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A few

Top o the morning.
Emptiness out there.
Lackluster mushburgers.
Barely breaking on the outside.
Backing off then occasionally firing on the inside.
Slim pickins.
Found a few open faces.
Enjoyed racing down the line.
Sat around in a hole for a while.
No rideables.
Lerm and i basically paddled in.
Couldn't get a last one.
Grey, slightly onshore vibe.
Total emptiness.
The mighty ocean is a beautiful place.
The California coast takes your breath away.

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John Zorn talks about Jewish music, surf music, Masada, and shredding

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A few shots from a-frame magazine
jeff anderson photo
niceness

chris burkart photo
niceness

barney

Ah, glad I slept in....

Posted by: Mr Doof at January 25, 2006 09:57 AM

From: Bobby Arzadon [mailto:bobby@perfectwave.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:01 PM
Cc: baddesign@freedomnw.com
Subject: Help a fellow surfer out Brian Anderson

Some of you might have already heard, Brian Anderson (one of Perfect Wave’s Shapers) got bit by a shark on Christmas Eve.
If you can, please help a fellow surfer and shaper out?

Brian’s medical bills are starting to pile up on him. And if any of you know Brian, he live like most surfers, not enough medical insurance, if any at all.
Please help Brian get back on his feet again (literally) can get back in the water soon.

Go to Any US Bank and donate to the Brian D. Anderson Fund


Here are a few pics and stories you can use to make something up:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/26/earlyshow/main1165399.shtml (video interview from the hospital)
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=71503332&p=7y5x3634 (Story: Brian punches shark)
http://www.surfersvillage.com/surfing/19683/news.htm (Brian’s interview with CBS)
http://www.dailyastorian.info/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=30071&TM=22778.4 (Surfer fights off shark in Seaside)



Please Kukua, (help)
Mahalo,
Bobby Arzadon
Perfect Wave
8209 124th Ave NE, Kirkland, WA 98033
(425) 827-5323 Shop (206) 498-8469 Cell
web:www.perfectwave.com
e-mail:bobby@perfectwave.com

Posted by: steve at January 25, 2006 10:05 AM

SFGATE: Horse Sex Porn Candy Teens! Inside! Fresh Google search terms to confound Dubya and the FBI. Also: Is Bush a fascist?
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Attention, all who are reading this column right now, please put down your drink and leap up off the couch and put your pants back on and log in to Google and type the words "hot bunny terrorist fluffer banana" into the comely and world-beloved Google search engine. Do it. Do it now.

Oh no wait, make it "Osama butt pancake lube explosives yay." Or better yet, try "homemade nuke porn lollipop kiddie nipple bomb!!!" (Be sure to include extra exclamation points because as we all know, Dubya isn't the brightest of presidents and these will add zing and personality to your entry and make your search terms -- the very ones the Bush administration is right now subpoenaing the Google corporation to gain access to -- really stand out to the FBI and the Department of Justice, which are always in need of a little zing).

It shall be a mini-movement. It shall be called "Operation Screw With the DOJ and Make Lynne Cheney Squirm." It shall be a big national gigglefest as we watch George W. Bush's gummint work to force and coerce the search engines of the nation to turn over their massive logs of search terms, all in an effort to see what perverted and criminal-minded people like you are really searching for, and sure you can defend yourself and claim it's pictures of Brangelina or recipes for blood orange/vodka body shots or just what the hell is wrong with Samuel Alito to make him look so wan and malicious, when we all know you're really looking for, of course, massive amounts of porn. And so are your kids.

Is it not just the warmest and nicest sensation? Is it not just pleasing to your core to know that your government is right now trying to track your behavior in a whole new and unsettling way, using the vague excuse that they're trying to "protect" children from online porn (an effort, by the way, to reinstate nasty anti-porn laws that were blocked by the Supreme Court two years ago)? Are we now utterly charmed to death that this is the most invasive and appallingly mistrustful administration since Nixon secretly beat himself with nails?

Now here you might say, oh please, the feds issuing subpoenas to Google and Yahoo and the rest for access to their search logs is nothing to be overly paranoid about. After all, BushCo is not, at this time, asking for information on individual behaviors. They are not checking the IP address of your home computer or secretly recording your every keystroke as you type or looking through your windows with high-powered telescopes as you look up the hideous "Goetse" phenomenon (Google it, if you dare) or buy a Jesus-shaped dildo or search for a big list of all known slang terms for "penis" for use in your, uh, novel. So far as you know.

But it certainly doesn't feel very far off. BushCo's latest move against the citizenry is indeed a new and disturbing salvo, sending a shiver down the spine of civil rights proponents everywhere. Are you concerned? No?

Then try this: Simply couple this latest move with BushCo's outright love and defense of torture, along with Dubya's recent enthusiastic declaration that his team of flying monkeys has been secretly wiretapping whomever it wants in this nation for the past four years without any sort of warrant and, well, you've got yourself one hell of a big sticky taste of happy neofascism.

What, not enough? Fine. How about how Bush's insane rate of issuing those now-infamous "signing statements," those little firebombs of judicial misprision wherein your mumbling president gets to reserve for himself the right to ignore any law he signs -- yes, any law he desires: anti-torture, surveillance, you name it -- whenever he feels like it, if he deems that law unconstitutional. Screw Congress. Screw the system of law. And screw, well, you.

For the record: Ronald Reagan issued 71 signing statements during his unholy term. Bill Clinton issued 105 over the span of eight years. Bush 41 signed off on 146, the previous record.

And Dubya? Well, little George has slapped his color-crayon signature on over 500 signing statements so far, reserving his right to disregard the law more times than all former American presidents combined. It is a record. It is a disgusting abuse of power. It is another thing to stack on the pile o' embarrassment for our nation. Shall we see how high we can go before we topple and implode?

(Here is the beautiful kicker, the thing to make you shudder and sigh: As this Knight Ridder report illuminates, in 2003 lawmakers attempted to rein in Bush's abuse of signing statements by passing a bill that required the Justice Department to inform Congress whenever BushCo decided to ignore a legislative provision. Bush signed the bill into law -- but then immediately issued a signing statement asserting his right to ignore it. Ah, the nauseating poetry of it all.)

It is amusing how little I am hearing in defense of BushCo anymore. The rafts of flaming hate mail I used to receive from the sanctimonious right have subsided to a withered whimper, nothing really to defend anymore, one of the most corrupt and secretive presidencies in American history, more criminals and indictments per square White House foot than a den of drug runners, a decimated economy and a failed war and thousands of soldiers dead and tens of thousands disabled and not a single explanation or apology.

No one is writing in anymore to say what a good and noble man Bush is. No one pointing up stats to prove how Dubya and his cronies have brought integrity and honor back to the White House. And never a single voiced raised in meek cry to claim that we are somehow better off than we were six years ago, that there's a new feeling of hope and renewal, the slightest hint that we are improving our ability to take care of our poor and rebuild our bankrupt cities and help heal our mauled international relations.

Hell, even the most devout of Bush sycophants are becoming increasingly disturbed by this administration's unchecked power grab, by the new American neofascist mantra that claims that wiretapping is good, and surveillance is good, and torture and secret prisons are very, very good, and Big Brother scouring America's Internet habits is fine and healthy for your family, and ignoring the law whenever you deem it appropriate, a provision that lets you get away with murder, well, in the parlance of Bush himself, that's the goodest of all.

So then, as we wait to vote huge numbers of these corrupt cretins out of office this upcoming congressional election, why not make as much noise as possible? Why not start a mini-search revolution, fluster the FBI and give a rash to the DOJ and Lynne Cheney alike? There are worse ways to spend your lunch hour.

Up, off the couch. Log in to Google. Type "Karl Rove eaten by giant homosexual squid." Type "George W. Bush beaten to lifeless pulp by swarm of angry kindergarten children." Enter "Samuel Alito loves his 'Weapons of Ass Destruction IV' DVD." It might not be much, but it sure sends the right kind of message. Don't you agree?

Posted by: Pumpernickel at January 25, 2006 10:30 AM

can somen delete that stupid long ass post? go read it on sf gate and ban fucking pumpernickels from posting

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 10:36 AM

agreed

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Posted by: at January 25, 2006 10:58 AM

Looking for some input: is there a consensus on surftech (epoxy) vs. poly? I sometimes ride a 7’6” rusty (polyester) which is the first “pop out” I have ever had. It is also one of the best boards I have ever had. So I am past the “mass produced” stigma. Has anyone ever replaced a poly board with an “exact” design in epoxy? What did you think?

Posted by: web at January 25, 2006 11:10 AM

that girl is getting down wid it.

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 11:12 AM

Web, an exact design in epoxy will be lighter therfore float better and feel different. there is no apple to apple comparison. However, an epoxy/foam combo feels more like a polyyester board than a Surftech does, this much I know.

Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at January 25, 2006 11:21 AM

How sweet was Slo** yesterday!

Posted by: mulligan at January 25, 2006 11:25 AM

yo....

if you have the ability to, take a looong lunch
and score. i am trapped in the veal pen today.
got a few this a.m. but the lack of tide will be
a significant bonus : hollower and faster.

cheers.

Posted by: korewin at January 25, 2006 11:29 AM

3-5-7, so what do you see as any drawback, before I run down and fork out $700 or whatever it is...I really like floaty boards, and ride boards that have lots of volume, the idea being that they catch waves easier, but still turn fine for me, because I am tall and heavy enough (6"2" 190) . So would a surftech fit into this strategy?

Posted by: web at January 25, 2006 11:29 AM

Shaper yer own. I was down in SD last week, what great waves and options they have down there by the way!!, and one store was selling the poly blanks for $70 bucks. I bought my last one from Clark for 45 so it is not that much more.

I am really digging on my little 5'7" i shaped, finally getting a handle on it and have used it for about 30+ sessions without a ding or soft spots. My tough shitty double glass job on top worked i guess.

Bring back the informative talk and sharing of ideas that used to be on this site. And surf.

Posted by: Hb at January 25, 2006 11:35 AM

Web, I saw a Santa Cruz epoxy split into 2 pieces on Saturday morning at Sloat. Clean break, right in half. Factor that in.

I personally prefer foam and fiberglass and thin bikinis.

Posted by: Kaiser at January 25, 2006 11:36 AM

The flex on the surftech's is completely out of whack. You may like boards without flex in action, and you may like a surftech. But if you value a little zing off the bottom-turn from flex-in-rocker, you will probably find the Surftech ain't got it.The surftech feels like surfing a cork to me.

The "problem" is that the Surftech conception is to take a proven polyester/PU shape, dupe the shape, construct it with composites, and sell it. You've changed the buoyancy and flexibility of the board - now more buoyant, and less flex.

Composites CAN be made with more flex than non-composites, like the LOST Placebo boards and the new NEV boards. And, you can probably get Bob Miller to make you one, too, for a lot of money.

You may like the Surftech shape and its buoyancy, and you may not like flex in action, and it may all work out perfectly. Those are the most commonly mentioned drawbacks. I've ridden a few, and owned one, Surftech, I don't think they make particularly good surfboards.

Posted by: blakestah at January 25, 2006 11:37 AM

As a follow through, I am really tired of how fragile a light weight poly board is…on a trip I was on last month the deckhand completely fucked up my rusty (put the fins of the other guys board all the way through my deck due to poor storage in rough seas). So of course the board is never going to be the same. I know epoxy is much stronger. That is my main reason for looking at trying one.

Posted by: web at January 25, 2006 11:39 AM

yeah, B-stah, I get it. The bottom line is fork out the cash and try one. I could just do without another coffee table made out of a board I dont like.

Posted by: web at January 25, 2006 11:42 AM

I prefer an inner tube for my go outs at SLOWT.
Gosh its hard to paddle through a channel!

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 11:51 AM

All thee boards yer talkin' about can be found at Costco.

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 11:52 AM

Here's the other thing you have to remember about the early writers on music: The people who could write were writing for an audience that was very limited, because not everybody could read in those days. And those who could were of the church and the nobility, people who certainly had dealings with the devil because they helped to invent the son of a bitch in order to keep the potato-eaters in line!

Posted by: Zappa at January 25, 2006 12:11 PM

Any suggestions?

duck divable all around board for small to medium size waves. I was thinking maybe the rusty catfish at around 6"7 to 6"10 . I do not like to go too small as i have problems paddling at long paddle outs like ob. I was also thinking something with a swallow tail.

I have been surfing for a few yrs and have slowly dropped size in board from my longboard. Now I am looking for an all around board.

5"8 just under 150lbz

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 12:18 PM

Sean Scallon dropped in on me.

Posted by: Kellys at January 25, 2006 12:23 PM

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2643835654848098127&q=brokeback

Posted by: Brokeback Squadron at January 25, 2006 12:28 PM

Hey no name poster (post #4)....why ask to have long as posts removed? Why did you leave your name off? I have long posted like that before and no complaints. Why the bad vibe?

Posted by: Pumpernickel at January 25, 2006 12:29 PM

Web - if you don't like the board after a half dozen sessions or so, sell it. You'll probably want to ride it several times to adjust to the difference before you decide if you like it or not. All is not lost.

Posted by: Dennis at January 25, 2006 12:42 PM

mulligan - agreed. it had been so long. had so much fun yesterday - wave after wave.

Posted by: schralper at January 25, 2006 12:43 PM

Web, Check out Pointblanks. I've been riding my 6'5" mako for over three years and still doesn't have any pressure dings. It's floaty and made of eps foam so it flexes. It is epoxy so it's stronger than polyresin fiberglass. Epoxy is also very easy to work with as long as you have a place that is warmer than 60 F and you are capable of measuring the proportions properly. Epoxy is also less toxic than polyresin. I can work on my board in my apartment building and not piss off the other tenants because the fumes are mimimal. People complain about the cost of Point Blanks, but at $495 a board, they are a good deal considering they last longer than polyresin boards.

Posted by: El Camaron at January 25, 2006 12:46 PM

can you all toss out some ding repair recommendations? i have a bubble forming where the glass has detached from the foam. bummer

Posted by: herb at January 25, 2006 12:57 PM

ummm, i think there is a guy by name of alex martin's who might do some ding repair and i think he can maybe surf pretty good.
speaking of which, seems like they should have had the mav's contest already this winter. are we really gonna have another gynormo day?

Posted by: steamwand at January 25, 2006 01:04 PM

Get a syringe and squirt some resin in there. Or, take it to Alex Martins and have him fix it.

Posted by: Kaiser at January 25, 2006 01:04 PM

Steamer, I got $20 and 2 bars of wax that says Blakestah will post his "they usually hold the Mavs contest in Feb/Mar....better swell angle....." comment within the next hour!

Keep an eye out.

Posted by: Kaiser at January 25, 2006 01:07 PM

Don't just squirt some resin in there. I'd cut the delammed glass out, put in filler, sand, clean and prep the area around the delam, put more glass down, hotcoat, sand it clean.

Taking it to Alex is a good call, too.

The Mavs contest is usually February, and even sometimes March (which usually means afternoon onshores). There's a variety of factors Jeff waits for, tide wind and swell being the most obvious.

Posted by: blakestah at January 25, 2006 01:09 PM

BLING BLING

- Looks like someone owes me a 20-spot and some wax!

Posted by: Kaiser at January 25, 2006 01:11 PM

you can pick it up at my house tonite.

Posted by: blakestah at January 25, 2006 01:12 PM

hey kasier! NICE CALL. one post one post!

can you tell me who will win the super bowl?
and while you are at it, the ncaa's as well?

Posted by: korewin at January 25, 2006 01:13 PM

blakestah - you miss surfing? isn't it painful to come on this blog and hear people talk or bitch about surfing?

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 01:15 PM

hey blake...

is that the 30904 or the 30917 zip?

nudge nudge.

Posted by: korewin at January 25, 2006 01:15 PM

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 01:17 PM

Take Seattle and the points. The line has moved from 3.5 to 4.5. Should be a great game.

As for the NCAAs, let's rap March 12th.

Posted by: Kaiser at January 25, 2006 01:18 PM

muska and paris

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Posted by: at January 25, 2006 01:23 PM

For great, reasonable, fast surf repair call Tom, 650726-5409, Half Moon Bay. He's at Linda Mar most dawns and will pick up and deliver your board back to the parking lot. Good guy too.

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 01:31 PM

k-o-k-u-a

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 01:34 PM

So bbr is the eyeball pop real or fake?

Posted by: ? at January 25, 2006 01:49 PM

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 01:56 PM

it's fake. the story is fiction.

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 01:58 PM

no comment

oakland kids

Posted by: bbr at January 25, 2006 02:03 PM

what's people's take on coffee drinking.

I used to only do it for work. Then I stopped figuring "what the hell do I care if I'm productive at work"? But then I couldn't hang so I'm back on it. I never used to drink it before I surfed but then one time I did and after I got control of my heart rate and anxiousness it really helped. About doubled my wave count per hour. But sometimes I feel like this is cheating.

I figure meth is just a couple years away, what are your guys thoughts?

Posted by: obro at January 25, 2006 02:03 PM

Meth IN coffee + cinnamon stick = AWESOME.

Posted by: Dem at January 25, 2006 02:10 PM

Posted by: faces of meth at January 25, 2006 02:15 PM

coffee is only good for me b/c it makes me shit everything out of my system. There is nothing worse then seeing good waves and having to find a place to drop a deuce.

My dependency on coffee in the morning also slows me down as i am trying to get my session in pre-cube time.

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 02:17 PM

"coffee and cigarettes are food."

-frank zappa


coffee is great. i usually burn before i surf, obro.
but not if i am going to work afterward. : (

i quit cigarettes this year (going the gum route).
now you wanna talk about a raised heart rate and
anxiousness....nicorette gum is the ticket. but i can
already feel a huge difference in lung capacity.

do you really wanna trade your teeth for a buzz, obro?

Posted by: korewin at January 25, 2006 02:18 PM

Interesting website. It looks like a good way to lose weight. Definitely not my cup-a-tea. I am all natural.

Posted by: mofo at January 25, 2006 02:19 PM

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Timeless re-read as the weather turns.

Posted by: Basic Man at January 25, 2006 02:19 PM

it's blown to bits.

Posted by: kloo at January 25, 2006 02:24 PM

those fucking tweakers didn't look good when they started out.

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Posted by: RIP Chris Penn at January 25, 2006 02:39 PM

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Posted by: oops at January 25, 2006 02:43 PM

DING REAPIR GUY...ALEX MARTINS. Contact him at Aqua Surf Shop

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 02:45 PM

I went to that faces of meth website but I somehow couldn't find 4-mile psycho's (aka "ass finger") picture.

Posted by: backwash at January 25, 2006 02:46 PM

El camaron- I checked out point blanks...could be an interesting compromise...thanks for the tip. I had never heard of them before.

Posted by: web at January 25, 2006 02:51 PM

How many of you donated money to that shark victim?

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 02:56 PM

Posted by: artist's rendering of a "local" at January 25, 2006 02:58 PM

why is 4 mile twitch dude called "ass finger"?

now that guy can paddle.

Posted by: laughing out loud at January 25, 2006 02:59 PM

I am not donating to the shark bite victim. I saw him on CNN afterwards claiming about how he punched the shark and it took off. Everyone who surfs in great white territory knows that 99% of the time they take a taste and bail if you are not a seal. It had nothing to do with the punch. If he wants to go on TV and brag about being a tough guy punching a shark out he aint getting squat from me.

Posted by: take that anon you kook at January 25, 2006 03:03 PM

I see high school let out for the day.

Posted by: Dennis at January 25, 2006 03:07 PM

Posted by: real life photo of a "tranny" at January 25, 2006 03:10 PM

wait a second....aren't the homosexuals as local as anyone in sf?? i would be willing to bet there are more 'dick sucking' locals than surfing locals in sf. shouldn't they be the ones pissed off and shouting tranny!?

Posted by: castro local at January 25, 2006 03:10 PM

junior high, actually.

Posted by: cadaver at January 25, 2006 03:11 PM

Bobby Arzadon
Perfect Wave
8209 124th Ave NE, Kirkland, WA 98033
(425) 827-5323 Shop (206) 498-8469 Cell
web:www.perfectwave.com
e-mail:bobby@perfectwave.com

Right on dude, gnarly story may the surfer dude heal fast, but doesn't sound too serious via the articles. I mean the guy still has his leg and his life, right?

Questions:

Shouldn't you be the one taking some responsibility by providing health insurance to your employees?

Funny that there is no link on your site, maybe you should step up there first and in the local community, if this is that important to you to post on random sites?

Posted by: Shark attack at January 25, 2006 03:13 PM

Web,
I've heard good things about Point Blanks as far as durablity go. Stretch does custom epoxy boards and he can make them strong as you need I believe. You might want to check with Ward Coffey too, he at one time offered the option of epoxy glassing I think. I don't think I could ever totally stop riding custom made boards. (although I might have too) I've been looking at a Surftech lately but more becuase I would like a McCoy. I've always liked his design philosphy and rode a McCoy thruster in Cabo last year and loved it. Since it's something I'd keep forever, it might as well be built that way. btw. The Patagonia Store in SC used to have a pretty good selection of Point Blanks.

Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at January 25, 2006 03:21 PM

Ward made a lot of epoxy ultra light boards for grom comps. He started well before the whole Clark fiasco. So yes, I'd definitely consider him an epoxy custom option, with years of experience PRE-clark. The SC papers reported that he and Stretch were switching their former Pu/Pe business entirely to EPS/epoxy when the Clark thing went down. And, he's a good dude and a great surfer. For a 4-mile guy.

I had a Point Blanks board that was beat to he11, really no different in durability than Pu/Pe. And, you wouldn't have known it was epoxy from looking at it.

Posted by: blakestah at January 25, 2006 03:31 PM

Mucho Gusto, me llamo Bradley,
I'm hornier than Ron Jeremy.

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 03:31 PM

The liberal in me says health insurance should be a government sponsored program. The conservative in me says that health insurance should not be the responsibilty of business. Can't figure it out...

Posted by: Dennis at January 25, 2006 03:34 PM

if you want a board, call your shaper. mine tells me that since the clark foam deal, people have stopped calling fearing the boards are $600.
Call your shaper, they do have blanks!!!

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Posted by: at January 25, 2006 03:37 PM

3-5-7- I'll check with those guys. I am almost ashamed to admit I paid 700 for the rusty I have now, although I think I must have gotten ripped off. and it is just a poly pop out. So the price is very similar. Its actually the first board that I have had in a very long time that is not custom, and it works really well. My main goal is lightness combined with some strength. I never used to care about a light board, but I have really gotten into it the last few years. I am going to go check out a point blank and see how light they are. I would assume WC uses same construction technique as Point blank?

Posted by: web at January 25, 2006 03:38 PM

contribute to his health care . . . because he's a surfer? i drink, too, but don't feel like i have a special responsibility to every uninsured person who gets cirrhosis of the liver.

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 03:39 PM

kudos to whoever called that guy tomato face.

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 03:40 PM

yeah, after reading what was posted while I was typing last post, I think I will check into a coffey.

Posted by: web at January 25, 2006 03:44 PM

we are the world. we are the children.
we are the ones who make a brighter day so let's start giving.

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 03:45 PM

theres a choice were making.
were saving our own lives.
its true we make a brighter day.
just you and me.

Posted by: bagel at January 25, 2006 03:49 PM

awwww

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 03:53 PM

beer boards and art dudes

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Posted by: take that jenn striger and heather at January 25, 2006 04:06 PM

anyone every try/see one of those bamboo boards out of australia?? they seem to be cheaper than any other boards i've seen lately. their site says they're sold at some of the socal shops.

i like the idea of sustainable surfboards.

Posted by: rza at January 25, 2006 04:08 PM

Om means the first vibration - that sound, that spirit that sets everything else into being. It is the Word from which all men and everything else comes, including all possible sounds that man can make vocally. It is first syllable, the primal word, the word of power.

Posted by: Coltrane at January 25, 2006 04:10 PM

Wow I really enjoy watching that ass ^^^. I didn't surf today because i have a fucking cold. Fuck shitty wetsuits that aren't supposed to be for below 60*. Well I got a good 4 days in a row and had many many good rides, the fuckin waves at my beach are totally shit right now and not even toe high. Oh well. Some waves coming soon looks like but hopefully it won't be like gnarley storm-surf whatnot. E nice pictures, I still watch Barney sometimes when im hella high. Well not really but I should. Anyhow Im gonna go make some Tea and have a nice warm cup of counter-strike. maybe follow it up with the usual hot-tub and cigar.
Yeah :)

Posted by: Brian at January 25, 2006 04:18 PM

brian, when you say cigar, do you mean joint?

I enjoy your daily write-ups, keep em coming!

also that wiggling tushy above.. drooling...

Posted by: e at January 25, 2006 04:21 PM

"Veillette, meanwhile, said he has been surfing the South Shore since Fernandez has been in jail, but he still gets "stink eye" and nasty comments from Fernandez's friends.

As Veillette talked to reporters outside the courtroom, Fernandez's girlfriend walked by and called him a 'f--ing kook' under her breath."

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Posted by: and front at January 25, 2006 04:35 PM

Brian for niceness.org/surf_report president.

Posted by: Rob Machado at January 25, 2006 04:52 PM

Fuck brian and fuck Machado. The MOB. What a fucking joke.

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 04:55 PM

US health care: 15% of economy and growing 10% a year.

Rest of westernized world: 9-10% of economy

Percentage of US with some health care coverage: 83%

Percentage of rest of westernized work with full health care coverage: 100%

Our health care system is badly broken, and on a track to disaster. We spend 50% more on health care than other westernized nations, and don't have any coverage at all for 1 out of 6 people (and much less than full coverage for a lot of the rest). Our health care costs are increasing 7% one year, 11% the next, more than twice as fast as our pay or economic growth. Its a road to nowhere, and it has to change.

Whether you like the theory or implementation of socialized medicine or not, we HAVE to get all of America in full coverage, and we can do it for 50% less than we are spending now. And literally everyone in academic medicine knows it.

Posted by: blakestah at January 25, 2006 04:58 PM

Why does Jack Bauer yell so much?

Posted by: 24 non sequitur at January 25, 2006 05:03 PM

Good post.

So why so much resistance? Don't tell me it's Bush. System has been broken and heading to disaster before him so...

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Posted by: hp at January 25, 2006 05:08 PM

B-stah, Ward grew up surfing OB. So take that and stuff it in your rotating corn field.......For crisakes this guy is regulating from the midwest.

Web, it was a few years ago but yes I beleive they where using the same/similar proccess.

Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at January 25, 2006 05:08 PM

what the fuck? why is b-stah still posting? isn't there an arizona blog you can post your intellegent thoughts on?

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 05:12 PM




Hey, fuck you too buddy. :)

Posted by: Brian at January 25, 2006 05:13 PM

money? My friend just bust his knee very badly on a big day and did in his MCL and PCL. Could you please see it in your hearts to donate some dough to him?

His is a surfer after all...

Why is he any less deserving than some guy who gets his foot in a sharks mouth and goes on CNN about it?

I am sure he made some coin out of the media spin somehow. If he didn't he is a fool. The media is a money machine, if he is going to spin that machine a little for him - he should have made sure he was cut in...

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 05:15 PM

That should be an ad for Sierra Nevada. Something about that shot makes that beer look really tasty. I could use one of those guys.

Posted by: tucker at January 25, 2006 05:17 PM

holy shit. i think that's really brian!

sweeeet.

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 05:18 PM

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I've always had a serious soft spot for her myself. Don't get me started....

Posted by: Ankors at January 25, 2006 05:19 PM

only fags use flex shampoo.

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 05:24 PM

Funny Brian. Hey, do your parents know your smokin that shit? Cigars are bad for you :)

Posted by: Dennis at January 25, 2006 05:25 PM

Now this is a not good - no doubt:
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However I think she could consider this a Meth Makeover..much better:
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Agreed?

Posted by: on the subject of meth at January 25, 2006 05:26 PM

i also agree, i also love alizee, and would vote for brian should he choose to run for president.

Posted by: bagel at January 25, 2006 05:30 PM

Oh no - I asked please not to get me started...!

*It's happening again*


Posted by: Ankors at January 25, 2006 05:39 PM

ahhh. had a nosedrip thing happen right in front of a really cute girl in my class today. i quickly mentioned that i had just got back from surfing, but i think she was throughly disgusted.

Posted by: seascum at January 25, 2006 05:54 PM

one more for the road

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3101836263624326712&q=alizee

sorry ankors

Posted by: bagel at January 25, 2006 06:17 PM

I wasn't saying it was Bush....at all. In fact, I don't even know why its broken, but the fact that we're spending 50% more than other westernized nations and they are getting better health care (mainly b/c the poor get shafted in the US with health care), tells me its broke.

The worse thing, though, are the projections for what will happen with the baby boomers becoming elderly. Most estimates are that we will not be training enough doctors, by a long shot. The entire nature of elderly health care will be changed in 15 years. Not enough doctors to go around. Not enough being trained today. If you are in your early to mid 50s today, by the time you hit 70 you will not get health care that is considered reasonable today...not in the USA, not in any Westernized nation, all in the same boat.

The 4-mile crack was a joke, 3to5, a joke...its not like all the guys who cannot hang at Steamers spillover to 4-mile or anything...

Posted by: blakestah at January 25, 2006 06:28 PM

yeah theres some ass up there! Yeah i guess cigars are bad for you huh. oh well

Posted by: Brian at January 25, 2006 06:42 PM

I think the one girl looks better 8 months later. Give that girl some Stridex and I'd hit it.

Posted by: Frank at January 25, 2006 06:50 PM

Brian, make sure you stick with the Mota and stay away from the Scante lest you end up on Faces of Meth like these before and afters.

Posted by: harm reduction at January 25, 2006 07:47 PM

Stop posting tomato face.

Posted by: at January 25, 2006 07:52 PM

WOW THATS FUNNY AS SHIT... ahahhaa

Posted by: Brian at January 25, 2006 08:41 PM

Posted by: sticks and stones... at January 25, 2006 08:48 PM

Esther Rules!!!
That Jenny Craig Shiite really worked for her. Go D, Phil!

Posted by: Dr. at January 25, 2006 09:03 PM

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Sloooow it down here Fellahs!

Posted by: Basic Man at January 25, 2006 09:04 PM

u bastard bagel...she's even wearing my special outfit in that vid!

Posted by: Ankors at January 25, 2006 09:24 PM

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Posted by: Brian For President at January 26, 2006 12:34 AM

Esther went from looking like a butch to white trash. The bitch doesn't need drug abuse intervention, she needs bad skin intervention. Nurse, get me a big tube of Clearasil, STAT! And get me a blindfold too cause i'm taking one for the team!

Posted by: you guys been living in SF way too long at January 26, 2006 01:56 AM

Esther looked like the captain of her softball team before meth. Meth did her good; all slender and frail looking. Just get some foundation on dem blemishes and I'd put inside.

Posted by: at January 26, 2006 02:07 AM

GenX is the 1st gen with less wealth than their parents in the USA.

Baby boomers are a bunch of lameasses. Look at the shit we are dealing with now cause of them. fucking hippies my ass.

Posted by: at January 26, 2006 07:02 AM

Sounds like somebody is a little upset because they might have to go out and get a job! baby need bottle?

Posted by: Reality Check at January 26, 2006 07:46 AM

hey B-stah, i was joking too. corn fields can't rotate.

Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at January 26, 2006 08:04 AM

ouch, Dennis's snide little early morning comments are appearing anonymously now.

Posted by: anon at January 26, 2006 08:14 AM

hey 3-5 don't let that asshole off that easy. he's just taking a different tactic in his continued insecure bullshit of "i was/am a big wave rider"
fact of the matter is he has no idea the profound difference between steamers and florida mile in wave quality, crowd,size etc. or else he would have never made the analogy.
he probably shopped his fucked up stupid fin system and met ward once and is now on here acting like he knows all about him, his boards, his surfing etc.
truth be told ward was long gone before rapestah ever stepped foot in this city and doesn't need to know or care about rapestah.

Posted by: at January 26, 2006 08:15 AM

Actually, I do know Ward, and consider him an excellent surfer and a good shaper, and recommend him regularly to people looking for customs, and have directly sent him a number of orders in the last three years. You need to lighten up a little.

Posted by: blakestah at January 26, 2006 08:22 AM

Ha ha, Florida mile. Hey wait, does that mean I'm more like Kelly Slater cause I surf Florida Mile?

Not to interupt the bickering but does anyone have any input on the performance of the HydroEpic boards? A good point was brought up that for Surftech they are taking a shape that works well with traditional materials and making an epoxy board. Because the epoxy has diff characteristics the board doesn't surf the same. I'm wondering if this was taken into consideration with the HydroEpics? Or if they got lucky and the 6'6" Brewer rides well.
Alot of coin to drop $850ish, but imagine having a sweet board that will last 10 years and not come off the plane in two pieces ruining the first 2 days of your surf trip!
Anyone got one they want to rent out?

Posted by: #3 at January 26, 2006 08:29 AM

yo im gonna walk down to the beach and take photos cuz its Real nice!

Posted by: Brian at January 26, 2006 08:32 AM

B-stah isn't being let off easily, after all he's got to be ancy and crawling with surf jones after all the nice waves we've had all winter so far.

Posted by: 3to5setsof7 at January 26, 2006 08:43 AM

Posted by: new rotating blank shaper® at January 26, 2006 09:10 AM

Now I hate to interupt, but 3-5, I haven't seen that many good waves this season. In fact, I would consider this last week the best since the stretch before T-Day. 2 months of crap on top of 4-5 months of crap this summer.

Worst season in years.

Posted by: Kaiser at January 26, 2006 09:19 AM

see what i mean? he IS being let off easy.
sorry rape, i hadn't had my coffee yet. you post some good stuff from time to time but you need to drop the I's and me's from time to time. We all can stand up on waves, big whoop.

Posted by: at January 26, 2006 09:23 AM
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