Hydrogenesis

Surf Art By Any Other Name

Yes.

Brian Lentini said that Craig Stecyk told him he stumbled upon his blog Mastastico simply by googling his own name.  Mastastico popped up at the top of a very short list, apparently.  I found the idea that someone as seminal as C.R. Stecyk wouldn't have reams of links pointing his direction hard to believe.  This was all probably a while ago, and if you google Stecyk now you get about 137,000 hits, so my master plan to get C.R. Stecyk's attention simply by mentioning him in a blog post is out the window.   And frankly, this video has been out for a while.  But as we've stated before, this thing is as much a repository for our future archival enjoyment as it is for anything novel.  Enjoy this for the first time or for a third or fourth watching or simply click past, grumbling about bloggers who are too lazy to post original content.

Man Wolf

Ten Things I Have Learned About The Sea

Skating New york

Have you seen this? Probably. But it's NY and it's neat. So we repost.

Danny Bobis Memorial

Danny Bobis' family would like to invite you to his public memorial service this Sunday, August 7th at 5:30PM on the Laurelton Blvd. portion of the beach Long Beach, NY. The entire community is invited. Join us as we honor a life of purpose and courage.

The memorial will be immediately followed by a paddle out to sea. All are invited to join. We will start promptly. 

For any questions, contact friendsofdannybobis@gmail.com

Enjoyable.

Click on le foto.

Another Yes.

Yes.

via Mitz1 Dodge

Tomorrow Night! Spectacular!

The Funny Thing Is, I Tend To Take My Laundry In On Saturday

We don't have a washer or dryer in our apartment.  Like most New Yorkers with a "busy" schedule and an "extra" ten dollars to budget out every week, we drop the bulk of our laundry off at the the laundromat down the street.  It takes them about a day to wash everything, fold everything and gently place it back in the bag in which it were delivered.  It's a pretty great system if you hate doing laundry or you're just shitty at folding.  And while I am not adverse to sitting in a laundromat and reading a book, I am truly shitty at folding.  So I let them do it for me.  Ten bucks a week.  This is all to say that accidents happen.  I've had sweaters shrunk, trousers lost and, in the case of the photo above, tan pants turned pink.  And this, in turn, is all to say that when I got these pants back the other day, pulled them out and saw the damage, I didn't get so mad.  I mean, I've never owned pink pants.  Maybe it's time I own pink pants.  And lord knows I never would have actually purchased pink pants, so the only way I was going to get pink pants is either by someone leaving a pair at my house by accident or by the laundry screwing up the wash.  So today I am wearing pink pants.  Which is a little unnerving.  But maybe it's cool.  I don't know. As long as they fit right I guess.  This, finally, is all to say that New York boasts a pretty abnormal surf scene.  New York boasts an abnormal scene, period.  It all boils down to a million things a million people have expounded on before.  But one of those things is fashion.  You can't get away from it.  In fact, many of my friends make their living, at least incidentally, from the fashion industry.  Image making, advertising, designing, etc.  We are all tied up in it.  Besides money laundering and cheating on anything and everything, fashion is New York's big industry. So when Wifey sends me this link, like these goddamn pink pants, I take it all in stride.  It's normal, standard, necessary even.  The only bummer is that I thought Antonio was New York's hottest surfer.

Addendum Question: What the hell kind of t-shirt goes with pink pants?

Tommy Brull Shine A Light Music Festival