A very special birthday edition.
Yesterday was my birthday and I only mention because I received the most wonderful gift from David Lee Scales as we sat appropriate six feet away from each other in Album surfboard’s upper room.
Devon Howard.
Yes there he was, looking as smooth, stylish as ever when I bounded in for our regularly scheduled Friday morning podcast recording. Beard extra full. Hair slicked back just right, magically, without any glistening product.
We chatted about this and that.
Life at the World Surf League where Howard is the commissioner for the longboard tour although there is no LB tour to speak of and for some strange reason CEO Erik Logan doesn’t even follow him on social media and other thises and that’s while David Lee readied the mics.
We discussed which presidential candidate would ride which surfboard. Devon claimed Trump would be a craft surfboard enthusiast while Biden “a full Wavestorm guy.”
I had to apologize to both, then, for I had a birthday sailing date and was going to have to leave early. Lo and behold, David Lee had already known it was by birthday, brought me a delicious box of donuts and Devon Howard who brought me a delicious bottle of Cuervo reserve extra añejo tequila.
Extremely delicious and I almost cried as we toasted.
The greatest gift?
I leave midway though the episode so you don’t have to hear me force my unnecessary opinion into every tiny pause.
Enjoy!
Personally, I think the chances are slim to non existing.
My gut feeling tells me that the UAE is keen to buy some quality merchandise from the Koch’s and/or from your government (I heard the Prince especially likes jet fighters), your government is keen for a win and Israel is keen for official recognition from any Arab state (understandably so). So they struck a deal. I see nothing that will ease tensions with Iran and I doubt it’ll improve relationships between the UAE and the Saudi’s.
Again, I hope you’re right and I’m wrong, and if so, I’ll give your President all the credit in the world. Let’s talk again in 6-12 months.
Drumpf rides a heavily patched Diwain.
Every day makes me more Suss about the left, covid, the election.
This mail thing is obvious electoral fraud.
About Hvrris I know not…
But kanye is a definite asymmetric?
(looking around) Why do you think I headed back to the sand box?
“It’s not you, it’s me!”
2 biggest lies of last 5 yrs:
1. Kellys tank will host compelling contests.
2. A grifter who shits on a gold toilet and has never been to church and is a white supremacist cares.about poor white Christians and POC. You’ve been had, GOAT, and you keep bending over asking for more of his 2 inches. But you do you.
Hope some fun summer surf for you and yours. Heading into peak hurricane season here but still pretty quiet.
So the UAE and the Saudis don’t have conflicting interests for Yemen that keeps adding fire to the conflict?
For a change I actually do hope you’re right and I’m wrong.
Political bickering on a surf blog. Thrilling.
We bicker about how professional surfing is governed, or not governed if you’re so inclined.
Nope…just Jupiter aka Jupe (from birth, conservative parents, go figure)….76,77 78 Env. Studies. Surfed Sands and IV. Actually got good waves both places! Then ended up in Cito trying to grow the herb in the hedges of the old peeps. Too foggy here.
Take classes with Prof. Marc McGinnis?
I may have? He was top of the heap at the time. I was a bit of a slacker, tyring to score waves, women, and not flunk. College was almost free back then, as it should be IMHO…..Profs were over the top serious. Ear;y days of Env Studies, you could crosslist courses form all sorts of other depts. I was able to sample courses from other disciplines. Learn a little bit about everything, and not enough about anything. I took a very pro nuclear energy course, which was fun, and dropped out of a huge(200 people auditorium) beginning philosophy course because it was too hard!! Just logic logic logic. Not even a whiff of “what is the real reality .dude?” haha Philosophy is a good start for pre-law. I just wanted to grow stuff. The one discipline they forgot about? Economics…..duh, the bottom line of everything.
About 70% of my upper division classes were with him. Fascinating character. Used to show up to class with stilts/hemp hippy circus pants on. He’d always say he was just getting high for today’s class as he ducked preventing his head from hitting the door jam on the way in.
Once you had had a few courses with him, he felt relaxed enough to enjoy some hippy lettuce and a pitcher of beer with us at Woodstock’s pizza. Good times.
I hear ya about the pitfalls of trying to balance school with all the joys the place had on offer. The surf, sun kissed ladies in sun dresses and general mischief about was a daunting task to balance with school.
Wow…what years? What did you major in?
I thought I was the oldest on BG. haha
probably still am…. older not wiser.
….Sun dresses! Classic times, the 70’s hadnt gone bad yet, suburban Cali girls wanted to be the beach girls up in Isla ‘Vista.
My San Diego surf pals still to this day say…”I remember those girls in white dresses with flowers on them”….WTF? some kind of vortex? I had an apt in sorority row. They called us “outsiders”. Had a bit of luck with the women, but kind of a weird cultish type thing. We surfers looked at the fraternity dudes like they were losers. (hope you werent one!) but in retrospect, of course they go on up the ladder, whilst we were still scrapping for mushburger waves. Still dont trust that whole business.
.I flunked the major party scene though, school was demanding, and I knew I at least needed to finish what I had started. I’m glad I did, even though I never really used my degree. College was, and perhaps is just a place to park your kids until their brains get better!!!
I met so many transfer students, going here, going there, changing majors, takng all sorts of stuff. Cali colleges were so affordable then.
I had a bunch of guys from the wrestling team as roommates, one was a giant southern dude. He studied marine science, and as his last semester approached he said “I dont know fuck all about fish”. I think he transferred his credits over to elec engineering somehow.
The wrestlers used to have poker nights, cigars and booze… and I would have to go sleep in my friends van in the street. I had rented couch space for 60 bucks a month in order to get 7 more units that I had screwed up. ahh the memories.
That wrestling connection got me over to the Big Island tho, my first trip there, to one of the first herb grows.
That was worth all the nights sleeping in the van!!!
Hyperbole I’m not affixed to. My professions have allowed me to see the truth of the kabuki theater. I’m not at a point in my life, where I need to answer to some twit in Europe! Most Americans aren’t, so the choice is obvious!! I won’t talk down to people who only exist in a “man on the street” bubble. I can only tell you I see things from a side the average Joe can’t imagine. It’s just that Americans don’t know how horrible “other places” really are. You can’t know that hell actually exist, until you’ve gone to it and laid there for 2 days waiting to extract one of the demons for questions. But once you know hell, and these demons actually exist you fear for the weak of your Country. See, the weak are the first to give away what the Strong have built. Look around, they are crawling over each other to give away their rights. “Virtue Signalers” are the biggest useful idiotsfor Socialism. I could write a f book about this(ese) subject(s).
So you are ok with trump dismantling the USPS so we cant vote? And his followers are the weak ones since they are ok with this? There are enemies domestic, Scorn. Right now they occupy the white house, and putin has us by the balls.
☻Hyperbole! See!? Look how easy the spinsters have you spun on hype/bs. Not one thing you said is TRUTH. How is that life?
VS, are you serious!?! Trump himself said this, just earlier this week. Unless you put it with the other 20,000 lies he’s told in 3.5 years?
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This country will be better off when people on the right stop thinking they’re the only patriots, especially when they back politicians that fuck us all over.
(Right?) Sir, I stopped talking about “parties” after my first deployment. They exist on the same team, they just spin it for you. You’re caught in their spin cycle. Logistics matter chief, it all comes down to logistics. If it smells like bs, it is!
Dude,
Please stick around and educate these fools
Then surely a man as wise and worldly experienced as yourself would know that the first two things to go in the descent to tyranny are freedom/quality of press/ media, and, people’s access to a free and fair vote? Now while Trump is not responsible for the destruction of free and fair press in the US he has surely made great use of and accelerated greatly the death of truth. How does it feel when your president refers to a man who has a price on the head of American soldiers like yourself as a “friend”. The whole American system is buckled. The democrats are no better, but Trump is not the answer.
I don’t “speak down to common people”. I can only tell you things aren’t happening like they say, in your Obvious “liberal boobtube bubble”!
Thanks for the heads up yoda. Glad you’re out there outside my liberal boobtube bubble keeping my weak self safe. Despite having absolutely no idea who what or where I am. Although I will confess I do love boobtubes when used correctly. ( . ) ( . )
Stay in the wax, foot.
The saying goes.
Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.
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I’ll listen to the second half.
Freedom from religious nightmares ruling countries that hate women,
And Iran, Iran so far away.
I couldn’t get away.
Devon is yummy!!
Thought I’d randomly throw this in here: just discovered ‘Lexicon Valley’ with John McWhorter. Poddy about linguistics and etymology.
Amazing x 10.
If you like that sorta thing.
My wife says the same thing about me. I think she’s right. But then again, she’s says I’m never right about anything, so…
The making out worked!
Thanks D + D
Why would they weed you out? You have more brains than any Democrat AND Republican. Are you as smart as a Bernie Bro or do you have more brains than socialists too?
It’s okay to say you’re wrong. You don’t know everything.
ISIS would have never existed unless Al Qaeda fractured. You’re wrong. There is no direct tie to the 2003 invasion.
A man of such unnarrowness like yourself needs to get into politics before the rest of us burn this place to the ground.
Or at least open up an online school and teach your ways to the blind.