E's Surf Report

first post of 06 suckas!

sloppy seconds!

Welcome back E!

Happy New Year to all.

Who is that confused looking guy next to you in the line-up at FP? Well here is his story, except he didn't have a board with him or else WATCH OUT!

http://www.slidestory.com/?page=detail&cid=10

WTF?

yea, welcome back e. im starting the year off sick! and happy new year internet reading san francisco surf boarders.

Happy New Year!

Seems like there are plenty of "confused" indidviduals surfing IT. Sunday night saw three experienced surfers get sucked out the bay at the onset of a heavy gale. Thought I would end up having to beach it north of Baker after dark. Beware the current.
To the young lady who paddled into the pack like Chelsea on steroids; made her first wave got brave and then blasted on her second never to be seen in the zone again - who is your sqiurrelly assed boyfriend who spun his wheels in the mud out of the lot in front of the older locals?
Jessica Dunne has a choice original oil on slate painting for sale at SOULARCH. Show reopens today and will rotate artists out and in on Jan 23...

Fighting a current with a pack of 15 friendlies or going to the dentist?

I'll take the dentist and wait for the pack to thin.

Welcome back! I have become addicted to this site- your writing, posted art, various surf stories, and the hot babes as well.

Can you ban the "Owned Guy" now? He ruins the vibe.

Happy New Year!

Another year, another move. Only the second time in my adult life that I am not living in a basement.

After two weeks without hitting the water, New Years night I dreamed of clean sunny waves, the times when you sit in the channel and just watch them break in awe, staring down into the tube. Woke up at 6:30, listened to the rain, checked the buoy, and clambered back into bed in hopes of finding those waves in my dreams.

Hoping all the niceness readers escaped flood damage.

mm I know that science and music still overlap for you in a lot of ways.
es There have been some very direct correspondences, especially in terms of fractal geometry and chaos theory, but also in terms of a more metaphoric translation of concepts into sonic and compositional strategies. Recently I performed twice in a series called "Entertaining Science," organized by the Nobel Laureate chemist Roald Hoffmann, where he brings together artists and scientists to present their work to an audience. At the first of these, I performed a solo guitar piece using a tuning based on Fibonacci numbers in a program together with Benoit Mandelbrot, the discoverer of fractal geometry and a very inspiring thinker and personality. The compositions "SyndaKit" and "Radiolaria" for my ensemble Orchestra Carbon both make use of algorithmic approaches derived from the workings of recombinant RNA and the dynamics of bird flocking and wolf packs.

happy new year! 2006. damn.

thanks for the props gttim. dig your site.

I would resolve to be nicer to all kooks in 2006, but I know it won't stick. deal.

damn. that tow-in shot above allows for some mighty fine mind surfing. I can feel the carve back up and across that face.

"sonic and compositional strategies"? Was that whole paragraph composed by a random art speak generator?

this is a cool site if you dig improvisational music

http://www.bayimproviser.com/

News flash. Dickey Mora trounces on e in the previous blog, stating for all that e should never discuss surfing spots in the blog. Return to today and Dickey Mora is discussing his sessions at FORT POINT UNDER THE BRIDGE. Just goes to show you there is nothing fair in "The world according to Bob Carrillo". Loser.

Happy New Year to one and all! Back in the office after a nice long holiday break, feeling rested and restless.
I haven't been in the water in over two weeks. Between crappy waves (literally), crappy weather (figuratively), and other petty whines and gripes it's been easy to lay-a-bed in the morning and spend the rest of my daylight hours engaged in non-surf related activity. But no amount of holiday cheer or warm and fuzzy family frolics can take the place of a decent surf. Don't get me wrong, I love hanging out with my wife and kid / eating too much food and planning next year's escape from "Christmas in the States" (maybe Morocco). It's just that I'm starting to feel the old familiar crankiness that only emersion in salt water and riding a few (even crappy) waves can cure. Hope things clean up (both literally AND figuratively) out there soon.
I just finished Kampion & Stecyk's "Dora Lives: The Authorized Story of Miki Dora" - great read, great photos. As always with Dora, I was left with a jumble of mixed emotions, including a little bit of self loathing (or at least self doubt) about the compromises to shear surf stoke that I have made over the years - there's just no way I'd have the balls to be that self indulgent.
Speaking of self indulgent, I hear that Quentin Tarantino is making a movie about Bunker Spreckels!?!

bob can keep that shithouse, last-resort wave. i see him out there when there's south winds and other spots in the city are twice as good. if he was worth his bark he'd venture over there once in a while, but maybe he's scared the locals would call him out for growing up in LA LA land.

yippie... more rain!

I resolve not to post negative comments.

Especially in response to a negative comment.

(as David Bowie sings in the background, "Putting out a fire with gasoline.")

Blah Blah.... Bob Surfing the beach...

I've never met the guy, but he can surf, be nice.

is bunker spreckles that spreckles ladys husband or something? what was thier deal in SF? i know the lady has a lake named after her in the park. i heard tarantino was making a WW2 movie. and just so youse knows LA LA land was putting this place to shame over the last 2 weeks, with half the crowd from what i saw of the points around here this weekend

HYN! New Year resolution: no more new year resolutions. But that is a resolution...

Anyway, surfed NJ on 12/26. Found some head high peelers coming off the jetties. Offshore winds and rain. The water was 45 and the air about the same. I wore gloves and a 2mm vest under my 4/3, but other than that, pretty much the same stuff as here. Had fun with one friend for about two hours before a BB'er showed up. He surfed well. It was a good day.

Spreckles was a ZA surfer, partier and all around wild man from the 70's. i believed he ODed. He was famouse for riding some off the wall craft like the 4'6" 5 inch thick Alma board.

he was heir to the spreckles sugar fortune

mmm thanks guys, so i guess no relation to the SF spreckles..

i guess they were related. and she was the model for the union square pillar! i love the internet.

Alma Spreckels

Local novelty became self-assured celebrity as Alma secured the position of model for sculptor Robert Aitken. His creation, a monument honoring naval hero Admiral Dewey and the recently assassinated president William McKinley, would feature the buxom temptress as a triumphant bronze libertine atop a granite pedestal, her right arm outstretched, holding the laurel wreath of peace towards the horizon, her left arm, raised above her head, valiantly pointing a trident to the heavens.

The memorial still stands today in the center of Union Square and is a recognizable backdrop in several notable films including Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and Francis Coppola's "The Conversation." Aitken's work would not have been chosen had it not been for the crucial vote of the Committee's chairman, wealthy bachelor Adolph Spreckels.

Adoph was the loyal son of German-American industrialist Claus Spreckels, who had amassed a fortune growing a sugar production empire that virtually monopolized Hawaii and most of the western hemisphere.After Adolph was granted his initial introduction to "Miss Republic," the two courted seriously for five years. She learned much about the world and the refined culture of the Gilded Age through her well-traveled suitor, who was 22 years her senior.

It wasn't until 1908 that the sugar magnate, horse fancier, and yachtsman finally gave in to Alma's demands for marriage. The newlyweds moved into Adolph's Sausalito residence where Alma soon gave birth to a daughter, Alma Emma Spreckles, in 1909. Returning to San Francisco, Adolph purchased a temporary house on Vallejo Street, and as a Christmas present to Alma, he purchased the Jean Boyd house, located at the corner of Washington and Octavia Streets. The Victorian-style Boyd house, bought specifically for its breathtaking view of the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate, was torn down, and several nearby homes were purchased and physically moved down the street to make room for a new mansion designed by architects Kenneth MacDonald Jr. and George Applegarth.

ps. i parked cars for a party at that house once.

All the same Spreckels. San Diego (owned the Hotel del Coronado for a while), San Francisco (Spreckels Mansion etc.), and Hawaii (Spreckels Sugar; thre's even a little town called Spreckels near Salinas. BIG MONEY. Bunker was a reported maniac. OD'd on booze and quaaludes at 27.

"if i had my board i woulda been in there!"
"only really one good surfer out there, kinda frustrating to watch these guys"

that slideshow guy should shutthefuckup!... if you surf, and yer going to check a spot, bring yer board or shutthefuckup about it... idiot

howdy all.

happy new year and hope for
a long enough break in this godforsaken
weather to get some waves in the next
week or so.

damn good bowl games yesterday.
iowa got screwed on the onside kick
and georgia forgot to show up.

stoked to see the game manana.

cheers.

Now everyone play nice-nice. Bob is being nice, try to follow suit.

I'll even play nice....

bang those bangin' bangables

What the heck is this?

funky

Although summer sucks at OB - it sure beats this crap. I'm claiming summer over winter.

looks like Mexi and BVB have some stuff in the auction/movie on thursday.

One Winter Story

oops i meant the auction, but there is a movie too.

http://www.samorost2.net/

This is Bunker Spreckles with his Alma board

He looked much rougher in two years later

wait a second...they just had a preview for this movie a couple months ago. so now i can pay another $10 and see an additional minute or two of a preview for a film that will someday be finished? stoked!!!

Props to any of you who surf this industrial broth -- there's gotta be 3 flavors of nerve toxin, 112 carcinogens, and 400 other forms of gross-out floating around with the heavy metals, ag, and natural runoff (bird shit and vermin carcasses ain't all that friendly). I seriously don't know who can justify some raggedy sideshore spinners at Fort Point for all that shit absorbed into your system. They must *really*, reeeeeally want it.

What flows through the Gate, God, it's the narrowest channel concentrating a vast watershed's worth of city and other human-produced waste and byproduct. Gack!!

Does Choda Boy have a face?

machine gun... tearing my body all apart.

Testing testing 1-2-3
Thanks for blocking me earlier this afternoon E. I'd read what a few faceless anonomous posters had written and was about to go off. Bugs me that these guys hide behind their keyboards sucker punching people with out any kind of identity - none we know of. I've met Kaiser, E, Cadaver and a host of other niceness people - nothing to fear here.
The Fort. Putrid. Heinously polluted water with all sorts of matter flaoting in and out of the bay.
The night I surfed it last was all out chaos, we had a hard time getting in even though there was sand in the cove. It wanted a victim - often times it does. To my amazement few people get serioulsly pummled except inthe lot. I am turning over anew leaf this year. I want to be akinder, gentler dick.
Thank Kaiser.
About the auction - I have a one of a kind
item up for bid. Be there.

im so intrigued.

A kinder genter bob carrillo is not possible. Napoleonic syndrome has never before had such a protege. You claimed and named AGAIN!!! Loser.

Bob Carrillo was born in Los Angeles and currently is a surf tranny in San Francisco. In addition to Surf Trip, he curated SwitchStance for the SF Art Commission Gallery in 1997 and his work was featured in the show Outsider Art for Terrain Gallery in 1998. Carrillo graduated with a BA in English Literature from San Francisco State University in 1991 after a rough nine years as an undergraduate. For the last two years he has dedicated his life to making the life of those on the niceness blog as hateful as possible. To this end, he has traversed the Pacific in search of the best troll bait to lure surfers who embody both the "Aloha Spirit" and the original "California cool" to respond to his hateful diatribes. Surf Trip brings together the best and bling-bling-est from both the surfing and contemporary art worlds.

Phhht.

Whateva.

On another note, N.R. Kneelo came into the world on December 31st, 7PM.

Regardless of the wild weather, and not surfing in five days, I am VERY STOKED!

Back to your regularly scheduled good vs. evil.

Here it is E: The Chronicles of Noriega. (Oops, I named.)

Azzland, keeper of the good vibe, and his fawns battle the forces of evil. He is helped by several humans that entered the unchartered realm after they deciphered the tiles in the W.C. in the Chalet.

The endless Winter is broken only by a dangerous trek through a cascading river of terror. The enchanted creatures of the underwater help and hinder our protagonists until they finally make it to the land of the moving Mountains.

Unfortunately, they lose hope when a wicked villian casts a vibe, crushing their will and driving them into submission... Cast back through the portal, they are relegated to funboards, and forever banished to live under a bridge. They might not ever realize that which was meant to be.

But, what the villian didn't realize, is that Azzland controls the winds, which blow from the South as long as our heros remain under the bridge.

The villian vows to change the seasons and deplete the supplies that nourish our heros.

But, whispers amongst the denizens suggest something much bigger developing. Drums along the drive from the bridge to the place of Dead Men are rising. They suggest switching their force of wind directly at their foe... straight at him.

(A lack of sleep makes me as sharp as a ball.)

paul ferraris is the man

paul ferraris is a fat kook!

Distraction, thanks for the link, that evoked more emotion than any "fog's inhumanity to the avenues" portrayal by the kook's concubine.

BVB, I'm flattered. But, honestly, I think some folks out there in the land of 0's and 1's need the jabs here and there. Keep doing what your doing. No one deserved to graduate from Taco Bell U. without paying some dues along the road.

In other news, there is more nut swingin in this here tree then any other I have ever seen. And I was born under a lot of really tall ones!

Good game on the tube!

Re: Props to any of you who surf this industrial broth -- there's gotta be 3 flavors of nerve toxin, 112 carcinogens, and 400 other forms of gross-out floating around with the heavy metals, ag, and natural runoff (bird shit and vermin carcasses ain't all that friendly).

heavy metals flaoting around? methinks they float to the bottom.

Some of us vurmin truly enjoy the haters vs. the namers on this wunnerful lil blogosphere.

Re: Props to any of you who surf this industrial broth -- there's gotta be 3 flavors of nerve toxin, 112 carcinogens, and 400 other forms of gross-out floating around with the heavy metals, ag, and natural runoff (bird shit and vermin carcasses ain't all that friendly).

heavy metals flaoting around? methinks they float to the bottom.

Some of us vurmin truly enjoy the haters vs. the namers on this wunnerful lil blogosphere.

I just cant get over that tattoo. Good God.

Rain Advisory
A rain advisory is issued anytime there is significant rainfall that may affect bacteria levels in ocean waters. Levels of bacteria can rise significantly in ocean waters especially adjacent to storm drains, creeks and rivers during and after rainstorms. Elevated levels of bacteria may continue for a period of up to 3 days depending upon the intensity of the rain and the volume of runoff. Elevated bacteria levels in ocean water may cause someone to become ill. The Department of Health Services recommends that beach users avoid contact with ocean water, especially near flowing storm drains, creeks and rivers for a period of 3 days after rainfall ends.

Good morning!

now that is niceness

Paul Ferraris and Bob Carillo are both good guys and good surfers.If you have problems with them YOU are the problem.

BVB is the only one here that I would care to have a surf with. So long as he stayed the hell off my peak.

Haavy metals stick to things, kooooook. They break up into little bits that stick to other things and take days to settle to the bottom after a storm.

Scoop of cadmium-laden Bay silt has been sent to your home, try some in your oatmeal.