Sunrise & Shine: "It's beginning to look a lot like...Thanksgiving."

Written By Will Buehn

Well, the Polar Express just left the Halloween station and now, based on the tendencies of an expanding population of Americans, the next stop is the North Pole. 

My ticket still shows a stop for Turkey Day though. 

I've always been an advocate of (at least mostly) reserving the Christmas spirit until after Thanksgiving. I mean, let's at least give the all-you-can-eat feast a few weeks of November. 

I know Lowes has had their Christmas decorations up since the 4th of July and 95% of millennial moms are already cranking the Holly station, grooving with Mariah, Bing, and Burl, but let's respect the gobble gobble when it's got the podium. 

I love Christmas and the joyous season it brings more than anything, but if you start the holly jolly too early, you'll burn through all your candles and playlists before Black Friday, and wind up more Grinch than Cheermeister by the time Christmas actually rolls around. 

That's my opinion anyway, not shared at all by my wife who certainly would've already been listening to Holly had it not been for Taylor Swift's re-release of her 2014 album, '1989.' 

But soon enough, my house will start the celebration for December 25th, and I'll be left wishing we could all just slow down and enjoy the sweet potato casserole. 

That challenge of slowing down is getting harder and harder to do, though, across the entire spectrum of life. 

Just the other day, some guy posted some videos doing backflips surfing, and nobody—other than Sterling Spencer—really slowed down to talk about it. 

Shane Beschen's comment on the post might have nailed it. "We’ve yet to see the full ramifications of social media and instant gratification," he said. "We used to see new things once a month or once a year. Now there’s something new every second of every day." 

It's hard to find things that last these days. Social "clips" of really great surfing are here for a moment, lost in the next, and I'm not sure there's a whole lot we can do about that. 

But we can at least not let Thanksgiving slip through our gravy fingers and down the garbage disposal. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't get to eat dry turkey once a year. Long live the bird!

Mind if I join?

Don't forget about what's on tap during the weekend of Nov. 10-12.

Space Coast Boardriders Grom Fest Dec. 16th at Pelican Beach park. Looked like a great time last year!

Talk surfy to me

We might be halfway through fall already, but if you’re someone who wishes summer would never end, then you’ll probably love listening to Dick Metz’s story. The film about his hidden story at the heart of the best surf movie of all time, The Endless Summer, is touring now.

Pre-shredded

"Now doctor, we all know the moon is not made of green cheese. But if it was a rack of BBQ spare ribs, would you eat it?"

Gear garage

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Live longer with a little weekly laugh

"Ah, ya just missed it, mate."

"Hey sis, could you pass the stuffing?"

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Will Buehn
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