It's All About Guitar Playing Nowadays

The Taylor GS Mini in Mahogany

Hangin Out with the Men Who Play Guitars

Playin and remembrin the times - front porch of the Presidential Suite, Avon Motel, Hatteras Island

Sup Surfing Ramp 43

We've been flying pretty close to the sun for 2 weeks.  Living the dream on Hatteras Island.

Living the Dream on Hatteras Island

Abby and I with 2000 PWA World Wavesailing Champion Kevin Pritchard.  The wind was light so we had an informal sup sailing contest with Kevin and I taking first and second and advancing to the quarterfinals.  It's been a fabulous 2 weeks in Hatteras.  A typical day here starts with walking over to subway for a breakfast sandwich, getting a sandwich for lunch, filling up our coolers with ice and heading to the beach around 11 for the day.  After a day of wavesailing and suping we sit on the Avon Motel porch and listen the the men who play guitars; tokin, drinkin, and rememberin the times.

Livin the Dream T Shirt

Sea Lion at the Cove

Nice lefts at the Cove.  First sup session on the 7'6 Sea Lion.  This board rocks.

On the Edge of the World in Hatteras Island

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Kurt Vonnegut

Boardsailing Coquina Beach (9/5/12)

Ian.  All photos courtesy of wave master Keith

BR58 on a big one.  Light wind on the inside made it hard to get out, but the efforts were rewarded.

Ian ripping

Ralph

Beautiful conditions at Coquina

Bill working to get out

Surfing in September

Do you remember hurricane swell in September?
The size was chasing away pretenders
While keeping the clouds away

Our hearts were ringing
In the key that our souls were singing
As we surfed our days away


Earth, Wind & Fire  (& Waves)
1978

Romney Reinvents History

The truth, rarely heard this week in Tampa, Fla., is that the Republicans charted a course of denial and obstruction from the day Mr. Obama was inaugurated, determined to deny him a second term by denying him any achievement, no matter the cost to the economy or American security — even if it meant holding the nation’s credit rating hostage to a narrow partisan agenda.



Romney Reinvents History - Read Here

Fear and Loathing in Florida 2012

Fear and Loathing in Florida 2012

The Cove

Perfect water and wavesailing conditions at the Cove, Hatteras Island

The Medicare Killers

The Medicare Killers

Fear-of-China Syndrome

Fear-of-China Syndrome

Paul Ryan Loves Government Stimulus

After lying about the stimulus for the last 3 years and causing millions of Americans to suffer needlessly by refusing to help the American people in any way, how nice that the republican party has Paul Ryan, stimulus lover, on the ticket as VP.  Let me tell you a little something about Paul Ryan.  He got his sizable wealth the old fashioned way - he inherited it.  No wonder he wants to cut taxes for himself and other wealthy people while sticking it to the average American, who like Romney, he can't relate to.  Paul Ryan is also an absolute hypocrite and liar.  Here's Ryan in 2002 advocating forcefully and completely for government stimulus spending, including unemployment benefits, to create jobs, help the economy, and reduce the deficit.  I guess that only works when a republican is in the White House.  (try to ignore the Mitt ad at the beginning, I couldn't get rid of it.  Mitt has way more money than integrity or sense.  He's the nothing man.)

 

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Some basic economics - Any spending is someone else's income.  We need to keep the money flowing. So wake up if you think Paul Ryan (or Mitt ) has any integrity or gives a damn about you.

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Hatteras Wave Jam 2012

Hell yeah buddy, gettin' ready for Hatteras Wave Jam, September 12-15, 2012!

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Boat Session

Brother Joe barefootin'

Joe demonstrating the lost art of slalom

BR58 with a backside lip slide

BR58 Frontside lip slide

Joe easily jumping both wakes

Brother Tom

Brother Tom with a nice frontside layback lip slide

My brother Joe (aka Billy Bob) got himself a ski boat.  This is from our first brothers day out expression session.  "Call my brother Billy Bob, he's got the fastest boat on the whole damn river." Sheriff J.W. Pepper, Live and Let Die, 1973.  "Everybody on the river wants this boat."

Meet Paul Ryan

Was Romney's Ryan Pick Bold or Desperate?

The Audacity of Dopes

 And what about Paul Ryan?

"It's the audacity of dopes. Mr. Ryan isn't offering fresh food for thought; he’s serving up leftovers from the 1990s, drenched in flimflam sauce."

– Paul Krugman in a New York Times column, August 5, 2010

 

"He is, in fact, a big fraud, who doesn’t care at all about fiscal responsibility, and whose policy proposals are sloppy as well as dishonest. Of course, this means that he’ll fit in to the Romney campaign just fine."

– Paul Krugman in a New York Times blog post, August 11, 2012

 

"Is his budget really the most fraudulent in American history? Yes, it is."

– Paul Krugman in a New York Times column, April 1, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

Wavesailing Hatteras

Fun wavesailing session.  Photo by Ralph.

Powering through