Thank you.
This BeachGrit, this divine mess, kicked to life almost a century ago right here, where I sit now, on an increasingly pocked zinc countertop littered with unpaid bills, Haleiwa Joe’s slice of paradise plastic take home Mai Tai cups, homemade slime disasters.
Derek Rielly pressing the upload button. Me giggling like a damned fool. Premium surf magazine Stab, pre-premium, stealing our very first exclusive scoop (Beth Hamilton ripping an air) egregiously within minutes.
Who could have ever imagined it would become an actual community?
A place where this damned fool would cry?
But cry I did, last night, when reading that one of the derelicts who graced us was in his last days.
Offrocker, Sean Mitchell, was not only a regular but pecked out two of the best pieces we’ve ever published.
His virtual paddle out a testament.
I thank him and hope he can still read that, feel that.
I thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you for putting up with angry octopi, man-eating sharks, VAL king Jonah Hill, Backward Fin Beth, the world’s greatest surfer Kelly Slater, co-Waterperson of the Year Dirk Ziff, Gabriel Medina, Plump Pip Toledo etc.
Thank you for dancing alone, together, here.
We are family, a derelict family, and I love each of you more than you will ever know.
Thank you all, absolutely sincerely.
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Just heard on the radio on the way home from the morning surf that the mRNA vaccine has applications that look promising for cancer treatment/eradication. It was actually being developed over the past 30 years as a cancer treatment, but has been able to be adapted for COVID. Imagine if science was supported at a military level?
Cat slap!
I was thinking about the rubber clad member of the gender I prefer …
as in OHHH …… KNEEL ( down )
Funny as this is exactly what crossed my mind upon this shit situation – his posts and now his tragic pathos are the realest thing that happened to BG, apart from a few other tangents with the real world – The Slap, The Billboard, The Cake Delivery and the latest, The Caio, a few episodes where BG crossed over into the real world. Otherwise I generally like to think similarly to a bygone comment that read something to the tune of ‘are all comments written by Chas in a multi ego trip?’ From all these years reading the post and comments on BG, since year zero, that is certainly one of my favorites. Cheers to you, captains Chaz &Derek , this is one tight, cosy anarchy you run here.
O’ ….kneel .
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction……..
Don’t give Wiggs any ideas, Jen.
OtterBeenThere
(someone had to say it)
His user handle should be retired..
It’s a good idea ….
Age shall not weary his user handle ,
Nor the years condemn ….
Or use the Charlie Hebdo example
…. Je suis OFFROCKER ..?
Yep ….The Powerful Play Goes On …….my friend Big T , Ture , just finished contributing his verse and sadly passed away a week ago having been diagnosed with a life threatening genetic disorder at 6 weeks old …..the little bloke fought it for 2 1/2 years ….. ran the gauntlet , through treatments , transplants , side effects and uncountable operations …. and still was such a happy kid , with tubes sticking out all over the place ….who smiled and laughed and tried to walk and loved Daggy Dancing , so we were very tight .
Ps Fuck Cancer , Fuck Genetic Disorders and Fuck Covid 19 too !
He otter buy himself a lottery ticket ….
Nothing more beautiful than a goofy going left ( is there really a second direction or are those righthanders just some cruel fairytale myth ? )
I heard dem Giant Squid got 10 arms and eyes as big as basketballs and for some reason habitually find themselves beached near sacred surf spots of some our NZ brethren ….just in case the Giant Octopi is busy
Terrible, just terrible. Never thought I’d feel so bad to see someone I knew through an Avatar and a few words, go. Much love to his family and much love to THIS family. Let the shit talking continue, stronger, never forgetting this feeling right now, that this silly website and podcast somehow brought as all together.
Thanks LGR and so much love. I would have mangled some grammar, spelling, here but only too sentences. Wait! I’m a master!
I’ll tell you, this past 10 years has felt like 100 and Duke re-incarnated has felt like 2.
devastating
hope all of us understand the importance of acceptance, and feeling part of a community
and moreso we all experience that community and acceptance here
la familia. te extrano, offrocker
Eradicate Slime Brother
Line up for neck slaps!
Or a bubble spin! (Isn’t the ocean the best?)
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