It's not the Quicksilver Pro but I hear it's just as popular over here

Travel is the Way to Go

Abandonment

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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 Guardian Takes On Surfing

Happening : City Reliquary Luau

Wayne Lynch in NYC

On Ted Endo's Hipsters

The funny thing is, I live in the epicenter of what people refer to as "hipsterdom," Williamsburg, the capital of all things Brooklyn, and I don't know any hipsters personally.  I see lots of people on the street who I think look like what Ted Endo is calling a hipster, but I've had enough embarrassing moments of realizing "realness" after even a shallow scratching that I know better than to judge that book by that cover.  In fact, one friend, the one who looks quintessentially hipster, the one even another passing hipster would unselfconsciously call out to his hipster friends, "hey guys look at that fucking hipster douchebag," is actually someone who completely embodies all the things hipsters are supposedly not. This hipster shit is as tired as it is old.  Kooks and vals and hipsters and hippies and longhairs and mods and punks and anything else you care to name.  There are real conversations to be had about the abuses of corporate power, government spying, greed, corruption and any number of life threatening environmental concerns that generate their own special totems of decline, but I'm of the view that a quasi-definition of a perceived generational culture isn't one of them.

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Black's Don't Surf : WNYC

A Giant Leap Into the Realm of Claimdom

Yeah, this is a sweet air. Awesome and totally epic. I could not have done it or do it or even know what it feels like to pull that off. This guy is truly at the forefront of creatively technical surfing that pushes into the less-explored physical realms. Yep. But it would have been ten thousand times more better if he hadn't claimed it. If he had kept going and taken a crunching chunk out of that next section. If he had shrugged it off like he does that everyday (which I think he might.) Even if it meant perhaps not getting the "score" by creating the possibility that he would have messed up the next maneuver. Yep, this sort of pop and stop surfing is meaningless to me. Then again, when was the last time I surfed?

Happening: Rockstock&Barrels and a Men's Wear Hoedown

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Keep Skateboarding A Crime

I had this same reaction a long time ago. And then Mastastico shows me the Juice sticker and I'm all damn, someone else has the right idea!

Happening Tonight : Hippy Denim Summer Peace Out!

Huck

I like Huck Magazine.  I don't like that many magazines, especially pop-surf-culture-hipsto magazines.  Prolly because I don't feel included. But I like Huck.  I like the sensibility there.  Here is an interesting article.

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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