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While the first episode of The Electric Acid Surfboard Test with Dave Rastovich premieres digitally on October 3rd, we will be having a world premiere on September 28th at La Paloma in Encinitas, California and another premier that is TBD in Australia around the same time. More details to come.

And July’s Comment Of The Month Is…

An exercise in effective counterargument from the depths of Disqus.

elsewhere // Aug 15, 2024
Words by Christian Bowcutt
Reading Time: 2 minutes

“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit,” Oscar Wilde wrote, “but the highest form of intelligence.”

July’s winner (and we apologize for the delay, the back half of 2024 is looking turbo for Stab projects and the team is short circuiting) comes to us by way of a savagely smart rebuttal from one “Darrel Bodger”:

This keyboard joust appeared on this article announcing Dave Rastovich as the test pilot for the newest season of the Electric Acid Surfboard Test, dropping on October 3rd.

The first commenter (who shall remain nameless) was responding to one of the smaller (but significant) narrative through lines of this season — Dave’s insistence that all surfboards be made with a special flax seed construction, which he claims actually preserves the pop in your magic board longer.

And, after all, the original “acid tests” that our titles alludes to were veritable orgies organized by hippies in the 1960s in dingy basements in the famous Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco where the country’s left-of-center youth ingested LSD and listened to an inchoate Grateful Dead — sometimes for 12 hours straight. So, forgive us if we hug a few trees for this project.

Darrel’s deft comment was not only a staff favorite and a good way to tease E.A.S.T., but also the single most-liked comment of the month at 36 likes and plenty of positive responses.

Darrell B., please send us an email at [email protected] with screenshot proof of your Disqus account — you just won a free year of Stab Premium and you will be entered in the running for the mega-prize for “Comment of the Year” at then end of, you guessed it, the year.

If you remember from this article, Sir Bodger will now be one of 12 commenters (one for each month) that will be a candidate for COTY.

He’ll be prosaically jousting against 11 other Kafkas for top honors.

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