Hello, Kurds. It's me, Chas Smith.
The boogie boarder is right. I’m a fraud, a phony, fake insurgent daydreaming a swelling movement in the hearts of Grumpy Locals everywhere, a passion as ephemeral as successfully performing “the floss” in front of a six-year-old birthday party today when children stopped flossing months ago and only yell “Epstein didn’t kill himself” back and forth.
A way of life that is over. Done. Spent.
Cool Kids’ Club shuttered and the keys handed over to a SUP aficionado from Manhattan Beach, California by way of Oklahoma, roll Sooners roll, and a billionaire from Manhattan Island or somewhere very similar.
Maybe Boston.
I wanted to blow a hole in their Wall of Positive Noise and thought I had the will, the conviction, to fortitude to pull it through but maybe I don’t. Maybe we don’t.
Is starting our own professional surfing league the answer? The way we show Santa Monica that we mean business?
What about making movies, funny movies with surfers?
Will that work?
Should we go and try to free other, more appreciative, downtrodden peoples?
Like maybe the Kurds?
I don’t know if I know anymore. Dark days even in this oasis of anti-depressivism.
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You don’t have to give a fuck about Article 189
To love Beachgrit!
money. mine their money source. ELO, Ziff. Et Al. All of them. That’s how the house will catch fire.
Chas, you should hit Elo up, get dirk to give you half a mil to produce content over the course of the 2020 season, see who can get more viewers etc, if you win changes, if not pay back the money, or don’t either way prob be something better to watch, also i hope ray bans are flicking you some freebies.
Chas – methinks a Jake Phelps meets Charlie Leduff ethos will serve you far better than any attempts to “bridge the divide.” Despite a beautiful cake and a desire to embiggen the surfing world, you are more this:
https://usatunofficial.file…
Than this:
https://www.beatlesbible.co…
so sick Ethan too
So many clear boards. Nat Young, Conner O’Leary among others.
Dark times for sure Chas – as you dwell at the bottom of the dark abyss you are in, let’s go deeper into another tunnel you have taken us down. That is the relentless pain of the pop-up ads on BG intruding our lives in a way that only the most whoring or websites resort to. I get your need for revenue but please keep in toned down. As much as I may be intrigued to my next cruise, massage tools or twins separated a birth and “read the next story” (that isn’t even your next story), It pains us to have to try and shut 3 pop ups every time we come to you site: 1) Sign up for e-blast (which I have but you still ask me if I want more every day) 2) The very cool fun video with Machado – loved it once but now it’s really annoying me off; and 3rd and most annoying, the clickbait window that just sits and blocks the bottom corner of my screen you can’t shut off. Your daily readers are being assaulted! I’d rather pay you a few bucks a month and be left alone from the onslaught you are putting us through! Help us help you as you in your vey worthy mission of keeping the the surf world honest!
We should get a airplane banner to fly the message Abolish article 189 for the entire pipe masters event.
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, if Kübler-Ross is right you’re just one step away from acceptance. Let’s move on from Elo already, he was never that interesting to begin with.
Saudi’s Aramaco IPO will keep the party going for years
Are you in? Gonna jump straight onto that train?
Chas, can you come to grips with the Wsl trying to sell surfing to the world, to further Speaker’s vision and have it look like the NFL, to Sophie and Elo’s ‘reality show’ and ‘wave tank’ vision of surfing and more abuses to come I believe as the Olympics gets closer.
As someone said– the Wsl doesn’t seem to care about a small surfer market–theyre looking at a ‘global’ non surfing market–where the real money is at. It doesn’t look like there is any ‘real middle ground’ for compromise. The Wsl is going to go for it, it seems and heaven help anyone who gets in their way.
If you were content to ‘just go surfing’, you would have the advantage and a better chance of taking these guys down, just for their warped version of surfing they are trying to present to the world.
Battle fatigue. Bullshit! Man that rifle Captain, and fucken soldier on.
Chas, surf culture is all up and down the coast, where the pavement meets the sand. There is no surf culture in the media or on-line. But you can ””discuss” it on- line, or in the media.
Maybe you need to go the way of establishing re-education camps around the country like the Chinese do for the Uighurs.
The crossover this Econ minor has always hoped for…
It’s the Third Way for surf writing
My invisible hand is clapping
Introducing The Grit League, a series featuring BeachGrit commenters (only non-pros) competing in a variety of challenges, including an Innersection like video competition, fist fights (matches), a shaping contest judged by a panel of reasonably famous shapers, swimming with sharks, trash talk battles, and a surf contest at 6 foot Chopes to determine the ultimate gritter…
In the words of a certain surfing legend, “Yeah?… No.”
If Winston Churchill had agreed to a sit-down with Hitler and Mussolini like his advisors wanted, the world would be worse off…
You may have accidentally quoted Buddha. One tenet of Buddhism is “all life is suffering”. Westerners have wrung their hands on that because: who wants a life full of suffering anyhow? They now say it’s a mistranslation and it should really be “all life is struggle”, which is probably more akin to surfing anyhow. Send us a postcard from Nirvana when you get there!
Chas, what ever became of Ghislaine Maxwell?
You’re dicking around with sharks and impotence (quitting) and Elo….. dude, find Ghislaine.
Eppy is silenced, G disappears? Hmmmmm….
Was the body in the cell really even Epstein ?
Taking him OFF suicide watch is a huge blinking warning signal. Oppss….
Ghislaine’s dad was an operative of a shady ass fucking country the US supports blindly. They were filming extortion videos with trafficked under aged kids. Who was the mastermind? The madam who procured the kids? How does she skate away unnoticed?
I’m an artist and surfer with no back ground of international intrique or anything and I can see the dots. Was it convenient to silence Eppy?
It was extremely convenient for all of his powerful friends to have him silenced.
And he would have known this, hence he may have paid to escape and the body wasn’t his perhaps…
Surely not suicide though by the looks of it.
She could have escaped too (or already been despatched)
I think they (CIA, power mongers, etc) helped spring him. If he released all the dirt he had on them it would cause global outrage.
“How does she skate away unnoticed?”
Really soft wheels. Like maybe 80 durometer. Plus some mid / dark grey clothing and making sure her keys don’t rattle against her stash tin.
She definitely pushes mongo
Probably wearing Vans too. Converse make too much of a slapping sound, especially when worn in.
He’s alive. There’s no way that crafty son of a bitch didn’t have a plan to expose all the powerful perverts should he go to trial or get murdered. They switched the body and whisked him away to a new identity.
Ghislaine was spotted this morning sipping coffee in the Haleiwa parking lot. Dark sunglasses covered her snake like eyes.
She shifted positions while leaning against her rental car, moaning softly as a young, taut Eli Hanneman waxed up preparing to launch over the T Bowl into round 3 and beyond.
“ You are the future”, she whispered to no one. “And you are mine”.
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