Later, VALs and other such cultural appropriators.
Anyone who has ever traveled somewhere beautiful, fabled even, and coastal has also recognized that beauty attracts like a magnet, beauty sprouts small business and larger businesses, beauty, if left unchecked, will eat beauty like a snake eating its tail.
And it was with this in mind, maybe, that a bill is being introduced to the full Honolulu city council that will effectively ban any surf schools and other commercial activities from Oahu’s fabled North Shore.
Councilmember Heidi Tsuneyoshi brought Bill 34 forward and the percolating frustration about soft top fever percolates through her very words when she says, “So when I went out to Puaʻena Point on an unscheduled site visit, Puaʻena Point was inundated with surf instruction. From point to point in the bay. No room for anything else — just surf instruction. Four different trucks in the parking lot by that area.”
No room for anything else.
Just surf instruction.
Professional surfing contests and commercial filming will be allowed to continue. Surf schools, though, gone. Ummmm hair braiding stands? Gone. Açai igloos? I guess gone? Wedding photography operations? Hopefully disappeared.
According to Hawaii Public Radio, “Committee Chair Augie Tulba expressed concerns about some elements of the bill, including how it would be enforced.”
I’ll tell him how in two words:
Black shorts.
Problem solved.
The vote is scheduled for December 1, 2021.
Later, VALs and other such cultural appropriators.
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More as the fires develop.
“Unscheduled site visit” is how I claim work time when I surf too.
Oh well.
To showcase his newfound surfing prowess Jonah could write, direct, produce and star in a Hawaiian contest based movie about the 17th seed getting dumped in the first round and then getting a job in a bar.
P.S.
He could call it something original and catchy like “Forgetting Jake Marshall”…
Will black shorts prevent the ailment known as cameltoeitis as depicted in the pic of Bo?
No way that’s going to pass
If there was ever a story ripe for “more as the story develops”, it’d be this you’d think.
Perhaps it’s more as the story ripens.
I thought hair braiding was a Dunn’s River Falls thing. But darn, that river done befell all sorts of beauty with the scourge of hair braiding.
Honolulu tells the North Shore what to do? Interesting.
On a side note, I still get the same boner for that picture of Bo Derek I did back then!!!!!!
Very happy for you that it’s your boner and not someone elses.
Cheers
Honolulu tells Hawaii what to do in general. Bo Derek is smoking hot, that includes at 65.
subtle camel toe
Thats a hot dog bun if ever I saw one!