Were we wrong?
The corpse of Erik Logan is now well and truly cold. Half buried in Brazil, the former World Surf League Chief Executive’s rotting flesh, bleaching bones have never been properly put to rest. The World Surf League’s tart official statement “Erik Logan is no longer with the company” the only epitaph.
His time holding professional surfing’s reins were mostly marked with weird. He pushed himself front and center, unlike his predecessors Paul Speaker and Sophie Goldschmidt, documenting his “personable” style. Logan breathed Jack Robinson’s air, he wore Filipe Toledo’s skin he, allegedly, told the beloved Santa Barbara surfer Conner Coffin “I will ruin you.
Mostly, though, he spewed corporate gobbledygook. Whether excoriating Brazilian champions or simply opening his mouth, Logan had a rare gift for pure emptiness.
“Haters,” are therefore understandably, shocked today after the release of a video from former shock radio jock Gregg “Opie” Hughes describing how Logan saved his bawdy show from corporate explosion.
Opie and Anthony, which once rivaled Howard Stern for kings of the airwaves, got into some real hot trouble after a particularly “dangerous” segment. While the suits wanted them fired, the show off the air, our ELo swung in to save the day.
Hughes discusses in detail:
Now, the questions, however uncomfortable, must be floated.
Did we get the Oklahoman with a magical wetsuit of armor all wrong?
Was he actually our champion, ready to take it to professional surfing’s billionaire owner Dirk Ziff for us little rabble-rousers?
JP Currie, do you have a sneaking bit of guilt haunting your corners?
Well, whatever the case, we are left with Chief of Sport Jessi Miley-Dyer, though, to be fair, I think she is really clueless.
Or is she?
More as the story develops.
But, quickly, while you are still here. What happened to Howard Stern? Why he so pusillanimous?
Epitath, again…
On a ‘typical’ Monday morning, no longer hindered by the constraints of a professional career, in the middle of a shower, and after a traditional short sip from the nectar of the gods, I chuckle, then race, still in my bath towel, to the word processor to scratch this out:
“I give the frogman a drink and his sister the crabs…”
Words that still reverberate inside the walls and vaults of the Ventura Mission, nearly 2-1/2-plus years later; after spoken for the first time within any sacred religious walls.
It was, after all, just last week that I broke my almost 18-month ‘hiatus’ to cover a California Ocean Protection Council meeting that flounders worse than an illegal black sea bass, hoisted aboard by some 12-year old gremmy. The bass used to grow to 8-feet, according to published reports/pictures from the Manhattan Beach Historical Society archives. While there was discussion of energy efficiency, the majority of the session focused on pure trash, especially litter.
Trash and recycling are important. But I have tended to focus on more Darwinian-sized problems, clients and regulations.
Epitath: definition from the random house dictionary…’a commemorative description on a tomb’, er headstone (editor).
When getting paid for the writings, I would nail every word, on every topic…miss no deadlines, no science too big…now I’m writing for free…excerpts, such as this…
Lesser men would cringe…
I send out a digital picture from Paddleboard Beach, Palos Verdes, solo dude, which should have been a redwood board, to John, Cos, the kids…could have been the 1930’s. It was yesterday…
On February 20, 2005, my literary mentor pushed a bullet through his cranium. Four years earlier, in the groundbreaking personal manuscript ‘Environment Over Easy’, I performed the same act. With all intents and purposes, there was no gun and there was no blood. But as in any descriptive coverage which intends to motivate others, an counter-analogy did follow. The blood was green, and this act continues…
Well elo Def. had the last laugh.. disappeared mid event, with not a single news outlet able to get any clue as to what evil must have been committed to make that happen. any other sport in the world woulda had ‘unnamed sources” leaks, etc. but not surfing! head guy disappears and media sorts out nothing. zero. lucky, or dare we say ‘ smart’ wsl….
I still can’t believe what Elo is said to have done is being totally covered up by all involved in the surf media?
He was lucky to get out of Brazil before the police got called.
I guess we will just have to wait and hope a real journalist in the mainstream media picks up the story and tells it?
Well hold on right there Dave- why dont you spills the beans? The people need to know dang it
I don’t pretend to be a journalist nor work in the surf media.
Why would I own a dog and bark myself?
No. I thought about it for a second tho
Elo we didnt get wrong he is a Sitzpinkler
Did we get the Oklahoman with a magical wetsuit of armor all wrong? HELL NO, he sniffs surfers…
Que up The Tubes “Don’t Touch Me There”.
Let’s hope the next article from Chas isn’t about how, when and where Elo touched him? Or even worse yet , the article might include sordid details of Chas finally admitting Elo showed him his childhood Oklahoma farm and the bunkroom and tack room in the barn…
crossing paths in OK was a possibility!
“Homeless Charlie”? … it’s all starting to make sense now
but I bet Chas maybe didn’t actually listen to the clip he just posted so…
I certainly didn’t
you are our North Star, Party Pete, ♥️
Who?
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Oprah somehow looks more photoshopped
Ill wait to hear what WSL/stab has to say?
You’ll be waiting for nothing
I would be clueless too if my idea of working is drinking mai tai’s by the pool.
In a pantsuit
carson oct 85 a couple back from botswanna filming wild. she’s wearing cool-otts~
And not sending cunts out at the Box
Xox
bloody marie’s. x-tra red~
No guilt here. But perhaps a creeping empathy for Logan as I puzzle at the new wingfoil kit that arrived today and ponder my own descent into kookdom.
U r a brave man
Yeah, tbh the thing looks bloody dangerous!
You onto season two yet?
Watched the first ep. Decent, but a bit haphazard in terms of theme / ideas. I predict the series goes steadily downhill.
Just saw two dudes out the other day on SUP foils! WTF!
That’s a Dutch Rudder!
Xox
As long as they stay out of the lineup who cares.
they were in everyone’s way, a local dude finally sent them down the beach
Proper way to handle it, just like when guys keep back paddling gotta be addressed unless the lineup is full of kooks which these days is common.
I don’t think you understood the assignment….
https://beachgrit.com/2021/…
Elo was all about “him”, Chas.
Look at how many surf vids the exec producer cranked out in his name in 4 years.
Granted they were all shit … but still. Memememememe
pusillanimous?… stop being such a sesquipedalian!
Howard is still around, taking aim at Bill Maher for being too controversial and unethical. Something Stern would have never utilized for viewership and wealth.
He didn’t go after Maher for being controversial. He went after him because Maher said he talks about how much he loves his second wife too much and it probably really bothers his first wife.
Howard implied thee divorce wasn’t initiated by him. It was fully a disagreement about a relationship issue, nothing to do with politics. As disappointing as they may by for some people.
take a pill Howard, send him home to Beth. shut him down. he needed writers. love sam kinison~and FAITH!
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of World Tours” ELO
The ‘world tour’ is destroying itself
just got the shrwchedule for gps-pro next year. Ting Sao~