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Category Archives: Surfing

Jimmy Slade on NPR

Kelly Slater on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.
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SL9R takes Billabong Pro J Bay

Details and pics. Um, what? The guy is 36 years old and has won 4 of 5 events this year. The one event he did not win was won by a wildcard, so technically Slates is the only one of the top 44 to have won an event thus far, and we’re almost halfway through [...]
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Check it out! You can become a fan of The Interloper on Facebook. Let everybody know! It makes a great summer solstice gift! More regular posting to resume once this book review deadline is dead and over with. PS Happy International Surfing Day! Now go home, kook!
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plain-wrap bonzer5

and…here I am, picking it up, in CROCS!
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miss the surf culture panel (or too stoned to remember what we talked about)?

[photo stolen from escapegrace] Blogger escapegrace has the rundown. And two pictures! Thanks!
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In case you missed it…

…Joshua Sandoval at Jacket Copy blogged a report on the surf culture panel.
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Fatal Socal Shark Attack

A 66-year-old man was killed by a shark while swimming off the coast of Solana Beach this morning, authorities said. The attack happened at 7:20 a.m. near Fletcher Cove in an area known as Table Tops, said Lt. Phil Brust, a spokesman for San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. Apparently helicopters were flying up and down [...]
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surf culture panel

Don Patterson has written a nice LA Times piece about the upcoming Festival of Books Surf Culture panel, moderated by yours truly.
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from the complaint file

[what I've really been up to] “Bro, did you stop working on your novel? you haven’t updated the blog in weeks.” The Festival of Books is coming this weekend. I will be moderating a panel called “Surf Culture: Shooting the Tube.” I did not name this panel. On my panel will be Steve Hawk, David [...]
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one to see, one to read, one to grow on

Jimmy Slade shreds the con (with gloves on!?!) [YouTube]. Ed Champion on the state of the Litblog. I quit drinking coffee about two weeks ago. I was rocking a pot a day, plus, and it wasn’t doing me any good. When I caught the flu, I made the switch over to tea. (For you lit-types, [...]
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