PIPE ORGANS for THE IDES OF MARCH

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Like grapes dropped into the mouth of Julius Caesar, this sure to be short lived little beast of a wave was eating both young and old alive this weekend and spewing its own guts all over the place.
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WHO AM I on SATURDAY THE 14TH

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HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH with ROKY, SKETCHY LANDINGS & BOB

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CAPILLARY BED

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CAPILLARY BED, 2009. Shell grooves (Eroded? Or possibly/partly made by a predator... from the radula of an animal such as a Whelk?) with dyed bees wax inlay.
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ALIEN ALOHA

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Gavin "The Alien" Beschen
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Above frame grabs taken from the short video documented peek, below, into The Alien's life here on Earth. End of the vid contains 2.5 minutes of his ever unique style in the water:
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IT AIN'T CITY MUSIC

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A fine documentary film link passed along... Thanks Ian.
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IT AIN'T CITY MUSIC is a light-hearted celebration of grass-roots America and its music filmed at the National Country Music Contest at Lake Whippoorwill in Warrenton, Virginia, in 1972. The people interviewed in the film speak nostalgically about their rural origins, their folks, the Depression, and hard times, but now many have left the hills and farms and moved into suburbia, and into the city. Increasingly the themes of country music songs deal with the complications of life away from the farm. "Any country song you hear nowadays, the guy's either in jail or just got divorced," notes a man who continues, "but it's their lives and they write songs about it."
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WARBLED WEEKEND FUNNIES: PHANTOM POMPADOUR

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Click comic for easier read.
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Video links:
Rockabilly News Report 1983
The Blasters 1981 cover of "I'm Shakin'"
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TRIP & TRIM

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Trim and vid tweakings by the Eastside Groper. Music by Ash Ra Temple.
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FAITH CHAIN

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Returning to my car from a lunch break surf I discovered this message...
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on an old plastic skate left propped against my bumper by someone. Thank you, whoever you are. It was exactly what I needed to read today.
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As much as I wanted to keep it to wall hang at home, it had to be left on the doorstep of another person who I knew could use coming home to the message as well.
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ON THE JEFF BECK TRAIL

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Suped up version of "Jeff's Boogie" w/ Bogert & Appice.
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"Superstition" cover by Beck, Bogert & Appice.
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"Water Down the Drain", "You Shook Me" and "Morning Dew" w/ Rod Stewart.
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Yardbirds "Train Kept a Rollin"
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Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page talk about their Yardbird days (note: some shots in this clip are from the Yardbirds appearance in the Antonioni film BlOW UP)
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Post inspired by comment from Dr. Robert— though he'd probably come up with deeper selections.
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ON THE COPPER DOVE TRAIL

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Along with the hand made Composite Sandwich boards, The Copper Dove has also been shaping and surfing some beautiful Alaias.
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NINE LIGHTS "OPEN FACE SANDWICH" #3

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Jeff Beck, hiding behind the latest Nine Lights "Open Face Sandwich" board he recently hand made for me, 5'6" x 15" x 20" x 16" x 2.1/4":
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The board is made of stringerless EPS foam that is shaped, an 1/8" of balsa wood skin is then vacuumed to the deck, rails are foiled out of balsa wood, a tail block is added, and the bottom is left as the solid shaped foam. Glassed with epoxy, pigmented white over the foam bottom.

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It's basically the full Composite Sandwich (wood skin deck, wood skin bottom, wood rails) construction that Jeff builds most of his boards as, minus the wood skin on the bottom of the board. Per my request, Jeff started making the Open Face boards for me a year ago, when we discovered that the full composite boards felt more rigid than I preferred under my 140-ish Lb. weight.
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The Open Face construction makes for:
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• A board with familiar flex of a conventional stringered foam board.
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• Much stronger deck and rails than conventional board construction. I already slammed my knee hard into the deck while eating shit— Instantly pictured the worst when it happened. But looking at the deck, post slam, I can't tell where my knee came down on it. Jeff has boards that are years old without any foot pressure dents in them.
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• A light weight board— R. Kenvin was checking this board out recently and the first thing he commented on, when he picked it up, was its nice light weight.
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Photo Documentation of full Composite Sandwich construction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
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Open Face Sandwich #2 w/ flex-tail.
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FANTASY ISLAND

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Embracing the good with the crap the last few days...
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Tons of rain runoff poop water, but enough good waves to send one into a much sought after state of lucid dreaming— Of course it's been a narrow window between the swampy slow mornin' tide and the tear up of negative tide rips that strike like a merciless alarm clock and the dream is over.
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SQUATTER'S RIGHTS SQUATTER'S LEFT

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Is it just a coincidence that an influx of Squatters to this spot has spiked along with the plummeting economy and housing foreclosure crisis? Whatever the case, their local uprising is welcome.
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Squatter's left— one wave sequence:
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Claiming possession...First cut...Second cut....

Squatter's Rights/Adverse Possession law dates back 600 years to Europe. The idea is that society is best served if someone makes use of productive land rather than allowing the landowner to leave it fallow. This is typically applied to farming, but the concept has been carried forward and is still on the books in every state.

In general, to qualify for adverse possession, a person must be squatting on the property in an open manner and, in some cases, be paying taxes on it. How long the person must have invested varies. California has the shortest requirement, five years.

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International Squatter's Symbol
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LINEUP KILLING SPREE!

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If the elusive Pterodactyl, that's rumored to still be in existence, finally decided to stop evading cryptozoologists and go ahead and 'live a little' by joining the modern lineup for its easy pickins, would it be labeled "RETRO BIRD"?
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WORD!

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THE LINEUP IS LIKE A STAGE OF MUPPETS...

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...Ya never know what you're gonna get (Yes, even Forest Gump surfs now and has modified his mantra).
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It takes all kinds... Everyone's marching towards the salt lick to a different drum.
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I'M TIGHT, YOU'RE TIGHT, WE ALL WEAR TIGHT TIGHTS

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