"Throw your best suggestions at me and perhaps BeachGrit can call naming rights for its first ever human."
Now, I know some reading this very post don’t listen to The Grit! (subscribe here) and actively oppose its very idea. I’d get it, if it was just me n David Lee shootin’ the breeze, but the program has become so much more than that. Somehow, in some way, it has become a gathering place for the best and brightest to share inspiration, provide helpful advice and correct my sometimes dangerous opinions.
An aural homestead, if you would.
Today’s episode featured the most uplifting story you will ever hear about a man meeting his childhood idol, Tony Alva, and it exceeding expectations, an important lesson in “enshittification” and…
…our beloved Surf ads asking for help.
“Mrs Ads and I are currently expecting baby number 2 and find ourselves right in the thick of the naming process” the multi-hyphenate writer-commenter-instagram-impressario began. “Long lists create short lists which go back to long lists again when we draw from the multitude of reasons to not stick whatever particular name we find. Wife has been critical of my level of involvement thus far in that my only contribution has been the name “Goody” for a girl, which is rather problematically stolen from The Crucible (Goody being short for the common Puritan term ‘Goodwife’). So I thought fuck it – why not crows source the work instead. Throw your best suggestions at me and perhaps The Grit!* can call naming rights for its first ever human.”
Well how do you like them apples?
David Lee Scales and I, of course, dove right in, providing the best practices for naming though I didn’t stumble upon what I feel to be a perfect choice until the very end. Oh you must listen to find out what it is, but in the meantime, what’s your suggestion?
Help a brother out.
Here’s also a hint regarding my suggestion.
*Baby names that come from the podcast audience will be thoughtful and lovely. The ones generated here will either open the very gates of hell or be works of art. Probably the former, tbh.
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Klly
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Was in Goleta in 2017 to visit some friends. Drove to Santa Ynez didn’t even stop there. Want to remember it like it was with the rattle can L.A. go home sign. Somewhere in a box is a photo of my little brother and I in diapers playing on that beach. Sacrilege.
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We jokingly told people we’d name our daughter ‘Shazilla’ (Chablis vs. Godzilla) and then I discovered to my horror that there really are people called that.
We also similarly publically considered ‘Ghengis’ for our son.
Taj.
It’s what all the other fucktards at the beach call their kids.
Lila Grace Scales, Melody Scales or if timing works, Juniper Scales. Having a name starting with “K” could be like being a Jennifer in the 80s or an Ashley in the 90s.
are we still under the bridge w/o shot gun to my chin? from another man?
hahaha….
Surfaced from a duck dive at Devereux and had a god-damned tar patty just basically drape over most of the right side of my head, over my freakin’ ear and partially down my neck. Absurd, so much so. Of course the first thing I did was plant my right hand in that tar patty, yelled out a colorful string of obscenities, followed by an even more absurd dispersement of tar with every grasp of my board’s rail and deck. Attempted to sort through the hazy memory of the previous night’s debauchery that most assuredly was the cause of my predicament.
Have an old wetsuit hanging in my closet with the stinky Devereux platform Holly Cali kool aid lol. Thanks for the memories lol.
impression session at nias. (ISAN) guest appearances from dad&daughter SierraJoshKerrsies (SJK, seniorjunior) surfbots…:Check it out, bros~
you vatos ever surf out haskell’s way when all the monarchs winter in the eucalyptus grove? walking back thru the forest with tar on your feet, gettng back to your bike covered in shed monarch wings stuck to the tar and the acid kicking in. higher learning in-fucking-deed.
Been hanging at haskells since early 70’s when my parents finally let me loose on the shwin sting ray. Ran the crew boats off Elwood pier to the rigs for about ten years. Moved before the resort was built glad I don’t have to look at that. Good memories.
My boss at Channel City Lumber Yard got more than a few laughs at my expense after not having enough time to scrub the tar off before work. Good times man.
I’ll bring the tar patties
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Time to frisbee some corn tortillas from the bleachers at a Gauchos Basketball game
Ad-ads. Like John John but you will always be able to turn to AA when you develop a drinking problem
fellow Gaucho
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