Today's Lentini Liner Note

"I'm a hack at everything.  But what is hilarious is I am turning into that guy who shows up on a brown water logged surfboard with his kids in tow. And the brown board isn't ironic. I can't word this, but I always remember growing up seeing dudes with their families set up on the beach BBQing and doing family shit and always seeing this old browned thruster from like '82 on the beach and now I'm realizing those guys bought that board the year their year kid was born and then they were never selfish again."

Yes. The Mastic Bureau Comes Through Again.

This about sums up what we're ostensibly all about here. Fleeing troubles through getting back to basics. And note the shout out in the very beginning. Thanks Mastastico.

The Lentini Files

Lentini has been sending me the love, but I've been missing out on putting it all up for you. Here, from one of the most interesting people I know, is a quick blast of things he pays attention to. Things I generally do not, making him something even more extra important in my life.

 

And finally, this from Vice.

Notes From Mastastico

"This might be the best thing on the internet."
Lentini hits you with the good shit. Again.

Notes from the Mastic Bureau

Lentini weighing in with the perspective from here.

Mastastico vs. Sabichian

"Noah clearly picked the wrong Fergal Smith clip. This one with wacko Elvis the shaper in it is waaaaay better. Forget the surfing focus on his property and the fact he shaped fins out of fruit boxes..."

 
File this under pre- It Doesn't Not Work... happening next weekend!

Notes From Mastastico

Notes from Mastastico

The Rockaway Classic Via The Mastic Bureau

I've been meaning to write something about the amazing Rockaway Classic experience, but have been shut out time and inspiration wise. In the meantime, here is Lentini's manual rendering of a pic circulating on Instagram of me mid-humility.

Notes From Mastastico

Notes from Mastastico

I am grateful for this. Thanks Lentini.

The Mastic Bureau Handbook

Today's Notes from the Mastic Bureau

even riots were better back then 
 just saying

Today's Mastic Bureau Meanderings

I have been a suscriber of SURFER for over twenty years, I have always
considered the Steve Hawk era as editor my favorite. Steve left Surfer
during the dot com boom to work for all those forecasting companies,
and so it goes.  Anyway I started googling him on the train today
hoping to find some new writing, and I happened upon this gem:

“The day that Tony surfs better than I do is the day I shoot myself in
the head.”

Yes most dont know that Steve Hawk is Tony Hawk's older brother, the
brother 12 years his senior that bought him his first skateboard. That
skateboard is now in the Smithsonian

PS:Growing up skateboarding I was always on the bandwagon to rip on
the dorkyness of Tony Hawk, or the fact he was and still is one of the
only skateboarders that is a household name. The name guys probably
still yell out of car windows as your skating a curb in a parking lot.
Anyway as time went on and pro skateboarders dissapeared and
skateboarding friends stopped skateboarding, I realized something.
Yes Tony Hawk has boring style, but he's still ripping sooooooo hard in
his 40's And you know what? "Tony Hawk rules" he's funny, he
runs a great video channel on youtube that has great programming (Ride
Channel) and his son Riley Hawk has got damn good style. So now if I
am asked, I will proudly say "Yeah I like Tony Hawk he's a
skateboarder". 

PPS: back in the day it was all Hawk Vs. Hosoi, I would always side with the obvious Hosoi..he did huuuuge airs and had crazy style for days on end. Fast forward a bunch of years
and I now side with Hawk..Hosoi is born again and all preachy and he
dresses like a SoCal dad trying to be cool and fit in with the other
SoCal dads oh and also Tony Hawk's book was great and Hosoi's book was
crap (he left out I am sure 9 million great stories)

Blah Blah sorry for being way way to skatey and not surfy

-Mastastico

The Mastic Bureau Gets Hot Over A Trophy Stick

Most guys that collect old boards dont ride them..that fully makes me
see red. Thats like owning a 1964 Corvette and never driving it
anywhere, not even to go pick up milk for the family.

If I had $1650 bucks to waste I'd waste it one this lovely stick.

http://longisland.craigslist.org/spo/3777757227.html
to the man selling this..you dont really need that money so give it to
me so I can scratch it and put dings all over it and surf the crap out
of it and never repair it. Seriously you dont need it, and we
certainly dont need some J off hanging it in his man cave

-Mastastico

Mastic Bureau Meanderings On T.Campbell

there is a reason thomas cambell gets talked about so much in the
surf/skate world

he is talented period, and if you think differently your wrong

he was doing it the hard way when doing it the hardway wasnt as cool
as it is now

glad to see he is stepping back into the skateworld, albeit very obscurly

anyway the music makes me want to rip my fucking hair, I kept waiting
for the tempo to change and the street skating to start getting killer
but then that wouldne be thomas now would it? Regardless tough it out
because 1:35 and 1:50 made it worth it.

yeah real film



- Mastastico 

The Mastic Bureau

This is an email from a buddy of mine. All of these  words stemmed from watching a Brad Domke clip:

"Unfortunately, I suck ball sack at surfing.  I do all my snaps like two feet in front of the correct section, all my cutbacks too far out on the shoulder, never really take off deep enough to get a ton of barrels and then I probably close my eyes anyway when the lip comes down.  Every once in a while the stars line up just right for me and it brings me back.  

Oh, and sometimes I paddle really hard for the big set waves and the fruits and failures of battle get played out instantaneously."

-Mastastico

The Mastastico Bureau Going Finless

Introducing the first post of a new EBNY Bureau. Lentini-vision will run rampant every now and again around here at unfixed intervals teetering on the edge of the viable inconsistency endemic to those rarified environs. A photo here, an editorial there, some You Tube finds, and maybe some Craigslist slobbering. I dunno what he's gonna do. And frankly, it may have to be edited to dodge the FCC. For now, we'll start off with some finless surfing Lentini has been crying about. Or as other people have called it for quite a while now, skimboarding.

Mastastico

The Mastastico Bureau coming soon. Stay tuned.