![]() So I had a lot of time to spend doing art after the surgery and that's how it all got started. I've pretty much given away snowboarding, skating and motocross, I still ride a moto but no racing or jumping anymore. That's what got me more into riding fishes nowadays and messing around with singlefins and stuff. I have to do deep tissue trigger point therapy and remedial massage plus stretching and boring kickboard laps in the pool and just choose surf conditions carefully and don't surf when it's really heavy. My back still gives me grief and now and then, the pain comes and goes, some day's I can't surf because of the pain and relapse of muscle spasm but other day's its ok. How has this experience changed your approach to your life, your career, and your art…?īW: A very heavy thing to go through and the rehab was sooo long, it taught me not to take things for granted that's for sure, I had nearly a year where I was just allowed to go walking and I would just walk laps of the beach here and see good waves breaking wondering if I would be able to surf them again. You can see the short film at Back to top Im very sorry to hear about your spine injury, but equally impressed that you've gone onto accomplishing so much in its wake. It came out really good and it works well too. The thing was so beat and I was keen to try shaping so I shaped a new version of that board and painted it and glassed it. Didn't you just shape your first board? A singlefin?īW: The Warlock! I rode an old 60s singlefin in this short film a friend made 'the warlock from age' its the full s-deck egg tripped out shape. I like the singlefin contests that are happening now, they are pretty fun. I did like doing the Quiksilver Airshow events, all you have to think about is going down the line as fast as you can and boosting. For me competing in surfing took the fun out of it and made it stressful so I don't miss it. I was into handrails so the park events were what I was into. ![]() The cross over events were much more fun when the snow events were slopestyle in a park, I had a lot if injuries from racing boardercross. Talk to us about your time competing in surfing and snowboarding…īW: First thing that comes to mind is all the travelling and excess baggage, I got to visit some great places and have a lot of good friends from doing the contest thing. I still regularly surf with my dad and borrow the odd singlefin or logger. My dad is a surfer so my parents started taking me to the ocean when I was baby. What were your first experiences of surfing and the ocean?īW: My earliest memory of standing on a surfboard was when I was really young and paddling one of my fathers long pintail single fins inside a beach river-mouth and standing up on its momentum. After travelling I now live at Stanwell Park beach on the edge of the Royal National Park NSW. Tell us about your background, where are you from, where are you now?īW: I grew up around the coastal areas of the mid north coast and south coast of New South Wales. Weekends Look a Little Acoustic These Days is available for pre-order now.Bret, thanks for doing this interview, and thanks also for featuring on COTW…īW: Thanks for having me, its nice to be in the club. He has additional tour dates scheduled into December. 11 with a performance in Fort Worth, Texas. Young's own the Weekends Tour is set to kick off on Sept. ![]() The three-day event will also feature performances from Chase Rice and Maddie & Tae. "I already love you so much and I can't wait for you and your sister become best friends," Young writes in an Instagram post on July 31.Īs for live shows, the proud #GirlDad is hitting the road this fall, kicking things off with the inaugural Caliville Weekend in Palm Springs, Calif., over Labor Day weekend. The country star and his wife, Taylor, recently welcomed a second daughter, named Rowan, on July 21. Young will be promoting the book with an appearance on Talkshoplive with Shawn Parr on Tuesday (Aug. 24 via Tommy Nelson, an imprint of HarperCollins. Love You, Little Lady, which a press release describes as "a love letter to his little girls," arrives Aug. The "Lady" singer has also been hard at work on his first children's book. ![]()
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![]() With its reputation-and money-on the line, what is next for Fox News and the Murdoch family’s hold on the company? And what could the various pending defamation cases portend for libel law in the United States? The New Yorker staff writers Susan B. Fox News is being sued by Smartmatic for $2.7 billion in damages for defaming the voting-technology company in its coverage of the 2020 election, and a former producer has filed a pair of lawsuits against the company alleging a hostile work environment and claiming that the network’s lawyers pushed her to give misleading testimony in the Dominion case. Even as Fox was able to resolve its suit with Dominion just hours after jury selection, the network still faces other legal challenges. Although the court found that Fox aired falsehoods about Dominion, apologizing or retracting those falsehoods on air was reportedly not part of the settlement deal. that it’s justice that’s going to prevail.”Īt the eleventh hour, Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems resolved a defamation suit over the network’s coverage of the 2020 election, evading weeks of trial that would have brought the network’s biggest names, including Rupert Murdoch, Tucker Carlson, and Sean Hannity, to the witness stand. “People have to believe when they go in front of a court-and in particular the Supreme Court-that they’re getting a fair shake . . . “The glue that holds us together is the rule of law in this country,” she says. ![]() A deepening public distrust in the integrity of the Supreme Court, Mayer thinks, is dangerous for democracy. She notes that other Justices, including the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, have accepted large gifts from politically connected donors. ![]() “And I think it stretches common sense to think that a judge could be independent when he takes that much money from one person.” Mayer co-wrote the book “Strange Justice,” about Clarence Thomas, almost thirty years ago, and last year reported on Ginni Thomas’s influence in Washington. Judges “are supposed to be honest, they’re supposed to be independent,” Jane Mayer tells David Remnick. ![]() But a cascade of revelations published by ProPublica concerning Justice Clarence Thomas-island-hopping yachting adventures underwritten by a right-wing billionaire patron, undisclosed real-estate transactions-raises questions about his proximity to power and money. In theory, the Justices of the Supreme Court are immune to influence, with no campaigns to finance and no higher positions to angle for. ![]() |