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Ask a Stupid Question
The California surf dream: Nathan's hilarious account of teaching kooks to surf, fast cash, and mayhem. But at the end of the day, everyone is beaming and can't believe they really surfed!
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Florsheims in the Sand
In 1969, Richard Nixon moved next door to Surfer magazine founder John Severson. The San Clemente beach wasn’t big enough for the both of them.
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Undercurrents
“The Cheap Seat”, or the appropriately subtitled, “Boil Dodging at Cortes in a Grand Fashion”, defends the controversial actions of Captain Ron Hart in placing his craft, the 72’ Jet-propelled Catamaran seemingly dangerously close to the surfing playground at Cortes Bank in January 2004. The Field report, “Across Oz for Life”, describes Jimmy McMillan’s effort to raise funds to support the Balinese victims of Sari Club terrorist bombing. Academia’s, “Haolier Than Thou”, describes intriguing research by archeologist, Terry Jones and linguist, Kathryn Klar, as to the influence Polynesian mariners on the inhabitants of Chile’s and California’s coastal natives, as well as other Pacific Islanders. Library’s, “An Island Unto Itself”, is a review of a book by Caroline Unger on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island. The Screening Room gives a positive review of Sean Collins’ Surfline DVD Series’ “Lesson Accomplished: A Day of Surfology 101”
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Beach Glass
A surfer passes time during a flatspell by finding and collecting beach glass– pieces of glass that have been smoothed down by the sea and have washed up on the beach.
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No Wall Hangers
Blowing the dust off of noseriders from the Summer of ’66.
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