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Chris Nelson and Demi Taylor deliver again.

The old continent. You know, castles, kings, a medieval social structure that’s yet to be broken, sirs, lords, etc. Archaic, anachronistic but incredibly poignant when you’re in the line-up at Mundaka, looking up to the right and seeing the peasant-taming monument to Christianity that is the local neo-gothic church. Continue reading this blog post »

The pipes are playing and the north sea’s churning as the surfing world’s bravest head north to Thurso, Scotland, for the 2008 O’Neill Highland Open. Continue reading this blog post »

Jeremy Jones won this year’s Swatch O’Neill Big Mountain Pro following two spectacular runs that had all the other riders astounded. They unanimously voted the O’Neill rider winner of the snowboard category. Jones was also voted overall winner capturing a vast majority of the votes. “It wasn’t my goal to win,” said the American freerider. “I came here to ride fun lines and see what happened. To come out on top is an amazing feeling.” Continue reading this blog post »

Whoever said that representative democracy is a fraudulent concept, epitomised by hermetic conversations amongst the elites? No one? Anyway, what matters is this: at the local level, democracy actually does kinda work.
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The displaced artist often captures his homeland with sharper eyes than those stuck in the province. Examples in literature abound: Joyce (Irish exile in foie gras country), Kundera (writing up Bohemia via Paris), Garcia Marquez (Colombia as seen from the West). Continue reading this blog post »