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Latest
Update: May 27, 2000
Den.com
Insider Spills the Beans
Former
Den.com employee Matt Welch writes of his days in the "Den
of Iniquity." Stories of blowing money, waring factions and
bold stupidity.
Wisconsin
High School Bans Billabong Shirts
Yes, somewhere out in the vast wasteland we call the Midwest, a
high school banned students from wearing "bong" t-shirts.
The LA Times Mike
Downey explains what happened and how Billabong's
Graham Stapelberg sent the whole class free shirts.
Gotcha
Glacier Tests Snowmaking
Well, the folks from Mammoth Mountain were down in SoCal
for a test of the Glacier's proposed snowmaking system. Big
question: how hard is it to make snow in a walk in freezer? Answer:
Not very.
More
Grave Dancing with Boo and Den.com
Kevin Jones signed with Den, so did Danny Way and
the Familie. Guess what? The Den is done. So is Boo.com.
Salon's Scott Rosenberg
thinks it's because they showed idiotic thinking and we think they
aren't the only ones.
Ryan
Immegart Profiled In LA Times
Volcom Entertainment's 24-year-old VP, ex-pro snowboarder,
musician, husband and father helps raise money for Planned Parenthood
with a punk rock show at the Coach House.
Rana
Will Not Seek IOC Presidency
Influential Mexican industrialist Vazquez Rana, 67, bows
out of race to succeed Samaranch as the president of the
International Olympic Committee.
Quiksilver's
Fiji Contest A Real Coup
While George Speight and his Fijian rebels hold at least
30 members of the Fijian Parliment hostage in an armed coup, the
best surfers in the world are battling it out at Cloudbreaks.
--Day
2 Surf Coverage
--Speight
told: release all, or pay the price
--Day
1 Surf Coverage
--Fiji's
Great Council of Chiefs asks for hostage release.
--Racists
Thugs Terrorize Village
--Overview
of Fiji Coup 2000
--Main
Players in Fiji Coup
--US State
Department Travel Warning For Fiji
Variflex
Buys Back Stock
The Moor Park, California-based producer of price-point skateboards,
snowboards, inlines skates and other sporting equipment buys
back for $2.25 Million in stock.
Pink
Surf May Help Find Bacteria Source
Huntington Beach has been a poop hole since last sumer. Now
scientists will use a dye to help locate the source of the pollution.
Fu
Manchu Turns 10
The hardest rocking band in Orange Country hit's the decade mark
and celebrated last night at the Galaxy Theatre with Motorhead
and Nashville Pussy.
Boo.com
Bites Down
Online fashion retailer Boo.com
has unraveled at the seams and will lose 300 employees, according
to the Silicon Alley
Daily. In their May 18 edition writer C.J. Hughes
said, "The glamorous but troubled high-end London-based clothier
has gone into "receivership"--basically, bankruptcy short of total
liquidation--after failing to produce some last-minute bailout financing."
Street
Luger Lee Dansie Likes Speed
The Seattle PI does a run down on nice guy and single parent
Lee Dansie.
Late To the Surfermag.com
Redesign?
Okay, we totally missed the Surfer website redesign. If you
did too, you're missing a 318 K Flash splash screen with techno
music and water splashing (how original). Yep, that's it. Nothing
else on the site changed.
NSSA
Western Regionals in HB
The National Scholastic Surfing Association will present
the 2000 Western Regional Championship, beginning Friday, at the
south side of the Huntington Beach Pier.
Baja
Surf Adventure Union-Trib Style
Writer Terry Rodgers
ventures 400 miles into Baja to a "not-so-secret" point
break and doesn't even care if the waves are small.
Surfing
Vancourver Island
Anyone whose ever taken the bus to Whistler has probably
wondered about the surf on the Pacific side of the Island. Wonder
no more.
New Billabong Site is a Doozy
Want to see some amazing Flash programming in action? Billabong's
new website has it. While you're there try finding any info
at all about Billabong or it's products. That's the really fun part.
Swell.com
Gets More Funding
Brian
Patch Blows Record Attempt
Surf
Artifact Show in Yerba Buena
Quik
Buys Global Trademark
Previous Bags o' Crapola:
-May 20,
2000
-March 25,
2000
-March
16, 2000
Special thanks: to Jim Romenesko's MediaGossip.com.
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