E's Surf Report

pensecola, FL

Oh my god E. That's exactly what I was thinking! Damn those waves look sweet.

strong island

Holy crap, The surf was shitty this morning.
After battling demons all night, it was a mission to get in the water.
At one point this wind blown wave came in and i stood up.
It was pretty much my only wave. Oh my.
Then this other wave came and I took off on it.
A huge section started to throw so i kicked out .
Man, barrels are non existent in san francisco .
Then a guy paddled out.
He started crying and i was feeling his pain .
Later in the session i felt a strange pain in my back .
Crazy!
But after all that it was great to get back in my warm car .
Shiiiit.
Sometimes surfing is not worth it.

wow, nice shots of the eastern lands

I'll play e:

Holy crumbly faces Batman, The surf was @#$&%! this morning.
After battling demons all night, it was cleansing to get in the water.
At one point this SICK wave came in and i got pitched .
It was terrifying . Oh my.
Then this other wave came and I took off on it.
A huge section started to throw so i widened my stance and bent at the waist .
Man, barrels are @#$%! .
Then Riddler paddled out.
He started riddling and i was stumped Batman .
Later in the session i felt a strange urge to pee in my tights .
Crazy!
But after all that it was a relief to pee .
Shiiiit.
Sometimes surfing is like fighting crime Batman.

Holy matzah ball, The surf was religious this morning.
After battling demons all night, it was ravishing to get in the water.
At one point this inside-out wave came in and i florped to the 84th dimension of flamboyance.
It was based on the dynamic interchange of tectonic flutter . Oh my.
Then this other wave came and I took off on it.
A huge section started to throw so i flummuxed sarcophagi triumphantly.
Man, barrels are pimples on the dermis of God.
Then a bedraggled transvestite paddled out.
He started synchronized swimming with himself and i was perplexed.
Later in the session i felt a strange vestibule descend angrily from the universal imperative.
Crazy!
But after all that it was bombastic to coax silky hangnails from angelic butterflies.
Shiiiit.
Sometimes surfing is puny manifestations of the eternal states of the gyrations of the cosmos.

Who ever named Pensacola is a fool. no naming here....do you realize how many people are going to crowd that lineup in the future. that places goes off so regularly you're gone have another Rincon on your hands...shit I just named Rincon, damn I did it again. naming sucks.

Nice madlibs today and East Coast pics.

Check out this resignation letter, crazy: http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/rnr/106814488.html

Holy bicycles, The surf was dark and crappy this morning.
After battling demons all night, it was a good choice not to get in the water.
At one point this blown out wave came in and i kept riding my bike by, glad I was dry.
It was craptastic. Oh my.
Then this other wave came and I took off on it.
A huge section started to throw so i stopped daydreaming.
Man, barrels are missed.
Then a crunk jogger paddled out.
He started flailing and i was in amazement.
Later in the session i felt a strange sensation that I'd been peddaling for too long.
Crazy!
But after all that it was time to ride home.
Shiiiit.
Sometimes surfing is the answer to life's questions, but not today.

pier 30 was going off this morning. sick! thanks for the tip off, suv anon guy. and, like ob, it doesn't seem overly crowded. it's a nice skate from there to my work.
next time i'm gonna try biking from the beach. what route do you take, e?
btw, surfing is extremely difficult and i am very bad at it. don't you hate it when you have those days when you are a total kook and feel like you've never surfed before.

"btw, surfing is extremely difficult and i am very bad at it. don't you hate it when you have those days when you are a total kook and feel like you've never surfed before."

days? i'm having one of those lives.

Octopus Vs a Shark! Crazy.

http://holylemon.com/OctopusvShark.html

maybe we should invite some octopi to the beach.....wait, maybe not. i would rather go down by a shark then some eight armed fuckin mutant thing.

It happens to me every time I surf with Bstah.

Ian Update:

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A real life Hunter S. Thompson story. Amsterdam IS what he wrote about in Fear and Loathing. It has to be. This place is insanity in its purest form. It's a non-stop circus/carnival for adults (at least for the ones who like to indulge in guilty pleasures), where "coffee shops" sell every imaginable strain of cannibis sativa, and "smart shops" sell every type of mind-morphing mushrooms. Need to get some window shopping done? Take a stroll down Slew St. and see all the people; men, women, couples, old, young, families, drunks, addicts, and even religious folk gawking at the women on display. This is an amazing, and scary place. Vices are easily obtainable and virtues disposed even easier. BUT.. That's in the red light district. Take a beautiful walk along any of the canals and surprise yourself as you quickly fall in love with the picturesque boat-lines canals and "cozy" houses that are smushed together. The architecture here is amazing, and fashion follows form, or something corny like that. We got to go to the Vincent Van Gough museum, which awesome. they have so many of his works, but NOT starry night or the cafe one. What a hoak (sp?). We're anxious to leave Amsterdam, and head to Prague overnight tonight. We reserved sleeper cochettes for the 12 hour train ride (shoot me). Amsterdam is a very health conscious place (believe it or not) and reminds me of the "hippy vibe" in San Francisco. We've been spoiling ourselves by eating at a game-over vegetarian restaurant. Probably some of the best food I've had on the trip. Well, that's what's going on as of late, and the three of us have been cracking jokes left and right. Also, I picked up a magazine called http://www.believermag.com. Published in S.F. by some people from there. Good reading if you have the time. Scott, I know you'd love it. Adios!

BTW, the _____ look pretty ______ right now.

Nice! Mother Nature has been giving us east coasters a little lov'in lately!

I was finally able to get a picture of the OB car break-in suspect. This is Ghassan Kharsa AKA Littleman who's car was the burgundy (red) Toyota Celica license plate 5jgb323 that was spotted by so many of the break in sites. I hope this helps. I'm trying to find out if he still has the same car. For some reason, I don't think he does.

Littleman is a trusted member of THE BRIGADE. I vouch for him, I've surfed with him, chased chixs with him, been in the joint with him. He don't bonk cars, he throws buckets on his snaps, Don't dis THE BRIGADE!

This is what happens when we name surf spots, this spot was talked about 2 years on this site and now look:

It would be very cool if someone could try *not* to joke about that situation and ofer some useful info and stop confusing us with false postings about this guy who's been breaking into vehicles. As it looks now, I think this is all disinformation and BS b/c reliable posts are anonymously mixed with unreliable ones.

it's amazing how crowded those gulf coast waves are!! i mean..i guess when you only get 10 days a year everybody and their uncle comes out? But.. shit.. sucks to be a gulf coast surfer.

monkey milk. a seemingly reliable guy emailed me the above littleman info (and photo). He seems credible after a few back and forth emails but chooses to remain anonymous.

If naming spots warms up the water to the point that I can surf around here in trunks, I'm all for it. Name away!!
Sloat
Linda Mar
Rockaway
VFWs
Kellys

There, that ought to cover me for this weekend. Anyone want to buy a used wetsuit-I don't need mine anymore.

Thanks, e. I think Johhnie's post confuses me, which is probably making him LOL right about now.

My friend's car got broken into @ Ortega a couple months ago and I'm forwarding the photo to him to see if he recognizes the dude from that day.

Did you also blind the chix with shiny bald heads like him?

Holey Shit! Mark Alfaro is the Smash and run Bandit?

HAHAHAHA

I'll kick his ass! Bitch

mexi, is that really mark alfaro??

No....not Mark Alfaro. Absolutely not.

the crying girl on the merry go round pic is just hilarious, nice one. Gotta admit mr. obsessive 'owned' dude, you trawl some good ones.

Just be glad you live by the beach, beyatch.

it's not alfaro. his grin would be all teeth.

more namers

the best part of work parties is your boss telling you you don't need to come into work until noon the next day and scoring some fun waves while everyone is at work... nothing too special out there but still super fun to get some uncrowded headhigh nugs this morning

It was a joke, but it kinda looks like him.

As I was driving to Lindy today for some waves, I decided to myself, hey, wouldn't it be so funny to yell secret spots out the window at cars as they all rushed on by on the freeway! I know, I know, naming is so bad but I was feeling like a little devil this morning! Well, let me tell you something, I'll stop beating around the busg here, it 'was' so FUN!
I called out all the secret spots to my head, and, well, people were amazed at my surfing knowledge and "skillz". They didn't realise how lucky they in fact were to hear them but I'll bet they know now, brah!!!

Locals are usually mean people anyway and they should all share waves no matter what!!!

BRIGADE!!!

Oh and Mark is into kick boxing, so he might kick my ass.

Thanks Tranny, that is a post fer sur. Time to start thinks Bio-fuel folks. Berkley sells 100% post consumer recycled Bio-diesel for 380.00 a gallon, better for you engine too. Screw Exxon.

IRVING, Texas - High prices for oil and natural gas propelled Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell PLC to their best quarterly results ever on Thursday, with Exxon becoming the first U.S. company ever to ring up quarterly sales of $100 billion.

To put Exxon’s performance into perspective, its third quarter revenue was greater than the annual gross domestic product of some of the largest oil producing nations, including the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. The world’s largest publicly traded oil company also set a U.S. profit record with net income of almost $10 billion, according to Standard & Poor’s equity market analyst Howard Silverblatt.

3.80 not 380.00

What's the name of the bio-fuel station?

http://www.biofueloasis.com/

6th st, right off the freeway, open 12-6 on weekends. The wife and I usually buy 40 gallons at a time, Email me and I can pick up extra. They sell cheap stackable 5 gallon containers (8bucks a pot + Fuel) It is a woman owned C-op. All the fuel comes from resteraunt fryers.

Hey Mexi have you ever tried homebrewing it? I met some dude not too long ago who claims he does the whole thing in his garage for about 1$/ gallon. Sounds pretty cool and cost effective once you have the setup.

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgie.htm

i wish i could join the brigade. i would punch my boss in the face right now and go surfing..

I've actually thought about setting up a for profit shop. But it is just a pipe dream at the moment, I'd have to actually try making a gallon first. The guy that makes the fuel I use collects the used vegi oil from all the Mendo fast food joints, then processes it in Hopland. It seems like a waste that most resteraunts pay to get rid of thier used oil.

Art, I'll be in Chile in Dec, You?

london rocks! amazing city.
almost 70 here today and not a cloud in the
sky. ain't global warming great!

seriously though. i took off from sfo and
we went RIGHT OVER THE WHOLE BEACH. peeped sloat
and all the aves as well as fort point.
looked really nice tuesday noon-thirty.
did see a large grey thing in the water
200 yards past the break.

turned east at the gate and then landed at heathrow.
hope ya'll are all scoring while i am here.

cheers.

More Exxon info:

"If Exxon were a country and revenue were its gross domestic product, its $404 billion in annualized GDP would make it the 18th-most-productive country in the world, with a bigger economy than Switzerland, Belgium, Turkey, Indonesia and hundreds of other nations."

Wow. There is something just not right about that.

my job makes me feel like punching myself in the face. i gotta get outta here

What's the deal with bio-diesel, is it all bio or is it mixed w/ petroleum diesel?

I'm currently burning fossils but want to get a TDI.... man.

greasel.com

it's where my wifes tdi is headed.

E- give us the straight scoop- how often is the Garden State like the pics? 10 days a year? 20?

There are blends of petro and bio, but why buy blends when bio is the same price, there is no advantage to petro fuel. diesel was designed to run on vegi based oils.

Bio-diesel is part diesel, part biological waste (think vegetable oil mixed in, kinda). Burns cleaner than diesel, and uses less petroleum products per gallon. But it will cost you substantially more than diesel. Bioeiesel can be fabricated without petroleum based oil. But usually isn't.

SVO cars run straight vegetable oil. They need two gas tanks, one for diesel or biodiesel and the other for veggie oil, a heating coil, and a switch. You start on diesel, let the veggie oil warm up, and then switch over. Before shutting down, you switch back. You can literally pick up used McDonald's french fry oil, filter it, and drive all over the country for free, leaving a McDonald's french fry smell thick in your wake. Its really cheap in $$$, but really expensive in your time input. And kinda flaky, not all oils work well, you can get into trouble if it is cold and you forget to switch back to diesel before stopping, etc.

If there is any sort of major movement to biodiesel, the free veggie oil thing will go away and you will pay even more. But the price of regular gas will need to go up a LOT, first, before that will be relevant.

Florida's got the oranges but Jersey has the juice.

Bring it Bitch!

i've surfed some good jersey waves in my day. It gets good fairly often at the end of summer through fall (better than here so far this season).. i never surfed after christmas as a kid just because it was too gnarly and cold plus i wasn't really that into surfing but supposedly it's pretty consistent in the winter.

However, it's OFTEN super small/crappy/lake-like. We used to just drive to beach without checking any reports or anything (1.5 hour drive) and surf whatever was there. Usually there'd be some small shore-dumpy stuff at least. we got skunked a bunch too.

One thing i really dig about jersey surf is that it almost always breaks on the inner bar. Generally only 20 or so yards from the beach. there isn't really any such thing as 300 duckdives to get out.

the waves break steeply too.. lots of quick, shallow barrels in 1 foot of water.

I also learned to surf by standing on the bottom and then jumping on my board and standing up as the wave passed by.. keep in mind these were SMALL waves. No sitting on the board!! I actually struggled at first at catching waves from a sit-on-the-board position. It's way way different there, especially in the summer. More of a "Let's take the kids to the beach and hang all day, and they can surf the little puny waves and build sand castles."

but.. jersey has it's days.

I'd say SF has 300 surfable days a year.
70 good days
30 banner days

Jersey has 150 surfable days a year
40 good days
15 banner days.

Petro should be more expensive.

Agian, I use 100% post consumer vegtable oil with 0 petro products, there are no modifications needed for any diesel to run on it.

e- give us a little rundown on jersey. The scene, the surf, the chickies and the bud. Does jersey rock, e?

That would be a fun business. We were on the December shift for the last few years and this year went back to the Chilean winter- bummer but we'll miss you. But I can hook you up down there. As you know the surf sucks, so bring your fishing gear, hiking boots or a kite!

As an ex-Jersey native myself I would say for the most part jersey girls like to pary. some are cool, many are cheezy... Herbs are nothing like up here.

Surf is good, but it suck when those NE winds blow as it is difficult to find protection unless you drive to long island

I used to surf rockaway when living in manhattan. That was interesting to take your board with you on the subway and head out to the ghetto for a session.

Thats east coast rockaway as in queens playas.

I know Jersey women. I was a cad.

Jersey is all about style. You wanna score in the summer beach towns? Get the right look. Here's the secret formula.

Get a deep dark tan. Pink skin aint gonna make it. You will most definately need to spend several hours in the gym and don't forget the abs. Very important.

The do has to be just right. Short hair cut real close on the sides and slicked back.

You gotta get a black silk skin tight tank top. Accent it with a pair of knee length linen pleated shorts with a razor sharp crease. A white Gucci belt is a must and it must match your white Gucci slip-ons. Don't even think about wearing socks. AS for the jewelry: A gold rope necklace that hags down kinda low but above the nipple line. Extra points for an Orthodox Crucifx - gold of course. One lions head pinky ring with ruby eyes. One Rolex watch - knock-off preferred.

For conversation - Yo. How you doin. Yo. How you doin. Repeat until she says lets get outta here.

That'll get the girl outta the bar but your not home yet. What's your ride? If it aint a newer Caddy or at least an old Benz with a recent paint job your efforts to this point are wasted.

If she gets in the car but isn't quite ready for the wild thing, take her to a diner and feed her eggs. Repeat every weekend!

ha! that's awesome dennis.

Dennis- are you joking or are you serious? You really did that? And it worked?

E, you Shoobie. If you name our spot we're sending you to hell.

shoobie, tranny, kook, invader, alien, dotcommie, namer!!!! YAY!!! I AM THE ANTICHRIST!!!

Jersey is the only place in the country where you can fart in the car, and your friends will thank you for it.

A woman was very nervous about her first date with a man she'd been attracted to for a long time. When he came to her door, she started to feel gassy and realized the chili she'd had for lunch had been a bad idea. Being a gentlemen, he carefully put her in the car and shut the door for her, as he walked around to his side, she farted loudly and quickly opened the window and began fanning. She was horrified when he got in and pointed to the back seat saying "Have you met Ruth and Bob?"

she's making a fist...must be some namers around

mig-someone turned your joke into a tv ad...

http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=4949

Holy crap, the surf was crappy this morning.
After battling demons all night, it was like takin' a crap when your constipated to get in the water.
At one point this especially crappy wave came in and i nearly crapped in my wetsuit trying to catch it.
It was crap. Oh my.
Then this other wave came and I took off on it.
A huge section started to throw so i crapped in my wetsuit.
Man, barrels are not crap.
Then a member of the brigade paddled out.
He started talking crap and i was scared crapless.
Later in the session I felt a strange warm, craplike sensation in my wetsuit.
Crazy!
But after all that, it was nice to take a .
Shiiiit.
Sometimes surfing is smelly .

I am jersey trash to the core....

e's NJ wave trend analysis is pretty close.

Jersey reprazent, 1983-1996, the formative years. Learned to surf in Cape May and Ocean city, where my parents had houses. Then High School, cutting for sessions with my Margate buddies, and yes Dean Randazzo is a very nice guy with smooth flow. College days spent surfing Manasquan, Sea Girt, Lavalette, Bay Head, Mantoloking. Team Ocean Hut was a bunch of funny dudes. Always got the hotties. Year-round sessions in uncrowded, often empty seas. Bone-chilling winter go-outs. Secret spots. Never fit that classic "joyzey" personality profile, instead came into the world a California kid, a weird displacement of the soul which I remedied 9 years ago. :)

Here I am, missing my old NJ when I see these photos, but NJ surf she is a bitchy mistress -- you can go 7 weeks without even a lick of 2-ft windslop in the summertime. It makes you super-crazy. It's like an orgasm to trunk it in late September during a glassy tropical south swell there, though. I surfed them all, deep into the brutally cold winter, making tracks thru the snow to some isolated jetty in a boarded-up town gone ghostly for the season.

It haunts my grommy reverie....

Yellow bikini chick is standing in the South Zuma parking lot just north of Pt. Dume. LONG LIVE DRAINPAPIES!

Mexi, I was gonna post the same thing about alfaro but you beat me to it. I got your joke right off the bat. That cracks me up.

Yah - name those naming name-ables!!!

Check that--"...KNEELING in the South Zuma..."

Yah - name those naming name-ables!!!

NJ... I spent a weekend in LBI once a couple of years ago and it was mini golf, high school girls, pizza by the slice, small crappy warm water surf w/ slight onshores. Spent the days on the beach and did 2 or 3 or 4 sessions in one foot waves on a rented longboard with my brother who lives in NYC. Super fun.

Beavertails, icicle hair, fires on the beach, cutting school the dead of winter for a frozen surf. That Mike Segar photo above provokes the most nostalgia for me. New Jersey got good in the winter but the isolation, brutal conditions and lack of leashes or modern day wetsuit technology made it a game for the few with the desire and survival instincts.

My years...Deal, New Jersey '64-'74. Made the permanent move to California 30 years ago. Still have great memories of the guys I learned with. That was a long time ago but seems like yesterday.

that was mostly my jersey scene walker. never a hard-core surfer as a grom myself.

cool flashbacks monkey milk. One of my best friends and original surf partners lives at the beach in Point Pleasant now. He loves it.

Kdalle, wow! Yeah those wetsuits, man, even in the 1980s they were stiff and leaky straightjackets at best. O'NO O'Neill = Oh NO, you're gonna freeze your ballsac off. You *must* remember a few sessions where you come out and can't even turn the key in the door because your fingers and hands turned into frozen, useless meat claws?! And when they thawed out -- your bones would ache so bad... One of those tactile memories you can never forget. :)

e, lots of good surfers out of Pt Pleasant. If anyone remembers TR Devaney, what a great surfer in the 1990s. Dean Schoonover was overrated and a total asshole to everyone, I got into some shit with him once. Then there was Scotty Duerr at Squan, it took me 2 years to work up the pecking order and get respect from him, photog Bruce Chrisner and the longboard guy from the Bait Shop (just to name a few). I was just a kid to those guys, but they were really interesting, quirky, cool people.

Funny. I never knew how many Jerseyites there were here. Just goes to show. It's a great place to be "from". And yes anon, it really works.

I'm sure a lot of people coming to the bloog here think the NJ connection is a huge negative, but it's really neat to reminisce a little bit. I can't deny where I'm from -- the ocean!!!

Well. nuf reminicin. I'm going surfing.

!!!!!!!

pretty thick wave there...

is it me or do the von bondies sound kind of like hoodoo guru's?

Enough Jersey talk! Our own city beach had a few bars working around 11 am until the south started to blow. Still fun and glassy and crowded!

Now I know what a square wave looks like! (that last pic)

As far as cold water goes, new hampshire and maine is f'n cold. We are talking 35 degrees 6-5-4 wetsuit. However, its ony surfable a couple days a week. I am much happier here. Water is warm, and there is surf just about everyday. I found it difficult to progress my skills due to lack of waves.

SF is now my home....

I'm back. I just had a long but very easy paddle out. I only had to punch through one mushbeger of a shoulder. Headed straight for a rip and 200 strokes later I was in the lineup. I took out my 9'er. Caught a couple fast outsiders well overhead. The last ride I took got me almost to the sand. 45 minutes and two good rides. I'm happy. I would have stayed out for another but it was getting hard to see. No crowds near me. I was solo. There were a few folks out about 150 yards to the south.

Mushburger, mushburger, mushburger. No coke. Pepsi.

welcome mofo stay out of me way

no soap, radio

Hey, Exxon didn't set the price of the oil, it was the traders who bought the oil that set the price. It was analysts who overestimated the impact on refining supply who drove the cost of gasoline so high.

nice one..

Exxon didn't set the price of oil ... sure thats the extensible situation.

Also the fox ain't guarding the chicken coop and yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus.

ah the old new jersey inferiority complex

Carved a pumpkin tonight bitches

whoop dee do

I farted in the car in Jersey once. My friends wanted me to roll up the windows to keep it in. Fuck Jersey.

After visiting Lake Placid in July, I drove east towards Providence, RI, and then planned to drive down through all the big cities just to do it. I went through Vermont, New Hampshire into Rhode Island. I drove through Boston and the Big Dig. I went through New York at night. Then I screwed up and ended up on the Jersey Turnpike. Suck those sucking suckables.

post-sesh/pre-pizza paradigm

mean sea lice live in the Jersey waters

Hey anon - i'm sure you farted in the car more than once...

Of course I did, but not in Jersey, unfortunately.

hey quit naming!

RE: OB CAR THIEF INFO: Whoever Johnnie is that posted on 10/27 saying he can vouch for Littleman is full of it. Littleman DON'T surf---he steals and robs from people! PERIOD! His car is now spray painted black with a new license plate of 5PSM617. If you could zoom into his picture, you could tell that he's got a huge scar down the side of his face just like other poster's descriptions of the thief on this website. He is staying somewhere on Darien St. near St. Francis Woods. but parks his black colored toyota celica around the corner on a street called Manor (I believe). Believe you me, this is the guy that bought $800.00 worth of cigarettes from 7-11 back in July 2005 with someone's stolen credit card! Be Alert and watch out for this scumbag!