A night to remember.
And the platinum hits just keep on coming for World Surf League CEO Erik Logan. “The Rusty Cudgel” is coming off what must be considered the greatest run, ever, in professional surf leadership. Things were looking shaky heading into Bells with the stench of The Ultimate Surfer still lingering and sitting champion Gabriel Medina refusing to play but then wham-o.
It began with the announcement that a cheap Chinese-made SUV was signing on as a sponsor of the environmentally-progressive league. Next, a surfer protest was brutally quashed with “feelings” and “friendship” being invoked. Then, it was revealed that Apple TV’s much-anticipated program Make or Break will be airing at the end of the month, disposable furniture manufacturer IKEA joined up for co-branded shelving and Morgan Ciblic planted a bush in Torquay.
A series of slams so undeniably grand that Logan must be the envy of Roger Goodell, Adam Silver, Rob Manfred.
Well, they can go fete him in person as it has just been announced that our Man from Muskogee is the person of honor at the upcoming environmentally-forward Heal the Bay Bring Back the Beach gala.
Following a two-year pause due to the pandemic, we are thrilled to announce the return of our Bring Back the Beach Gala on June 2, 2022. As a fundraising benefit for Heal the Bay, this exclusive West Coast event welcomes hundreds of leaders from the business, political, entertainment, and environmental communities.
And the excitement doesn’t stop there, as we will also be shining the light on the incredible achievements of this year’s honoree, Erik Logan. As CEO of World Surf League, Erik has gone to great lengths to bring clean water awareness and initiatives to the worldwide surfing community. We hope you will join us to support both Erik’s work and the wide-reaching impact of Heal the Bay.
Sipping on fruity cocktails, enjoying a beautiful sunset with the salty breeze, digging your toes in the sand, and winning an amazing getaway—does life get any better? Yes, when it all benefits healthy, safe, and clean coastal waters and watersheds!
You, too, can celebrate Logan’s greenwashing by gathering twelve of your friends and providing $50,000 (perks include recognition by event speakers from the podium and a private beach cleanup).
Don’t have twelve friends? $10,000 will allow you and nine others to rub shoulders with a who’s who of environmental stalwarts from California’s oil and gas industry (though no participating in the aforementioned private beach cleanup).
A loner? A mere $1000 and you’re set, or in the words of Maurice Cole, “simply put….green washing seems to be the WSL’s Modus Operandum.”
A night to remember.
Fruity cocktails.
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Its taking a very long time but i dont think they have managed to wash the stench of TC , possibly like Nat they never will.
I had a couple beers… I try!
He’s got to stop using ‘PASSW0RD’ as his password.
My old flatmate accused me of hacking. Turns out he was smoking a lot of meth. I then had him locked up in the mental health unit so I could throw out his stuff.
The most annoying kind.
dream boat
I still have absolutely zero idea about what has happened here.
I don’t know what’s going on, but i suggest you take it all the way and keep us posted regularly.
I sent you my email earlier today.
Christmas carol one seems fine and the other is a fishing reference to you taking the bait and biting… which it seems like you certainly have, unless I’m missing something.
this is more intriguing than the barons thing. I am hooked and wanting more.
Pass the popcorn 🍿
I thinking some kind of “bg hacked my account” badge would be appropriate
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I still don’t understand. Looks Like you two just trading blows.
What the hell are you on about?
Golden caption.
Usually I feel that the VS term is merely a political dog whistle of a flavour I find entirely disagreeable, but when it comes to people like Mr Logan, it is absolutely accurate.
if every wsl employee and their entire family took dumps straight in the ocean for the rest of their lives, it would still be less polluting than one jet ski at one comp assisting one lazy surf competitor
prove me wrong fact checkers!
The press release page architect is clearly taking a leaf out of Kelly’s ‘Tweet Twice’ policy, because under the $25k donation listing they’ve doubled the size of the ‘benefits’ list by duplicating the text.
Is that recycling?
And WTF is a “suits on the sand beach clean up”??? Is that where prisoners from the local federal corrections facility (in orange jump suits) are forced to clean the shoreline in front of your beachfront mansion?
My parents went to a beach cleanup this morning at Playas with about 15 of their employees, and the woman running the cleanup wanted to charge them a couple hundred bucks cause they set a couple of canopys and tables up. She said they were getting free advertising. They told her to fuck off.
I don’t know that I even have 12 friends.
I’m speechless that Hurluley wasn’t invited for their project to intensively recycle a single minor BG legal threat from 3 years ago into a vast international surf brand empire, which includes employing the most inclusive surf team ever assembled, and efforts to recycle hydrocarbons into vinyl decorations sent to the four corners of the flat Earth.
Paranoia hour?