Einhorn is Finkle.
Kelly Slater, 11x world champion, multi-time Pipe Master, 58-years-young and a father to be (again), put on a show for competitive professional surfing connoisseurs, worldwide, last week with a vintage performance at Teahupo’o. The greatest to ever do it, in the water, certainly does know how to keep the spotlight right where it belongs.
Ever the talk of our public square.
And he will certainly be the talk of New Zealand’s public squares once his, and girlfriend Kalani Miller’s, issue of Vogue Living NZ hits newsagents.
Minnow Eleven Productions gave a sneak peek to the unfortunates who do not call New Zealand home.
Surf fans immediately rejoiced that the couple had decided to reprise the iconic Ace Ventura photoshoot, harkening back to simpler, less divisive times.
The Jim Carrey vehicle, released in 1994, followed the adventures of a pet detective seeking to find the Miami Dolphins dolphin mascot Snowflake. The plot centers around a trans antagonist (Lt. Lois Einhorn/Ray Finkle) making it culturally revolutionary in hindsight.
In any case, the film went on to gross $107 million world wide and was lovingly described by The Los Angeles Times as, “Not many critics have been charmed by Ace Ventura’s exploits, and several have charged that the film’s humor is mean-spirited, needlessly raunchy and homophobic.
Proto BeachGrit.
The World Surf League’s Championship Tour is headed to El Salvador and will swing its waiting period open in but two short days. John John Florence is now atop the men’s leaderboard while Brisa Hennessy is the number one woman. It is uncertain if Slater will make an appearance.
Baby on the way etc.
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KS is confusing. Guys paid, got his bag. Ironically already a Dad once, so this new celebration is bit overdone. Not sure why all this corny stuff. Guy has made enough of sale of his Pupukea house to live handsomely for rest of his life.
Whilst- miserable economy, surf industry has gone dark star on itself. Majority of tour colleagues are sponsorless and this cunt is having a soft flexi in Vogueliving?
Bit cringey.
I’m surprised BG has not written anything about the CT men having to surf more heats than the women. That extra round means more work for the same pay.
Of course, surfers don’t get paid for surfing, exactly.
Caitlin Clark apparently just inked a $28M deal with Nike, on top of a few other sponsor agreements that total in the millions. That marketing degree she just finished has paid off handsomely. (The WNBA only pays a rookie $76k but that’s a rounding error to her now.)
She’s obviously an all-time standout in women’s basketball, but the people who pay the bills care more about the fact that she helped blow away college playoff viewership records (18.9 million viewers for the final game), several WNBA teams have moved to bigger venues and are breaking viewership records left and right. WNBA games have seen a surge in wagering, too.
It’s really not about who rides the bigger or better waves on the WCT. What really matters is who brings in the viewers.
If you ask me, and nobody does, the WSL trying to make pro surfing as monochrome and monotone as possible doesn’t help that.
Men or women, it’s all about viewership. Who gets the views? Who sells the Lexuses or Lexi or Lexae?
Equal prize money isn’t really equal pay anyway. Sponsor deals are worth so much more.
thats just a fucking hell photo, has everything
“mean-spirited, needlessly raunchy and homophobic.”
Sounds like a stroll thru here. Keep up the good work.
It is uncertain if Slater will make an appearance.
Didn’t make the cut, etc.
FIFY
how much do you pay the work experience kid to find the fotos?
I am the work experience kid.
Going from Chopoo to El Sal is like having Ruth’s Chris one night then Long John Silvers the next.
The Women are WAY better looking,…so there’s that.
having been unceremoniously eliminated from both Surfival and Surfival Second Chance in Tahiti, feels like Long John Silver’s if all the fryers were broken and tap water was the only beverage choice.
i feel your pain rocks, ‘specially after i told everyone to suck my dick cuz I got jack at chopes. oh well, done worse things.
That sucks for sure, would have put robbo in the lockdown category. I used him at margs and had burned through a lot of other big names , although slater and Italo were stilll options — but I blew it and went with matty m based on his big scores last year. Oh well.
surfing blows
I picked Kelly!
xox
Genius
”Suck my dick!” Haha kidding. Poor ricmatic, made laugh at the time though.
xox
I lost out at Pipe with Robo. I feel your pain.