http://postsurf.com Unfiltered Thoughts on Surf Culture Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:24:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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?  ... http://postsurf.com/2009/01/28/bugs-has-left-the-building/ 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 ... http://postsurf.com/2009/01/23/move-over-nostradamus/ [caption id="attachment_52" align="alignnone" width="517" caption="AI Interview"][/caption] 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 ... http://postsurf.com/2009/01/22/the-ballad-of-ai/ When I first saw a press release titled "Gorilla Welcomes German Marlon Lipke To Team" show up on Surfline, I got very excited. [caption id="attachment_38" align="alignnone" width="332" caption="Gorilla Welcome"][/caption] Naturally, I was expecting something like this: [caption id="attachment_40" align="alignnone" width="396" caption="Welcome, friend!"][/caption] As is often the case in the surf industry, the truth was ... http://postsurf.com/2009/01/16/well-it-sounded-promising/ [caption id="attachment_81" align="alignnone" width="560" caption="Scheme #42. Samoa, 2006. Photo: Lewis Samuels"][/caption] 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 ... http://postsurf.com/2009/01/15/another-scheme/