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It has been seven years since the Hawaiian legend Andy Irons left this mortal coil and it’s wild how fast time flies. It seems like just yesterday he was on the comeback trail and just two days ago that he was challenging the dominance of one Kelly Slater. Standing straight as an arrow in massive Teahupo’o pits. Hoisting world championship cuts over his handsome visage.
His story is equal measure beauty and tragedy and it is why most of the surf media remembers him every year on the day he died. BeachGrit did not yesterday because Derek and I were together and surfing. Stab did, asking both Kelly Slater and Mason Ho for some thoughts and let’s read Kelly’s.
We were at dinner [Gold Coast, 2008] and he was asking me and my girl about food and what we make. I told him we made almond milk, and he was baffled that I knew how to make it. It nearly didn’t compute with him. I was supposed to make him some but he never came by on that trip.
In Stab’s supple hands everything becomes high art and this is beat poetry. Here, let me play some jazz and then let’s read again.
We were at dinner [Gold Coast, 2008] and he was asking me and my girl about food and what we make.
I told him we made almond milk.
He was baffled that I knew how to make it.
It nearly didn’t compute with him.
I was supposed to make him some.
But he never came by on that trip.
Dig.
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Take Every Almond – The Laird Slater Biography
Takes Every Almond To Milk It –
by Rob Slater
Preface It by Laird
Cliff Notes by Skimmed Milk Domke
Curiosity killed the cat
Didn’t The King write something about AI for the Inerdtia? I think that was the first time I ever encountered those bedwetters.
Lairdalism
I do love your poetry. It’s a whole new genre of ripping the piss.
Kerneljisim.
Almond milk curious? I want to know if he was ever interested in visiting Dubai. Then he would have been Dubai curious. I’ll see myself out.
Because when you’re young, hot, on tour and consistently smoking the former world champ you’d prefer to hang with him and his lady sipping almond milk. Fuckin lactards
Really mailing it in lately huh
its all about Kellly
Chas how’s ya shoulder after your one and only wave at L’amour?
did you really dislocate your shoulder , will this affect your prosurfing career?
Ohhhh..is this really true?!!
only Chas will tell us when he is ready , as I think he signed an embargo , but the CCTV cameras tell a different story , dislocated and delusional!
I wonder if he was riding his asymmetrical surfboard?
was body surfing ?
Eh, Kelly’s homemade nut juice doesn’t necessarily thrill, nor is it seminal.