Fine art.
I, myself, am not typically a contest enterer. The odds certainly never feel in my favor and that sort of defeatist attitude doesn’t lead to wonderful manifestations of victory but this new “Spirit of Surfing” challenge seems very much up my alley.
The contest, in association with pandemic profiteering website Surfline, has very simple rules:
Here’s how to enter: in a small homemade video show us or describe to us your ideal day of surfing and share with us your go-to post session, share with friends-at-sunset-hour, cocktail recipe using one of the following bottles of Jose Cuervo ® Tradicional ® tequila: Plata, Reposado or Añejo.
And the prize sublime:
Each of the top six “home mixologist” winners will take a friend to the Surf Ranch this September for a once-in-a-lifetime day filled with special guests (including Mr. Pipeline Gerry Lopez) and spectacular waves. So, what are you waiting for?
If you have listened to any Dirty Waters, you’ll know that I, myself, enjoy sunset hour cocktails with my friends Derek and Longtom and also idealize surfing days but alas, right when I was preparing to submit my entry I watched poet and activist John Wayne Freeman’s and my spirit is crushed.
Crushed but also buoyed that a man, an artist, can capture the zeitgeist so well.
Your contest makes no sense. I see that you took all the money from the billion dollar tequila company Jose Cuervo and that you came up with an “idea” about “the spirit of surfing.” “The spirit of surfing.” You are holding a contest with Mr. Health, Gerry Lopez, who, I’m pretty sure doesn’t drink, he’s the reason I got into hot yoga, Mr. Holistic you get to surf with, right? In a fake wave lake? It’s not even in the ocean? In a lake? And we’re surfing with a guy whose entire life has been about health? And its put on by Jose Cuervo? Do you know what I’ve done because of Jose Cuervo?
Truly and undeniably the spirit of surfing.
As always, blame Surfline.
This is perfect, put a fake environmentalist, eco warrior like Gerry, in a fake wave, make him wear his organic wool patagonia uniform, made by a fake eco warrior Yvon “let my people surf, just not where I surf, because I live at the Ranch , and we are suing the state of CA to keep you out” Chouniard, then make him ride his Chinese made foam board straight out of costco, and drink a virgin margarita because he doesnt like tequilla. This is the spirit of surfing, and oh yeah, put him in a man made wave pool in a place that gets about 2″ of rain per year. WSL, you are something great. Oh wait……we have to have mandatory yoga class and yoga mat signing……but….you will have to pay him for that.
So beyond pleasing.
I figured there was something in the pipeline after Trump ordered the Chinese Consulate in Houston be closed effective immediately.
Chill out cupcake.
There will be no defined races pretty soon anyway.
Right on LGR, sounds good!
The single greatest article you’ve ever penned and best video ever run on BG.
Bravura Chas.
Also, nice return to form in the new tome. Read it in two sessions.
Did your local papers publish an article about the Chinese spy arrested in Honolulu?
https://www.redstate.com/sh…
I guess Easy is all that’s left after Derek splashed an Ultra Hard billboarded pearl necklace on L’Amour
This virus is almost insignificant compared to what humanity has been through.
There has been a serious failure in leadership in Hawaii over this virus.
People here think the mayor is a savior but all he has done is shut the place down.
Anybody can do that. He hasn’t prepared the hospitals at all for opening up and dealing with large amounts of sick people.
Yeah real small but Pakala was fun. You ever surf there?
Hopefully we gets some good swells in September’ I’m itching for something juicy.
I hope we get back to normal soon or at least open up inter island travel.
Thanks for the sparring session LGR. I just smoked a fatty and the cunty kuntard is gone for the night.
Aloha
Epic flex.
You said the last million years of human history.
The plague in Europe was just an one example of what humanity has been through.
I’m not the voice of Kauai, but it’s so small here it’s not hard to know what most people think.
I agree that we are living under a dictatorship right now and the military patrolling is absurd.
Many things about the reaction to the virus are totally fucked up.
it was good this morning. How’s it over there?
Been awhile since we had swell, looks like it should be good for the next week.
At last night’s DNC Trump Hater’s Support Group meeting, Cuomo referred to Covid as the “European Virus”. Wasn’t sure if Cuomo was saying it’s all Chas’ fault, or some subtle jab at white people, but either way I found it fascinating that China was ceremoniously eliminated from the equation.
The DNC was think their voters are dumb to spew such outlandish plague propaganda.
I think that comment was meant to say that Dumb Fuck Trump closed the border to China, but still let 43000 people come back from China , with NO health checks…meanwhile behind his back , the East Coast/NY was being inundated with infectious Europeans….opps!
The call to shut down travel from one country is a big deal. To shut down entry from Europe is a really big deal, considering that the EU was allowing travel by and between member nations. Considering statements coming from WHO and the CDC, I believe he was listening to the experts. And isn’t that what people demanded Trump do?
So he listened to the experts , shut borders and didn’t do anything else for a month or so…just let the virus run rampant in the USA!
The President cannot mandate a nationwide lockdown. He doesn’t have the power to do that. Do you wonder why Congress didn’t mandate a nationwide lockdown? Congress doesn’t have that power either. The US Government structure is such that States have power over their State, except those powers explicitly reserved to the Federal government. Although significant erosion of Federalism has occurred through the years, the basic principles of such governance remains. Without it, the power of State Governors would be meaningless.
You just made the case for a broken system, ie that the President of the USA , the most powerful man in the world……couldn’t even supply PPE/Testing kits/Tracing…a leadership that couldn’t promote masks and social distancing….but has promoted going back to school, early openings of the economy ….threats of budgetary recompense and or withdrawal of federal funding…….now the Post Office being tampered with by Trump.Fed…the lsit goes on……what have seen is what happens when there is no leadership on the pandemic/climate/economy…..sad sad
Here’s a link to a list showing what Trump has accomplished during his first term. Give it a read when you get a chance.
https://www.scribd.com/docu…
You have the patience of a saint
wow Breibart…….if that’s your source , extreme right wing……most of what is written , as per employment and the economy , is just twisted figures……like you saying all the pandemic data is false ……we will see as every day the pandemic is not under control , the economy suffers…lets see the July and August figures?
The Covid Virus is not going away. Like many viruses, it is now out there in the world. The data regarding positive tests just doesn’t really matter. The data regarding hospitalizations and death directly caused by Covid complications like viral pneumonia, with less importance places on cases with co-morbitity diagnoses is what is important. It’s very difficult to achieve a vaccine for viruses. H1N1, Ebola, swine flu, bird flu and on and on have no vaccines.
The death rate with Covid is low, less than 1%. You don’t quarantine the healthy. That has NEVER been the approach for any virus. You quarantine the sick. You safeguard the at-risk. Believe it or not, the best approach is to let the Virus run its course and burn. It is what it is.
I get it, human life is not an important enough …how do you know who is healthy or not , unless you test?
10.000 deaths in the USA per week must seem reasonable to you , as your herd immunity policy has been a massive failure…but a bexxy says , survival of the fittest seems to be your MO……
If there is no vaccine , there will be no more international travel , and the economies will just tank completely…..I guess that’s your hope , that and your familly will survive…but your parents/people with pre-existing health issues etc , let em die ?
See its all getting too ridiculous to be taken seriously, once respected people are now making themselves into cheats and liars and doing the things they claim Trump does, lying, cheating, using people, just for they’re own personal gain.
Socialism has always failed and always will because it dosent respect natural law.
Exactly, like Michelle Obama blaming Trump for “putting kids in cages”, but conveniently leaving out thebpart about how Obama/Biden built those “cages” he used. All those pictures of kids in holding areas that the media used in 2018 to push Trump cages kids narrative were actually pictures from 2014.
Oh Otto…so cages were built , and the Don had to fill them with kids……so it’s the cage builder ‘s fault!
Once border crossers are apprehended by border patrol, and transported to the facility to be processed, it’s prudent to separate them not only by gender, but also ascertain the children actually belong/are related to the adults accompanying them. There’s ample evidence showing many children had no blood relation to the adults they crossed with. You think it humane to just turn a blind eye to human traffickers using unaccompanied children in the scheme trafficking adults?
there is also ample evidence of hundreds of kids not being reunited with their parents as the paperwork was lost , still now…..do you have any links to your claims?
I’ll find you official Border Patrol statements tomorrow. I too busy finding Biden’s most recent basement proof of life video.
Here’s a link regarding my claims:
https://www.cbp.gov/frontli…
OK Otto I bight…….”In fact, Border Patrol agents identified more than 6,200 fraudulent family members in fiscal year 2019, which runs from Oct. 1, 2018 through Sept. 30, 2019. This is at a time when Border Patrol agents apprehended over 473,000 people who presented themselves as a family unit.”
So 6,2000 Vs 473,000…..pretty small percentage???
1 is too many.
So 466,200 get punished and treated like shit……bit like judging the USA on a serial killer!
We evolved over millions of years to be dependent on one another in tribal units.
Where our ancestors not living in tune with natural law?
That’s right, but not all we’re equal even in those tribes
99% probably where though.
Humans have been moving away from the for the last ten thousand years so things are not the same in everyone’s brain. Some do well in the capitalist game and some not so well
There was the patriarchy in the natives for starters.
Then chiefs, warriors, losers.
try studying indigenous culture and you will find community and one of the most advanced social systems in the world !
That’s great but it’s over now.
Ok , I tried to see if there was any substance to you….what is over?
There’s no substance to anyone or anything.
There’s only birth, sex and death.
Everything thing else is a distraction from those 3 things
that’s alright bexxy , birth sex and death is your philosophy on life , so be it…and that’s why you have no substance and are irrelevent.
At last we agree.
Peace be with you.
So what is the natural Law?
This your moment to shine and show a bit of substance……so how does socialism not respect “natural law?”
Because it attracts the weak to believe they are strong then it kills them anyway
so your natural law is survival of the fittest……so what defines weak?
Bad genetics
Bad luck.
It’s random
My sister in law is Italian and she is basically a “black” person without an Afro, in the summer.
Are you sure all Europeans are “white”?
How do you people create these distinctions?
I agree that Europeans aren’t “white”. I was just grabbing at reasons why Cuomo called Covid-19 the ” European Virus”, even though its a virus that originated in Wuhan, China.
I was making a tongue in cheek joke about Chas traveling to Europe, and a joke referring to the current trend blaming white people for all that is ill in the world.
The only white person I have ever seen was an albino in Zambia.
Seen lots of pinkish people.
It’s definitely the Wuhan flu.
Yeah well he’s just a rich cunt,
The planet dosent give a fuk.
Only we do
Now the Tourist industry is dead , at least for another 18 mths…..all the economies who relied on the Tourist $ , guess what?
what industry can save Hawaii?
Meth!
For a while
Most def
Always ends bad
yes it is/was the 1# export…before it was pot……so there is hope!
Should be pretty easy to market though hey? “You can’t get to Hawaii so we bring it to you”.
Weed
in the 80’s it was Weed…..Meth?
Meth is imported.
We need to bring back the good old school Hawaiian sativa
Thats the first thing I can agree with in this whole conversation!!! Pure Thai strain grown in the Islands, (even the old columbian strains grown there were fabulous) the most fragrant ever. None of this “makes me sleepy” business either. I dont like Indica.
I growing a couple Thai plants right now from seed I brought back from there.
Love the stuff. Indica brings me down to much.
I just stumbled across a 39 page discussion on Hawaiian landraces. (at surfer mag forum reading about Big Sur summer problems etc) I’m saving it to read cause its such great reading. I used to grow, as a hobby really, at the start of the 70’s and onwards….. and only once had magic Thai seeds, or whatever they were.
Even as a failed grow (rats ate them early) the plants were like nothing else. Soft and velvety leaves, chocolate smell..
Hawaiian long daylength pretty much make growing all the sativas, whatever they might be, the best choice. Has been for centuries I guess. Folks been bringing seeds there for a long time. New growers are ending up bringing in the indica blood for reasons mostly realated to money,
1 easier for greenhouses and commercial light grows
2. comsumers want it. (dummies!! haha)
Heres to a good harvest for you!!! (those males might be worth bagging some pollen and getting seeds!!!)
https://www.icmag.com/ic/sh…
Icmag is a great source of information.
Lots of great threads to read in the Landrace section.
The old school strains from the 70’s give a far superior high than the modern hybrids, no doubt.
You should try growing again!
It’s so wet on the part of the island I live on that I can’t even try to grow anything else.
It’s always a crap shoot if I will make it to harvest or not but it’s fun growing and the reward is huge.
Irie vibes
ICmag IS pretty fun kinda like here but over the top obsessives. (imagine Mr Commenter showing up over there….haha Hi Ben!)
I spent some time in Kona late 70’s, before things got kinda crazy there. Great memories of helping out on a grow over there. Genetics still being worked out, so anything would be let to grow to whatever its potential was. Saw my first 15′ plant, and it turned out to be a shitty strain at harvest. Took home some silver sativa of some sort, that was one of the successes. Blew minds of course. I think I got some seeds from that and did 2nd generation harvest, but things were getting chaotic here in Cali as well. The 70’s turned into the 80’s. The center cannot hold!!! or something
Reading all these characters tales, tho half of them surfers too, its really nice to take a break from all the other shit there is to read nowadays, in these weird times……Lord the genetics tho, man its so complicated.
Im up to page 21 of the 36 page thread I linked. Got distracted trying to find a copy of Rainbow Bridge so I could listen to Pali Gap!!! Sure love me that song!!
Its not wet here, I’m 1/4 on the coast, its just so inconsistant. One year baking hot coastal summer, but with mites, the next fog until September, and powdery mildew.
It is rewarding when success hits, but growing is kinda like having pets, you have to care for them 24/7/35….even if they are a pain in the ass.I skipped a alot of vacations in order to still have a shitty harvest!!! Its great seeing the success of others though…. yah best wishes to you as well.
You should get on Icmag and share your stories SB.
There are a lot of obsessives over there your right,, gets a little crazy sometimes.
I know what you are saying about growing being like having a pet. It can be a lot of work for how little you can get in return.
Plus the cost of buying weed has gone down so much it really isn’t worth investing to much time into personal growing.
I just like to watch the plants grow,
That’s pretty funny you listened to Pali Gap after reading that, I think I did the same thing.
Aloha Bru
I’ve been reading over there, for awhile now, and watching some docs Hippy mentioned. I’m starting to think maybe my memories of “the good old days” may have been on the mark. The orginal landraces, say from India or by way of Columbia/Mexico, when they ended up in Hawaii, with its perfect mix of growing elements, well, the plants went wild. So pure strain sativas, clean plants clean high!! I keep thinkng its me, herbs from the outlets, even if they kinda suck when they say sativa….foggy head, weirdness!! Guys at IC mag are really excited talking about keeping the old strains going. Coming full circle I guess. Some good docs on YouTube..”Strainhunters”……ps I keep hearing there are waves here in Cali, but the humidity is frying my brains!!! So much for me living in the tropics….ha Aloha
Thats ice bitch, meth is passe in the ghettos of Honolulu.
That’s all you got?
I didn’t speak about myself.
I was telling you what the generations deep locals think and you know what I mean by that (aren’t you the person who writes things in pidgin to sound like a moke ? Projection?),
so your straw man argument is just exposing your inability to refute what I wrote.
The level of tourism here was destroying the place. Everyone is happier that there are less tourists and that the horrible traffic is gone.
Business’s are desperate, for sure. But the economy here really needs to be restructured for the island to be sustainable. I think most people agree on that.
If the virus is real I think we should carry on as normal and a lot of us should die.
For our future generations sake.
It’s natural and not a disaster, in fact it’s the opposite of a disaster.
It’s a cleanse.
I agree, but on an island things become far more drastic than on the mainlands.
Small Islands have to protect themselves differently or the deaths and suffering will be catastrophic. We only have one tiny hospital here that isnt prepared to deal with anything really.
Even if you all die there others will take your place, superior immune systems to boot.
or those with the vaccine!
yes a little bloke with a moustache tried the same , cleansing races so that there would be an Aryan race left….yeah Bexy , so lets get rid of all the vunerable , and the non – locals….oops in Australia , get rid of all the whites?
I don’t see people’s color
that’s because you are on a forum ya dimwit!
So I guess that means you are just homophobic and believe in the survival of the fittest
There’s nothing to believe in except the naturalprocess
So what’s the natural process??
Survival of the fittest.
It’s the same in all species
People aren’t as special as you think
So in your world , no social security/medicare/job keeper/gays/minority groups…sounds Utopian if you are one of the elite….which means you would be a slave until no longer needed….yep fits your MO!
Being good and generous to other people helps your own survival, but sometimes it dosent, you have to pick your battles, as all the other animal species do as well
You know gay people depend on straights for their own survival.
Look the paradox is that of course Socialism looks good on paper and we all want a fair go, but you dont replace an average system with a proven worse one.
Lemoore, an unnatural pro cess pool.
haha , now that’s a comment I could re-use, btilliant!
Hitler found comfort partnering with Muslims, which begs the question whether Hitler thought power and the pursuit thereof was the race to win, or some Aryan purity.
“As Al-Husseini later explained to Hitler, the Arabs had the same enemies as the Nazis: the Jews, English, and Russians. According to the German record of their meeting, Al-Husseini said the Muslims under his sway “were prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate in the war, not only negatively by the commission of acts of sabotage and the instigation of revolutions, but also positively by the formation of an Arab Legion.” He was tasked by Hitler with recruiting Bosnian Muslims into what became the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS, the first non-German SS devision.”
He was using them as a means to an end.
If the Germans won the war Europe than the Arab oil fields would have been the next logical step towards world domination.
But Hitler wouldn’t have seen 1946 anyway, so who knows
True
There really wasn’t significant oil production until after the war, even though Dammam was discovered in 1938. Although everything changed with the Ghawar oil field, the mother lode of the world’s fields. Ghawar, which went onstream in 1951, is 170 miles long and 20 miles wide.
The Arabs would have never let Germany get anywhere near Mecca.
how would they have stopped the germans…thrown camel dung at them?
The same way they stopped the Crusaders. Numbers. Oil production wasn’t significant in the Arab states during the war, and certainly would not have begun if Germany tried to occupy the middle east. Too far from Germany’s oil production in the Balkans. Hitler was also foolhardy opening up a front against the Soviet Union. Ego pushed him to take Stalingrad. But no one wants Stalingrad. Sheesh. Hitler may have had the numbers to have a go at the middle east without the eastern front, but he still had to figure out the fuel problem. No one knew how much oil was really in the middle east or Saudi Arabia until 1948.
Nice try at virtue signaling but you don’t give a shit about suffering poor people.
Your politically party would devastate the impoverished people of these islands
That’s why Hawaii has voted almost exclusively Democrat for the last 60 years.
The military doesn’t have to quarantine, so yes the virus will keep coming to Oahu no matter what but you also live in a city that is overcrowded with an overweight and sickly population living in mold infested buildings.
Are you really that ignorant to how viruses are spread that you think that only people not feeling well need to quarantine?
You need to do some reading because this sentence you wrote explains why you don’t get what’s going in he world right now…
“instead of just staying open and having people that “ARE NOT FEELING WELL” quarantine, like all other epidemics we have had in the past million years.”
People haven’t understood how disease spreads until recently in human history.
In the past entire towns were wiped off the map during epidemics.
The Black Death killed 60% of European population.
What do you think it would do to a little overcrowded island like Oahu?
Kauai has one tiny hospital so we no choice but to close the doors. And the people here are overwhelming in support of the shutdown and enjoying the lack of tourists.
Maybe your haole friends want the shutdown to end but that’s the last thing the real locals want. Ohana/ family is what’s most important here, not business
Let’s work on this sentence, “People haven’t understood how disease spreads until recently in human history.”
Tequila is testament to the sheer bloody minded desperation of men wanting to make alcohol when all around you is cactuses. On the other hand – Scotch whisky…
Do the mayor/ governor know
hawaii doesn’t matter in elections due time change? At least you can hate watch DNC and paraphrase, shits boring.
give that man a shot of tequila
WAP means “we all pray” right?