Beat it, kooks.
It seems like only yesterday that one-time Australian surf publication Stab based itself very near Venice Beach, California, likely hoping that some of the neighborhood’s pop chill would rub off and bring must prestige.
The plan did not work, as Venice was already well past its prime, many homeless filling the void, mingling with leftover hipsters in wide-brimmed hats, lightly tattered Black Flag t-shirts, chubby hands with many rings.
Impossible to tell who was who.
Stab shuttered itself behind a premium paywall before giving up entirely, moving to well past its prime Byron Bay back in Australia.
Sad.
Unaffiliated with Stab but also one-time Australian Paul Hogan, who made himself very famous by playing the iconic Crocodile Dundee, also lives in Venice but unlike the surf publication, has been there for decades and decided to stay and fight the invading horde. Beat reporters snapped photos of him this week marching furiously outside his paywall and posting a note reading “THIS IS MY HOUSE NOT YOURS” to it, written in red Sharpie.
Later he reemerged and underlined the words MY HOUSE.
Tyler Proctor, a politician who lives locally, empathizes with Hogan describing the neighborhood as “hell on earth,” continuing, “His house is like a fortress and it needs to be. I can see why [he] wants to move out.”
At time of printing, there is no word if the homeless are staging a massive anti-Australia protest, burning Akubra hats on his doorstep etc.
More as the story develops.
Bruce/Caitlin will fix it!
That’s definitely a fair take. Nice to know both sides of politics don’t fix anything.. should prove the system needs a re-jig eh?
Just show ’em the knife. “That’s not a knife…this is a knife.”
I wrote a good pitch for a movie called Breaking Point starring Clint Eastwood as Harry “Dirty Harry” Callahan Senior and Scott Eastwood as Harry “Clean Harry” Callahan Junior.
Junior is a techtective and closer to Elon Musk where his dad was closer to Wyatt Earp.
The story is: Some vigilantes in Santa Cruz have reached the breaking point with the homeless and the druggies and the thiefs, and they get medieval on their asses and brutalize and kill them wholesale.
Clean Harry has just become Inspector. He is a surfer who lives at Ocean Beach.
He is sent to Santa Cruz to investigate who is killing the homeless.
He gets caught in a meth-fueled wars with the vigilantes on one side and the homeless/druggie/thieves on the other.
It’s a pretty good story.
If Scott Eastwood or anyone who knows him is reading this, they should contact me.
LA must have very poor governance.
About 15 yrs ago in the (admittedly Americas Cup Sailing, not surfing based) coastal place I grew up in, a bunch of bludging scumbag types tried to move in and live in the park at the beach.
They lasted about a week before getting permanently moved on elsewhere by our cops to become the problem of some other cops in a shittier part of ‘whogivesafuckland’.
The only way to deal with it, who needs their trash and bottles etc littering the place when ya pay waaaay more council rates and govt taxes than elsewhere.
P.S.
Though I guess Venice is a very different place which I must admit to having enjoyed visiting because of it’s down at heel feel, and in the U.S.A. wealthy movie stars have the options of moving to gated communities if they don’t like the smell…
That’s Orange County’s move.
Good on them
Not exactly.
OC has plenty of homeless, even in upscale beach towns, where the houses are all $1M+.
Homelessness is a very complex issue with no easy solutions.
That is true, however they got some bad press a few years back for handing homeless people bus fare and telling them to hop a ride out of the county. All beach towns in CA have this problem. Turns out homeless people like to live by the beach too.
J porn would be awesome if it wasn’t for the pixelation.
“My friends are all moving away because they’re just so sick of seeing all the homeless”
– Women of the Year, ex-olympian, champion of oppressed trans, darling of the left, Caitlyn Jenner, in an interview about why she is going to run for Governor or California
Isn’t she running as a republican? No one I know on the left likes her
Very conservative. I think you got your right and left confused.
Painful post below..
How the fuck is there so much homelessness and so much wealth in one place? I’ve always thought that a few poor decisions in a row and next thing you know your bedroom is a tent. Addiction and mental health issues are often root causes, but as a society we are failing ourselves if those few decisions lead to being out of options and sleeping rough.
Fuck you Hoags, put down the sharpie and donate to some shelters.
It’s a drug and mental health issue primarily. Giving them housing won’t help. Majority just want to hang out and get loaded. Everyone is a bleeding heart until they are shitting on your doorstep.
Do you have intel he doesn’t donate or try to help?
I learn something on this site almost every day. Today I learned Jews invented porn. I did not know that.
Oh, Linda Kozlowski was hot in Dundee.
*Edit. Damn, just read she had died. Now I feel creepy.
Don’t feel too bad, I don’t think she’s dead.
Her career sure is though!
Yeah, all downhill after Dundee in the ’80s. One and Dun.
Oh, wonderful! Wrong Kozlowski.
Yeah. A real piece of ass.
I would love to see , a modern day Venice Beach Version of Mac and The Boys , saunter up in the middle of the night to Hogan House , and create a two dimensional artistic impression , in chalk , using the slogan coined by French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in his 1840 book What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.
La propriété, c’est le vol!
with subtitles for the non Francophiles PROPERTY IS THEFT !
Or Neo ROMANS GO HOME ! Monty Python Style
https://youtu.be/0lczHvB3Y9s
“Property is theft
So is the point here that you are a Jew hater, porn hater, or just lover of Palestine? And how do you know JC Superstar wasn’t a Nazi? Did you ask him? Did you ask Allah?
All my knowledge of religion comes from old punk songs. Reagan Youth taught me that jesus was a communist.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
How fucken great are Regan Youth!
Yeah all time greats!
“Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet”. I think that’s in the intro to jesus built my hotrod by ministry.
I bet he misses his old Belrose spread. And Winnie reds.
https://youtu.be/DAT-1xmbxEs
But Bex I thought all fairies were girls …. except Hoges who was a Manly Ferry ….. and a Leo WANKER ….
Here’s one for all the wankers
https://youtu.be/eLz5KgBTqPY
If I was woke I would have called you a nazi, but I’m worried you might just be retarded 🙂
To be honest, you’re a fun commenter on the live threads and stuff, but the out and out white nationalism and anti-semitism is intolerable, and also just a poor way of analyzing the world.
Is alligator to crocodile, as twinkie is to chocodile?
One would think that he might just put many more shrimp on the barbie.
The Splitter ….
Ironically this comment sounds a lot like the ramblings of a mentally ill homeless person
Or a jihadist
“This is my bridge not yours” – Paul Hogan https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Along way from his Painter and Docker Roots
So here they are ,to remind him of what he has become in his quest for filthy lucre ….
The PAINTERS AND DOCKERS
https://youtu.be/OvBcVS16_XM
I’m just bummed he’s forced to live in racist America. I mean, where else in the World could he live?…..
I think he is just trying to the fuck away from Byron.
Call in the Irukandjis!
This seems to be one of those times where being Venice-adjacent is the preferable condition.