Archive for the ‘surf’ Category
autumn harbinger
After a surf along the northern Oregon coast Tuesday I found my first Chanterelles of the 2008 mushroom season:
They were exactly where I found my first patch in 2007 only 2 weeks or so earlier.
There Oughta Be a Law Against Sunny Southern California
The title words are Terry Allen’s. I spent much of my childhood there and now only visit. A recent one was fortuitously timed with a bitchin’ little swell that, in the words of Joe Blair, turned Seaside Reef and neighboring Tabletops into, “friggin’ Uluwatu for a day and a half.”Here’s a loose chronological documentation:
Cash on the Barrelhead
I first heard and learned this phrase upon hearing a song with the same name by the Louvin Brothers.
I ran across a scene the other night downtown which brought the phrase to mind only with a slight twist: Old Hickory on the Epoxy:
Mark your calendars folks
This is not my photograph or design. This is an flyer I helped iron out when some resolution issues arose during printing. I made a few other tweaks as well. Come to the event if you’re in Portland and want to support a worthy cause, hear good music, drink tasty beer and meet good folks. Satyricon. Portland, Oregon. Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Be there or be a trapezoid.
Surf in Oregon
Stiv, the surfer in this photograph, posted this picture on his blog.
Lanny Shuler’s hands
Trump coming to the lineup
Viaje a Costa Rica
They’re cartin’ me away. I’m outta here for a while…
broken board blues
The surf was pretty big Saturday. Overhead plus. And it was clean. This unlucky fellow appeared from the water just after I had finished my so so session:
Joe Blair Surfboard
My new stick:
I recently purchsed this 8′6″ longboard through Wardog in Santa Barbara by the shaper Joe Blair of Solana Beach, California. The feelings that accompany the acquisition of a new surfboard are hard to describe. Needless to say, after 3 sessions I’m stoked.
The first day out on it happened near Yachats on Oregon’s central coast:
