
But think of the bounce in my step this morning!
I tried to hang myself but the branch snapped now I have to drag this section of Oak tree round by my neck I can’t get it undone 😞
The Dead Whale isn’t in that list either so we’re in good company Wincy.
Dead Whale can have my spot… his contributions shit all over my sniping from the cheap seats
He’s a learned fella and funny.
I wonder if he’s ok.
But why do you hate turkey? The taste or the idea? It’s such a seemingly innocuous food.
I’m thankful that I’ve found a place to sprout shit about something I love and for once I’m not the strangest cat in the room. Not even close!
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I too, am very grateful. Yesterday after much negotiation and herculean efforts from BG principal Derek Rielly, I took possession of a new Pyzel Ghost.
See Mum, surf writing does pay.
I must say … the pyzel ghost goes good. Oh yes it does. Snap like twigs but 🙁
I’ve snapped every Pyzel I’ve owned in less than 10 surfs.
don’t say that.
Me too! Thanks to our favorite “Self-Destructive Virus”/Man of The People I got a wicked deal (not free, for I’m no Longtom) on a Mayhem Round tail Baby Buggy. With channels! As seen in the Beachgrit ads of old!
How did that work? Do you reckon I could get discount Mayhem’s and tell everyone I’m on flow?
I saw that “Beachshit” comment of yours over at STAB.
So sorry, but full retail only for you Wiggs.
Mate. We are friends! Why do you always do this to me!?
BrachSlit is way more appropriate considering the personalities assembled here 🙂
bitchgreat…
yes there are great deals on the Vietnamese Carbon wrap , you even get a copy of Apocalypse Now , which makes you surf even better when under attack from angry gun toting seppos!
oh you surfboard Fashionista , was it a custom or just a stock board?
stock
Yeah but the fucken thing had no fin set with it. Honestly, BeachGrit, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
You’re not going to stop writing now though right? Please?
Also have fun on that thing!
I suggest longtom put pen to paper carving his way through this synopsis:
Steve and his Mum exchange numerous text messages where his Mum’s standard response over and over is “I don’t believe you.” He even sent a picture of himself standing next to his ghost. His Mum replied, “looks photoshit….I mean shop.” Steve fathers (huh? I wrote gathers….i’ll take auto-correct’s word on this) his new ghostly shape and shows up uninvited at his Mum’s front door. He toe-taps his Mum’s front door. She excitedly opens. Squints. “Steve! You kick my door again, I kick you!”
longtom: ***hands his Mum his new Pyzel Ghost***
longtom: “Told you Mum!”
longtom’ Mum: *** she grabs the board, examines the front deck. Flips it over and stares at the signature***
longtom’s Mum: “It says “for Derek Rielly”…seems to me you get paid shit! Should ask for a raise!”
longtom’s Mum abruptly walks away
Today we’re grateful
This shit is tiring me out
Back to full ingrate
Not drunk enough!
Okrzyki!
I am so pissed for not being on that list. I need sponsorship too, you know. Unloved. UNLOVED! If you want to apologise, call me. ‘They’ reached out. So, I am packed and on my way to whore myself out at venice beach. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
You’re there now!
You lovely man. Swoon. I am screwing the top off it
A Francois Peyrot, that is. Few bills but i will swill for cheap thrills to celebrate!
Clearly my talents are wasted here… (sad face emoji)
Same! The tears flow!
I would catch your tears in a beaker, heat them up, pour them over sugar cubes, add 1/4 oz Absinthe, 1 1/2 oz Cognac, call it the AUDITORIUSS, and drink to you.
Brilliant!
I wish you would let me out of the Trunk to boot!
All good Helga Brah