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The ER

I was puking blood. The good thing about being locked up for three years is I never got sick. But three weeks ago I went out four nights in a row. Two of those were outdoors. One was indoors, but there was a high ceiling and I was relatively alone. Another was at a restaurant […]

Mailbag

Subject: From Tamara re Lahaina fires My son is eight years old and lives to surf Breakwall & Harbor breaks in Lahaina. He does the HSA competitive circuit. My daughter is 3 and a half and just two weeks ago she stood up on her own board. She likes to sing to the big waves. […]

John Gosling

Spotify playlist: https://tinyurl.com/3ttbckuy You probably don’t know who he is, or should I say was. I’m reading this terrible book about the Stones’ girlfriends, “Parachute Women.” The writer said Chris Jagger was Mick’s older brother. I winced, everybody knows Chris is the younger brother. Then again, the author Elizabeth Winder was born in 1980, long […]

Don’t Boast

If you’re telling me how great you are, how you did this or that, what you own, where you’ve been…my eyes start to roll into the back of my head. That’s how you tell someone is an amateur, if they don’t stop telling you how great they are. You’ll know this if you ever encounter […]