I have spent a lot of time at airports lately and have become quite adept at sleeping sitting up, as well as digesting food that slightly resembles the taste of cardboard. On a recent stop at Detroit Metro Airport (DTW) headed for the warm surf of Nicaragua, I stood in line with this unfortunate surfer [...]
Somewhere in California, Florida or Hawaii … someone is painstakingly sculpting a block of polyurethane foam into one of the most unique products the United States has ever produced: a surfboard. Using knowledge handed down from “shapers” and surfers over hundreds of years, the craftsman sands here and there along the blank until, eventually, it [...]
What would you think if someone told you: Do the right thing because your life may depend on it. Or more accurately, that you better start making better decisions because it is a matter of life and death. This may sound like something an over protective parent would tell their child) but in reality it’s [...]
It’s been a turbulent few months. Everything that had been familiar to me for almost 7 years came to an end. The shell of a person that I was, was forced to grow. The person that I used to be needed to brought back to the surface, tweaked, made better and brought back to life. [...]
Bring up the words ‘surf movies’ to a group of surfers and you will undoubtedly find yourself in the midst of an all out battle as to which movies deserve the title of “best movie ever”. iJS will not lay claim to a surfer’s best movies list at this time, but we will tell you [...]
In 1896 Tootsie Rolls debuted, introduced by Leo Hirshfield of New York who named them after his daughter’s nickname, ‘Tootsie’. Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in the United States.
The first macaroni factory in the United States was established in 1848. It was started by Antoine Zegera in Brooklyn, New York. While Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner was introduced in the U.S. and Canada during the late 1930s, it was during World War 2 that it became really popular, as people were looking for [...]
I love Craigslist. I don’t love it in THAT way! I love it in a strictly platonic way … but nevertheless, it is a pretty awesome website as far as websites go. I actually was quite curious about Craigslist from a business stand-point after I saw the guy who started the website appear on a [...]
