Rocky Romano on the motivation behind his controversial film, Learning to Breathe…
Rocky Romano is the man behind the big-wave centric production company, The Go Big Project. Romano’s first film project began in 2010, following Anthony Ruffo as he struggled with drug addiction, dealing, and the resulting legal consequences.
Previously only available on iTunes or Amazon, the film was recently released for free, for 72 hours, on BeachGrit. and has sparked a heated conversation about an often avoided subject matter in the surf world. I spent an hour with Rocky to hear more about Ruffo, the film’s backstory, and the cast of characters he’ll share next. Listen here or read below.
BeachGrit: As a first time filmmaker, what about Anthony Ruffo inspired you to commit two-plus years of your life to this story?
Romano: I was in Santa Cruz and saw in the newspaper that Ruffo was being busted for the third time. His background as a surfer and an iconic figure in the community who was now struggling so publicly made it a compelling story. But I was also trepidatious because the subject matter is so illicit and ugly. Then I realized, to be the storyteller that I wanted to be, I was going to have to tell the hard stories, not just the beautiful stories. So I reached out to Anthony and suggested that it might be a good idea to share his struggle. Ultimately, after thinking about it, he agreed that he wanted to share his story.
I lived in rehab during parts of the process, and stayed in people’s spare bedrooms. I slept in an abandoned office on my dog’s bed while evading the Feds who were trying to seize my hard drives. They knew about the interviews that I’d been conducting and suspected that they might find evidence that would help implicate people for crimes committed. I didn’t have enough money to make copies of the hard drive nor persevere that kind of setback. Thankfully I was tipped off and I was able to hide out until it blew over.
What was the process of filming?
I began the filming process while Anthony was still struggling with addiction and was awaiting trial. It was intimidating to make introductions into the West Side surfing community, but Ruffo is so charismatic and made me comfortable in such an intimate and personal setting. I filmed him for 2 years, through rehab, through the trials, through jail and everything. I abandoned all other obligations. I paid for the entire project with no sponsor support. I had surf industry sponsors early on, but they all bailed as soon as they saw how raw some of the story really was.
I lived in rehab during parts of the process, and stayed in people’s spare bedrooms. I slept in an abandoned office on my dog’s bed while evading the Feds who were trying to seize my hard drives. They knew about the interviews that I’d been conducting and suspected that they might find evidence that would help implicate people for crimes committed. I didn’t have enough money to make copies of the hard drive nor persevere that kind of setback. Thankfully I was tipped off and I was able to hide out until it blew over. At the end of those 2 years, I had 68 interviews all together. Multiple with Ruffo, of course, one being 4 hours straight. There was 1,000 hours of footage, a lot of which never left the cutting room floor. Interviews with Peter Townend and Michael Ho, among others never made it into the film.
Being a transplant snowboarder from the mountains, it’s interesting that Ruffo and the Santa Cruz surf community would allow you such access into their world.
I think the timing was key. A lot of people were ready to tell their stories to try to make a difference. Santa Cruz has changed a lot in the last couple decades and I think that the movie became vehicle for people to say some things that they’d been wanting to say for a long time.

What has the response been from those involved in the film? Pete Mel, for example, has since become the Big Wave World Tour commissioner. I wonder if his employers have an opinion about his admissions in the film.
I can’t speak for Pete, nor anyone else, but I would think that everyone would be proud of Pete and his honesty. In a world where things are so often swept under the rug, his example of honestly, perseverance and accomplishment are an incredible example.
The film was well received on the festival circuit and won a bunch of awards, but distributors have shied away because of the subject matter. We’ve always just wanted the film to be seen. I lost money of the film, but the goal was always to just get the message out. That’s why we offered the film for free for 72 hours. If the comment section on BeachGrit represent’s public opinion, I’d say that opinions about the film ranged from every possible angle. And more importantly, it sparked a conversation and that was the purpose of the film from the beginning.
I wanted to tell the story because I come from the action sports community and I wanted us to discuss our own problem, rather than having an outside entity expose it. But I also wanted to give an accurate depiction of drug use and the dangers, not like the old “This is your brain on drugs” campaign that just becomes a parody.
You don’t plan to make a profit on Learning to Breathe. How does one make a living as a filmmaker in the surf realm nowadays?
I can only tell you my path. I never made “surf porn”, which seems to be a more common path into the industry. My motivation has always been to tell stories. Ruffo fascinated me as a character with a very rich story. I’m particularly compelled by big wave surfing and the characters who devote their lives to riding giants boards in giant surf. I never viewed filmmaking as way to earn money, but thankfully, by following my passion we’ve been commissioned to produce content. Ultimately, we saw television as the opportunity to earn a living and share these stories with a broader audience. So I moved to LA and we focused on positioning our content towards that goal. We started with our Mavericks’ Moments series where we follow various big wave surfers as they struggle to balance their personal life with their passion for chasing massive swells. We used that model to create three different thirteen-episode series that we pitched at sold to various networks. Then, thankfully, we’ve also been contracted to produce 50 hours of UHD (Ultra High Definition, 4,000k+ resolution) action sports television in 2016. It’s really exciting and will allow us to fully explore storytelling and filmmaking.
The Ruffo story is compelling, but are there any other characters who’s stories you’d like to tease before we see all these shows that you’re producing?
Jeff Denholm is one of the best stories. He’s an East coast surfer who got into Hemingway. He looked around and realized he wasn’t surrounding by men, so he went off and became a commercial fisherman. He was in the Bering Sea when he fell into the gearbox on the ship and had his arm ripped off. He survived a 17 hour evacuation to a hospital where they saved his life. Then he went back to the East Coast and developed a prosthetic arm with a flipper which he then used it to paddle into Mavericks. Just an absolutely amazing story. He travels with Kohl Christenson and some other guys who you’d know.
There are so many working class hero, blue collar stories in big wave surfing. Up in Oregon, near Nelscott Reef, Eric Akiskalian works as a car salesman and rides those massive, frigid waves in relative anonymity. And then we have guys like Garrett McNamara at Nazare during that December swell where he was charging waves and rescuing guys; full superhero feats and such a sensational personality and family. Will Skudin and Treveor Sven Carlson are two stories of perseverance as they struggle to find a spot on the Big Wave World Tour, both featured in our big wave show. Coco Nogales down in Mexico. So many men and women. So many stories. I could go on and on. We tell all those stories in our “Mavericks’ Moment” series.
Get Learning to Breathe here. And follow Rocky Romano’s work here.

(As an interesting addendum, please find below a story Chas Smith wrote about Anthony Ruffo in 2007 whereupon Ruffo is likened to Buddha.)
THE ICE STORM.
YOU HEARD OF METHAMPHETAMINE? LIKE, ICE? DEVIL DUST? THE HI-FI SHIZZLE THAT’S RIPPING APART MINDS FROM LA TO COOLANGATTA? PRO SURFER ANTHONY RUFFO KNOWS ABOUT IT – HE WAS DEALING CRANK UNTIL THE COPS TOOK HIM DOWN. TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE PHENOMENON THAT IS ICE , I WENT TO SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, TO HEAR ANTHONY’S INSPIRING STORY …
Methamphetamine is the most awesome drug that I’ve ever, ever heard of. Ever. You can make it in your fucking bathtub. All you need is some Sudafed, Drano and a ”can-do” ‘tude. It opens the doors of perception for weeks, not hours, and is, like, a third of the price of cocaine. It’s the people’s drug. The working man’s high. I’m soooo so sick of all these bourgeois shithead doctors/policemen/politicians/mums who are trying to “purge” it from our streets. Fuck them. They don’t know how to party like enlightened sages. Truckers, prisoners, Hell’s Angels and a growing number surfers do know how, darling. Party like a plugged-in Kate Moss circa last year. From California to Hawaii to Australia to Indonesia, everybody’s drooling for a giant swell of Devil Dust. Call it what you want: glass, amp, crank, speed, white cross… it’s all ice. Ice, baby.The surfer/speed connection ain’t as new as it seems. In 1989, San Diego was considered the Crystal Capital of North America. Yet, it’s always been stigmatised. The drug-enjoying surf community will think nothing of marijuanee, special k or coke, but don’t bring no methamphetamine around. No, no, no. It’s yucky. It’s low-brow.
Like I said, though, underground use is growing! It’s considered an “epidemic” on the North Shore, a “very serious problem” on the Goldie and a “cancer” in Bali. Fuckin’ good news for a fuckin’ great drug! Seriously, at the present growth rate, each and every one of us going to be addicted to the shit pretty soon. It looks like it follows good waves around, so unless your homebreak is Penrith, west Sydney, you are going to be snorting pre-surf lines of crystal off your cracked dashboard. Nobody stops “epidemic serious problem cancers.” The thing to do is roll with it, baby. Ice, Ice baby.
There’s only one element we need (besides baggies of evil yellow), and that’s a leader. Someone who has walked the path of the white dragon. Someone who can show us all how to live in our tweaky new world. Someone who has been to methamphetamine nirvana and returned to earth; an awakened one. A Blanco Buddha.
Stop right there, because before shab-soaked Pipe, Kirra and Uluwatu there was Steamer Lane. There was Anthony Ruffo.
Anthony Ruffo is a Santa Cruz surf icon, tow pioneer, Teahupoo charger, enlightened meth buddha and convicted felon. He was busted on July 28, 2005 for “possession and sales” of methamphetamine. Fuck, yeah! Sounds good… sounds like he was walking the walk! What the world knows about the show is courtesy of the boring ol’ media. Newspapers, magazines and television stations across the country jumped all over his story like hipsters into skinny jeans.
Santa Cruz CA: Professional surfer Anthony Ruffo was beat like a drum last night. Narcotics officers invaded his house and found him shoving blue funk into the veins of a 12-year-old girl. He was subsequently arrested and will spend his life behind bars sharing a cell with Charles Manson. Burn in fucking hell, Mr. Ruffo. Back to you in the studio! Ruffo was treated badly. Very, very badly. His good name was dragged through Northern Californian dirt by respected, highly-valued, chaste news outlets and… GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK. Like, newsmen don’t all snort coke together at the end of a tough day? All of them, in their ugly ties and foam covered microphones, lining up around a giant glass coffee table piled high with yayo taking turns licking and snorting and babbling incoherently about Bill Clinton’s sweet titties. Fucking please.
Oh, and the surf community jumped right in, too.
Ruffo is a disgrace to everything we stand for. We hate his poohead guts. He’s a jerk. He did very naughty drugs and now our squeaky clean alternative sport won’t be as beloved in the Midwest. Boooo on A. Ruffo. Booo all over him. (Toke toke. Snort snort). Assholes.
He was tried and convicted a junkie pervert in the court of public opinion. Luckily, he had a better lawyer for the court of law (a waaaay better lawyer, but we’ll get to that). After doing his “time”, Ruffo gave a couple interviews to the magazines that smeared him, apologising for his wayward life and said he was a changed man. “I got in a little to deep; I’m glad that everything is behind me…blah, blah, blah… .I’m a bad guy…blah blah blah.”
What tkind of shitty, ham-fisted drivel do you expect when douchebag editors are asking, how’s it going staying clean?
Dumb. Boring. Unoriginal. Not helpful.
With his legal situation in check Anthony’s determined to make only good come from the bad. ARGH! Fuck that motherfucking shit! Ruffo is like a saffron robe-wearing Tony Montana, sitting cross-legged underneath the lighthouse at Steamer Lane. I decided to go on a pilgrimage to fucking Santa Cruz to talk with Bohdisattva Anthony Ruffo myself. I will find him sitting under that lighthouse and bring his experience of enlightenment back to the surfing masses so that we, too, can walk his path.
When I got to the Lane, Ruffo wasn’t meditating meth nirvana. He was ripping a five-foot swell. This whole place is his domain, anyhow: from the lighthouse out to middle peak. He is the top dog, height of the foodchain. Westside shot-caller par excellence. Awakened one. In a vicious lineup, no one dropped in on him for two hours. Three helpful guys standing on the bluff pointed out which neoprene water dot was Ruffo. I told ‘em I was going to have a chat with him. They said he was the best left-handed surfer at the Lane and told me to have fun with the cons. (If there were cons around it was going to be sick! At that point, I knew no more then you do now. Anthony Ruffo had been busted for meth-am-phet-a-mine and had reached enlightenment. I really hoped there would be cons around.)
Ruffo soon exited the freezingness and fielded congratulatory “Way to go, bro” from his comrades. They love him here, or at least the guys who matter. I marched up and told him my name was Charlie and I was there to interview him. “Coooooool, bro.”
His voice was soft, sunny warm and full of secret knowledge. He introduced me to all his buddies and called me “Scottie.” It’s cool, dude. All Santa Cruz surfers have nicknames: Condor, Skindog, Ratboy, Barney. I guess mine was now Scottie. Charlie “Scottie” Smith. Fuckin’ badass. His bros were Darryl “Flea” Virotsko, Anthony “Taz” Tashnik and Nathan “Cromagnatard” Fletcher. Flea suggested that everyone join him at his house, hopped into his 1972 pimped-out purple Impala, picked up two stray girls and sped out of the lot. I followed in my recently wrecked, bottom-ofthe- line Saturn sedan. Fucking badass, Scottie.
The moment I walked in to Flea’s house I knew that Ruffo held the keys to enlightenmeth. The house was a total fucking disaster. Mungey clothing strewn empty shot glass all over a blackleather couch underneath a glass bong no fish in an algaefied fishtank giant cardboard cheque decorated wall disaster. Ruffo tailed me in, pushed some shit off the couch and crossed his legs. “So bro, what do you want to know?” “Please, please… tell me how to get to Yellow Barn Nirvana. I’m not like those others, those hypocrites. Show me the way. Tell me what I need to know.”
He began to share his noble eightfold path.
FIRST: RIGHT VIEW
It all started when Ruffo was a grom, a little fella. At the time, the older Santa Cruz surfers were making a living off surfing, but they weren’t sponsored (in the traditional sense). They were selling Thai weed and coke in order to support their surf habit. Self-sponsored, making good money, surfing everyday, and not having to answer to some dickhead “team manager.” Every so often, they’d throw lil’ Ruffo bags of weed to roll.
Here, kid. Get to work. Wide-eyed future Meth Buddha soaking it all in.
These self-sponsored older surfers had chicks and waves. Ruff was like, “Fuck, all I want to do is surf everyday.” As he got older, he started to rip, which meant olde fashioned regular surf co. sponsorship… but the image of those guys, those early guys, was always in the back of his head. So, pretty soon he started growing weed in his backyard to pay off the surf trips he accumulated on his credit card. That was his thing, his boogie.
He got into sweet sha-bang in either 2000 or 2001 because his dogs died, and…“Meth? It’s a good high, man…very unlike coke.”
Coke is a 15-minute up and down then you want more, more, more. Leave the coke to WCT judges.
“The high off coke is crampy, you know? It’s so fucking… I don’t know… the high when you do a line of meth… you’re way more clear. It’s not an up and down thing. Snorting a line, it hurts, but your high is 10-to-12 hours.” He could see where it wasn’t good for everyone, but for Ruffo – the shit was the shit.
SECOND: RIGHT-INTENTION
So, he was hanging around with these different people (aka former convicted felons), doing his shizznittlebang, but wasn’t making a lot of money. He just barely scraped by with sponsorship and side jobs.
Then, it hit him. Hit him like a giant sacred fig falling from a Bodhi branch. He perceived a void, an emptiness, and thought, “Fuck, there are people who want this shit and, I know, A plus B… I can put them together and I can make some money.”
Enlightened fucking epiphany, baby. Sir Isaac Newton sitting under the apple tree; Pythagoras discovering that the world is round; Buddha’s awakening – epiphany.
Ruffo didn’t start selling to be cool. He was already cool. He simply saw that he could make good money and, again, surf all the time. A self-sponsored pro. Just like his forefathers.
Meth wasn’t big in Santa Cruz at that time. The white wave hadn’t washed through. Of course, everybody had heard of it from places like biker bars, and fucked-up backwoods towns, but nobody was really using it. Plus, it was looked down upon. Stigmatised. Everyone using coke would say that they were worried about the guys doing twack. Yet, they would preach this shit while high as fuck on cocaine.
Ruffo was like, “I’ll listen to you, bro, if you’re telling me this at three in the afternoon instead of three in the morning. Look at you right now. You’re a mess. You’re doin’ an eight ball, and I did one line of fuckin’ the shit and you’ve done – how many lines now? Six or seven already? I mean, I’m worried about you, bro.”
Weird social clashes. Ruffo had to keep his shit low key. Under the ray-dar.
THIRD: RIGHT SPEECH
Along with methamphetamine sales came some new friends. Now Ruffo had two whole separate sets of pals. His surfing bros helped him patrol the Westside line-ups, tow into macking Mavericks, and party like a rock star.
His convict buds helped him move the quartz to all those enlightenmentstarved souls… and also party like a rock star. The cons are actually called Norteños (or Nuestra Familia), and are a prison gang that started in 1960’s California. American jails have always been a slice of shower rape hell, but you know what they say, When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Northern California Mexicans had it doubly tough because their Southern California counterparts thought they were farmer douchebags, and would beat the shit out of them. Thus they got doubly going and started to kick ass. Drugs, guns, drugs, death, drugs. It’s their ruthless cut-your-fucking-headoff- while-you-sleep commitment that has made them one of today’s most powerful gangs, in and out of prison. They are armed to the gills, wear red, claim the number 14 and rule large swatches of the American drug trade. Ruffo was cool with them because he was a trustworthy dharma cat, which is rare in the game. He had hundreds of thousands of dollars coming in and going out. Tempting to dip into the coffers… unless you’re awakened. He also had other gangs coming after him, trying to co-opt his network. No worries, mate. The family provtected him. Nortenos run all out mafia style. Shot-callers, hitmen, muscle, omerta. The full 14 yards.
Usually things went alright for Ruff-O’s awakened business venture, but there were times he had to call on the gangster “know-how.” If guys were being pricks and not paying, then they would get “dealt with”. That’s the way the boogie went. Fist-flying extravaganzas of pain resulting in immediate restitution. Sometimes these “scuffles” would happen at his house, and he witnessed how powerful those Norteños were. Blood-stained carpets. Samsara, baby.
The ever-important cycle of suffering dished out on those who needed some correction. “Now go, my child, and next time DO NOT FUCK WITH BOHDISATTVA RUFFO!”
FOURTH: RIGHT ACTION
He never made the shit (mashing up the Sudafed with the Drano, etc. etc.). That is for mountain hicks, and Ruffo ain’t no mountain hick. He was a distributor, a first-class salesman.
“The shit” was all coming out of Mexico. First it would come out as crank, the raw, orange-y junk. Then, “certain people” would turn it into “shards.” Shards, for the uneducated, is what you have when the orange-y junk is purged. They clean it which makes it more powerful, potent. Pretty soon, it was just coming in as shards (crystal), because they were purifying it in Mexico. The dudes who were bringing it up lived in Nor Cal, but had their ties down south, so they’d just go over the border, get their boogie and bring it back. Smuggle it in. Ruffo simply received the quantity and got rid of it. Easy as 1,2,3. He had guys working under him who were engineering most of the person-to-person sales. Ruffo, the ever-powerful businessman and networker, was great at his job. He reached Fizz Wizz Nirvana. Fully awakened. Now he was the Master, tweaking under the Bodhi tree.
I’m not going to go in to detail but wait till you see the air generations problem with opiates,when you have to quit surfing to work construction and your ACL,MCI,what have you just shredded,theres a whole new gen. of addicts and in my opinion way worse than Ice.I’ve heard of seizures 3 of my friends are dead,and two thirds of them might as well be.
so why would ever defend the integrity of drug dealers…..and why would you criticize anyone who say people who sell meth and tar should be in prison? POC loses? I don’t think so. You lose, by the sound of it, lots of friends. I guess the upside is if all your friends who surf shoot dope and smoke meth, the line up isn’t to crowded
I answered both questions in one statement.
yes you did….you answered both questions…you suck…and swallow ruffs cock
Right because flea fully proved meth keeps you from surfing big waves. I’m not saying it’s right,I’m saying your wrong.
who cares if you surf big waves meth..if it ends you career…ever see flea towing at mavs since he quit doing meth? nope
you just proved my point? That your statement was shit? Now your flip flopping.
haha…i think flip flopping is what you and ruffo do while you re smoking the meth pipe..
Oh ok it’s like…..your taking deep breaths ….or thinking of another homophobic insult to sling in anonymity .
the fact that you are a dicksucker does not me a homophobe…i don’t even hate you…though i have every reason…..you can do better than that…come on nick….von bankrupt..that your real name?private account= anonymity
So is darth Vader totally your father then you peanut?!
yea…did wonders for his career eh? fell off a cliff up north.high on meth.almost died, no sponsors, except his rehab..as you can see…he s is still charging mavs not on meth…..haha..NOT…guy is washed up….flea is an average small wave surfer at best….charged mavs on meth for sure……
and he was a user….not a dealer your boyfriend ruffo…you should buy him a membership for hair club…ruffo looks like he could use…you know…keep him cut for yourself while you are swallowing his sword
what is this”….” shit are you …lost in 1999? I don’t even know ruffo even if I did I’d still have the same opinion,I never championed him. again,angry brazi who can’t spell or read.
haha..i guess you could argue meth did wonders for fleas career…he never would have headmen if he didn’t charge mass high on meth…started and ended with the drugs…but your career…well shit..hasnr done much for you…never saw a pic of you towing mass on your sponge…all it got you was a mouth full of ruffo cock..which is still firmly lodged deep in your throat
Called it Homophobic insult that……took way too long to type your getting predictable mate.
i am impressed with your ability to smoke meth head cock while you type….must be some good chit you smoke
mango backcrossed with OG and stabilized to not go hermi,. Makes toying with you pretty fun. If I was tweaking I would think I would be I dunno maybe writing”…….” or “kook” or punctuating things like shit.
haha…i won’t let you toy with me, like you do ruffo…man he must have some good meth
next time you come to santa cruz let me know…so i can at least flog you with your sponge at the lane
I’m backing down cuz a moderator is deleting your “chit” and I would like to be involved in other legitimate conversations that aren’t repeat slurs.
ahhhhh…nighhtty night nick…guess you lose
oh i see….well…you started by calling me an asshole….so i guess maybe next time you will come up with something better than that…you may type better than a brazo like me….but your whit and humor is lagging….i guess I’m pretty smart for a third world uneducated poo stance surfer……but at least i m not…well..you
Yeah but cmon man, You are a massive asshole.. And extremely ignorant to boot..
call me an asshole to get it started…and then bail…ahh..i look forward to reading what you have to contribute in “legitimate conversations”…..
You are an asshole?
………..waiting I see ya typing
I don’t vote, it’s just a way for the federal government to impinge on my God-given liberties. Better to expound my position circuitously on the internet.
From what I could see Santa Cruz is home to surfers who seriously believe they are the coolest most hardcore people to walk this earth, it’s a compressed microcosm of all that makes surf culture so stupid, that bubble to protect you from criticism and the responsibilities that come with adulthood, so sheltered from reality that they have no idea that they are part of it. People who can’t let go, who believe that everyone is impressed because you have a few stickers on your board, can’t get a major sponsor but are willing to sell themselves to wear some shit house label that will be gone in 6 months all to feel like a life wasted isn’t because stickers validate it all.
I don’t envy those that sacrifice everything to surf, I pity them especially since surfing culture has become kind of lame, I see them when surfing is all they’ve got, the ability to rationalize the importance of it is lost, desperation reeks from them as they hustle their way through another surf.
I also have a theory about drug addicts where they get stuck in the era they start using drugs, I have seen many examples of this and SC seems to be no exception to this theory.
Welcome back Seaman. Straight into a hall of fame post!
I just wait until sufficient levels of angst need to be released. You been getting much of the East Coast swell that’s been lingering over there?
Nah, its only hitting down here now and has swung around to a shit direction! Up North has been on by all accounts… You should breed to bring up those angst levels.
That’s no good, I’ve seen some good pics on my Mount based friends social media feeds the last couple of weeks, in saying that it ain’t been too bad over here lately. And I’ve done my breeding already.
whats the theory ss?
Basically people who become habitual drug users get stuck in the era they begin using the drug, mindset, fashion etc. If you look at the guys in SC they are dressing how ‘surfers’ dressed in the 90’s/early 00’s same with guys that love the pingers full rave/nightclub styles still going on. It’s my own theory of course.
You might just be paraphrasing ‘The Cigar Store Indian’ Seinfeld episode intro stand-up piece;
” You can always tell what was the best year of your father’s life, because they seem to just freeze that clothing style and just ride it out to the end, don’t they? And it’s not like they don’t continue shopping, it’s just they somehow manage to find new old clothes. Every father is like this fashion time capsule, you know what I mean. It’s like they should be on a pedestal, with someone next to ’em going ‘This was nineteen sixty-five’.
True.
your a dick and you dont know shit. I hope one day you cross paths with a surfer and they kick your ass
Maybe, wrong, who knows and unlikely.
Stoked on David as a contributor to Beach Grit!!!
Dude… Its obviously your first time over here. Maybe have alittle look around and get a feel for the website and the tone of the commentary before ripping straight into people.
hey Neg……simply putting my opinion out there…people like CHAZZ want to run their mouth and comment on my opinion..then they end up getting run over because of it…and cry….if you read the thread…you will see….
I read the thread… you put more than your opinion out there.
“evil drugs” – give me a break. Do you still sleep with the light on little boy? Probably with a firearm under the pillow instead, because you’re not scared of the bogeyman any more, right?
haha…hey horatio…i guess you have to like meth because you import it across the border..or maybe it s your “primos”. Ever been to Santa Cruz? or still waiting to cross the rio grande?This town is full of meth heads who steal anything and everything that isn’t bolted down to get more meth..and tar…..shit they rob the ice cream man, taco trucks, banks, mi pueblo………if meth is so great…why are all you mexicans bringing it here instead of selling it on your own country?…
I’m pretty sure every white trash, trailer-dwelling meth cook is offended that you just gave Mexicans credit for their mastery of eighth grade chemistry.
Are you Donald Trump?
Huh WTH — I’m Donald Trump! And I love this web site and all of you commenters. This is a really positive lovely place.
Ummmm horatio is an Italian name you scum bag..
Ruffo’s lawyer was married to Bridgette O’Neil, as in Jack’s daughter, which pretty much makes him the man in Santa Cruz. It’s a tight knit community of surfers there and they were just looking out for one of their own. People make mistakes (except you, cuz u have too much common sense), and I think if you asked Ruffo he would tell you he made mistakes, and now he’s trying to make up for them that’s all.
i don’t give a fuck who ruffs lawyer is married too CHAZZZ…
should be looking out for the kids who bought meth from him…not some donkey 3 times convicted drug dealer…..and fuck CHAZZ….I know several goofy footers in town who surf better than Ruffo ever has
True, he’s not the best. And I agree with you meth is fucked up.
so why you talking shit then CHAZ??? try to insult me? call me a Republican? haha…i m way smarter than those dipshits…..and definitely smarter than a lib progressive. Meth is fucked..if you use it…bad for you..if you sell it…bad for everyone….and should be dealt a harsh sentence……and if you pretend to be a surf gangster selling drugs…well too fucking bad…you deserver more time……Ruffo tryng to turn everyone in SC into meth zombies…did wonders for Peter Mel, and Flea didn’t he?im right..and you know it…but you still try to insult me…your name is CHAZZ…and you re fucked
yeah we all know meth is fucked , but how did we find out? I saw it first hand in Hawaii 30 year ago , and have seen the result there..SC went thru the same thing and trialed and errored with devastating results just like everywhere else , now its Australia , FFS if you are not part of the solution , so what have you done Pof CS , other sitiing back like parker just sniping and seeing no hope …??
spent 15 years hiring those meth heads and getting them off the shit and into jobs. Bought 7 of them vans, gave them jobs, taught them how to make $$,handed out hotel rooms ,food, cell phones and clothes and jobs to over 15k homeless people from SCt o NYC…..thats what I have done…and thats why I have zero tolerance for people who sell meth to others in their own community. Sell meth to a kid, and see their parents at the grocery store or out surfing? thats some serious bullshit right there. I don’t care who you are…if you sell meth, you deserve to go to PRISON….not jail. or jn ruffos case the farm. i have 20 homeless people working this week Maurice…..how about you?
I see why ur so upset. Sorry for making a joke earlier. I was just messing with you thats all.
It was a pretty poor “joke”
haha true
Is this the worst one ever or what?
not upset bro…..just think it s lame when anyone makes excuses for meth dealers….they know what they are doing…..and if they get caught…thy should take their lumps like a man….
gee PofCS , looks like you gave a lot of,” things”, to meth heads , but not much empathy and you seem to see them as hopeless cases and blame the individuals and not the culture , zero tolerance sounds pretty harsh , when you consider the meth scourge is really new to a lot of communities and there is little or no understanding of the long term consequences of meth addiction as is now happening in Australia. Its what Ruffos doing now that’s more important than clinging onto past mistakes. I am not going to get into a pissing contest with you about who’s doing what ,but yeah I am and have worked with juveniles in prison who are meth addicts and also the kids of meth addicted parent who have been on the shit for 20 years or more, and also in my local community ….but don’t publicize it like you seem to need to do with homeless people.
haha Maurice…you really are a donkey…..you ASKED ME WHAT I DO TO HELP……and I told you. i didn’t ask you if you work juvenile prisoners….nor do I care. If that is what you do…..then you should know. i have displayed my empathy for users….and have none, nor will i ever have empathy for low life dirt bags who sell meth to kids…especially in their own backyard….or a tight knit communtity like SC……if you have ever been here you will know there are trolls strung out on every corner, park, and bike trail in this town…shooting meth and tar..leaving dirty needles EVERYWHERE….shitting and pissing in public…..yea meth has done wonders of this community. i have empathy for the law abiding tax payers who have to tolerate this shit everyday in this town more than the consumer of meth….
what about people who sell alcohol to young kids? do you have the same opinion? and yes you did ask me ,”how about you?” but that was a day ago , since then you seem to have gone a racist rant on Mexicans , and even seem to have some beastiality complex with donkeys . but I guess one positive you seem to love those law abiding tax payers , fuck you do sound like Donald Trump!
to imply alcohol and meth are the same is a joke. no wonder so many mexican youth are gangsters selling meth, because people like you who claim to be there for help are enablers…meth comes from methico…thats a fact…to deny it or cal me a racist because i say it is a joke too. it s true…racist…fuck maurice….i speak spanish fluently..lived there for years..LEGALLY……it s nit that i am a racist…..you are just a pussy who can’t call it the way it is….this website should be call beach baby….for all the liberal, feel good pussies who want to talk shit, instead of the truth……i guess i ll take sounding like donald trump as a compliment as he has more support than any other candidate….way better than sounding like BO…or some other lib wanker…haha….you need to change your screen name…maurice cole is a legend…and you are an embarrassment……
this is Maurice Cole , my mention of alcohol was in reltion to your quote that , “You only have empathy for law abiding tax payers,” so underage drinking is not law abiding , you seem to blame everybody for this meth scourge but offer no solutions , you bag the Mexicans and just because you speak Spanish and lived there doesn’t exclude you from stereo typing Mexicans like that moron Trump , maybe your birds of a feather?
what about anybody caught with meth , gets a life sentence in jail and the death penalty for dealers , and suppliers ..ahh…there whole family gets the death sentence ?
or ….treat the addiction as a disease and work from there, but right wing people like you and the Trumpet , wouldn’waste the time or especially the money….so your solution…?
oh by the way , there are a lot of people with addiction that have been able to turn around their lives , with help from those damn liberals you are quickly to criticize ..so please your solution!
whhaaaaaa….whhaaaaa…whhaaaaaa……close the border….lock up meth dealers……i have more mexican friends than you wlll ever know…and they like me……and i don’t stereotype all mexicans…just the ones who bang, and sell meth to kids…..i don’t support selling alcohol to under age kids…thats just stupid and i never said it…dont put word in my mouth Maurice….i don’t blame everyone for the meth scurge…i know who is responsible. it comes from mexico, from the cartels, and their gangs sell it here…and they shoot and kill each other everyday on the central coast to control the trade…..if you think that is untrue…you should go take another hit of meth yourself..the good shit..you know, that comes from…canada…makes me a racist? shit maurice…you are all fucked up….if i said anything here that is untrue…explain
Ah so thats your solution ,close the border ,lock up meth dealers ….for life? I see alcohol has a pretty bad drug ,so was interested in your opinion on 20 year olds drinking…lock them up or the people who sell it? Any and all illegal drugs have the same infrastructure , in coming from another country ,cartels , gangs that shoot and kill each other , its a fact of life as when there is demand , there will be supply…have you said anything wrong…..?
its just our opinions based on facts and some of us selective in what facts we use. You tell me I am all fucked up your opinion because I am a liberal (which in Australia means right wing) and I see people like you as the Tea Party/right wingers , I think Trump might be perfect for becoming the USA president as you echo his ..close the borders , stop the illegals , stop the Muslims , and we need more guns …each to his own .
I haven’t see any logical solution to the Meth problem from you , I think its all about education , and the best educators are former abusers and users!
Hey Maurice, who said life? 10 years would be fine
All good to have your say, but all the name calling and insults? You’re just trolling… So best you stick to posting on the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Yes well we will never know if anything you’ve written here is even close to factual will we. We’ll never know if you’ve ever worked with drug addicts or not, nor bought “7 of them vans”, or have lots of friends from Mexico. Nothing of what you’ve told us about yourself is verifiable at all. What is verifiable is that you’re not super intelligent, you’re a clumsy writer, and you’re very angry. So there ya go.
why you bagging on POC…..because he calls it the way it is? We will never know if you are Nick Carrol…unless we see a picture of your chin? and why would, the brother of a meth ADDICT, ever defend the standoff a guy like ruffo who was convicted multiple times for math dealing? You should hate meth heads more than anything seeing what it did to you brother, an ALL STAR, one of the best goofy footers ever…..almost lost it all because his friends sold him meth. You got it all wrong…..if you use drugs its one thing. If you sell meth, its another. Drug dealers know the consequences, and should be willing to accept 5-10 years of prison time if they sell meth to people anywhere….so they can surf more.Ruffo could be a good guy…..but he should have served 5-10 years for his crimes. Then he can get out and preach to drug addicts…he s still partying in down town Santa Cruz…..so how can a convicted drug dealer run a rehab……and hangout on bars every weekend?
Man these two have totally lost the fucking plot!? It totally freaks me out these people walk among us..
Dude you lost get over it.
what did he lose? Ruffo is a washed up meth head,maybe you worship a guy like that, if so you are the loser…guy hasn’t contributed a single thing to surfing or the community he lives in…I know…because i am his neighbor
I was saying the other guy lost the argument with Maurice does anybody on here know what the word “context” is? Guess not. Had nothing to do with Ruffo and more to do with the party of reasons comments as for my other comment it’s called “foreshadowing” asshole
hey nick, you should go put RUFOO s cock deep in your throat where it has been for so long, and maybe Maurice can fist your other hole for you…KOOK
You’re pushing the envelope Skywalker… Attacking ones character whilst posting under a Alias is a pretty weak move. Have your opinion bro but the insults you can leave at the door
guy calls me an asshole…….and I’m in the wrong…neg…give me break…this is hard candy journalism…my opinions are correct,and you agreed with several….nic von bankrupt call me an asshole….. have to speak up
and you censor people s opinions…come on neg….ytour boy mauroce is taking calls from meth heds threatening your employee…a foreigner at best……if you open a forum for people to speak…..let them speak…boot me off your hard candy opinion site because wankers want to defend loser meth heads like ruffo…..com one bro….you should be impartial at the least…meth is bad…meth dealers worse….and bad for surfing no matter what…
Like I said speak your mind. But lay off on the personal insults. We don’t want this forum to turn into a place for petty shit slinging … Debate!
ok….so does niece get warned for calling me an asshole after i make an intelligent comment? i will shred every one these guys for defending a meth dealer…till the end….if you call me an asshole unprovoked.. i have the right to call you a kook right? your boy maurice is calling out threats of violence to one of your employees….and you censor me?…guy is from oz….not even from here…..the defense of meth dealer who is a surfer is indefensible…
by the way…why is your account private if you are the moderator…..you should be open for praise and criticism….hiding being your screen name and censoring is weak….at least at stab people can speak their mind and take ownership of what they write. i am right in everything i have said, you have even agreed with me more than foreigners like Maurice
I could argue, but to be honest I can’t be bothered. Have all the free speech you want on your own website.
hard candy journalism….just like can and msnbc…neg….if someone call me an asshole after i make an intelligent comment…..is that an insult?
hide behind your hard cock, excuse me, hard rock candy journalism
isn’t that what surfing all about about…..pushing the envelope…this an article about a convicted drug dealer who has wreaked havoc on his own neighborhood by selling the dirtiest drug ever. anyone who defends him should have their character attacked…everystatement i have made is true. I live in SC, not sheltered by MC and his little stint in san clemente. You have agreed with several of my comments
oh no I’ve been called a kook,What the fuck is this lunada bay? Spell my name right you mental midget.
ok…let m3 spell it for you..DICKSUCKER…
I’m sure you are used to be called kook…but i guess all those people had it wrong all this time….your name is spelled DICKSUCKER
it s easy to spell your name…COCKSMOKER
Judging by your punctuation, spelling , and ability to understand context your Brazilian. Go poo stance and shoot womprats from your sky cruiser or whatever star wars nerd vehicle your driving whle you kiss your sister and get handy J from han. Donkey
oh come on DICKSUCKER…is that the best you got? I guess you are a multi tasker…you can type at the same time you swallow Ruffos cock..impressive….does he slap you around with your spongerat the same time….just curious if he is a multi taker like you
and hairclub for men works….How do I know?… I’m not just a doctor,I’m a patient!
you re not a patient…you re a cocksmoker.
you are no longer a legend.funny to hear a foreigner in the USA claiming he knows it all, and he admits that drugs have overrun every facet of society. I guess if you surf, make surfboards, or make trunks, selling drugs to kids is ok, not only ok, but encouraged, because fuck Maurice, we all want to surf more and work less. Wreck a few lives, no biggie, sell drugs to your friends? no biggie. Ask Tom Carroll, ask Flea, Barney, Tyler Smith, and Peter Mel how the meth they bought from Ruffo helped their lives. Cultural? Please! Pathetic argument.
legends are dead people lukey , I don’t know it all, that’s your twisted version , I have 40+ years of watching and being part of the surf culture which at times has been saturated with drugs , instead of trying to belittle me and attack my dredibility , lets know your solutions on how to deal with the current drug problems?
what you really mean is you have been a a fucking drug user for 40 years Maurice……you should pack your shit and go home. Coming to the USA and defending meth dealers because they surf. You re a kook, and should be deported….you have sold drugs and used them for 40 years, thats why you defend a kook like ruffo…..you and your boys been smuggling shit from Southeast Asia for decades…..makes you the same scum bag as Ruffo,go home to OZ, or France…or wherever the fuck you came from, you re not an American. Beat it.
missed this one , so you just make up shit about me in public as you don’t have the balls to put your real name up here , threaten me , as a non-American , want to box with me , use the lamest argument that putting dealer/users inde will work , so angry you think by driving down here to SC/cataylyst will fix everything , put your name up here and as I am coming to SC next week and lets sit down and have coffee and sort this shit out! I stand by what I have said here all along , its the dealers who are not users of highly addictive drugs are the people you should be hunting and abusing , yeah but they have real muscle and would take you out in a heart beat. So see you in SC next week??
10 years mandatory. See Maurince, with all of your infinite wisdom you should know, 98% of meth heads and heroin junkies never recover, because the shit sucks. You should have thought about that when you were smuggling that shit into your country and selling back in the day, and don’t deny you did it, you all did. you re the same as Ruffo, import drugs, then go volunteer with the ruins of your business. Classic shit Maurice, how the fuck did you get into this country anyways? you swim the Tiiana river with a bundle?
better check the dictionary dip shit, if you can read. Unless of course you wrote, then you would know, you’re summer than you sound…Maurice, you really should finish up shaping that last board for Lost, and get lost. Beat it. You re classic, telling RP to look out fro your washed up group of meth heads,haha…..funny that when meth heads get pissed they call you. i guess you offer crisis management and drugs, at least you can multi task.
Hey Maurice, if you can read, check the definition of a legend, again you prove you know little about anything but shaping boards
culture doesn’t put a meth pipe in your hand…people do…..People make decisions for themselves…not culture…if thats your approach…you will be working in prisons for the rest of your life because you are a bullshitter who doesn’t make people take responsibility for their actions…maybe thats your ploy…..job security..fucking social workers produce nothing…they leech off of society…if thats your job…well you will never contribute a single penny to society…and based on the massive numbers of addicts, and gangbangers in jail….you are doing a shitty job.thats pretty fucked up. I don’t talk about problems meth heads have….i help them solve them….and if they can’t….well….there s million others that might try to help themselves…..the more you do for others…the more you have to do for others….
WTF would you know what I do , no I am not a social worker , what I do is low key and I do it out of being able to have a positive affect , and actually help kids get back to reality. Your rant anger ,judgmental bullshit seems to paint a picture …..all the problems that you talk about are part of western culture and no different in the surf culture ,seeing people recover and then help others seems a pretty positive thing .
what have you done for them Maurice, besides a little small talk? give em a job? a hotel? clothes? food? $$$? Just what we thought, you have done nothing for any of them, except sell them a bindle, and give them a little pat on the cheek while they’re locked up
someone as small minded , bitter and twisted as you would not understand about being part of building self esteem , hope and creating a positive pathway for people to believe and have faith that there are people who care and become part of their life . you are a sad little person lukey???
how about we box tomorrow Maurice…..you re just a blow in transplant…i ll meet you at catalyst tomorrow…and when i win…i will air brush your ugly mugg with a big fat pussy that you deserve, and send you home to any country that will take you
missed all this as it was sunday , so do you think putting me in a box will help the drug problem here , is that one of your solutions??
missed you yesterday , try again today …….can’t wait to meet you or are you just RP’s alter ego?
like i said…what have you DONE for meth heads? rooms?money? food?clothes? jobs? your reply is nothing…..you have done nothing… but you say a lot…..you re a fuckong foreigner…you know nothing.you know lots of meth heads and drug dealers because you are or were one…you have done nothing to change anything…otherwise you would say it. How many hotel rooms have you given meth heads? how many jobs have you provided? how many clothes have you handed out?how much $$ have you contributed? ever go to santa ana and pass out food?…ever sat under a bridge on XMAS eve with a meth head who killed themselves and the guys he camped with? jobs? money? rehab?…you haven’t done shit…..but you spray all over here…ike you re a saint….lets box maurice…it would be fun
ah so giving things is the way to help?
you re just a little chimp, you should go home now
pay taxes here maurice?
yeah
He still rips tho
who cares….i know several goofy footers who surf better than he ever did
haha I just looked at your other posts and you are a huge republican d bag. What are u even doing here.
I know one of Ruffo’s attorneys. He went to law school with my dad, and he was married to a certain Santa Cruz princess for a while. VERY good lawyer. VERY smart guy. He was also a VERY good surfer back in the day. If it wasn’t for him Ruf may still be locked up. Sidenote: I jumped in at the Lane the other day and Ruff was out there…TEARING. Still ripping harder than most people half his age.
he should be in prison. Ruffo is nothing more than a waannabe gangster surfer. Selling meth to people in your own community…so shitty…..fucked up flea s career, and you could throw a few morenames in that circle who went down with the help of Ruffos meth. Surfs pretty good for a 50 year old meth head….but way overrated.He should be in prison for selling meth and wrecking lives, not idolized for it.Its ok if you sell drugs, as long as you take the consequences like a man, and not some whiny little pro surfer who doesn’t deserve time
ah he did do time , did the crime served the time , no one is idolizing him , didn’t see him whining , he wore the consequences and now tries to help people……
you don’t live in sc then….he cried his way all the way to the farm, delayed his trial so he could avoid jail time…..the farm…shit…thats a joke…a vacation…….not fit for a gangster of Ruffos stature..claiming he was a norte and shit…that s not doing time…he should have been sent to san quentin…or down to central coast prison…..and yes…many fools do idolize him….
The only reason he´s not serving real time now is because he´s white. Plain and simple.
I would like to see how many years he would get if he were black or latino.
F.A.O. Chas and Derek – you are already late with the Blood Feud: Rory Parker vs Maurice Cole (and his tweaker pack)
This feud must be realized in all of its glory. At least a thoughtful point-counterpoint.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
.
who are you
I am Charles Webster Baer
what is gig
gig is global internet government
what does gig do
gig lays the foundation for a world government and world currency by following the united nations and the international monetary fund to its logical conclusions on line
whats your deal
gig . . . .
why don’t you get a life
I don’t want a life
does gig make any money
no , however , its not about money and I also feel that gig will eventually make lots of money
how is gig going to save the planet
by helping lower the human population to a sustainable level and thus allowing the environment to heal and survive
how can I join
if you support gig , your a gigga . if you support freedom and human rights you support gig . if you promote gig on social media your part of the gig team .
is gig trying to take over earth
no , gig is trying to assist humans in their cultural and social evolution so they can hurry up and arrive at a point where they decide not to kill the planet
you think your smarter than everyone else
no , I think all humans are equal and those of us that are lucky enough to get it together completely have a responsibility to share the knowledge with all
do you believe in god
no , all humans are agnostic and smart people realize this . I am a Buddhist however Buddhism is not a religion it is a philosophy . if I had to pick a religion I would pick atheism . all institutions that claim knowledge of god are religions and atheism claims knowledge of god in that there is no god . however , the concept of god is so vauge that it is hardly a concept in the first place . to sum up , religion is out dated and environmentalism is my religion .
are you god
everything is god
are you crazy
everyone is crazy
do you want to kill people
I want all women to have the right to decide that they will not have kids and I want to advise them to make that decision
then the human race will go extinct
ok , according to your premise , then we should not turn on the air conditioner if its hot because we will freeze to death , or , if we are in iowa we should not drive south because we will land in the gulf of mexico and drown . your premise is stupid and wrong . all people alive today will die on a planet that has to many people on it . the best solution is one woman one child policy that china use to have and the whole world needs now . the question is what is the number that is sustainable . the answer is for future generations to decide . I think its two or three billion . the point is this , its less that 8 billion and we should not roll the dice with our fate . there is a point of no return and we have reached it or are rapidly approaching it and that’s immoral . its suicide .
what about local politics
small potatos
what about the presidential race
gig supports Charles Webster Baer , libertarian , for president of the usa in 2016 and 2020 .
why are you in china
I like china
china is against freedom of speech
its improving
china is polluting the planet
humans are polluting the planet
so only rich people should have kids
this is not an economic class issue . this is not a racial or religious issue . this is a human issue . all people must stop reproducing now . period . its very simple and it has nothing to do with money or skin color or god .
no one is listening to you
I’m listening to me
well that’s nice
it is
whats the deal with gig and the IMF
gig wants to help the IMF get its point across . the IMF web site is shit . gig will monitor all the financial transactions of all the governments on earth . give all the people total transparency and accountability now . the accuracy of these unofficial numbers will improve over time . we must unite all of asia and all of north and south America now into continental economic unions just like how Europe has done it
you use to babble on about the usa navy and gig
that’s right . I’m on the fence about that one . gig maps will include outer space , under ground , above water , under water , air space , etc . the issue here is international water on the ocean and naval policy twords illegal ships carrying illegal aliens . is this an act of war or a humanitarian crisis . is this a job for the usa navy or the coast guard or someone else . how close do they have to be before action is taken . what action . these are big questions that will soon demand big answers and the usa navy is the deer in the headlights on this , so . . . . . . . . gig will help clarify this matter .
how
well , uh , I don’t know . blow em up is one option . relocate is another . we don’t have to stress until it comes to our shores but in on in the med so lets see how Europe handles this .
so , gig will eventually become the de facto default world government
unless someone else beats us to it . this will all go down long after I die .
whats your legacy
I will be the guy who was in the right place in the right time with the right stuff and nobody ever noticed
that’s tragic
not really . Ive had lots of fun and no single individual can make any meaningful impact on human history .
so you just going to keep gigging
its better than non gigging
it sounds like you made gig just for yourself
shhhhhhh
.what is gig compliance
a nation can only merge with other nations to form a larger nation if it is gig compliant . for a nation to be gig compliant it needs to have a debt that is under 2% of GNP . gross national product . it needs to have inflation be under 3% for over 3 consecutive years . it must have a balanced budget amendment . that means if the lawmakers don’t have a balanced budget , they have broken the law and they go to jail . it must be a democracy with a free press . it must have total freedom for everyone , including reproductive rights . this is a gig compliant nation that is free to merge with other gig compliant nations to form a new nation
you have been critical of the IMF
yes , the richest people on earth are the Europeans and they are the ones getting the IMF money . Greece , Ukraine , etc . this is totally wrong and it is destroying the IMF’s legitimacy .
you have said that Russia is in play
well , Russia sold us Alaska and that was great for us . maybe in the future Russia sells east Russia to china , or japan , or a group of nations . or maybe Russia becomes part of America or china . its clear that Europe wants Russia bad . that goes back centuries . Russia is the golden goose , the x factor . but Russia will probably just stay Russia . in fact , I think the middle east will invade Russia up the middle . world war 3 is shaping up to be the muslims vs. everyone else . I’m betting on everyone else but I have to give up the points .
your anti muslim
I am unaware of any useful purpose that religion has in this millennium . the cons have out weighed the pros for some time now in my estimation . when I was young I realized that if I avoided everything about religion I would end up learning more about it than I wanted . so I avoided everything about religion and I ended up learning way more about it than I wanted to know . terrorists are just people who take religion seriously .
so your saying that religion is for the peasants
the idea is that we all have the freedom to rise , or sink , to the spiritual level of our choice . religion can and is changing to reflect reality and common sense and that is good .
so gig is plan A , whats plan B
return to the stone age for a fresh start
anarchy
tribalism
war lords
hood style
hows your musical career
I’m working on a rock opera concept grunge space thing
future plans
go back to Oregon next year and apply for an Australian work visa residence permit
bye bye usa
Ive flogged that horse to death . my conditions to stay in America are gig . take it or leave it . I’m good either way . I have a low threshold for boredom .
This may be the most epic post I’ve ever seen. Anywhere.
I was slightly scared reading it… whats more scary is the fact that its not random spam. He has a previous surf related post here.
A decade of hitting the surfer mag bb and he’s still going.
mean tha dope.
have you ever heard of a question mark
yeah Rocky and well done David in bringing this story to light, makes it real and hopefully people can understand why I was so animated on the Ruffo story . BUT on another note Derek can you get hold of me thru my website , as I notice you pulled down Rory’s bagging the whole Ruffo/SC Meth thing and I can tell ya there is a hunting part out for Rory’s blood ……if ya can’t back it up shut the fuck up…..or suffer the consequences ……and please get a hold of me..!!
The story is still there, just last weeks news. Click on the next page button.
Geez Maurice you sounding alittle worked up… hunting packs and threats?
Telling a writer if he cant “back it up” to shut the fuck up… or suffer the consequences!?!
Sounds like a bad Van Damme film from the early 90s!
hey neg,I am in California at the moment and had a few very angry calls , as some people here are very upset , and actually thanked me for jumping in and really explaining how RP’s opinion is pretty twisted , lotta very fucked up people in surfing , and I guess I am old school with my back it up statement …….as there used to be consequences for …ah unseemly behavior , but the world is such a better place now , and I am just an old fossil hiding in the USA!
RP’s opinion is just that.
Ruffo would have copped alot more flack over the years for his actions than 500 words on this website. Im pretty sure he’d have broad enough shoulders…
yeah Neg , It Ain’t Ruffo , its others that RP’s opinion really pissed off ,tweakers etc who just want to cause trouble , bit like some of those angry nearly hawaiins!!
I hope they don’t read Chas’s 2007 story then. that’ll throw them off the deep end…
as long as they don’t take any of us with them……hehe!
hey you have to admit that Davids article throws a better light on the whole SC thing??
Well David interviewed the filmmaker and Rory’s was an opinion piece… What did you think of Chas’s story above?
From my experience, most methheads are sadly far to busy on a day to day existence to get much done outside of their world.
what about people who are ex-addicts?
no such thing as an ex-addict. Ex user? Sure.
I remember reading this book a while back – SHAM http://www.amazon.com/Sham-… – good read and makes some good points, especially about AA. AA pushes this idea that once you are an alcoholic you are always one – which has been proven to be untrue in a number of instances, and that you are just as likely to give up drink on your own as with there help. So there is such a thing as an ex-addict – according to that book!
Have you been on David’s podcast?
nah just read the interview , and do you have a link to Chas’s?
It’s the story below the interview above…
You’re saying there’s a gang of tweakers who are gonna fly to Kauai and fuck me up?
Too funny, like they’re gonna have that kind of motivation, determination, and follow through.
and money and teeth.
Too good trog! The faces of meth shots from my local law enforcement are super scary. One lady ended up looking like smeagle from the Lord of the rings after only 6 months of tweaking.
Also trogan, I think I’m taking back my earlier expressed sympathy for this ass ruffo. He’s not sorry, he’s sorry he got caught.
I’m not a big fan of media entities polishing knobs when someone perceives a slight that is, indeed, not much of a slight.
I can’t imagine that there’s an interstate meth dealer in the world who would advertise with margin banners, so why the need to backtrack on a strong opinion with this fluff?
they wouldn’t get past the local tweakers who vampire their blood to get a hit.
Maurice Cole’s friends still hate you.
maurice cole should be bummed from the Us…send him home
nah people who have been tweakers , and theres more people out there on second chances , who see you as the problem ! even on Kauai……I don’t condone violence but understand when emotions run wild , maybe a good crack in the head might calm you down and stop hurting so many people who actually have the guts to come clean and go thru the pain of rehab.
I don’t understand, you think that threats will give me a more positive opinion of people, or just scare me quiet?
Rehab’s great, but it doesn’t make you a good person. Just a sober one.
nah…nah…nah…nah…nah…nah…nah…nah…BLOOD FEUD!!!!!!
that’s right you don’t understand ,pity you have lead such a sheltered life to not understand the hurt and pain you cause thru ignorance and your bitter twisted views . threats or promises?? don’t shoot the messenger! So anyone that’s had an addiction problem can’t become a good person in your world??
Doing bad things makes you a bad person. People want to turn their life around? That’s great. But intent isn’t enough. It takes years to earn back squandered trust.
It’s funny how life works, the same day we posted my Ruffo piece I got a call from a former very good friend who I gave up for lost years ago. They’re freshly out of rehab, working to get their life back together, and I am very happy to hear that. Because when you love somebody you want good things for them.
But, still, a lot of bad shit went down, a lot of bridges got burnt. The Sword of Damocles is just hanging there, and I can’t really go back to how things were.
So I’ll say it again, it’s a bad idea to trust an addict. All too often they’re only capable of seeing the world as it pertains to them, always willing to make other people pay the price for what they want.
Sure, it sucks to be an addict, but it sucks even harder to be close to one.
Rory , defining bad is a very dangerous judgemental thing to do , as what you see as bad is relative to your life experiences , which I’m not sure about , but yours seems to be a narrow view . you then condem people to a near hopeless position , by you saying its harder to have loved and addict than be one. I have seen so many eras where drugs and addictions were prevalent in the surfing culture.LSD/pot , Heroin , Coke then crack then Meth……so many great people went down never came back , yet a lot survived and became part of the solution in helping people understand long term consequences , thru first hand experiences on how to beat the addiction and why you need people who can talk from experience , so people will actually listen to you as you understand them as you have been there and have empathy and can instill hope in them going thru the withdrawals and rebuilding of self esteem , as there are so many people who condem and judge , as you have Rory , which adds to an already perilous situation.
there is always change ,love is unconditional , but that does not mean you have to like someone because of an incident of “bad behavior” , but you still love them and help them FFS , warts and all …..that’s what love is…..if you are not part of the solution you are the problem!! bloody clichés!!
you are not part of the solution ..a foreigner talking shit in a foreign land…so you are part of the problem…go back to oz and solve you problems there
Wow that’s a shitty attitude bro.. As to your question on name one thing drug dealers and drug addicts have done.. I hate to steal from the great bill hicks but if you like music you had best burn all your albums and never listen again.. Because musicians are generally some drug addled mother fuckers.. I also believe early primates made an evolutionary jump through the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms.. Da fuck do I know.. I’m a drug addict.. And I like it..
I’ve never met an artist who didn’t have a checkered past. Whether musician,shaper,or painter. Maybe I’ve just done enough LSD to have an open mind,and not throw stones at glass houses from the porch of shattered one.
Drugs are like everything (except getting barrelled).. Moderation is key.. Luke’s acidic tone screams of alcohol but I could be wrong.. One thing that is certain is that lukey’s a little bit sheltered.. Plus what’s with all the nationalist bullshit like it’s only a problem for ‘mericans and that no other foreign ‘COCK SMOKERS’ can have an opinion.. Reeks of ignorance…
yeah so you’re a racist too, whats your solution you angry girl ?
Man it’s useless he’s just going to call you something to do with a dick and then repeat exactly what you said as if he’s making valid points,maurice saw you at surf expo,in FL wanted to say hello but looked like the booth was banging,Just another well known shaper getting trolled by some SC Ice head
Back down Nicki, so you can continue to make intelligent comments here… Haha
name one of your fellow drug dealers and addicts who have dome anything worth mentioning…name one
how about putting your real name up Lukey , as I have , lets start there!
I’ve gotta know – who specifically was hurt by Rory’s article? Please, just one or two names.
I will say this though – if guys are really upset to this extent over a story on Beach Grit, maybe that rehab didn’t work.
anybody having the guts to do rehab and try to get their life together , I will not name names , but to put it out there that there is no hope and basically you get stereotyped as a loser . My home town is awash with the shit , in the schools same here in SoCal ,but where I am it ‘s heroin high school !
It’s OxyContin high in the south,meth and herion are pase’. or so so I hear.
nah here in SC its heroin high ….so damn sad…
That’s cuz oxy’s hook them and then you can buy black tar for less than 1$ a milligram,that’s what got everybody hooked,noow they can’t find them or afford them so they shoot to keep from getting sick,so they can work,function etc…
then you should never defend the integrity of a convicted drug dealer….even if he is a washed up 50 something meth head goofy footer
I have seen so many dealer/users actually turn their lives around , so yeah I do not condem ,and judge like you do , so is it life in prison or the death sentence you propose??
like yourself Maurice? I never said life, a decade will do, if that doesn’t do the trick you re hopeless.
what do you propose Maurince….all you offer is a pep talk and a pat on the ass…i hear prisoners get that daily…so you propose forgive and forget for a bunch of losers who sell the dirtiest drug of all to out=r youth, parents, moms, dads? what is your solution? i mean besides coming on this website as foreigner in this country and taking shit? meth dealers in ca prisons laugh at you. What d o you day…..he bro..or mate, “you really shouldn’t sell the most dangerous dirty and disgusting drugs to the youth of a country I’m not even from? if you stop, well you can sand boards for me, if jose quits to sell meth”
What’s with this nationalist bullshit cunt? You think the states are the only ones with a drug problem.. Jail dosnt teach you fuck all except to harden up and be a bad cunt to survive.. Rehab is what addicts need not fucken jail. It’s not rocket surgery.. People have being going to jail for a long time for drugs- yet the problem gets bigger.. If you keep bogging rail on your bottom hand turn you try a different approach.. Why should dealing with a social issue be any different? Jail don’t work. For addicts anyways.. It seems to work pretty well for the corporations that turn massive profits off the backs of the lower class..
you never should have sold them drugs maurice…just so you could surf….blame is on you MATE
hiding behind your imaginary hero Lukey, and then just make anything up to try and put the blame on me ,yeah that’s right I am responsible for SC’s drug culture and your not ? right!!
Only 4 pints deep, but no. No its not still there.
– sent from my brain
Its there… page 2… http://beachgrit.com/2016/0…
All fine and dandy but still not seeing it on your 1st,2nd, or 3rd page. Far past the week posting prior. Don’t really care though dude, could be a tablet issue. I guess.
Sent from my iPad
don’t take tablets.
this is your anti-drug warning.
phew.
Maurice is still pushing his ‘pound of cure’ over an ‘ounce of prevention’, it seems.
not being the most computer savy person…I click on your link and find it , but when I go onto page 2 its not there.., please explain?
I cant explain why you cant find it… but its there.
Mate, please get modding on some of these clowns (“party of common sense”) and don’t let this turn into a Stab-esque juvenile insult party. I actually enjoy the carefully considered and skilfully pitched insults here.
he should be censored neg..foreigne threatening one of your staff on behalf of a bunch of reformed meth head users and dealers….wow
Maurice Cole can’t work Internet.
…… Out of the Pod and cast to the Grit!!!!!! Nice work David… The show is awesome as is the interview. Mandina Forte!!!!!
Enjoyable read.
Good man David, I look forward to listening to this tomorrow whilst driving. I really enjoy the podcast!
Cheers!