There's a great future in surf traction."
Do you know the scene in The Graduate where Mr. Maguire, sitting around the swimming pool, tells a young Dustin Hoffman, “There’s a great future in surf traction. Think about it. Will you think about it?”
Oh if only young Dustin would have listened. He’d be rich beyond his wildest wildest dreams. Rich with massive houses, double-digits of gorgeous ex-wives, garages filled with DeLoreans and as many AirPods as he could stuff into his ears.
Surf traction is a growth industry. It’s always been a growth industry but only the extra brilliant see it. The extra brilliant like the great minds behind Octopus.
Here we see one of their new charges surfing very well. He is lucky to be part of a massive corporate juggernaut. He will soon have too many gorgeous ex-wives if that’s even such a thing.
OCTOPUS: COLIN MORAN! from O C T O P U S on Vimeo.
TSOL kicks ass.
Fuck yeah
Gooooose! Kid rips with style just hope they learn a trade or get an education
I have a old pro skater pal who’s got a degree in astrophysics…
I mean… it ain’t rocket science.
A brand I don’t know
And a surfer I don’t know
Maguire was right!
5,7,4
Wtf ? Ed, you ok ?
Muh gear aye?
Mah gwire, is what I’ve always understood. But hey …. ??
Muh-gwi-yer
Agreed, Mogwai’r is the only way I’ve heard it but I’m trying to give our boy Eddie some creative wiggle room.
Fooled by the ol’ Schwa
At the end of Maguire
As I was at first 🙂
Well if Jack qualifies we won’t thank his dad but sing in joyful strains ;
And here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Wo wo wo
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson
Heaven holds a place for those who pray
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey
Mrs. Robinson was originally supposed to be about Eleanor Roosevelt.
Dustin Hoffman or whoever that actor dude is drove the wrong way through the Gaviota Tunnel.
I signed a book for Katharine Ross a few years ago.
She said, “My name is Katharine.”
I said, “I know who you are.”
Movie stars don’t like getting old.
Bananas in Pajamas was originally about the Mujahadin take over of Peshmerga in Afghanistan in the 1830’s.
Willy Wonka or some other Holy Saint drove a glass elevator up too high into some cloud people.
I put my card against the chip-reader at the supermarket the other day when the lady asked me. Her name tag said Margo.
She said “That’s $47.30”.
I said “OK thanks”.
No one really enjoys getting old.
Yeah but it’s worse for famous people because everyone remembers them at their most glamorous – Katherine Ross in The Graduate and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – and so everyone does a triple take when they meet them for real.
Zuma Jay said Sandra Dee wouldn’t go out in public because everyone expected her to still be a troublesome teen.
And F Scott Fitzgerald lived in Malibu Colony for a while in the 1930s but when he went around Hollywood and was introduced everyone did a quadruple take because they thought he was dead.
I was real once.
Now I’m just a disembodied text / photo character on a surf-adjacent website comment section.
What were they trying to bust Jefferson for last year?
Man that is an excellent question.
Supposedly it’s because if you are on the Malibu City Council, you are required to live within Malibu City Limits for a set amount of time. Jay’s house up Latigo (RIP) is just outside of city limits, so he has a house within Malibu City Limits where he is supposed to live.
Jay opposes a lot of things on the City Council that cost others a lot of money, so supposedly someone narked on him and the DA pulled not one but two raids on Jay’s house.
Not the Sheriff, but the DA – which is unusual.
I ran this by AC (the guy driving OJ’s Bronco) and he scoffed and suggested there was more to it than that.
Something else is up.
Jay is a good guy. He doesn’t deserve this.
Malibu is a bit like Chinatown in some of the political skullduggery – because there is a lot of money involved here.
But it’s all moot because Jay’s house up Latigo went up in flames and he almost went with it. Lost his wax collection, his comic books.
Bummer.
Jay is a righteous dude, and doesn’t deserve this.
I doubt getting old is worse for famous people ( unless they have become paupers ) because they have access to first class medical care , rehab and plastic surgery , not to mention those beautiful neck wrinkle hiding scarves from Hermès ?
Well if you’re livelihood depends on it and the difference between maing a $20 million movie and not making a $20 million movie depends on your appearance – it’s worse for famous people.
Thanks for the back story .
“Surf traction is a growth industry.”
Go ahead, speak it into existence, brother… for Dell’s sake. Btw, how’s Necro doing?
It’s the Zeitgeist ! It’s the New Wave , It is New Romantic , It is Moran Moran , it is Girls on Film and Hungry like the wheel arches eating into your utes’ payload . Remember Utes will be an issue in the up coming election ? Get a grip on it ….4 beers happy ( like Connor O’s new CI Model ) and tell hippy I am nowhere near collapsing ………….See them tumbling down
Pledging their love to the ground!
Lonely, but free, I’ll be found
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds…. the dude abides …..and goodnight ……
“Safari cannot open the page because the server cannot be found.”
Gorilla has purchased all its dead stock.
The biz model of selling inventory wholesale at a little under its manufacturing cost, while disruptive and innovative, didn’t work in the long haul. Did I tell you about my water taxi business?
I suggest investing heavily in magic beans