#waiting
As you have certainly heard, by now, Kelly Slater has blocked BeachGrit on Instagram and Facebook. He has also blocked me, personally, and I love him no less. Greatest surfer in the world, handsome, one-time boyfriend of Cam Diaz, Pam Anderson, Gissy Bündchen, unafraid to think broadly, etc. but alas I can no longer gaze upon his stray thoughts.
His visage looking more and more like Joe Rogan every day.
Oops.
I wasn’t supposed to see that.
In any case, and thankfully, World Surf League CEO Erik Logan hasn’t blocked me yet.
Three days ago, he posted a picture of him sitting in a sunset dappled Manhattan Beach lineup with the caption “Soon #waiting.”
I assume he meant waiting to surf again which brings us around to a profound statement made by David Lee Scales today as we sat in Album Surfboard’s upper room and chatted.
“Waiting? Why doesn’t he just go surf? How boss would it be if he got arrested for surfing, his personal photographer hiding in the bushes capturing every moment then selling it to TMZ and using Oprah connections to push the story wide? World Surf League CEO Erik Logan arrested for surfing. Now that’s a story that would draw eyeballs.”
I completely agree and, again, the World Surf League continues to blow it worse than any other organization, save Souplantation, in the Covid Era.
With the absolute dearth of sporting news, it would headline ESPN’s Sportscenter and be New York Times front page.
The Modern Surfer may even skim the story.
You’d think a one-time President of Content and Media would be more on top of it, no?
We also discuss the joys of protesting nude, getting paid to finance a new car and teaching parrots to curse police horses.
Fine enough for your commute not to work?
I’ll let you be the judge of that.
Listen here!
If someone can assure me that Chas spends only minimal airtime on his rambling pandemic opinions (I’ve heard them already, thanks) then I’ll have a listen.
Kudos to anyone who tricks me into suffering through a whole episode of only rambling pandemic opinions.
Don’t go there, Jordy ! I’ve been there before briefly and I ain’t going back. A world of Cali hurt.
For me and me only, it’s podcasts on BG with kinky tits or nothing.
A huge fan of kinky tits here !
Suck it scaly !
Drek, I think you’ll agree this comment is feature worthy.
Fuck ja. I converted instantly and I haven’t listened to the socal lot since dirty water came online. Derek leads his guests through some amusing dialogue and Chas pipes in from time to time to remind us that he’s there.
I like listening to Chas talking crap about surfing and surfers, but those days are ancient history.
How did the cat get some fat?
#nofx
Oh I know a cat who cracked a fat and fucked a rat right up its Crack whoooaa… a low down cat
Coastal watch is the worst
But I like Mike
I think Doug Lees is the problem.
I can’t quit you, Chas.
Have become obsessed with learning as much as possible about modern surfer. Are you also scanning the lineups etc and laughing when you see him? My current favourite is witnessing him drinking kombucha.
Much like the forgotten pangolin in our jackbooted Covid world where the bat has grabbed the glory – will no one remember the man bun ?
What a mess. I once stated that we’ve elected a badminton player to head up the tennis tour and I’m gonna say it again. God, the amount of time and effort I’ve invested into the nuance of our beloved surfing, this guy comes along and is running the show? Excuse me while I go become CEO of NFL.
I think you must mean ‘ruining’ (not running)…
In this case, the two words are interchangeable.
True
At first I’d presumed it a ‘predictive text’ moment
Viva Bobby Martinez!
WWED?
Have a look at the Southside shark video from yesterday.
I went surfing with my son this morning. We had a nice chat about the differentiation between abilities of surfers. He is beginning to appreciate the subtle variations. And correctly identified a wide range of ‘surfers’ on the walk to the beach and in the water. I’m pretty sure he would nail down ELo in very short time.
Yup, “Sup Pilots” are pretty easy to spot, even though Elo has tried a bit to ‘loose the oar’ recently, as a blatant attempt to try and blend in with the real tribe. He knows by now he won’t get far riding his first love…..a nine foot Sup………
I’d be more than happy to supply the hammer and nails.
Air nail him like Surf Don would do!
There is much to recommend this, since a real Surf Don is too cool to swing a hammer.
Definitely! Surf Don has a sea container in his backyard full of tools he’s acquired from jobsites or traded for when he sold Mexican brick weed and dime bags of tweak back in the day. Its like a dirt, dust and cobweb filled museum of power tools. Some he’d haggle for at the swap meet even though he has ten of everything to begin with.
Hahaha – so when’s the garage sale start, Scott ?
That describes my garage pretty good !
I’ve always meant to add a TIG welder to the heap of tools I use once every 10 years but haven’t got round to buying the TIG yet.
My current lust is for a vice and chainsaw sharpening combo.
That, I’ll use all the time.
Haha! Mine too. Ive got a mig welder, actually 2, ones a miller from the 80s but cant find parts for it so it doesn’t work. I actually like tig welding better. A little more precise and don’t have to fuck around with spool/trigger issues.
A real chainsaw sharpener would be great too. I picked up a 25 ton log splitter recently and have a bunch of dead oak trees to cut up and split. Damn bark beetles have ravaged California live oaks around here.
He’ll still swing a framing axe, when the time comes and can sink a 16p bail in one blow. But only to show off in front of his kid’s girlfriend and use it to segue into a “these young guys cant ___ thesedays” spiel
Going by the orange hued shot of him sitting in the water there wasn’t a rideable wave that day, possibly his preferred conditions. Nary a drop of whitewater or backwash chop to be seen in the background. Flat.
P.S.
Don’t be too despondent that the sexually ambiguously named 11 times world champ has blanked you on all social media platforms Charlie, as from what I understand, at least two of those lady persons you mentioned in the first paragraph are easy going mellow types so it comes with no surprise that he’s the moody one in this BG relationship…
It’s next level narcissism, even for L.A.