Challenging waves call for challenging boards. China’s late entrant dark horse at the AB3 East, optimized for rights in the land of lefts.

Surfing on Sine Waves / Polygon Windows

A high tide and east-northeast wind combined for a nice big bowl of grits, which by the way, just happen to be on the menu at the Ocean Park Diner. Although it was nice to get a surf in, today was all about the company and a talking of a slightly different story.

Curious timing by Soussol Selector’s much needed bass after breakfast voice mail on the way home.

Last night as I was packing a giant Century bag with my wetsuit, wax and towels, I noticed a nice pink and green beach towel folded up on the top shelf of the linen closet. It looked familiar to me and I wondered why I hadn’t used it before, instead of screwing around with smaller bath towels in a compact car.

In the parking lot this morning, the mild outside air temperature, coupled with an over sized and brand spanking new silky-smooth beach towel made talking movies with my Attorney a pleasure. He was troubled by “Stop-Loss“, and I recommended “Ravenous“, though I warned him it will make him hungry.

The surf was good today, which made for a relaxing afternoon at the zoo with my son. We shot over to a boatyard afterward, and while I was watching him try to skip rocks along the water my wife called.

“So, was that the largest beach towel you ever used?”, she asked.

“Kind of, yeah, actually it was. When did you get it?”

“A couple of weeks ago.” she replied.

“Why, was it on sale?”

“No, We needed something to eat on for Easter. You took my Easter tablecloth with you to the beach this morning, and now it’s hanging on the clothes line.”

You know what’s really weird? We didn’t even eat at home for Easter.

It felt really good to get some waves today.

Passing Along:

The award winning film Beautiful Son begins to air around the country and
will play throughout the month of April and May. (see the schedule below).

Synopsis

A documentary about one family’s struggle to heal their son from autism

In 2003, Hawaii filmmakers Don and Julianne King realized something was
wrong with their three-year-old son, Beau. Around age two-and-a-half, Beau
started loosing his ability to speak, his coordination, and was becoming
disconnected from the outside world. Determined to help Beau, his parents
brought him to the best doctors in the U.S. and took along a video camera to
document the results. Two months later, Beau was diagnosed with Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

In BEAUTIFUL SON, Don and Julianne take us on their journey through the
landscape of this debilitating neurological disorder as they attempt to
recover Beau from autism. Along the way, through their research and personal
interaction with various medical professionals, Don and Julianne come to
believe the establishment has little to offer apart from advice of “good
parenting” and behavioral therapy. Desperate to find help, they stumble upon
a community of doctors and parents who are experimenting with alternative
treatments and who are, they believe, successfully recovering some kids from
autism.

BEAUTIFUL SON is the story of an illness reaching epidemic proportion, now
affecting one in 150 children. And, it’s the story of a grass roots movement
of parents and doctors who believe that vaccines, mercury and other toxins
may be triggering some forms of autism and demanding research be done to
help their children.

Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN KWCM 3/30/08 3:00 PM
Sioux Falls (Mitchell), SD KSMN 3/30/08 3:00 PM
Baltimore, MD WMPB 4/2/08 11:00 PM
Baltimore, MD WMPT 4/2/08 11:00 PM
Pittsburgh, PA WGPT 4/2/08 11:00 PM
Salisbury, MD WCPB 4/2/08 11:00 PM
Washington, DC WFPT 4/2/08 11:00 PM
Washington, DC WWPB 4/2/08 11:00 PM
Minot-Bismarck-Dickinson, ND KQSD 4/3/08 2:00 AM
Rapid City, SD KBHE 4/3/08 2:00 AM
Rapid City, SD KPSD 4/3/08 2:00 AM
Rapid City, SD KZSD 4/3/08 2:00 AM
Sioux Falls (Mitchell), SD KESD 4/3/08 2:00 AM
Sioux Falls (Mitchell), SD KCSD 4/3/08 2:00 AM
Sioux Falls (Mitchell), SD KDSD 4/3/08 2:00 AM
Sioux Falls (Mitchell), SD KTSD 4/3/08 2:00 AM
Sioux Falls (Mitchell), SD KUSD 4/3/08 2:00 AM
Nashville, TN WNPT 4/3/08 11:00 PM
Detroit, MI WTVS 4/6/08 3:30 PM
Los Angeles, CA KLCS 4/7/08 10:00 PM
Monterey-Salinas, CA KQET 4/7/08 11:00 PM
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA KQED 4/7/08 11:00 PM
Monterey-Salinas, CA KQET 4/8/08 8:00 PM
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA KQED 4/8/08 8:00 PM
Austin, TX KLRU 4/8/08 2:00 AM
Seattle-Tacoma, WA KBTC 4/8/08 8:00 PM
Pittsburgh, PA WQED 4/11/08 10:00 PM
Milwaukee, WI WMVT 4/27/08 8:00 AM
Milwaukee, WI WMVT 4/28/08 12:00 AM

If you don’t see your city, please contact your local public television
station and ask if they will please air Beautiful Son.

UNFORTUNATELY, this version does not include the Kerns family who recovered
all 3 of their children. The PBS curating team would not allow it to be included.

The longer version of the film is available as a DVD at www.beautifulson.com

Please pass this email along.

Mahalo
Don & Julianne King

Catch this wave, like this, and you too will be singing all night long.

6′5″ Brian Wynn single fin / Found on NYS

6′6 Hanel Speed Egg / Found on S&G

Egg Prep / Found on Surfy Surfy

“Seguem-se uma Quadriga, uma Pentamorphos e outra tb de cinco fins mas em formato egg/disc.” / Found on Nereukinesis

Hanel 5-fin Egg / Found on Surfy Surfy

6′6″ wayne lynch double-ender / Found on NYS

6′4″ MC Bonzer Speed Egg / Found on Cabinessence

The NY Surf Film Festival posted a few dates you may want mark on your calendar, especially if you’re planning on booking a trip to NYC for the event. The festival is scheduled to run on September 26-28th.

For the filmakers: The deadline for submissions has been bumped up to June 25th, so it’s time to start wrapping it up there, Francis.

For more info, check their website at nysurffilm.com.

We’ve all heard and said it before. Once you leave the 5-boros and take a swig of your in-law’s tap water, the first words out of your mouth are almost guranteed to be This water tastes like piss!

It turns out there may be some truth to that statement, and according to an AP report released today, it may also taste like a “A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones..”

Of course, the amounts in the water are too small to taste, but there’s a growing concern about the long term health risks posed by the consumption of trace elements of pharmaceuticals.

But you ask, just how do these drugs get in the water?

“People take pills. Their bodies absorb some of the medication, but the rest of it passes through and is flushed down the toilet. The wastewater is treated before it is discharged into reservoirs, rivers or lakes. Then, some of the water is cleansed again at drinking water treatment plants and piped to consumers. But most treatments do not remove all drug residue.”

It’s stories like these that make me yearn for the days when the drinking water just smelled like rotten eggs.

Drink up.