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Surfer Magazine Late to the Party
Not that I want to diminish Surfer Magazine in their 50th year - but sometimes it just needs to be said. Even said loud and clear for the world to hear. Especially when it concerns Pontz. So I have scrambled atop my dailystoke.com soap box and I am ready to shout: “Surfer Magazine! Stop riding on my coat tails.”
This is frustrating. For one, Surfer Magazine has a much larger and grander soap box to pontificate from. “Surfer Magazine has the largest worldwide distribution of any surf publication. It is distributed to over 70 countries worldwide, and prints over 480 million pages annually.” I love the stoke but let’s be honest, Dailystoke doesn’t have that kind of distribution.
So when I write an article about surfing in the snow at the Wall in New Hampshire and then Surfer comes along and dedicates a whole nine pages to surfing in the snow in the Northern Atlantic, at The Wall in New Hampshire no less, without a single nod in my direction, it gets my wetsuit tangled into a wad of frustration and anger.
Sure, I get it. Surfer has glossy pages and professional photographers taking pictures for them; and, sure, they have people who live in New England taking the pictures; and yes, they have pictures from their trip to frigid Iceland; and they know so much more about cold water. However, all of this I choose to ignore.
But, Surfer Magazine, fret not. I will not proceed with any legal proceedings as long as I receive some royalties from the May 2009 issue of Surfer Magazine. All can easily be forgiven. Make the right choice.
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Lots of cold-weather surfing happening in Tofino on the West coast of British Columbia.
I think you’d love this quick film that Canadian Tourism has put together on river surfing the St. Lawrence River in Montreal, Quebec. It’s a quirky, irreverent peek at the lengths to which surf fiends will go to catch a wave. Here’s the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHwOoHT0KM8
Enjoy!
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