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Pre-Thanksgiving Surfing Interlude
GQ’s wave expert Stan Parish spotted this video recently by professional surfer / filmmaker Taj Burrow, and he’s been watching it over and over. Now we are too. Stan explains his hypnosis:
Best surf footage I’ve seen in a while. There’s this passage in the famous New Yorker piece “Playing Doc’s Games” by William Finnegan where he talks about how you don’t really understand a wave as a three-dimensional thing until you see it from above. And check out the reef (and sharks) just underneath the surface. Can’t stop watching this.
Flag of Honor. The names of everyone who perished on September 11, 2001.
I can’t believe it’s been a decade since that day. It stands out like a vivid photograph amid the murky memories I retain from that time in my life. I can’t imagine what that day was like for those directly touched by the tragedies of that day - firefighters, loved ones of those lost. All that I can do is this: Never Forget.
