This is our time!
This damned Hong Kong thing, I’ll tell you what, and I’m back on another sauvignon blanc fueled soapbox. Just teetering around up here, strangling my wine glass’s neck with one hand, waving a crooked finger in the air with the other and trying not to spill.
Or spit.
This damned Hong Kong thing.
I know I already spit last night as it relates to Vans but a new day has dawned, I went up to chat with just-revealed-as-Portuguese Deivid Lee Scales, got all agitated about Western capitulation, drove home getting more and more agitated as I went while listening to National Public Radio, stopped for white wine like any good truly aggrieved NPR-laced white gal would, and started writing.
Fuck China.
And with the National Basketball League’s complete and utter embarrassing rolling over, our World Surf League should make a strategic move, pull their two-star longboarding event from Shenzhen and become the champions of freedom.
Of free speech, free movement, free association, free… refills.
Now is your time President of Content, Media, Studios and Shoestring French Fries Erik “ELo” Logan. For the cost of a one-star Junior event in Fuzhou you can become the Martin Luther King Jr. of organized sport.
Now is your moment CEO Sophie Goldschmidt. For the price of the Qingdao Open you can become Mahatma Gandhi.
Seriously, if the World Surf League doesn’t capitalize on this glorious black and white second, this one second where it can actually stand up for honest-to-goodness freedom for the cost of one Qiantang River Pro then what the hell?
Where is the vision?
Why continue to exist?
I implore you, Co-Waterperson of the Year and Owner of Professional Surfing Dirk Ziff, to recognize you are already a billionaire and throw your metaphorical weight behind something you should theoretically believe in. It is the easiest virtue signal ever, virtue signaling for something that actually and truly matters.
How much more money do you need?
You can be the next Steve Jobs.
Deivid Lee Scales and I also discussed the virtue of pooping in wetsuits, Riss Moore and Kelly Slater’s dramatic arc.
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Come listen!
P.S.
FUCK CHINA!
“Jordy is an ugly man” fucken funny moment.
Get straight outta Compton Dave
You won’t regret it
You’ll meet some hot exotic and never look back.
Chas, what’s with the new yellow and red logo ? Looks like you’re getting your hemorrhoids cauterized at a Weinerschnitzel
Saw a “Popovich/ Kerr 2020” bumper sticker the other day. So much for that
You’re right! He is a weak fuKerr
it’s n b association not league, fool…
If only Russia had leased Alaska to the USA for 100 years …… ? Instead of selling it ….just imagine the shit fight ?
I bet the Chinese are impressed at how the WSL stifle’s any critical viewpoint. Fuck, their social credit system was probably based on the WSL’s ranking protocol.
Chaz drinks a gallon of wine, writes a hundred things for Beach Grit,
then sleeps it off in the back of a wine shop in Venice Beach.
When the eunuch E-Lo asks Chaz to board Ziff’s barge,
Chaz shouts back, “I am a drunken immortal!”
When the commies produce a national surfing champion w/in the next decade (and they will, it’s their singular goal), then they’ll be coming for BeachGrit. Don’t be scared, homie!
Confident Kerr will have something to say. He’s no knucklehead Check out episode 99 of this podcast. https://www.stitcher.com/po…
Griffo didnt poop in the lineup you gooses.
the greatness of his story was that he ran up to the toilet, and made it back into the lineup intime!
Fuck China? Free speech, free movement?? …the latest Foreign Affairs may help develop a more nuanced perspective on the HK situation.
Oh hell. Yeah? Can’t wait.
Chas. I recently ordered Sauvignon Blanc in France. In French. The waiter was confused. Apparently in France when you say sauvignon the white is implied . Like when you say Trump rally. White is similarly implied. So ordering sauvignon blanc is like asking for a red Cabernet. Or using the phrase ATM machine. As for China. I say do whatever Steve Kerr recommends. For both the NBA and the ASP. Dude is wise and his family paid a big price in international conflicts . Dad died in Lebanon
I think this is the sort of issue that caused Potts to defect to England, BITD. Unless I remover wrong?! So yeah, boycott PDR, I’m with ya.
Pottz defected to England so he could go to Bali, as South Africans were banned from traveling to Indonesia
ahhhh, yes! That was it
Surfers are the worst
Does this mean you’re going to stop selling Chinese made BG mugs and traction pads?
No I love them for that!
Like a Party Pete, I’ll listen later.
I’m sure BG and CS is now a banned commodity in China.
Esp with that ‘Defend HK’ image I put up. You’re welcome.
Yes! Nothing as pretentious or all around shitty as a person who likes shoestring French fries, generalization skills 10/10
Let’s redirect the public outlook and set up a CT event there. The labor is so cheap, as the children are aplenty! A Walmart-quality booth for Turpel and Potty with armed security specifically for Slater.
Wave-making sweatshops to be constructed. Thousands drowned to create human-generated swell for comp.