It puts the lotion on the skin or else it gets the hose again...
This morning started off with a bang. The World Surf League Championship Tour, as you know, is in Lemoore, California, home to Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch and its eponymous Surf Ranch Pro and oooooee. The sun is shining, temperature a balmy 80 degrees Fahrenheit, cow stink juuuuuust right. Jen See is there, checked in to the Tachi Palace and ready to report. World Surf League CEO Erik Logan is there too, wearing the nude breast of sitting World Champion Filipe Toledo and grinning ear to ear.
Shades of that wonderful Buffalo Bill.
Or Buffalo Fil, as it were.
In any case, what was likely intended to be a bit of zany fun between two surf guys just doin’ the banter has since devolved into a case of accidental sexual harassment in the workplace. Logan, you see, is Toledo’s superior, his boss, and there he stands over him wearing his own lotion’d flesh ordering the slight Brazilian to “take your shirt off.” Repeating in case the order wasn’t clear.
“Take your shirt off.”
Toledo is not just any employee either. He is famously sensitive, very much not liking heavy drops etc. and here he is taking his shirt off after a powerful man has told him to do such.
Yikes.
But what are your thoughts, here? All innocent fun or waiting upon some legal this and that?
Also, if Toledo would have refused to take his shirt off, would he have gotten the hose again?
More questions than answers.
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“Hello Erik…are the Lambs still screaming?”
(Je)N.C.I.S.
“Don’t you hurt my dog!”
Please lord let this trend of others bare chests on a tshirt get well out of control within the wsl. Culminating with Kelly accepting his 12th world title at trestles with Jessie Miley’s chest warn proud over his own. I know it’s too much to ask but we sure have been patient.
You miised this quote chas!
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Too anxious to sleep tonight.
Tension building. Who will win?
No way Longtom or JP sleep well… their typing fingers in unconscious spasm.
The last time I recall this type of global focus, Ali Fraser.
If only I could afford the glamping package and the free Organic Michelob lights? Can I drink 9000. worth if you factor in free hamburgers and bath room tokens? I just know it would be glamorous.
Pins and needles waiting for Jen to check in. Blessed, we are.
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Damn! BG must be rolling in dough to put up Jen at the Tachi Palace. The Kings Motel is only 59.99 and just a few short miles north on the 41. Spotty dial up internet and free in room coffee every morning.
So Chas, you can never duplicate the impact of the Billboard. Why not have Jen See make her stay at Tachi Palace gonzo launch pad. Have Jen recruit a member of the Tachi Yokut tribe to join her at the pool for in depth story on the Tachi Yokut tribe’s take on the pool on their ancestral land. Stick a camera in the member’s hand if need be. An angle no other surf blog has attempted to tackle.
consult Kaipo for pronunciations before you meet the tribe member.
The more absurd the better
she should drive up in the morning in her truck, pull an off-brand ladder from the racks, throw it up against the fence, and cover the entire event from the top rung
with a yeti mug full of gin
We need a filipe lion badge.
ELo seems more BTK (Dennis Rader) than Buffalo Bill.
After seeing his embrace with Jack Robinson, i’d lean more towards john wayne gaycee
Now, I’m not one for conspiracies… buuuuuuut… when I open a new tab on my (i)phone, BG is the always first suggested site. Then disqus, SMH etc etc. I’m always here, right!
Yesterday, the strangest thing happened. BG disappeared off the suggested pages list and in its place is the WSL page. What’s even more bizarre is I’ve deleted it twice now and it’s popped back up, at the head of the queue. BG still not showing. What’s making this weird is I can 100% say I haven’t visited the WSL page.
Could it be that the WSL have requested their commercial partner in Apple to conduct this removal of BG and replace? I’m thinking yes. I’m on to you Apple and WSL.
Well, I’ve never been known to shy away from a good conspiracy theory and this one, although young and uncertain at this stage, looks like it’s got legs.
I’m sharpening ye aulden pitchfork in readiness.
Keep us informed, Gil and we’ll go skewer that Okie klown.