We've reached the end (of the year)!
2017 is basically all over and it appears that many people are happy to see it go but not me and all thanks to you. Every day you put a smile on my face. Every day you made me chuckle with your delicate balance of wit, good-nature and cynicism. Every single day of this past year. I’m not nostalgic, due partially to a very bad memory, but I feel I will look back on 2017 with much fondness. Do you have a favorite moment?
Mine might have been the man who “baptized the savage” Gabriel Medina. Do you remember him?
Or maybe Sabre Norris’ profile on Derek Rielly.
Now that I think about it, though, yesterday’s evisceration of first-world surfboards was all-time.
Oh I’m not about to make this a listlicle but……
I’m tired.
And a little boozy.
Soooooooo…
I love you.
My favorite event in 2017 was reading about and listening to MC get ambushed by Christian Fletcher at that bar in Orange County about the whole snotty grom “Snake London” story. That little shit used to live here on Kauai and would burn his elders and everybody else all the time. Maybe if MC was on the receiving end of London’s disrespect, he would have had a different opinion.
laird week was fun. maybe bring that back in 2018.
Yeah mate. Pick it up in the big city. Take it to The People.
Slow around the surf publications during the holidays! Must be cool to have a life. Even BG doesn’t have the usual crowd of sycophants around. I liked your articles about yourself, I’m a sucker for an ‘egomaniac’ as one Welcome to Paradise reviewer described ‘the author’. Please keep being a cunt in 2018 BG
Also, 2017, the year I got published. Been drunk ever since because that’s what “writers” do.
It was my second favorite story! (After Sabre’s, of course.)
A simple man, I derived countless hours of enjoyment from the ¡Squirt! phenomenon…
In 2017, there was a noticeable upward trajectory at Beach Grit. Steady as She Go’d. Things I thought were fun: Rory quitting (did that happen this year? The celebration hasn’t faded so I say still fun!); MC and his off brahwày production as a young scribe of surf-dumb fun, followed by a very respectable and well-handled (Dez/Chas) exit; and most of all, the endless laughs provided by you all. Oh yeah, the People™ protest was legendary!
Great work everybody. When the local footy team coach is calling, desperate for their star player to return to the field, you have said no. When the wives, husbands or lovers have wailed at you to return to bed to be pleasured one more time so they can pass out drooling to their pillow, you have said no. When kids needed to be dropped at school, you stamped your foot down and said no! I am commenting on a Beachgrit article, I’m a human being commenting god damn it and my words have value! Let’s make 2018 great again.
Do people still do New Years parties? Seems so 1999. Like the Dandy Warhols and heroine, so very passé.
Being first on a list of Chas’ commentariotaters.
And they said I’d never achieve anything.
That’s right I got published this year hahaha, fuck me.
Yeah boys. Smash it up tonight.
Or save yourself for the 1′ dribble, that while not all time, will be the least crowded surf of the summer. You know what’s good for you. 34 beers later.
I think it’ll be 1 AND A HALF foot here. Sooooo stoked dude.
I’m in morocco and it’s cookin. I’m gonna get shit faced of course. Miss the whole lot. Wake up in jail. Etc.
Awesome. Midnight Express the shit out of 2018 dude.
I’m in Adelaide so I’m winning on not missing surf, sucked in dickheads! Xox
Yeah. But you’re still in Adelaide.
The singer Adelaide?
You’re “sucked in dickheads”? Man, Ozzies are weird.
translation – bad luck guys
I assumed he meant “suck it dickheads” but 25% of me questioned whether “sucked in dickheads” is some weird Ozzie late night yank fest; I wouldn’t put it past them.
Have a happy new year, Branno.