Come see Malibu like you've never seen her before!
The print magazine, god love it and thank god it’s almost gone, was an unforgiving master. One lazy typo and your carelessness was enshrined forever like a bad tattoo.
Once, many years ago, I pranked a pal who rarely sub-edited the work that flowed through his magazine by including a passage featuring graphic sex between a preacher and a member of his congregation.
“Mine is a magic wand to make any wish come true when you make it cry tears of joy,” said the preacher.
“I put the long, crooked thing in my mouth until I spat its slimy tears.”
Etc.
It was only a sharp-eyed printer that discovered the joke, and just hours before it was due to go through the print rollers.
A few days ago, an astute, and very famous, reader, sent a photo of a surf spot guide from the British magazine Carve, a venerable title that’s been around since before the turn of the century and that is often served at international airport newsstands.
The reader writes,
“In what could be the most epic fail in surf journalism, the new issue shows a two-page spread of ‘Malibu’ complete with hand numbered descriptions of the various take-off zones and arrows to Point Dume to the north! One minor problem. Despite the caption and lengthy paragraph describing the photo and wave. It ain’t Malibu.”
Do you know the name of the wave?
And, surf mag fails, do you have a favourite?
Now you’re talking about beer. Gotta love a cold C-.
Hard to tell on a phone but I’ma say C Street…
its oceanside
Best compliment that shit wave ever got.
No longer C-Street, but now known as “AL Point” to those who have to endure the daily battles.
A wonderland of soft-tops and sweepers, hoods & booties year round.
And then there are the “serious” longboarders on the inside cove – Douche Cove it’s called.
The actual name of the place is the Point but C-street, Fairgrounds, Ventura Point are all occasionally used outside Ventura. There are a bunch of waves there with different names. Gets good but usually pretty shitbag, longboard and VAL wave except the top.
I nearly threw dream job away on that silly little exercise.
I used to try to put the ‘bacon roll’ clause into specifications to see if the contractors actually read it.
My managers only once missed it and it slipped through their editing.
When they made the South Park video game, part of the fine print when you install it said that you agreed to sell your soul to them. No-one read it.
Surf Ranch?
Who’s the “very famous” reader?
Not Obama but, in the surf world, close!
Ziff/Speaker…president before the current one?
You do have friends in high places
Desmond Tutu?
Lou Ferrigno?
David Cassidy?
David hasselhof?
Michael February.
I’ve been to Malibu once, was drunk and at sea level. Was like a foot and hardly breaking but had a little log on it just to say I did. Can it still ever be fun?
Watch out for the mid point mafia….heavy spot…
There’s no way the printer would care or hold up the run
For a long-time client, yep.
It’s a bit hard to past Fanning’s schlong in the Ments.
I used to ride an 11′ Billy Hamilton glider/gun out there. Annoyed the crap out of people.
C-Street… Ventura Point… my old backyard. Big winter swells that connect Stables to the Pier are tits.
In fact, this inspires me to make a few trips down this winter… not as good as Rincon, but usually better.
Here’s an obscure spot, I think it’s called Ubilam?:
https://vimeo.com/13697001
Its not Ubilam aka Malibu lefts.
Where is this? A left with wetsuits…Oz…NZ…???
It’s Nias in 2025.
It can still happen. I made a typo on an article header last night, promoted it on Facebook and didn’t realise until this morning, after it had been seen by hundreds of thousands etc. Updated on the article but it is now enshrined in the Facebook post.
For future reference: ‘smote’ is past tense of ‘smite’ and ‘smoting’ just ain’t a word. But I learned you can also use ‘smitten’ despite its modern day meaning.
If you didn’t look past the sandline there I can see how you might make the mistake with Malibu. Is it Ventura?
Surfers’ Point in Ventura?
AKA C-Street. You can see Dane, don’t even have to squint that hard.
He fills the entire frame!
Now that’s just shaming!