Barnacle Season...

It's only a few weeks away. Plowhand and myself will be on the road up and down the California coast then onto the UK.
Looking like September 20th at the St Merryn Hall, Cornwall for a soulful evening of art, film, beer and T shirts(?).
Be there or be keelhauled.

Whilst on the subject...

Of California culture and the 60's, Ed Roths long lost 'Orbitron' was recently found outside a porn shop in Mexico where it had been sitting for quite some time and served as a waste bin. Great find.
http://www.theorbitron.com/

surfer's cross

... used by surfers as a talisman to bring good waves, worn to distinguish the surfer from the rest of society...

... co-opted because young surfers would wear their father's war trophies as an anti-establishment statement...

To catch a thief

3/4 way through the Miki Dora biography, what a great book. A highly recommended read to all Tube Farmers.
Read the Bunker Spreckels bio last week, another good one.
You couldn't invent characters like these. Seems to me that all the colour and life has been squeezed out of surfing in the last couple of decades.... but thats another story.

well equipped

some log type stuff

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