STAR OF THE SMALL SCREEN KAYAKS EVERY DAY This month’s issue of GENTLEMEN'S QUARTERLY magazine, March 2001, contains an interview with singer-actor Chris Isaak who is currently in Vancouver filming a new Showtime project to be called The Chris Isaak Show. The entire piece focuses on Mr. Isaak’s eight month old hobby of kayaking and includes two pictures of him with his bonnie-wee-boatie in the Lotus Land harbor. Mr. Isaak’s Hollywood lifestyle shows through in his preference to go paddling every night around midnight; and to snack with raccoons and other creatures he encounters on fruit, cheese, and cracker arrangements he acquires during the day. He reports that the local wildlife go wild for salmon pate; but the desert-of-choice is Mars bars, proving BC coons are not just stuffed shirts with a fur coat and a mask. (The don’t-feed-the-animal activists must be lunging for their keyboards.) Issak paddles solo, but manages to get peeks into motorboats where he sometimes sees things that the occupants, he admits, think no one else is watching. Chris paddles a ruddered yellow-top, white-hulled fiberglass boat and carries a spare paddle and cherry-red gear bag on the aft deck. His main paddle is black shafted with white blades. He sports a nylon solid-black outside/blue-lined paddling jacket over an ash hooded sweatshirt, which he wears over a neoprene spray skirt. There is no PFD visible, though it looks like he may have that under his paddling jacket also. One can't help but wonder if he always wears it that way, or if it just didn't work with the banana colored deck. This started out to be informational only; but it begs reporting that the gear bag needs to go or to have the color picked up somewhere else. The jacket lining would be a natural. Tom Dowling Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Very funny. Personally, I am waiting for Prada to start making paddling gear. I mean, they already make skiing and yachting gear, why not paddling? I bet a Prada drysuit would really give Kokotat a run for their money. And think of the styling! ;-) -Patrick At 1:20 PM -0800 3/12/01, Tom wrote: >STAR OF THE SMALL SCREEN KAYAKS EVERY DAY > >This monthís issue of GENTLEMEN'S QUARTERLY magazine, March >2001, contains an interview with singer-actor Chris Isaak >who is currently in Vancouver filming a new Showtime >project to be called The Chris Isaak Show. The entire >piece focuses on Mr. Isaakís eight month old hobby of >kayaking and includes two pictures of him with his >bonnie-wee-boatie in the Lotus Land harbor. [SNIP] *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Maun" <pmaun_at_bitstream.net> > Very funny. Personally, I am waiting for Prada to start making > paddling gear. I mean, they already make skiing and yachting gear, > why not paddling? I bet a Prada drysuit would really give Kokotat a > run for their money. And think of the styling! At the Downtown Boathouse in Manhattan, on occasion we get some women wearing fancy leather pants getting into the free public kayaks. Remember that lots of the public participation is on impulse. Members of the public are walking by in the newly emerging Hudson River Park perhaps after, say, a fancy lunch at a trendy Tribeca restaurant owned by Robert De Niro or some other such. They see the free kayaking and, in the spirit of the Nike ad, "just do it". Other participants are wearing minimalist clothing when they get that impulse to paddle. And I mean minimalist which becomes _transparently_ minimalist when it get wet as it will do in a sit-on-top. Honestly, cross my heart, I volunteer there in the spirit of public service. Now I better go back and make sure I spelled "public" right, as I was once involved in a headline that had it misspelled. :-) ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
--- Tom <tombrooklyn_at_yahoo.com> wrote: > This month’s issue of GENTLEMEN'S QUARTERLY > magazine, March 2001, contains an interview with singer-actor Chris Isaak > > Mr. Isaak’s Hollywood lifestyle shows through in his > preference to go paddling every night around > midnight; and to snack with raccoons and other creatures he > encounters on fruit, cheese, and cracker arrangements he acquires during the day. > > There is no PFD visible, though it looks like he may > have that under his paddling jacket also. One can't help > but wonder if he always wears it that way, or if it just > didn't work with the banana colored deck. > People like that make me sick. A celebrity should always have a visible PFD. Some idiot won't wear one because Chris, his idol, doesn't. The Idiot will drown and there will be an outcry for more restrictions on the rest of us. As for his feeding the animals, He won't be there when some chocolate addicted coon is ripping up someone's camping gear looking for a Mars bar fix. Ah, I feel much better after getting that off my chest. ===== Sincerly Bev *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:29 -0800 (PST), Beverly M wrote: > >People like that make me sick. A celebrity should >always have a visible PFD. Some idiot won't wear one >because Chris, his idol, doesn't. The Idiot will drown >and there will be an outcry for more restrictions on >the rest of us. > Hello Beverly, While I would agree with you that it would be nice if "very visible" people would set, what might be in our opinions, a good example, it's your third sentence that is really at the heart of the matter. When you say "Some idiot won't..." or "will" do something because their "idol" does or doesn't - well - there's the real story! Idiots do idiotic things - thereby earning the title of "idiot". When you say "A celebrity should always...", I feel compelled to reply with the following... "Celebrity" is a very overblown and artificial concept - everywhere - but especially here in the USA. I happen to know a number of "celebrities", and I'll tell you a little secret... They're just like any of us (good, bad, genius, idiot, and especially all the grey areas in between - where nearly all of us - and "them" reside). It's only the visibility their particular "industry" gives them, and how so many people try to live vicarious lives through their own projections and fantasies of these people that creates "celebrity" - especially when talking about an "entertainer". It's actually a difficult life - when people, just because they think they can identify with you (or a character you've played), and perhaps buy your product now and then, think also they can hound you when you walk down a street, or tell the world how you "should" act in a given situation. Or expect you to spout peerless wisdom and set a flawless example whenever you're caught in the "public eye". Being a musician myself, and many of my friends being in one or the other of the "arts" and/or "entertainment" fields, I know without a doubt how totally artificial "celebrity worship" is. Doing something *just because* one's "idol" does it is truly the mark of an "idiot" - and the cause at the root of that idiocy is what must be dealt with - not what some "irresponsible celebrity" does or doesn't do. This, of course, can be a lifelong philosophical discussion (and quite off topic for PW), but for now, I guess what I'm trying to get at is that someone being well known for something they might do particularly well (a relative concept), does *not* a role model make. Anyone who doesn't know this might indeed be an "idiot" (or at least ignorant enough to act with idiocy), and would probably eventually be weeded out according to Darwin's principles anyway. Sorry about that - let's get back to paddling! :-) Melissa (who once was caught on a magazine cover in the surf without a helmet - but *was* wearing a PFD!) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Has anyone thought about contacting Mr. singer-man, or his publicist and asking him to try and appear with a PFD on when being photographed. As I recall, John-John had the same PFD-aversion. Someone must be selling these people their gear, giving them lessons, seeing them at the launch. In the end, it's really up to them. Although I can imagine that for a magazine shoot the photographer or art director might ask someone to take off that bulky lifevest, we need to see your pecs. Tell them the horror stories and try and talk some sense into them ("so, how far can you swim?"). -Patrick At 10:15 PM -0800 3/13/01, Melissa Reese wrote: >[SNIP] > >While I would agree with you that it would be nice if "very >visible" people would set, what might be in our opinions, a good >example, it's your third sentence that is really at the heart of the >matter. When you say "Some idiot won't..." or "will" do something >because their "idol" does or doesn't - well - there's the real story! [SNIP] *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> From: Melissa Reese <melissa_at_bonnyweeboaty.net> > When you say "A celebrity should always...", I feel compelled to reply > with the following... <snip> > This, of course, can be a lifelong philosophical discussion (and quite > off topic for PW) You're correct. If anyone wants to respond to this, please do so off-list. Thanks, Jackie list-owner *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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