E's Surf Report

Here here E... we love our ladies, especially when we snuggle in the morning. Small south swell hit town (Oahu) this weekend and every single person with a surfboard went out. Not the mother's day swell, but at least a little pulse in the water. The weather has also finaly turned to a bit of blue sky. Strange winter we are still having. Aloha to all the niceness crew

They fly in, they do their deal, they fly out....4 hours, round trip. They can pull anywhere from $500 to $5000. They are moms, they are single, they are coked up, they are sober, they are struggling, they are successful, they have plastic, they have botox, they are natural, they fake-bake, they tan in the sun, they are secretaries, they are artists, they are everything.

They are Vegas Strippers - and they are in every town you have ever visited. And every one of them want YOUR MONEY....

They make more money then I do shakin their ass!

God bless the good ole' U.S. of A.!

E, the only question I have is "Did you see a wave?" What a waste of ocean.

What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle? - Rolling Stone article

so to take that sentiment a step further, now what is your reaction to the Reef photos where the women are lined up, holding numbers over their heads as they showcase their wares for the hungry crowd?

e, you're not the only one re: the strip club analytics. however janitor, re: reef, whole different ball game to me.

lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of wind this weekend. whitecaps to the horizon. good times.

E, that is a serious article. What is your take on it?

Seems as though we are going to be back in the late 1700s and 1800s except many of the things we have discovered have been depleted or led to our downfall. Tough news on a Monday.

no comment on the titty bar issue
santa cruz trivia question:
the best surfer out at really small 38th ave, pp yesterday pm was a youngish woman, chin length sandy blond hair with a really weird bic-ish longboard, the thing was ugly and she rode it so well. pulled a perfect hang ten into a 360 with apparrent ease. crosstepping like fred astaire on meth. got into every wave with two strokes and made everyone else out there look like kooks. probably the best female longboarder i have seen in person. anyone know who she is?

that long emergency article paints a bleak picture.

As a former bartender and bar manager, it always amazes me how focused strip clubs are on getting your money out of your wallet. Those folks stay up late thinking of how to do it. They are very efficient.

I find strip clubs to be very depressing.

Energy issues will be huge! Good article. What really amazes me is how dependent we are on petroleum for stuff other than the obvious. I never understood how dependent on petroleum the agricultural community is- for fertilizer and weed control.

Hey e, when you're feeling blue you should join the party near my street. Went out in my finest yellow shirt w/big squiggly black stripe and rose colored glasses. 25 minutes. 3 foot closeouts "outside" and swirly rippy holes on the far inside. Walked in and out of water 3 times for mocking Peak Quest. It was the ultimate challenge. One stand up, 2 "turns", one unceremonious dumping onto my arse on the sand. Shockingly, miles of empty beach. Good times.

That rolling stone article reminds me of popular press in the late 1970s....when we had to wait in line to get gas on odd/even days depending on your license plate. Predicting the future is a tricky business...but at least our leaders are busy setting up US friendly puppet governments in the nations with the largest oil reserves. Saudi Arabia, check. Iraq, check. Iran.....

that article is just the tip of the iceberg.
peak oil info has been around for years.
very depressing. but very real.

everything around you is a petroleum byproduct.
look at the keys below your fingers. your car, your
refridgerator, the shingles on your roof. your surfboard
foam, your resins, traction pads...

glassing prices have gone up almost $25 in the past year.

remember in the movie "The Graduate"
"I have one word for you Ben. Plastics."

http://www.peakoil.net/

My wife has been using a TDI Jetta for the past year and filling it up with Biodiesel, made from soybean oil, there is a biodiesel pump on 3rd street and in South city.. She also gets 45 mpg.. There are alternatives

So how much does the price of gas have to rise till you pass on driving solo to go surfing in favor of carpooling or biking or walking...

I think most people will grin and bear it even when the price doubles from what it is today (look at Europe, for example).

There is ample room to improve in automobile efficiency. As gas prices climb the market will favor more fuel efficient models (sacrificing some muscle) so that people will drive just as much. Carpooling and public transit will become more appealing as well. So for transportation of people I would argue there is no impending doomsday scenario.

However, electricty generation and other industrial uses of petroleum are likely at max efficiency and these will definitely be more affected by price of oil.

Rising gas prices are just another reason to be glad surfing is not a motor sport (except for the trip to the water)

east bay surfer passed on consuming fuel to drive to the coast for sunset session yesterday. son initially stated he was tired after pitching a base ball game on a warm sunny day, then later commented he wanted to surf but wished the waves were closer. despite selfish thoughts of abandoning the family for four hours to get two hours of solo surf fun, i opted to stay home and build the familial relationship....perhaps the end result as more are held back by rising oil prices and family ties is fewer people in the line up, i.e. more locals joined by the occasional out of towner that buys the fuel and makes the drive but behaves even more kookishly when surfing due to greater session infrequenscy

Kaiser - no waves through that stretch. Beautiful beach and aqua-marine water though. no wetsuit necessary.

not sure about the reef girls. I don't think taking photos of beautiful women is the same as women slutting and grinding and giving lapdances to leering men. I guess the reef-contests are a little weird. Why do those girls DO that??? I guess they like the attention?

Don Curry interview about Ghost Trees

...and maybe the money? Women can make more money stripping or modelling then they can in almost all jobs available to them.

Cool quote

"There are no bad waves, only a poor choice of equipment and a lousy attitude!"
– Mickey Muñoz

Mexi, how much a gallon does biodiesel cost? And how hard is it to find other than at 3rd St?

Kit is that you?

Biofuel is somewhat hard to find , we know where to get it basically everywhere in California from Humbolt to San Diego, but sometimes its out of the way. But, the TDI Jetta will also run on regular desiel and there was no modifications to the car. Any desiel car or truck can run on Biodesiel.

2.40 - 2.70 a gal, it is becoming more economical lately.

Jason Kidd's wife used to be a local Budweiser girl. 49er Cheerleaders get paid about $100 per game.

These women like money/fame/wealth/notoriaty. Reef girls the same. They are "models" that just fit the Reef demo.

Ask yourself this: If someone paid you to wear their clothes and walk around, would you? At what point would you draw the line in terms or how much clothing you went without?

There was a surfable window yesterday early afternoon at Ramad Nil before it got way too churny and whitecapped. Nothing wonderful or big, but fun ridables were on offer, that with luck would reform and connect through the mogul field. This place often seems to benefit from a disorganized swell--reduces the closing out.

Which reminds me... I'm puzzled about why there are so many closeouts at long beach breaks generally. Swell angles of would make me think the waves should be hitting shore, well, at an angle, when in fact there is surprisingly little of that, and it's almost never very dramatic. So I take it the waves shift direction as the bottom gets shallow? Is it just that the shallowness slows the wave down, so the earlier-arriving part waits up for the later-arriving part down-beach?

The Naked Eye: A True Account of a Strippers Journey

Placed next to the 60s and 70s with inflation considered among other things, CPI etc... Gas is still cheaper than it was back then.

Oh yeah.. Has anyone read Tijuana Straits by Kem Nunn? I read it this weekend. Pretty damn good, short read if anyone is looking for some new material. Has a little surf reference in there, may help you get through these dry spells.

i haven't had a chance to read the article on fuel prices yet, but Sander's comments reminded me of a personal pet peeve -- the average consumers' take on what's important in an automobile:

while auto safety features have improved (a good thing) and stlying has become more aerodynamic (a good thing...at least as far as efficiency goes) fuel efficiency hasn't really changed.

my little '93 commuter (yes, unfortunately, i have to commute to work) STILL gets better mileage than most (even small) cars that are being put out by the auto companies. the reason?...the average consumer values "power" and "performance" over all other auto characteristics. so, while fuel efficiency hasn't improved, the horsepower output of the typical (even "economy") car has gone up 50 to 100%...or even more. the premium placed on power baffles me when my '93 still gets me going plenty fast enough to "compete" effectively in the fast lane and to (unfortunately) get CHP attention.

until consumers (and marketers) get off of their "power" trip, there is little incentive for auto companies to put technology into engine efficiency. perhaps the rising oil prices will help provide incentive and that, as far as i'm concerned, is a good thing.

...hopefully it happens before the billion+ people in India and China who are currently on bicycles start driving SUVs.

stepping off soap-box now. thanks for indulging me.

The less clothing on my body would most likely be proportional to the amount of money I would be paid. Going price for me in a g-string: $0.00.

Sunday morning got up well pre-dawn. Loaded up my Jeep after a couple cups of coffee. Opened the garage door. Hopped into the Jeep. Turned the key. Nothing! Whatthef**k. I pushed the Jeep out of the garage and called AAA. Waited 40 minutes for the truck. I missed an opportunity for a low tide break after driving for about 45 minutes to recharge the battery so drove to FunkyFilthyDirtyMar. Going into that pit is a result of desperation. At least they have a good shower.

Good seeing you yesterday, Elias. Sorry I missed you, Kaiser Woods. Some seriously good surfing going on at the Game on Saturday.

e, WORD on your observations. good for you for getting out of that energy.

i am converting the wifes tdi to run on pure vegetable oil later this year. www.greasel.com

the diesel engine was originally designed to run on peanut oil. legend has it that big oil manuvered to keep that fact very quiet.

odd question of the day...has anybody here ever been eating food and a sneeze caught you by surprise, somehow wedging the food somewhere in your sinuses? i have. i currently have a piece of kalua pork residing what feels like right behind my right eye/nose area. not cool.

e, the first artist on the front page is Bigfoot. I believe him and Jeremy Fish are two different people. Jeremy Fish has done a bunch of art for the old DLXSM when Jason ran it, and also ALL SKATE (ALL SKATE was turned into DLXSM). He's a very talented artist, imho.

3 to 5, Good for you, I hear it's pretty easy to convert, it just needs a heater in the fuel line to heat the oil before it's burned.

Kloo, I made it out there before the wind came up, pretty fun. some guys and Diane and Shea ripping on that little inside wave.

Opening Day Kite Season

right on Bruce, the Game was awesome to watch on Saturday. props to Ger for a fun contest genre. League Play is tight! and props to Santa Cruz for starting the season 3-1. you come to the Lane, SoCal, you gonna get served! (san diego excluded)

bruce, sick pics as always!

j, solution is go surf---
nothing like a few duck dives or kookish wipes followed by an inside hold down to flush the sinuses

On the stripper discussion, IMHO a lot of strippers would seriously take offense to this sentence "I also kept imagining the circumstances that led each women to end up stripping and grinding and false-smiling and slutting themselves out like skanky vampires all night long. "

I have known a few strippers over the years and some of these ladies were pretty hardcore feminists. Their take was that in some ways it is empowering seeing how men will drop insane amounts of $$$ for a little tease. Kind of the who's pimping who perspective if you will.

What is more degrading stripping & making a $1,000 in a night or working at Mcdonalds for next to nothing?

Anyone read the April Happy with the surf bro article? Pretty funny. Although tree/bush barrels, and the occasional long scaffolding barrel on your skateboards are so fun!!

Windswell was fun over the weekend, pockets of greatness amongst the windyness. niceness!

Stripping is more degrading...

When you work in TV Field Production (as I do) you encounter many interesting crew guys with many interesting stories. This year at the Sundance Film Festival, we had just wrapped an interview with David Schwimmer where he told a funny story about Sly Stallone leaving his wireless mic on while being 'attended to' in a bathroom on set, and the evil sound mixer who turned up his volume for all to hear.
Once Schwimmer was gone our gentle Utah Local Audio guy, turned to us sheepishly and said, "Man, Schwimmer's story is nothing, I've heard way worse in my headphones on set."
The room went Silent. Our Sound Guy is one of those soft sincere dads who works in TV in a small town and is more impressed with his daughter's report card than a Hollywood star, so we were SHOCKED to hear what came out of his mouth next...
"Remember a few years ago when Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were here shooting Project Greenlight?" (They had gone to Sundance to interview directors and writers and try and create a publicity stunt and an episode out of it.) "I was doing sound in the condo where they were both lodging and filming. At one point Ben took a break from shooting and disappeared upstairs to his bedroom. By mistake he left his wireless mic on."
"Jennifer Lopez was there with Ben, but was hiding out in his room the whole time. At first when I heard Ben kissing her hello, I immediately went to turn the volume down on my headphones. But then they started kissing loudly and making noises, and I felt so guilty, but I left the sound up, and heard Jennifer saying 'I love you baby, I love you... You wanna get busy, baby. You wanna get busy?'"
"Then I heard Ben reply, .'Are you sure you're feelin' better? I don't want you to shit on me again.'"
Silence. Then screams from everyone on our crew. Our dear sound guy seemed like he had finally told a story he'd been holding onto for years, and was relieved to tell people who found it more funny than disgusting. I think it is perfectly both."

Lisa Alisa painting (still showing in the Tenderloin... on Polk??)
It's kinda funny that this artist used to strip in a strip club

http://www.lisa-alisa.com/

there is also an interview with her on fecalface.com

Nice Bruce

e - It's sick and weird that pandering to men's prurience is far more lucrative than many of the career choices available to women. Strip clubs are creepy and depressing. BACKSTAGE is worse - don't ask, just chalk it up to an extravagantly misspent youth and trust me on this. Good-hearted club owners and well adjusted sex-workers are by far the exception / not the rule. Why entertainment that involves sexuality is usually such a sordid affair in our society is a a very complicated sociological phenomenon. It involves old-time Puritan repression, guilt and fear of sexuality; sexism and the marginal roles women are often forced into; and a whole bunch of other stuff like child abuse, addiction and poverty. Sex is better when everyone involved is into it for the fun of it!

don't touch the walls at the Lusty Lady. ick.

http://surfline.com/video/video_trailer/2005/jsps/waxedplanet_qt.cfm

Fathers: If you have a daughter, your primary job is to keep her off the pole!

Bruce pic (supposedly from San Francisco)

is that scarlett johanson??

now you've really made me feel old. stop it!

Did she make the paddle?

E-

I am a nasty, daryl, scoundrel and even I dont like strip clubs...but if the $$$$ is there I will go AMPn

On another note I hit the surf in the windy slop yesterday and it felt frigging good to be a surfer...sun..wild life....shitty waves but damn I had a niceness day!!

crap Pez you could have 150mi round trip to SC for marginal but wind free surf, god spring is depressing.

good to see you the other day, had to bail quick, see you soon?

pez, that was me, jeff.

E - I almost posted that same pic just about an hour ago. Good one Bruce. I must say, I think you have mastered the art of shooting at the lane. Yours are the best pics I've seen from that spot. Not taking away from other pics cuz they're all good but you really get great shots there.

That's got to be San Francisco. Black wetsuit, White board, and she's flipping off the photographer.

Bruce is good.. Patrick Treftz and Dave Nelson are better.

E-have been a fan of your site for a while now. Brings joy and a quirky perspective to everyday office life. This strip club tirade of yours is out of character, either to be construed as a moralizing (not your style) or self-serving in some way (did your girlfriend read this?...she share your views?). If I were one of your bachelor party friends I'd be insulted. If I were a stripper I'd be insulted. I have talked openly with several strippers who were well-adjusted and happy with the modest trade-offs their craft demands in exchange for the ridiculous sums of cash they make (tax-free much of the time). I've even met some strippers who are genuinely into it. In general you rule and your site rules. Please stick to the surfing and interesting anecdotes and leave the moralizing to evangelists... who, ironically, are genuinely pimping themselves out for money.

Indeed, that shot was at OB. I recall her sitting by me that morning in the lineup. She did make it out. Looked different with wet hair though.

Strippers, why haven't I posted one yet?

Or....

If the plastic high-heels fit, I say wear 'em......

Whomever left the pool cover off the ocean, can you please put it back on? The water is starting to get cold.

Patrick Treftz and Dave Nelson. Are their pics available to see online? Am I hanging myself on a line asking?

OK. I got Patrick Trefz. Of course were talking about a different type of photographer here.

google it, dennis. c'mon now, you're a big boy.

Having visited one or two of the dens of nakedness during my life, I feel qualified to comment. Some women who work there are just trying to make a buck. Some were probably abused at a young age and follow a pattern of sex for attention strategy. Others are pure sociopaths and don’t feel much unless they are on stage and experience danger and risk. Some are victims, some are vultures.

Back in the 70's..how old were you? 10?

Who's still at work? yaaaaay.

Missed Fair Bits at the Hb playhouse tonight even. Probably was crap anyway.

Fuck you Hb.