I just spent another week in a town with a perpetually flat ocean and yet every third retail store serving the tourist trade has a few mint condition surfboards on the walls, ceiling, or in the window. Must be a city ordinance. I’ve been coming here for almost 10 years during different times of the year and I’d venture to guess that every day in Oregon would beat the surf conditions here on any day, water temperature excluded. In any case, I’m back from vacation. Regular transmissions from Skate and Annoy will resume shortly, although there will be no travel documentary as I’m approaching the half point in a recent tendon tear recovery via DOS Trusty Bowl. Didn’t even pack the (skate)board.
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k c
sad that you could not skate . It is a 3 1/2 hour flight
to Tampa from Quebec. So we do a weekend trip in winter ,to get away from the snow and cold .Team Paine really makes great parks and especially pools. And on the gulf side the parks a rad,Bradeton, Dunedin,Englewood, Naples
I have yet to make the stairs in sarasota’s pool. i made the love seat in the deep,but i must go back and claim my prize!
Objection
Hyperbole, rank hyperbole. Indian Rocks Beach, which is up past Tampa and even flatter, produced two of the 44 ASP world tour surfers at one point… so, Siesta Key must not be perpetually flat… per se. And, well, few surfers outside of Oregon can think of a single Oregonian surfer, so it’s not like y’all are doing spectacular things with yer precious abundance… except when it comes to concrete.
Seaside Point's Dear Old Mum
Come out to Oregon and I’ll wash that potty mouth out.
Seaside'spointeludesitself
Ha, I’d knock your lips off. Of the ASP yearlong world tour championships (men’s and women’s), Floridians have won 20 out of about 70, even though most of the contests have been in the Pacific and Indian oceans. We strong like bull. Or something.
Bozo Texino
After a good surf, I like to hit the showers and jock out! Towel fight!!!
Sometimes Magazine Writer
Well, at least we’re not getting in metaphors that rely on literary abstraction…
Amorphous Blob
Good comeback. So, not really one of the “Surfers”, but a “Butthole” nonetheless? (But, my minimal research suggests that it’d be more like Henry than Hank to think that suggesting that an avatar doesn’t rule is the same as suggesting avatar rules, so, maybe not even an asshole anymore… but wait, wasn’t Henry as well?) But, hey, I’m sure the sometimes-magazine-writer behind the Bozo Texino tagging would have made a better skater than the blobfish I’m speculating was behind the Kilroy drawings, since blobfish, though anthropomorphic facially, are simply too amorphous out of the water to make good skaters (hence the name).
Railroad Worker
Do we have Avatar rules now?
And who is this elusive “Fitz” you speak of?
I knew that guy once. Anti-social shithead. Reminds me of Hank Stamper.
I heard he quit skating, but then I swear I’ve seen him enjoying late-night curb sessions in East Portland, and fooling around at Ed Benedict in the wee hours. Rumor has it he skates Madras a bit, too.
Uh-huh
Gibby even referenced your jock-surfing. (Or was that just a Texas term for floating down a river in an innertube?) And get a new moniker already, Fitz. Bozo Texino was just a railroad worker/writer, and not nearly as interesting as the Kilroy drawings… which appear to have been inspired by the anthropomorphic blobfish._
Black wetsuits/ White Surfboards
No surf in Oregon. Correct.
Uh-huh
Yeah see, I don’t think Oregon’s SKATERS are desperate to keep Oregon on the downlow, for fear of being outperformed. Funny thing is, the Howaryahns who started it all did it without black wetsuits, and didn’t pretend to be above competitiveness.
Kelly Slater's Dear Old Mum
Cocoa beach is too heavy for me.
Kilwag
SUSTAINED: No commentary on the quality of Gulf Coast surfers, rather commentary on the abundance of prop surfboards in the neighborhood.
Lesson learned: Never insult someone’s waves or concrete.
Notmine
Hey, I just went to school over there. But apparently they have just enough surf for THEM to get excited about. And, well, I do have to admit that it was more exciting, by default, than the Bro Bowl.
talentlessquitter
Whulcume baack!