Huey has a vengeance for them.
Our moms came up with a great plan to get rid of us for four hours on a Saturday afternoon. We were thrilled.
KCOP had a sound studio near our home that filmed all the Roller Derby and Pro Wrestling shows that peppered their programming. These shows were very popular, especially to us ten-year-old boys.
Jumping out of my skin, we entered the studio and there it was!
Not as glamorous as I had imagined, or large for that matter, just a roped-out square ring with five levels of bench seating surrounding it. Pretty ghetto considering OSHA standards.
An hour of over violence ends as John Tolos, the Golden Greek, pulls out a metal object from the waistline of his tights and nearly decapitates Freddie Blassie’s head. Blood everywhere.
I was too young to think about whether there was medical attention nearby.
Remember Jordy dislocating a shoulder at Chopes with no medical crew in the channel and an hour away from any hospital during a tour event?
It’s like promoting challenge and risk without staffing contingencies to respond.
Very Republican.
The iconic Pink’s Hot Dogs was just a block away on La Brea from the studio and we could score chilli dogs on the break between 2 shows.
Score!
We would miss the drama of the Blassie’s ambulance rescue to eat delicious poison!
Cake and eat it too.
Perfect Saturday and we’re walking back to the studio for the second filming, we show our arm bands to the gate security and I look over to see John Tolos smoking cigarettes with Freddie Blassie in the corner of the parking lot.
What?
Shouldn’t Freddie be getting surgery to reattach his head right now?
I never watched wrestling or roller derby again. Santa Claus was revealed to be your drunken dad. It’s all a ruse. Fuck you for believing us.
Think about that?
“Fuck you for believing us.”
In surfing, the signs have all been there for years.
The distance the WSL has made to their only inherent market, surfers, grows more distant every day.
Huey has a vengeance for them.
The WSL is a marketing company desperately scratching to break even. Sophie left the bar so low.
Truth told, Rabbit’s bar was low too. He was the latest surfer submissive to the clothing elite. Pig bottom.
Jackson Baker is so solid. Dude is of the highest floors.
It wasn’t that long ago that Wade Carmichael occupied his position on tour. Wade had more spice, but Jackson is rock solid, for sure.
He is also incapable of a nine in head-high soft point break.
Correct score from my seat? 7.2
Ok, generous, 7.5.
Considering most heats were won with sixes.
Nine?
But this is the challenge when a business focuses more on image than its product.
Objectivity loses to self-interest.
Or influenced by an overt claim?
Oh the horror.
That wasn’t the only judging anomaly.
Ethan can win without gifts. No push required.
But the show must go on.
“Make or Break” episode 325 airing this weekend, tune in, like and subscribe!
Between the homer announcing booth (incompetence) and the homer judging, I had seen enough. I shut my computer down.
I had just recalled John Tolos smoking cigarettes with Freddie Blassie in the parking lot of a Hollywood Sound Studio.
Fool me twice.
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Is this satire?
That wave certainly wasn’t a nine. A tiny bigger than Filipe’s wave? Maybe, but definitely not enough to get that much higher score. What about the criteria: commitment and degree of difficulty, innovative and progressive maneuvers, combination of major maneuvers, variety of maneuvers and speed, power and flow.
WSL without a doubt took away a few of them in the last year at leat. With Ethan, same thing, the 8,43 in the semis checked it most speed and flow creterias. Criteria is fluid depending who they want to go through, and the “Ethan winning after 40 years his passed mother did the same” was too good for WSL not use it.
And getting that heat with Chianca in the water just to call it off was terrible.
KCOP. KTLA, KMET, KCOP. KTLA. AM 790
Lombok. Loved it. Minus the trash everywhere, packs of wild dogs, and surf schools taking over lineups. Waves were perfect for my skill level and I’m now hella more comfortable over reef.
HAHAHAHAAHA
I can barely bend over to velcro my leash anymore.
The author has obviously never surfed Bells.
Has. Fixed it for you.
smells like thai noodles here & there…
“I have no “revulsion” to gays, just the act of homosexuality.
Hate the sin, not the sinner. I’m also repulsed by people who cheat on their spouses, and pedophiles, and people that harm animals…and anyone that drops in me.”
You just told on yerself here, saying you hate the sin, then straight away saying you’re ALSO “repulsed” by the sinner, using the classic fuckwit move of lumping gay people into the same category as pedophiles. No one’s buying your b.s Christian act. Might as well just own your bigotry. Be a nice change from stock-standard religious hypocrisy.
One can only hope
One thing? Comeon dude.
Suggesting I be woke?
Used to visit her twice a week, she was old old and barely awake most often. Wheelchair parked by a window looking toward the Sunset Strip, modest, though penthouse apartment.
Her caregiver/maid was stunning. I occupied her down time vigorously while KH slept.
It did feel weird to mention here…
Someday, remind me to tell you about Kat Hepburn.
I thought you stopped reading and were going away?
Seriously brother, you’ve been super charged up lately. Triggered. Then back tracking revision historian. “I’m not a Republican”…. at least Otto owns his stance.
Add to it your revulsion to gays. Do you get hit on a lot by gays? They literally can’t bother me because I like them, they deserve to be treated like humans.
And here is the deal. Conservative identify as a pack. “Liberals” are just people that don’t believe in fascism. We don’t agree on anything. You follow Tucker’s lead. I don’t have a leader. Democrats are herding cats, Republicans are a closed pen of sheep.
Anyway, have a good day. Don’t let some humor destroy your vibe. Just a joke. Water off a ducks back.
Ha! My bad.
You’re right, he’d dress like Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi.
Can’t believe my dear friends speak so highly of me.
Sometimes it can be a drag.
You stand up for your shit.
Noticing a lot of guys that stood by you now skulking off claiming they never were. That’s the lesson of the big orange.
Never mind debating stuff, we can all learn. Freedom means not necessarily agreeing and that’s ok.
I didn’t notice anyone “skulking off”. LGR has said many times in the past that he is “conservative”, and doesn’t necessarily align with Republicans on many issues. He’s not backtracking anything.
Trump was your Hitler. DeSantis is your next Mussolini. Vivek Ramaswamy is your next Sikandar Butshikan. That’s the only lesson the American public has learned.
You know that I believe that is all theater.
Sports journalism is the bottom of the barrel of the journalistic world. On the internet even more so. My fiancee works for the AP, as well as damn near every paper and magazine in our area. She’s drilled on the journalist code of ethics. She also loathes sports writers, even though she enjoys sports.
This isn’t sports journalism Anthony, it’s opinion blogging.
Smile. No one is getting paid except VONR.
In that case she’s clearly not aware of the best sportswriters.
The judging has gotten worse and worse by the year. Filipe got screwed in back to back heats. Curren got screwed too in the legends heat. Fook WSL. No HamSammish for you!!!!!
Hip, let’s start taking suggestions for the Marg’s drinkin game. “Hi Bob” (see below) works for the Frat Houses & Chris’ Farley and Elliot…
We drink in unison when:
1- Turpel says: Now he/she needs to finish the ride...
2- Rosie says: This heat looks good on paper...
3- Strider says: From my angle..
4- Anyone says: One Ocean…
5- Post heat interviewer says: Training hard
I loathe Margaret’s and won’t be watching.
JP will keep me informed.
i’ll toss out a Hi Hip! on the thread just to troll…I’ll get back to ya…
Margs is a much better wave to surf than it is to watch, its actually a left too!
The Box will be a solid 6 – 7’ and pumping, but the Woz will still run the contest at shitty main break