A Tip of the Hat to Skip Frye
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Sand will exit this beach mat and it will not return
Source: Boing Boing
Source: Woody’s Smorgasburger | Old L.A. Restaurants
Interview: John Severson | The Surfers Journal
Why peeing on a jellyfish sting is actually a terrible idea
Source: Boing Boing
Bartenders at TikiCat in Westport were trained by some of the legends in the tiki bartending business.
Source: These young KC bartenders are aiming to be ‘tiki superheroes’ | The Kansas City Star
Frank Lloyd Wrights Hollyhock House is an early example of Mayan Revival
Here it Comes: Another Safe Harbor For Digital Services | The Trichordist
Five mid-century gems in unlikely architecture haven Fort Wayne
What’s Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise
Activists Sue to Block Plans to Bury 3.6 Million Pounds of Nuclear Waste Near California Beach
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Open source breeders hope to preserve a handful of important varieties for the farms of the future.
Source: For Seed Rebels, Saving Life’s Building Blocks Has New Urgency | Civil Eats
Peruvian songstress Yma Sumac, a pioneer of exotic, was a legend. That legend was built in Los Angeles.
“We’re being overwhelmed by our waste.”
Source: How The Oceans Became Choked With Plastic
The Archivist: Wild At Heart | The Surfers Journal
Self-Sustainable Lifestyles are Becoming Illegal | Homestead Guru
Tiki bar site Critiki has named Portland’s Hale Pale as the third best tiki bar in the entire world—for the second year in the row.
Source: Portland Bar Named the Number 3 Tiki Bar in the World – Willamette Week
André Staltz – An off-grid social network
Il compositore, direttore d’orchestra e arrangiatore Alessandro Alessandroni è morto a Roma. Aveva da poco compiuto 92 anni. Celebre il suo
Dublin’s Science Gallery hosted an evening of talks by Sea for Society featuring people whose lives revolve around the ocean.
Source: Sea for Society: Surfers Against Sewage and the Science of Ireland’s Water – HeadStuff
A knee-buckling new state-commissioned report warns that if nothing changes, California’s coastal waters will rise at a rate 30 to 40 times faster than in the last century.
Source: Ocean might swallow California sooner than you think – Orange County Register
Defend the Sacred: How Could the Peace Movement Prevail?
Red Bull CEO’s Breitbart-Idolizing Politics
The Jersey Shore circa 1901. “Driveway and beach at Long Branch.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
Source: The Sandpeeper: 1901 | Shorpy | #1 Old Photos
L.A.’s Concrete River Gets Real | NRDC
Going Lala | The Surfers Journal
US Navy schedules latest war games exercise in Gulf of Alaska, without due regard for environmental or community concerns.
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Takers. Of the free resources. Such as clean air. Takers of money, too. Same guys. Duh.
Source: Money to burn: As the wealthy get wealthier, carbon emissions grow in US states
California towns are winning David. v. Goliath battles with oil companies.
Source: Small California Towns Are Facing Off Against Oil Companies — And Winning | naked capitalism
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Watch skateboard stunts on rooftops of New York
Source: Watch skateboard stunts on rooftops of New York / Boing Boing
Cutting Room: Cover Peripherals | The Surfers Journal
In President Trump’s America, Quentin Tarantino might not have been.
Source: What Does the NEA Fund? – 7 Famous Movies Funded by the NEA
Will Amazon Destroy More US Jobs Than China? | naked capitalism
Now we’ll know what the government thought about climate change when it still believed in it.
Source: You Can Now Access The EPA Website As It Existed Before Trump | Co.Exist | ideas + impact
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Source: Bill Campbell-Weird-Oh’s artist. in Final Farewells Forum
Mozambique Surfing travel guide Mozambique surf spot + forum for surfing in Mozambique
It seems to me as if prophecies of Trump have been built into the culture, perhaps by the aliens who seeded us on Earth
Source: Full of nuts, watching a 70s western, I saw America’s future… | Stewart Lee | Opinion | The Guardian
Steve McQueen’s long missing ‘Bullitt’ Mustang found / Boing Boing
I pledge to stand in resistance to Donald Trump’s assault on America’s clean air, clean water, climate, wildlife, civil rights, reproductive rights, gender and racial equality, and freedom of speech and religion.
Source: Pledge of Resistance to Donald Trump’s Assault on America’s Environment, Democracy and Civil Rights
Iron dissolved by air pollution may increase ocean potential to trap carbon
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Defend California from Federal and Civil Rights Rollbacks | NRDC
After the fires killed 11 and devastated vast swaths of land in January many are asking if subsidised timber plantations are to blame
Source: Did Pinochet-era deregulation cause Chile’s worst-ever wildfires? | World news | The Guardian
Mozambique Surf Guide | GoSurfAfrica
“Awful,” says writer and painter Ben Shattuck – but in the good way.
Source: What’s It Like to Be the Artist-in-Residence at America’s Least Visited National Park? | NRDC
Climate change: Apocalypse by 1000 cuts
“I’m glad I packed extra anti-depressants on this trip.” – Mark Cunningham
Source: Jack Johnson’s Film On Ocean Plastic Pollution | The Inertia
Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.
Source: How Surfing Was Brought to Santa Cruz By Three Teenage Hawaiian Princes
And it won’t soon be forgotten.
Source: The Standing Rock Fire Is Visible All Over the United States
James Baldwin trounces William F. Buckley (1965)
Source: James Baldwin trounces William F. Buckley (1965)
You surely do notice the absence of a native in the discussion.
The Lost Journals of Peter Troy from TSJ 20.4.
Source: The Archivist: World Tour | The Surfers Journal
West Hollywood honors the era of the Sunset Strip’s heyday
Source: These Rare Vintage Photos of the Sunset Strip Will Transport You to the 1960s – Los Angeles Magazine
Patagonia Makes Things Political With Outdoor Retailer Show In Utah
The faster-than-expected melt of the Greenland ice sheet is yet another example of climate models proving to be too conservative.
Source: Greenland Ice Sheet Melting 600 Percent Faster Than Predicted by Current Models | naked capitalism