Raise your brandy.
I don’t mean to brag here BUT your li’l ol’ BeachGrit got mentioned by The New York Times yesterday less than two months after appearing in The New Yorker, the only two publications read by every single person in polite society.
You certainly recall in December when Pulitzer Prize winning author William Finnegan wrote:
“BeachGrit, an Australian Web site that delights in trolling the W.S.L., blew up the image to billboard size and installed it on a freeway in Lemoore, just in time for the Surf Ranch Pro. The billboard shot zoomed around the surfing Internet.”
That was in The New Yorker.
And yesterday, in The New York Times, National Magazine Award winning author Daniel Duane wrote:
Chas Smith, a founder of the popular online surf tabloid BeachGrit, told me that other male big-wave surfers complained about women at the time.
Oh it’s no big deal, really, it’s just… I don’t know, should I try wearing a monocle now? Do you think Spy makes a monocle with Happy Lens technology?
Or do you think I’d look better in a tweed jacket with leather patch’d elbows?
Think on that for a minute.
The New York Times piece is an in-depth look at women and big wave surfing. We’ll get in and dissect it later I just really need to know what to wear while doing. What about spats? Do polite socialites still wear spats?
Any other ideas would be appreciated.
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And easy to clean!
I’m impressed by their activism and charging – more entertaining and identifiable for me watching them barely make giant waves sometimes then watching dudes surf flawlessly.
No need to dress up Chas, I was sitting here in my sweats half naked when I read how Sofie treats her fellow gals. I guess she wanted to be the only hen in the henhouse huh?
Bat-shit crazy, this one is.
Ya fuckin crawler
<img src=”https://static0.cbrimages.c…” alt=”Image result for the penguin from batman cartoon”/> Chas with a monical and extendo cigi holder
Chas you definitely own a tweed jacket with leather patch’d elbows. So its time to custom order that monocle. But you do need to get a “Jacqueline Kennedy” cigi holder to tie it all together.
This is all Weighs fault… fucking cunt Wiggs go down the coast and surf your secret spot.
“other big wave surfers” in relation to whom? My guess is Laird Hamiltampon
Say, sport, NYT and New Yorker both? That’s a humdinger! Now once the WSJ declares lil ol Beachgrit solvent, it’ll be getting near time to make your big sale. Let’s see if the lad D. Reilly can get himself on the right side of this one. . . Ooophhh!
The gimp suit is making a comeback in a big fucken way. Also doubles as a wettie.
Get on it Cherek
Below knee billabong boardies, Bintang singa and havianas. Embrace the VAL life, the most polite of all
Velvet smoking jacket in a tasteful shade of black cherry! Monocle, trimmed with diamonds!
Put on a pair of Jack boots and give Stab a good kicking for announcing the winner of Stab in the Dark before releasing the film! A spectacular fuck up!
that was…. a weird choice, i feel!
I suppose there is bit of a Nazi connection to Jack boots in retrospect, I was thinking more of the boots those punks wore, maybe Dr Martins, but he can stick with his pink Gucci’s if he prefers!
Oh, I meant the Stab thing!
Could Chas even lift punk boots? Idk.
Yeah what happened there? Has there been any explanation?
Chas if you seriously are going to discuss the new role of women in surfing you are going to have to be seriously dressed like an agent from S.W.A.T. or the C.R.S ( French Riot Police ) to keep your head on your shoulders and construct an outer lining of Teflon around your nonexistent soul to keep the evil spirits at bay and easily washed away.Obviously it would be wonderful to turn up with nothing to declare but your genius but do you really want to go to war dressed like some 21st Century Oscar Wilde ?
Shark skin suit obviously.
Maybe a dress suit, at least a smoking jacket something like Heff would have worn, tweed dressing gown?
A fez!
We need fezzes!
Pith helmet matched with a safari suit
This how I picture us all.
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Try the classic reporter combo of a greasy Macintosh coat with a red puffy alcoholic nose, bleary but beady eyes, and egg-stained tie.
Does that make Dirk Ziff our Jeff Bezos?
BeachGrit and Polite Society most definitely do not belong in the same sentence.
But you just did.
Oh snap!
I beg your pardon sir!