Si o no?
I am currently in New York enjoying art, culture and steak frites. The weather is mild, coffee good and overall mood elevated. A very fine vibe. I went and saw the Lagerfeld retrospective at The Met, yesterday, and was generally impressed though not as moved as I was by the Degas, The Little Dancer Aged Fourteen etc. Today, I dropped my daughter off for her first day at the American School of Ballet at Lincoln Center. She was accepted into the summer intensive program, a real feat, and stood steely-eyed at the check-in table sussing the talent.
It seemed to be of an extremely high quality.
It made me think of the Brazil contest, now hours away, and what it prove on this year’s bizarre 2024 Championship Tour. The World Surf League seems have made an entire mess of things, first of all hosting competitions in lousy spots, getting lousy waves on top of that and effectively destroying the thin idea holding it all together that professional surfing can be judged.
In ballet, talent and athleticism, performance and artistry, the ethereal grace are all felt. There are no 6.7s or 8.3s. No 9s for three identical turns. What the body does to the music, how it holds the intricate positions and moves between them is appreciated in a way numbers can’t measure.
Especially stupid numbers that fly in the face of whatever arbitrary metric had been decided upon.
What will Brazil prove?
That Felipe Toledo is the best surfer in the world of World Surf League, certainly, and that the judges are afraid of getting burnt at the stake, likely, and that Kelly Slater, the best surfer in the Association of Surfing Professionals, is either feeling guilty for accepting a make-believe season-long wildcard and/or thinks there is somehow still an Olympic pathway, if he shows.
That he really truly all the way dislikes the land of order and progress, if he does not.
The 11x champion has made sport of not going to Brazil over the course of his extremely long career and using positively laughable excuses for his absences.
It is difficult to picture him in Saquarema. It is also difficult to picture him not in Saquarema.
Neither scenario matters much, in the end. The World Surf League is increasingly inhabiting a Kafka-esque reality where equality is anti-lesbian and environmentalism is gas powered desert surf ponds.
Time for one more cappuccino.
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Chas Smith is way too pessimistic. I read his article about the El Salvador tournament and then saw video. It was totally different from his description. The wave weren’t big but they showed who had the drive and perseverance to succeed. Now he’s got his coffee and better attitude but goes right back to complaining! I don’t need it!
20+ year old archives. darwin wannabee/
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx….
Yeah, we grow up mocking that phase.
Kelly’s sick! Just check his Instagram he’s got the gauntlet of symptoms and a screenshot of watch analytics to really drive the point home. He just narrowly made it to Florida traveling sick across the world infecting the unwashed masses in his wake. His excuse is lock solid. He’s eyeing that tropical nonsense that won’t show up to get a bit of a wiggle out front later in the week once this damned sickness subsides
When you use the word girlfriend when youre 51, you’ve got issues.
I hope she gets 50% when he finally deigns to dump her.
Can you imagine being so empty inside that 11 world titles still isn’t enough? That it’s all meaningless without the title of “Olympic Athlete”? That you’d even you’d go to the House of the Gold Chain n’ Claim and put up with that Brazzo shit show? Poor Kalani. Shes the real loser in all of this. Still doesn’t have a ring on her finger.
so epic – i definitely hope you have the journals !!! Could even pass them on to Griff, to show him what should be happening with his time journal wise!!
SF Zoo. road trip to see a partner in crime. did a full backside spread on an ad-adjacent to the rhino-giraffe cages with stone-washed jeans. she took a long distance Kodak. i’ll go find it~
Slater is an idiot. There, it’s out now. We can all feel better.
It’s “sim ou nao” em Brasil, irmao. For shame, your mocking of their status as a Latin American country that speaks a language other than Espanol.
Love Sofi Tukker
But you’re only 40? How could you have a grown son?
Yes I can see you Chas on “Dance Moms”!
thats a book right there!!!
I would wager a $20 he doesn’t get dead last this time cuz i think it’s in the script. But that’s it tho, no mas
Surf of this afternoon in Saquarema:
https://youtu.be/3h4iCiHoH3M
Jack Robinson, Griffin, Medina, Italo, Ryan Callinan, Ethan Ewing, Caitlin, Johanne Defay, etc…
Kelly just posted on his instagram story that he is sick. Perfect timing for the GOAT
taking up a tour spot from a surfer who actually wants to show up. such a dick.
*cough cough*
My foot
*cough cough*
Don’t watch Dario Argento’s “Susperia” or the remake!
And racist because something about the shoes or stockings only being white?
I’ll bring the numbered paddles