In a surprise move sure to dissapoint fans of hardcore hyperbole, Rabbit Bartholomew has stepped down as ASP president.
“After deep consideration, I have decided not to seek a fifth term as ASP President,” Bartholomew said.
Pretty interesting quote from Rab there - who knew that ASP President was an elected office? It’s going to be hard [...]
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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Jan 28
Bugs Has Left The Building
Jan 23
Move Over, Nostradamus
Apparently Wilbur Kookmeyer could also see the future (or at least Wilbur’s author, Bob Penuelas, had a good hunch for fortune telling.)
The whole Alaia board craze is worthy of at least a few posts. Without getting too analytical about prehistoric nostalgia, I thought it was worth pointing out that Kookmeyer saw the Alaia kooks coming.
Surfer [...]
Jan 22
The Ballad of AI
For the last week I’ve been working with Andy Irons and Blair Marlin (AI’s manager) on the AI interview that Surfline put up today.
After a tumultuous couple years on tour, Andy has decided to take 2009 off. One of the many interesting facets to this story is that Andy is perhaps the first surfing superhero [...]
Jan 16
Well, it SOUNDED Promising
When I first saw a press release titled “Gorilla Welcomes German Marlon Lipke To Team” show up on Surfline, I got very excited.
Naturally, I was expecting something like this:
As is often the case in the surf industry, the truth was rather disappointing in comparison to my lofty expectations.
It turns out Gorilla is a company - [...]
Jan 15
ANOTHER SCHEME
This site is another one of my schemes.
I am a schemer. I come up with half-scams and rely on half-truths that share a common purpose: they allow me to keep surfing. This is not a new development. There’s historical precedent here, when it comes to both my history and surfing’s. Miklos Dora engaged in every [...]