surf freaks!
ikoniикониHope everybody is scoring out there.
Maybe that day in January with smooth head-high peaks?
Maybe up in NW Washington?
Indian Reservation mysto-reef?
Point after point in mid baja with coyotes on the rampage?
Nahh..
More like that left up north.
Reeling sucking churning funnels.
Scary!
But how about that bachelor party surf-cruise in the Caribbean?
Turquoise aqua marine water.
Glistening, translucent wedge waves.
Breaking into that bay with steep cliffs and lush green mountain backdrop.

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Ventures doing Caravan
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Prist fost…
Holla - where you been?
Comment by Kaiser — March 25, 2009 @ 9:13 pm
Around and around the seasons go
Another Winter logged
Some sweet days
A few special nuggets that will never be forgotten
Added to the special nugget memory bank
A cold northwest shouting that spring is filling in
A few more gray hairs
A little less hair overall
Body a bit weaker
Mind a bit stronger
Stoke burning stronger than ever
The internet still seems new
For that mattter single fins don’t seem that long ago
It can’t have been 27 years since my last single pintail, can it?
Yup. I guess it can.
Each day a gift
Thank you.
Never forget to say thank you.
Still staring at the ceiling at 5am as wife and kids sleep
Offshore winds whistles through open window
Surf sounds weave through trees and canyons
Heart pumping at the thought of a rail hissing bottom turn
Jamming that tail down and setting that side fin
FUCK yes!
Waiting until the last possible second to get up so as not to disturb the house
Thank you God for letting me be a surfer
The dice roll of fate
Not being born in a Mumbai slum without a family to love me
Friends
Family
Fall is on the way
SUURRRRRFFF
Comment by w — March 26, 2009 @ 8:59 am
#3 among the either zealous checkers of a moribund blog or subscribers via RSS (I’m both).
Great pics. Must surf more.
Comment by kloo — March 26, 2009 @ 2:34 pm
Now, don’t you feel a whole lot better? Nice to have you back where you belong, please don’t ever leave us like that.
Just so you know, it’s only been a few days since my last single fin pintail.
Comment by Spiderman — March 26, 2009 @ 9:56 pm
Nice to see a new post.
Anyone catch the news about our boy, Lewis getting canned from Surfline for talking some shit about the surf industry?
Check it out here: http://postsurf.com/2009/03/23/fired/
I’m gonna miss his PowerRankings on Surfline.
Comment by Seascum — March 27, 2009 @ 12:02 am
Yeah… Lewis’ power rankings rocked…
but… why does he always choose to be so snarky and mean in his postsurf posts? It’s kinda funny i guess… but.. he harshes on folks.
nice post, w!
Comment by e — March 27, 2009 @ 10:28 am
Yo E, how wuz yer trip to the Big Island? I never noticed that Lewis wrote the Power Rankings. There are a couple blogs that talk about his writing - google ’surfline Power Rankings”. I’m on vacation next week.
Comment by Dennis — March 27, 2009 @ 4:36 pm
e, are you still groovin’ on Caravan? I remember when you first started playing that song, like two years ago. It’s cool that you’re still finding new ways to play it.
Comment by steve — March 27, 2009 @ 10:23 pm
I?m getting pissed of about the lack of access to my mysto spots and exposure to thy realm. Seems Kyle Lightner - some homo emo retro wannabeboho has stolen my copyrighted primo logo and sprayed the fucking shit on the wall at Malibu to coincide with the shit going on with the ? FUCK THE LOCALS? campaign.
It was one thing for those clowns to spray the boat and then for the tag to end up as commodity has me fuming.
Clearly unrecognizable as the culture gets double penetrated by the waring factions of the brat generations beind the old school. Old Timer stories and yes you will accidently on purpose get new dings and a card for repair. It is how we on the inside see it.
Gayness abounds. When did surfing become a gay art? I could name a few names to start . Lewis Samuals I hear is this bitter guy from Olema Ca and has the time to blog and create a world within a world of his own myth making. He is not to blame - I like what he did and said. Fucking surf clod.
Comment by Man Ape — March 30, 2009 @ 8:54 am
Ride On E … good to hear from you again. Nice diversion from springtime b.s with the high pressure and off shore at the Beach last few days. back to rain …may have to head for the hills to get some turns this weekend.
Comment by shoulder hopper — April 7, 2009 @ 10:52 am
Anyone get any pics of OB yesterday that they care to share?
Comment by traut — April 7, 2009 @ 12:51 pm
Yes, ’twas a very nice Sunday after all.
Comment by Spiderman — April 7, 2009 @ 8:45 pm
Traut, Bruce got some sick ones. http://www.norcalsurfphotos.com/
Comment by Seascum — April 8, 2009 @ 12:51 am
more from 4/6 found here:
http://stokereport.com/rant/ocean-beach-images-06-apr-2009
Comment by gr — April 9, 2009 @ 8:42 am
surfing the bowl at pot hill as of late. good times.
Comment by 3to5setsof7 — April 9, 2009 @ 1:39 pm
yeah really nice Monday
shouldda called in sick
Comment by shoulder hopper — April 9, 2009 @ 4:10 pm
sweet video
http://surfhumor.com/Video%20Clips/OB%204-6-09.wmv
Comment by shoulder hopper — April 9, 2009 @ 4:13 pm
New generation of exploiting Audi drivinG home emo femo retro boho surf hags.
Put a fork in your ass.
Comment by Man Ape — April 12, 2009 @ 11:23 am
A friend of mine, the artist Tom Kennedy, drowned at Ocean Beach today. I don’t know many details yet, just that he was body boarding. I don’t know how experienced he was, whether he was wearing a wet suit, or any of that. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was just at the beach and decided it looked fun and went for a swim.
Anyway I see the buoy is 8 feet @ 17 seconds from the NW, so I can guess that it was pretty rough out there. Was anyone at the beach today (Easter)? Any word about what the conditions were like?
Comment by wrybread — April 12, 2009 @ 10:43 pm
That is tragic. Lost in the waves.
I too am lost.
PRINT THIS IN THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THE MAGAZINE PLEASE:
I’m lying if I say that I grew up with Lewis in Bolinas, CA on Horseshoe Hill. Point is I know this clown. The kid is a spoiled leotard that was ALWAYS only concerned about himself and covering up his insecurities and pain by screwing others. He’s always been a maggot. I have no clue how a zine as brilliant as Stab would even mention his name. If you guys had beers with Lewis Samuel’s you’d realize he’s a total wank job that spits jack’d negatron words + vibes to prop up his lack of security and unhealthy need for “cool guy” attention. There’s no mystery, its created with smoke while he looks in the mirror. The irony in all of this is that he’s appropriated the words, character and essence of Bad Vibe Bob (old school San Francisco artisian dickhead Surf Nazi smack talker) to create some sort of pseudo negatron-surf-discourse writer guy character for himself. He’s a chameleon. In the past he swung his dick with cognitive studies at UCSD to get internet UX (user experience) jobs that lasted a minute. That was when the internet was hot. Yes, he was a dot com douche bag too. Scott Hulet should ask for his money back. Lewis also surfed “retro” boards in Bolinas when that was hot…until BVB started slamming the twin fin selling Mollusk surf shop b/c they (the Mollusk crew) invaded BVB’s surf “art guy” turf and a few waves. Lewis jumped on the BVB anti-wagon b/c it’s easier to hate when you never got love. It pains me to type this, and I speak for everyone that read BVB’s destructional rants on E’s “Niceness” OB blog, if anyone deserves the pub that Lewis gets, it’s BVB. Lewis jacks BVB’s words and tone left and right, inside and out. As much as I think BVB is a dickhead surf comedian, Lewis trying to jack him has made me painfully appreciate the twisted BVB INC originality all the more.
Lewis, please crawl back into your Range Rover parked inside the barn your dad sold for over $1M b/c the book deal didn’t go down. Stop scamming the Sumbawa Foundation and get outta dodge bro. The heat is officially on and deserved beat downs will be had…even if you surf better than me/us. Lastly, it sucks to spew more negative bullshite, but someone needs to call it out and shut you the fuck up before your fingers are broken and your face bashed in. xox, The Bolinas Surf Patrol Admin
Comment by Man Ape — April 13, 2009 @ 7:17 am
Comment by cadaver — April 14, 2009 @ 10:19 am
waah! waah! lewis samuels took a part of my bitter old surf man schtick and did it better than i did, with his own website. waaah! waaah! those fags at mollusk did my surf art culture whore thing with their own store and clique of posers, waaah!
rule #1: NO SNIVELING
BVB: you have FAILED
-10 OB charger cred points
Comment by gr — April 14, 2009 @ 7:02 pm
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Wow - neato website with cool arty picks. Wow - wow is all I can say.
You sound like a young poser but how to pick you out of a crowd is not so original.
Shop Mollusk.
Comment by Man Ape — April 15, 2009 @ 9:36 am
Here is the link for all you surf noids. And BTW I am retired to Mexico and only ride a bodyboard on account of what happened to my leg at the cock fight and ensuing circle jerk.
http://www.stabmag.com/jed/lewis-samuels-fired/
Comment by Man Ape — April 15, 2009 @ 9:40 am
surfer envy rage is the new road rage.
Bells is on the waves look good and some lucky bastard is going to ring that thing today. I’m backing Parko. Fan boi’s and Sticker boi’s unite.
Comment by 3to5setsof7 — April 16, 2009 @ 2:51 pm
John Gnarwad and Allen Scarweed rode their D H Penetrators all day long after a lecture at Mollusk attended by a self proclaimed art claimer, a film of homo oriented slow burning gayness. The pink fish is SOLD.
YOGA tonight.
Comment by Man Ape — April 17, 2009 @ 9:27 am
Yo E, did ya catch Tinariwen in SF or SC last week?
Comment by 3to5setsof7 — April 20, 2009 @ 9:40 am
Comment by cadaver — May 3, 2009 @ 8:05 pm
I always wondered what the secret ingredient was in the “special sauce”…..
Comment by traut — May 4, 2009 @ 2:25 pm
little chopes looks good to me
hope you are all surfed out
Comment by toneman — May 18, 2009 @ 5:36 pm
Comment by cadaver — May 22, 2009 @ 7:31 pm
You know, now that I think about it, I’m kinda missing The Brigade.
Comment by Spiderman — May 27, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
Actually, what we could really use around here is a fresh post.
Comment by Spiderman — May 27, 2009 @ 2:47 pm
seems this blog is officially DEAD…
Comment by Cbrody — June 12, 2009 @ 5:20 pm
yup, pretty dead. but hey, you can all go hang out at stokereport.com now. john quinn, the enginering manager over at that dot-com superstar digg.com, decided to build a surf report site!
they’ve even got a nice little sms hookup so you can report surf conditions right from the break with your phone. isn’t that cool?
and, best of all, you can map all your surf reportage directly to a break name and hook up your stoke report to twitter, so after your killer ARVO SESH at th’ fort, you can tweet it up and everyone will know right away. hot!
so drop by stokereport.com and share some love with john and his pals, and let them know how much we all appreciate what they’ve done.
Comment by gr — June 13, 2009 @ 8:17 am
Comment by cadaver — June 13, 2009 @ 1:56 pm
Just heard from Artifact (Art G.) He has been on his world tour for almost a year now and will be back in the Bay Area in August. He’s on Facebook and he has posted some cool pictures.
Comment by steve — June 29, 2009 @ 8:52 am
Comment by sco — July 8, 2009 @ 11:52 am
come on you losers. i’m surfless in berlin. howzabout some pics, shit talkin, beatdowns, somethin. canape? cobstah, some swell predictions for the spree river? bagel, any new art? tales of the epic o.b. summer south swell? break ins update? trannies vs ohlones? trannies vs trannies? humble pie, some introspective verse?
abe’s not rockin’ the billabong hat for nothin, man.
Comment by sco — July 8, 2009 @ 12:01 pm
Comment by cadaver — July 10, 2009 @ 5:45 pm
sandgina. i knew i could count on cadaver.
smells a little, um, briney.
Comment by sco — July 11, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
Let?s get right to it, shall we? Last time I spied E he was with a retro Mission gurl at Rainbow Grocery Store, they were in the whole wheat pasta section.
Who in the hell, what in the hell is all of this.? Have you no eyes! This fucking place is cooked, stewed, old meat. More like Pismo meets Hermosa everyday.
After too many umpteen years you can have these GGP homeless scabs and the unsightly drunks, you can the weirdos and the pedophiles that prey on young children. Google the 415 sex offender locator.
.
Shove your SDI Java Beach and your Troubled Coffee up your ass. I speak mainly to the exploiters.
The other day I saw some 30 year old dork in a PT era changing robe near my rented house. He was driving a VW Bug, the newer version, bright green, Colorado Plates. I wanted to kill him for all the wrong.
And then the furry thing I almost hit the other day as he jumped out from behind a dilapidated Puegot, Danny Hess fish under his arm. Down from Mollusk - headed for an epic session at peaks peak. The Puegot itself and all its various lost stolen and found contents spilling onto the road.
Can?t the fuckers put a fucking stop sign up or some such shit on that corner ! WTF!
Can?t the city give these people a one way ticket back to Arkansas? &%%*!
Never mind the losers, the thieves, the newer bought in Yuppies form the Midwest and mostly New York or Boston or New Hampshire or wherever the fuck. If you were AT LEAST born in Caliwrongia then maybe you have a right to go around exploiting all that is yours. Nor Cal So Cal Old Cal. SURPULSE ART SURF FART SHOWS, SURF REPORTS SURF CAMS SURF SHOPS SURF PAPRTIES SURF BLOGS, SURF RACKS SURFBOARDS SURF SURFER GIDGET THE FUCKING MIDGET AND KEN. I hate Ken - reminds me of at least 100 of the new surfers I see every freaking day.
The “old guard” lies dying; a heap of nothingness - HISTORY is all that is left and no one but Doc got any real press. I saw Mark Renneker at an art opening the other night. He looked deep into my eyes and said, nothing. I think I have the swine flu from breathing the bad breath of the people at the art opening, the cologne, the nervous sweat, feralmones. YUK!
I could cut a swath of fire through the multitude of people calling this their “local beach.”
You buy in and somehow, instantly you are a local - guess I would yell and scream and claim it too if I was paying a hefty property tax - you could bet I would end up fighting for it. One day Los Angeles and the next, Frisco. It may come as no surprise that a new mentality rules the roost up here. The invasion, the occupation, complete.
This is what the open arms have given to you. You, the speeder, the poseuer, the chumper , the beefed up puffed up droid form god only knows where. I hate you from behind my sunglasses.
I have nothing invested. I surf for free.
Sort of. Except for this spleen fuming gas of a man I have turned into. Thank you Ocean Beach - thank you for the all the glorious days.
I fear it may get ugly out there as the season churns away from the beam that shines not today or next week, maybe not ever again. This is every bit the worst, most crowded, steaming wet, stinking vagina of a played out beach that ever WAS!
Hugs - Bad Vibe
p.s. Blame WORDPRESS for the weirdness of typos on niceness.
Comment by Man Ape — July 21, 2009 @ 10:07 am
Every day - overhead surf, offshore trades, 79 degree water, sunny 85 degree air, I’m unemployed and surfing my ass off — at least, 20 lbs of it. My skin is tan, my gray/brown hair turned blond. I’m on a super diet and starting to workout or swim daily.
The other day, I was surfing with former Miss Hawaii - Malika Dudley. Today, I surfed overhead Big L’s all by myself. Last week I shared waves with Buttons.
I love my life.
Comment by Dennis — August 3, 2009 @ 10:22 pm
Nice post Dennis. You too Man Ape.
Flatness…..Peace to the lovers and haters. Score and keep it quiet.
Comment by 3to5setsof7 — August 14, 2009 @ 4:14 pm
I was the first person to be the 100th post of the day some years back. It’s sad to see that in 5 months, there are only 45 posts.
Most online surf sites have taken a nose dive in the last couple years. But I think in this case, the unfounded and over-the-top negativity turned the community away.
It was a pleasure getting to know you E, and the rest of the group. I met some nice folks here.
Comment by Dennis — August 28, 2009 @ 9:06 am
greetings niceness headz!!
i just stumbled on this site after a loong absence. it’s great to see some old regulars still kickin’ around but kinda sad that the site ain’t what it used to be. i guess we’ve all moved on. regardless, without this site and e’s musings it’s doubtful i would’ve lasted as long as I did in my previous life of cubicle confinement.
i left SF about two years ago and after traveling for a long time have settled down in southern japan. dennis, your post smells of the life i have here. lots of surfing, plenty of time, homegrown food, and happiness. no complaints here. hope everyone else is equally happy and stoked!!
Comment by rza — September 24, 2009 @ 3:16 am
Last post! 8-: (
Comment by Dennis — November 5, 2009 @ 10:12 am
eddie is going!
Comment by sco — December 8, 2009 @ 2:56 pm
Howzit bromigos? heaping helping of quality surf. Vague is still vogue.
Comment by 3to5setsof7 — March 23, 2010 @ 1:11 pm
OMIGOD OMIGOD OMIGOD!
http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/rip-curl-search-event-location-announced_54601/
Comment by sco — April 25, 2011 @ 2:03 pm
Nothing heaves like OB. Hope your scoring.
Comment by 3to5setsof7 — September 24, 2011 @ 6:49 am
Comment by sco — November 3, 2011 @ 12:55 am
Comment by sco — November 3, 2011 @ 1:22 am
tranny kook kelly slater drops in on your barrel.
Comment by sco — November 3, 2011 @ 1:23 am