JettyGirl: A one million
dollar check arrives in your mailbox with a
note that reads, "Half of this amount is
yours and the other half is to benefit the world
around you." How would you spend the money?
Jenni Flanigan:
Spreading awareness for sustainable, organic
agricultural practices and water conservation
in developed and developing countries alike.
Knowledge is power, the world is in crisis,
and there's so much work to be done to save
our planet from the human race.
JG: Describe the best surfboard
you've ever ridden and why it was special to
you.
Jenni: Have you
ever heard of extreme
ironing? Yeah, now that's what I'm talking
about...
JG: If you could travel
back to any time in history and hang with one
person while they go about their daily activities,
who would it be and why?
Jenni: Ghandi,
because he was the ultimate facilitator of massive
social and political change via nonviolence.
Imagine what you could learn from just a few
hours with someone like that.
JG: For thirty days you're
stuck on a desert island with one book, one
song, one surf movie and one snack food. Which
ones would you choose?
Jenni: Book: Gone
With The Wind. It's 1037 pages long, so
it would last all 30 days, and I've wanted to
read it since the third grade and never have.
Plus, Rhett Butler's kind of hot. Professional
gambler, blockade runner, speculator—need
I say more?
Song:
Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down
by Interpol. First, it has a nautical theme,
which would go well seeing I was stuck on a
deserted island and all; and, second, there
are so many intricate and intriguing metaphorical
messages, it might take 30 days of food and
water-deprived speculation to figure them all
out. "She once fell through the street/Down
the manhole in that bad way/The underground
drip/It's just like her scuba days." How
very Jacques Cousteau.
Surf
movie: I'm not that into surf movies, but if
I had to have one, I'd choose Litmus
by Andrew Kidman, for much of the same reason
I picked Stella Was A Diver for my
song.
Snack:
Oranges. I'm from Florida, what can I say? Plus,
if my island got attacked by pirates, rotten
oranges make excellent hand grenades.
JG: What is your best surf-related
memory of 2009?
Jenni: Fiji, December
2009 with Kaley, Holly, Mary, Chandler &
Collin. Radical adventure.
