The Flying Tomato Would Rather You Not Call Him That Anymore

The Flying Tomato Would Rather You Not Call Him That Anymore

Shaun White cut his hair, changed his clothes and became a businessman. Now if only he could master that pesky triple cork.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/magazine/the-flying-tomato-would-rather-you-not-call-him-that-anymore.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Much congratulating ensued, some of it in truly excellent snowboarder slang, including the phrase “mahalo, bitches.” Of course, several of the cameras recording this moment were doing so for the documentary, whose sale White was celebrating, but nobody commented on the weirdness. The extreme-sports world long ago shed the distinction between produced and authentic images. To care about such things makes a person seem uptight and antagonistic.