Priorities.
Popular music superstar, 12-time Latin Grammy winner, Shakira made an important parenting move, over the weekend, attempting to save her young children from difficult lives as vulnerable adult learners. Radar Online is reporting that the Colombian must stand trial for tax evasion, and may face jail time, but priorities are priorities and, so, off she whisked her young boys to Wavegarden where she boldly declared, “Don’t ‘Wait Up’ to surf at 40 when you can start at 6.”
“Don’t Wait Up” just so happens to be the name of her latest single.
The chanteuse also partook herself gamely penning, “Back at Wavegarden trying to improve my skills in this cruel sport.
True understanding.
While you’re here, I went to Colombia once, to the city of Cali gorgeously set amongst Andean folds. My trip was, ostensibly, about the cocaine trade and so I wandered the neighborhoods that the Orejuela brothers did and their families still do, drinking in their bars, watching salsa and merengue, hips not lying, trying to feel the heat.
I chatted up those who had stories of heady days when the city ruled the world, some estimated $7b a year pouring in. What impressed me, most, was how tastefully the cartel had spent its money. Open modernist design a la Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater was preferred to anything gaudy or gauche.
Surprising.
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This article is a pathetic attempt at steering search engine traffic to a fish out of water.
A mention of cocaine without a book link, I’m flabbergasted.
At least her hips aren’t lying about anything.
*To clarify, I’m not 100% sure that Shakira’s hips don’t lie. It might be someone else’s hips, or even JLo’s butt. Some diva somewhere has non-lying body parts…
Well duh it was Medellin that ruled the world not Cali. Not saying there wasn’t a Cali cartel but Medellin was where it was at.
I hope the WSL has her booked to play Superbowl styles before the Italo v Morg final at Trestles.
6 years? Bah, way too late. I started pushing Jackson down the hallway on my Christian Hosoi hammerhead when he was about 10 months old. He turns 2 next month and cries every time we leave the skate park.
Whenever, wherever
We’re meant to Beach Grit together
Chas be there, and you’ll be near
And that’s the deal, my dear (Derek).
Haha… Shakira has 12 Latin Grammy’s to Kelly’s 11 World titles. Haha
Kelly going for Syrian grammy next.
Ke11y seething
Jesus Christ what a read. Cheers to you on this fine weekend, sir.
Would like to think BG has made this sport crueller in some way.
No! I haven’t seen any blood, cut leashes, busted boards, or signs thru windshields. No sir, things have calmed down at best….
If you don’t smoke meth I’d be mildly surprised
Colombia is fucking amazing
One of the best-kept secrets of places to travel in the world, for sure.
I went into a disco in Baranquilla one night. Pretty sure one of the Ochoa Brothers was sitting at a private table drinking Havana Club 12 Year…
I am married to a Colombiana and she is fucking amazing too. Surf is pretty shit unfortunately.
Gosh darn and dang it Chas, that was a heck of an article.
Another pos trying to recruit people into the water. F you! Go whore yourself!
There’s the ol BG spirit !
I wonder when Jonah will progress to a fibreglass board like Shakira ?
Any idea of the wavegarden locality that Shakira frequents ?
P.S.
I watched the video.
Yes, she does surf better than Jonah.
And possibly better than Chas too…
It’s a test only site..or millionare only site,but not open for the public.Somewhere on the Spanish Basc country region.
Wavegarden is actually at 6 commercial public sites too.
Australia
Brazil
England
Korea
Switzerland
Wales
I wonder which she was at ?
My guess is Brazil…
No no,she was in Spain
Upon investigation I’ve found that it wasn’t at the Basque test facility (or Brazil etc).
In fact it was filmed at the ‘Siam Park’ waterpark on the island of Tenerife.
Anyway she surfs way better than Jonah the whale…
Refreshing. Is that so hard, Jonah? The simple realization that you might have to work for something. That simply buying cheaply produced surf training wheels and jumping into the lifeless soup of kooks at Malibu doesn’t earn you anything regardless of your posi self-victimization deflection tactics. I always knew I loved Shakira, though at 13 it was for different reasons.
Surfing is hard, surfers are mean, and I love that no matter what you buy or the level of your celebrity; nothing changes the facts. Buck the WSL and the future they seek, throwing open the sacred gates of this sport so Jonah-type surfers can pour money into corpo coffers. Return to hierarchy and save this cruel sport. Amen.
Chas you’re a weird juxtaposition of Oregon hick, but covered up by nouveau riche literary pretensions to fit in with the coastal art/publishing elite. And still wondering why you didn’t hit Ahston back.
I was worried that he was gonna cop call, again, sticking me in Florida. I had to get home.
Fair enough. You also like to stir the pot but i bet you dont actually want to fight if it escalates to that.
I don’t love fighting but I’m learning!
Derek Ho-adjacent Goggans actually assaulted you first, and there’s footage…so no way he could have pressed charges in FL. Yeah man–keep stirring the pot and laugh it off as you do. DR seems more the fighter–super chill and soft until his limit is hit and then psycho.
But I touched his beard!
That’s right. Forgot you were the asshole first.
So you’re saying you ‘chose’ flight over fight, in order to catch a flight.
It would’ve been good if that flight was to Vegas to catch a fight.
P.S.
Isn’t the ‘fight or flight’ response a natural reaction that you have no control over ?
Oh I so chose flight but also, in regards to PS, no! Or at least no for humans. Steeled spine etc.
Quite untrue according to the medically accepted material on our human physiology as well as psychology Chas.
“Your Autonomic Nervous System is a delicate balancing act between the Sympathetic Nervous System and Parasympathetic Nervous System.
Both networks involuntarily react to the environment around you.”
(Keywords being “involuntarily react” in this instance).
But that’s only the officially accepted medical material.
What would they know…
P.S.
Some highly trained special forces soldiers, martial artists, big wave riders and motor racing greats etc can learn to suppress it.
There’s a slim chance that maybe you learnt those techniques in your extensive (cough cough) combat and (ahem) surfing experience.
Or not……
The perfect woman!