From: kdogg
101 south 2 LA ez beautiful right now. aloha

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wow feels so good to be back in the water ... yesterday my paddling felt nice + strong as i went out for the 1st time, this morning we made POPS by 8:30 and had a great fun sesh there - a building swell w/ some inconsistent size but some very consistent size from the nice local dudes that were out there w/ us. jimmy came out to join us + welcome me back towards the end of our sesh. he said he was at canoes thinking we left already but then he saw someone out at pops get a crazy long ride + realized dat person was so tall must be tom-A-hawk! jimmy said a few things w/ 1 of my boyz and when i asked if he knew him he said 'no, but i will...' well, steve + i took our last waves in pretty soon after that, and my 2 fave local bros took theirs in right behind us! i had a nice shower chat w/ the 'big arms + shoulders' guy - he's da 1 called the conditions 'inconsistent' ... after a foster's oilcan + a schmoke we made TheBus jus in time to hit IRIFUNE for lunch! surf nap rocked da rest of da afternoon ... mmmzzzz...

yes i'm back in hawai'i. free wireless lasted like 20 minutes - so i bought some. first full day today, got out for a swim in little waves on a sandbar in front of the royal hawaiian, then steve made us a big ahi + eggs brunch. awesome nap before a fun warmup surf sesh at canoes pau hana w/ steve + me doing choreographed slater + o'brien moves, then we got mochiko chicken at L+L - the waikiki L+L has great mochiko, nice grilled savor w/ green onions cooked into the batter - mmm ... gonna try to get out the door before 8 tomorrow morning for another surf - lucky south swell supposed to be comin in! good night!

awright! gettin free wireless @ da condo ... live radio k in hawai'i !

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pullin away from da gate: ready 4 pau da mainland tom-A-hawk ? ai ... imua already !

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aloha y'all from DFW - nice big airport, nice big dudes ... nice!

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From: kdogg >
4.2 quake tonight! 2 this week

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jake gyllenhaal on conan - sorry dude but in those pants i can't stop starin @ ur crotch ...

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Reply from: tom-A-hawk >
so dramatic ramon! i luv this sh*t - sounds like we hav 2 get u out 2 da 19 2nite ... u need 2 b w/ people.

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From: ramon >
Stuck in a frozen tundra! Like 3 to 4ft of snow. Blizzard until Thursday. Depression has set in... DAMN.

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snowed in snowstorm movie: elmer gantry on ch 2

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the apocalyptic weather forecast from stephen + doug: 15-19" by sun nite !

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$1 beer nite @ da eagle 2nite - 'fat' 2sday w/ da bears ... ?

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FW:

From: kdog > chk out my stinson sunset. rt now- i feel ya bro

i raise my 1st pau hana glass 2 JOCKOHOMO - happy bday bro ... + thanx 4 all da hitz !

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da current s rockin 2nite !

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o + happy chinese nu year 2 my favorite little piggy ... ! :p

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new fave cute boy category: cute boys n black speedos n da showers @ da gym ...

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tradesmen's pau hana @ chiang mai thai ...

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'super milk chan' on youtube !

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police reunion tour ...

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danny s. spinnin "she's fresh!" on da current ...

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nice! made my transfer - w/ 2 mins 2 spare ...

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it is now officially tom-A-hawk 's bday ...

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in the three weeks since i've been back in minneapolis i have adapted to winter life, learning to tolerate the coldest weather in three years by constructing an elaborate romantic metaphor: i have transformed a domestic situation that could have easily become a breeding ground for cabin fever into a scenario that involves being snowed-in at a ski lodge, where i stock up on supplies, cook at home, make cocoa and snuggle with my rescue dog for warmth at night. all while enjoying the luxury of being able to hike a couple minutes to the nearby village to buy more groceries, rent 'six feet under' dvds and use the free wireless as i curl up with baby by the firepit at the chalet, i mean coffee shop.

this shameless self-delusion has gone along nicely with the general excess grandiosity of aquarian birthday season (mine - and my mom's, and james dean's ! - is on thursday ... thanks stevie for the bday care package* from hawai'i!). i've actually been working in the occasional cab ride on my few forays out into the frozen world - my blacked-out date harassed chris r at the hot p-cons / hockey night show on friday; a little soiree at the caterpillar with kimberland, and her latest fave dj bach, got me out of the house after the super bowl sunday night, to meet up w/ bday bro jcat before he jetted back to his new home in seattle. but now there are actual concrete plans being made to bring tom-A-hawk back to the islands, an urgent airlift to employ me on another solid hawaiian custom cabinet job with steve, and to spare me from at least one more month of what truly is a cold and brutal way to live. it's much easier to deal with winter when you have an escape plan - otherwise i swear my fun little winter daydream could develop into a serious "the shining"-style psychosis.

but i'm not there yet. i'm taking my supplements and i'm on my tonic, i woke to very pretty, delusion-reinforcing snow falling this morning, which has tapered off and i should go shovel now. my mystery neighbor's free wireless has been down for days, so i'll go to the chalet, i mean coffee shop, to post this later.

[*stevie's care package included the new freesurf, including an ad that made tom-A-hawk realize eddie rothman is his big new surf stud ... buttons sez he "literally chained me to a pole in his house for two weeks" ... yea Daddy!]

go BU !

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go bears !

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who wuz jus tellin me re: da esalen inst ... ? t-hawk wants 2 go !

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honolulu air + 5 nites hotel $711 - hula 2 HI now + save $150 - $500 on nwa !

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t-hawk pau hana @ sawatdee ... much better.

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maxin out on shows 4 ur bday week? rad. happy bday btw kdig, + happy aquarius bday season !

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tom rub thigh pau hana ... no food specials, + s dat KS95 on da stereo ?

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>From > stevie
If can , can . if no can , no can .

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listenin 2 'now like photos' on radio k @ da same time - da last o sunset thru da kitchen windows ...

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single digit cold, vodka cokes, good bud, cookin a pork tloin + 'tigerland' w/ colin farrell on tv = sweet ... aloha ka ua

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jus won guest list w/ a +1 to da p-cons / hockey night sho!!! thanx radio k!

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rock ur body

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bringin sum sexy back @ da jt sho n st paul ... ! thanx mj 4 da miracle tkt !

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LOTS of dates 4 da hockey boy on 2day's strib sports sec ... oh la la ... !

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i know you're not supposed to smoke pot before you make art but - wot da fuk. plus, idol's on so i'm watchin it + i'm sure you're not supposed to do that either. yea, i'm back. it's been a week - incl. tom-A-hawk's 'day without drinking' - and today, i think i might actually be thinking that yea, i'm back. kenneth anger at the walker on friday, robb's $1 aquarian bday beer bash @ eagle on on tuesday, p-cons + HOCKEY NIGHT @ the triplerock next friday. gonna play guitar after idol.

why o why do i go 2 da news room ... ?

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last nite's dream: i was visiting kdogg n japan ...

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lookin out on my nice big brand new A-330, waitin 2 board ... when i close my eyes, i see waves ... aloha

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+ wot diminutive norse mpls weather guy did tom-a-hawk meet las nite @ da hula's beer bust ... ?

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jus back from n. shore - pua'ena surf / local beef in hale'iwa ...

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all good surfers r napping in prep 4 a nice pau hana ... surfed in2 sunset las nite ... s all re: da pau hana.

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chinatown happy hour w/ kurt was the great escape from tired waikiki nightlife ... actually ended up going down an alley to the mercury lounge not bar 35; where, kurt tells us, shoes are required. fine by me, since i've been to bar 35 already, wearing slippers if i remember correctly, so was fun to check out a new venue. draft bass + cool graphic novel / anime style art on the walls = another nice addition to the downtown scene. got a chance to hang out a little in kurty's reclaimed apartment before we went out, is good to see him enjoying his new urbanism so much. clothes in the dryer, stevie whippin up a late brunch, hopefully a little pau hana surf in a little bit - checked the waves and queen's is lookin even better than the nice farm animal DUDE that was checkin me out down there. [down where?]

saturday a.m. westerns on amc: renowned drag artist john wayne starring in '3 texas queers' ...

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listenin 2 kdogg tunes - seu jorge rt now - aloha ...

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ran into jimmy for a fun pau hana sesh @ canoes on wednesday, lots of fun lines to shoot, and cute boys to cruize, surfed into overcast dusk as the amber hotel room lights of waikiki started coming on; another pau hana @ pops yesterday, tom-A-hawk solo this time for some steep faces, fun drops, paddled back in under a spectacular sunset. went to mc's place last night to watch his new holy grail special order dvd that just arrived: 'sunrise,' a silent film by 'nosferatu' director f.w. murnau, w/ still-amazing depth + cinematic composition ... after that we took off and hit chiko's again for live hawaiian music, spontaneous hula, and of course, choke cute boys ... who won't look at me !!! ;( but it's all good of course. everybody's just there to have fun w/ their buds, + plus i got to meet quinn. jus pau 1 ok canoes sesh now - funny crowd ... but of course you can't complain - you're in the water in hawai'i! going for a little bohemian happy hour w/ kurty downtown @ bar 35 now, surf video nite @ kenzen's tomorrow nite, pau beach beer bust @ hula's sunday night ... until tom-A-hawk leaves it ain't nothin but a party y'all. hana hou!

off da grid on maui: three day retreat at camp ulupalakua, featuring ono grinds, a solar + propane heated hot tub soak, solar + diesel generated tunes, 6 dogs, 1 horse, 2 pigs, + 2 petes. when you're spending most of your time in or around the ocean, it's good to take the opportunity to get the perspective of some elevation, put some distance between yourself + sea level. we took the crazy interisland airfare-wars as just such an opportunity, got tickets to maui for $42 each on island air. our vacation from our vacation was like a weekend at the cabin, soaking up the powerful mana on the ridge of the most recent eruption of haleakala, which is not surprisingly now the home of hawaiian superman petie-john + his man [also a pete] ... tom-A-hawk even got to play some guitar! the view was pure country, of the la perouse lava fields with kahoolawe looking like a floating island in the lavender sunsets - at night it went completely dark, not a single city light to be seen. petie whipped up some roots local teri chicken + potato-mac salad one night, we took him out for a big piece of local beef at the ulupalakua ranch store, and grabbed a huge take-out ahi patty sandwich plate at da kitchen right before we got back on our de havilland dash 8 prop plane. got back to the condo in waikiki with sand from little beach still on my toes [and maybe a few other places] ... aloha nui loa + much mahalos pete + pete! maui no ka oi !!!

i'm getting maui-ed n da morning... aloha

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'jezebel' now ... why didn't someone show me this movie when i was 16 ?

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saturday cowboy movies on amc after big fun POPS !

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canoes this morning w/ steve, then steve left to take care of business downtown, then jimmy + jake showed up. surfed 10-1, steve met back up w/ us after for lunch at me's korean ... jimmy said was better than yesterday: less wind, more (smallkine) waves. now that i can actually catch a wave, turn, and find a line with some kind of frequency i'm starting to realize i still kind of look like a mess out there, but it's still nice to have these pics jake got today ... 1st pics of tom-A-hawk on da wave ... jimmy looks like a rock star, of course - gotta remember to surf backside + face the cam next time!

'afro samurai' on spike ...

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aloha kaua - i haven't worn socks for a month. never surfed today - wind + rain, cuz.

alan's party was even bigger than last year, fireworks were crazy all night, w/ a midnight explosion of illegal aerials up + down kalihi. took new year's day off surfing, hiked to diamond head beach for a little afternoon delite swim + au naturel sun w/ stevie. had to agree with him afterwards when he said, 'i liked the naked part.' [my regular readers will recall that i started this tradition last year.]

tuesday + wednesday conrad took us back to camp for more epic wesside waves - some big ones rollin through there ... and the waves were pretty big too! this one time, at rest camp, i got a pretty sweet ride. well ok more than one time really ... was great to get the chance to hang out + surf w/ conrad this time! tuesday night jimmy had us out to hawaii kai for a barbecue + hot tub soak at his condo's crazy pool/party gardens; last night marked our return to chiko's! i want a "i [heart] chiko's" t-shirt ... i've realized on this visit that i'm kind of way over hula's - too cliquey! 2 hi sku! - but chiko's has great food + cute boys [wow especially super nice + hospitable + tall + dreamy owner quinn; to whom i have referred, up to this point, with undisguised affection, as 'chiko' - dudes i'm crushin bigtime sorry cannot help it ... but you know come to think of it our excellent server was pretty nice too ... + you gotta love a guy named herb], plus the sexy down-low vibe suits me just fine. jake led the charge on karaoke and our table backed him up on a respectable 'carolina in my mind' - steve followed it up with a curious styling of 'delta dawn' ... he admitted afterward that he hates that song. wanna go back for live local music next thursday 1/11 9-midnite ... c u there + say hi this time !!!

hey! sorry i missed ya - surf nap. conrad's coming here @ 8, we'll go chiko's around 9 ...

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aloha 07 ! ideal day @ rest camp w/ conrad + steve yesterday, goin back 4 more rt now, feel like chiko's 2nite !

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isolated new-year's firecrackers, screamers + sparklers have been goin off in the street since yesterday, sure to build gradually up to a big crescendo of blazing noise as the night progresses...

followed through on getting out to pops early wednesday morning: surfed THREE hours for same thing as xmas eve: staked out the peak on long waits for ok waves, till there were just 3 or 4 of us old-timers out there, surfing between crowd shifts.

thursday, while poor steve had to work downtown all day, jimmy + conrad took all our boards + me in jimmy's new surfmobile ['jimmy defines the minivan - the minivan does not define jimmy'] to da west side, for steak plate at sunny's roadside steak plate truck in waianae, + big waves - not as big as the 40-footers on the north shore that day, and breaking just right to be manageable at the spot conrad picked - rest camp, in pokai bay, a military recreation area beach where you have to show i.d. to enter. still a very mixed crowd w/ some serious old time wesside kannaks boomin down the biggest peaks! actually managed to catch a few nice rides in the crowd out there - bigger waves that start w/ a gentle slope down their broad faces, a fun stage to carve a soul turn left then snap back around for a nice accelerated slide to the right across the peel ... tom-A-hawk's 1st wesside waves!!! going back for a new year's surf w/ conrad tomorrow! thursday night the three of us met up w/ stevie and jake took us all out for dinner dockside at the yacht club, where he paddles outrigger - mahalo jake! was very festive, w/ holiday lights on the boats reflecting in the water...

friday morning steve had to work again, but left the condo w/ his board by 8:30, proclaiming I GET TO HAVE FUN TOO. we passed each other in the street as he came in and i went out, for a rainy session w/ jake + jimmy that started great [tom-A-hawk was workin the right] but soon got overcrowded... jake still managed to get a few pics w/ his fun xmas present - a new gopro digital hero sports camera...

yesterday [saturday] jimmy, jake, conrad, stevie + me met up for the last traditional saturday morning surfclub event of the year - an expedition to diamond head [in the water by 10!]: which was windy, yes; choppy, yes; hard work constantly paddling against the current and the wind chop back into the lineup, yes - but we all still got rides. jake is really quite the surfer, and he had his new camera with him again, which the cute blondie shortboarder thought was pretty cool ... tom-A-hawk got a couple of his signature 007 late takeoffs / steep drop / bottom turns, but don't expect any jake pics - tom-A-hawk is just too fast. after that workout/battle we were all almost as RAVENOUS as conrad so we got takeout food, beer + dessert from south shore grill / diamond head market + grill, had lunch under the pergolas at queen's beach, where we were clearly being cruized by a nice beefy local loner ... and it really doesn't get much better than that, 'sCrunGE!' friends ...

went to see 'dreamgirls' at ward w/ jake last nite, resting up today for the big new year's eve fireworks party at alan's place up on the slopes of kapalama heights in kalihi valley, which is guaranteed to be going OFF w/ countless household fireworks displays, and views of the big town displays on shore plus lots, and lots, of boys. party of the year if you ask me.

HAU'OLI MAKAHIKI HOUUUUUUUU !!!!!!!!!!!!

gay surf club conquers - wot else? - windy, choppy diamond head 2day: conrad, jimmy, jake, stevie + me

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o + tom-A-hawk surfed wesside 4 da 1st time 2day [pokai bay / rest camp] ... !

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got em ! we coming maui jan 7 @ 9am - jan 9 @ 8pm ... renting a car - c u soon !

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surfed four hours xmas eve day ... steve + i went out to canoes late a.m. - super crowded, not much for waves, steve went in after an hour or so. i stayed, decided to just try to enjoy the social aspect of sitting in the lineup, which at canoes for real can be most of the fun. but that didn't keep it from getting old after a while: tom-A-hawk wanted some waves!

still had lots of energy so i paddled past the sand barge out to pops. funny mixed group out there too, all crowding the peak as usual, but i had already practiced patience so i hung out, got to know the different characters out there, including the local dad + his young adult daughter [who was giving some euro-kook tourist stink eye for boxing in her ride right when i got there]. i watched and waited, staying out of the way, giving away waves left + right like xmas presents. got to know the set rhythm + when the bigger waves were coming through as one by one the crowd thinned out until finally, it was just me and the dad + daughter.

we had all been out there so long that as the other folks left it seemed like we figured out that the three of us were actually surfing in pretty well with each other, and spent some nice family time enjoying it, taking turns going for waves, getting some, not getting others. by the time the surf school and some other tourists showed up i had finally gotten comfortable enough to out-paddle another surfer and maneuver into a late takeoff, which i nabbed for my final satisfying ride: four hours well-spent - merry xmas tom-A-hawk!

was just sundazed and doped-up enough on endorphins to make xmas eve dinner at ted + carl's that night a lot of fun, what w/ the red wine, their french bulldog rupert humping the little nephew every chance he got + the big southern-boy cousins belting out carols at the piano ... steve + i kept saying we were gonna go for a xmas day surf but ended up spending the day in bed watching cowboy movies on amc before a surfclub xmas dinner at kurty's place downtown - w/ conrad from london, who's here through the new year! we are lucky to have some great friends here in hawai'i.

so now it's that awesome week between xmas + new year - a full holiday week! still haven't gone surfing - we needed two days off ... in a row. steve actually worked a little this morning; i hauled the recycling, got an americano and watched the waves at queens from a bench on shore [where some random guy asked me if i knew where to get any pot and i chatted w/ a nice retired french-canadian grandma - ah, waikiki]. jimmy keeps talking about having us over to surf hawaii kai side: some secret new spot he's just discovered - 'like queens w/ no one else there' - or the aina haina death march ... but we're still just planning to get out to pops as early as we can tomorrow a.m.

surf, tom-A-hawk ! [i've started practicing my cross-step again!]

a warm island greeting of peace + aloha ... it actually feels like xmas eve here in waikiki !

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B-O-D 4 me ...

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tricky, 'iffy' tasman sea shadow swell not quite here yet, hopefully back up to 3 foot hawaiian by tomorrow - paddled out under a rainbow this morning to mostly flat, mostly crowded, kind of pilau waters ... not much waves, one ok set every 20 minutes, but lots of aloha @ pops, was mainly talk story: w/ one guy who had rigged up an electric motor on his board - 'like a prius' said one rell sunn type local gal - or the turtle steve saw 2 times, or the dolphins we all oohed and awed over as they schooled and jumped out about a hundred yards or so ... rell thought they showed up because they were interested in the guy's motorized board + i think she's right - they had to show off back! but we both got waves, even if some were funny inside wahine waves ... going to see guy cruz @ tapa's tonight: 7-10 no be late ! [but not until stevie cooks up a mess o chicken ... ! mmm.]

actually took the day off, rested up, recovered - swear qi gong worked nearly miraculous healing powers on me today, now we're well fed on stevie's chili rice surfer food [w/ fresh local green onions], ready for a good night's sleep, stoked for the new bUmp comin in to town tomorrow a.m. ... wanted to see the new 007 film for almost a month, but i made us wait until we got to hawai'i - finally got out to see it last night [so good - brutally good] for an ideal date w/ stevie at the full local ward theaters scene followed by wine wednesday for tom-A-hawk w/ sierras for stevie + garlic fries for all at big city diner next door, where asking for the salt + pepper was cause for aloha ... chillin w/ westerns on tv tonight is the perfect wrap-up to the perfect surfbreak - so no pau hana sesh but stevie sez there was no 2-4 goin on out there today anyway anyhow ... aloha

[editor's note: it might do at this time to remind my gentle readers that all my posts are listed here at central time, but are actually made on hawaiian time; which, this time of year, is central time minus four hours ...]

western nite on tcm ['the westerner' w/ gary cooper, from 1940] ...

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From: kung > Defo! KC is in town. And it's snowing.

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aloha + best wishes for a happy + festive winter solstice to you! after getting kind of beat up by the [great!] surf the last few days [inside right forearm + knuckles bruised on one side, smallkine coral scratch on the left palm, pulled neck muscle from taking a wave on the side of the head, sore knee from an awkward wipeout], we're taking the day off [so far - i just read that s shore is knee to shoulder high + good! ok we might go out for pau hana] steve went to do some quick work for surf bud kurt, baby + me just did our qi gong ... and speaking of the wonders of baby: i signed up for a month of the universal wireless that's available in waikiki and now, for about a dollar a day, i'm getting four-bar internet through the mac, including web radio on the sleek new speakers we got from kung. we can turn on live radio from kexp in seattle for fresh, commercial-free tunes whenever we want! like kdogg replied when i texted him about it - fuckin rad! just when you think hawai'i can't get any better. [now if i can just convince the current to offer a 32k alternative to their 128k mp3 stream like kexp does ... i've tried to tune in the 128k but it keeps stalling, same w/ radio k - ;p - but kexp's 32k works + sounds great - and it's kind of perfect to be listening to a west coast station now that we've gone all pacific on ya ... ]

dreamt i disguised myself as a calf named butternut as a wake-up prank on owen wilson ...

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back out to canoes this morning - even though pops was lookin a little better: more size, more peel - because my boyfriend said so. but there is something old-school + classic about a canoes sesh, and the bigger crowd makes for more cute boys! today's break buddy was a haole chunkster with a nice dark tan, dark hair, nice big chest + shoulders and a full-on spare tire - sure was fun to watch that chunky booty pump while he was workin for da wave ... ! and work it he did, over + over, without really catching anything, until i had decided that fo' real, dis my las wave - and ho, we're goin for it together, him on my left, goin for da left. we both got it + rode in together - break brothers! - him taking it in just far enough in front of me to jump off his board with a flip into the water for me, a show-off move that probably made his musclemonster buddy, who did not catch da wave, a little jealous. swell has come down a bit more, but still something to ride and snn sez there's a new minor s swell arriving on friday - a surprise xmas present to da south shore ... !

hot pic o jb gomes n nov 'heavywater' mag - 2 bad sam sez he's such a dick ... probly gonna beat me up jus 4 bloggin dat.

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jus back from 2nd day out on freak swell 06 - ! - not quite as much water movin around out there but still getting da big 20-minute set - first 1/2 hour was perfect w/ 3 ace lefts for tom-A-hawk [canoes is now a left ??? o wot?] - then da crowd hit and the new sport became cute local boy watching cuz even if you got one there was no where 2 go cuz all da people ... had one NICE break buddy at the end of da sesh: BIG all around, nice + dark w/ hawaiian tattoos on those big shoulders + arms, lookin super cute in a baseball cap, not hangin out so much w/ da rowdy local group on the right side ... cut me off real close on one ride [was happy to give way], then he got out of da way for my last ride - another creamy left, right in da curl, 4 tom-A-hawk ! yea boi !!!

freak swell hits waikiki with big waves rolling in lines stretching from publics to the royal hawaiian! went out this morning for what seemed like the biggest part of the day, paddled outside canoes to see how it was working ... had to paddle out farther + farther to get over the huge hills of water coming in without being buried by them, almost out to where they moved the sand replenishment project barge to keep it out of the waves, and finally decided to skip canoes and its seasoned old-timers to check out the crowd at pops, which from our perspective was looking more managable. it was, but the waves were still plenty big - and the crowd was a little more mixed but there were still lots of good surfers out there. victory at sea came in the form of steve and me actually attempting a few takeoffs ... with a couple spectacular wipeouts! i zeroed in on a local buff baldy as my Break Buddy. [Break Buddy = a fellow surfer who's a little better than you - and CUTE! hanging out near him helps you figure out where to put yourself on the break for waves that match your skills. if you actually catch the same wave with him he becomes your Break Brother. i'm sure some guys even take it to the next level and become Break Boyfriends ... but i'm sure i wouldn't know anything about that] following his lead i was finally able to catch one sweet long right! combined with steve's fine left yesterday it's shaping up to be an epic week!

swell coming up today but not quite here yet - fluffy, mushy muffin tops starting to rise up out da water ... u kno wot? gimme da whole muffin! but we went out anyway this a.m. - ok, crowded sesh @ CANOES w/ stevie getting top honors on one majestic ride, me stayin out for just one more, didn't disappoint w/ a 007 drop + carve down a nice steep face - right in front of da best local surfer out there ... in my new local boy boardshorts! [btw we are now officially a quiksilver household]

fujiya + miyagi on KEXP ...

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From: kdogg > Aloha fROM kdog & kung in da castro!

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failed mo'blog txt from yesterday sent 12:08 p.m. HST >

jus pau POPS - windy,
junky w/ 2 much surf
school donkeys
gettin pushed in2 da
good waves ... it's
over now
tom-A-hawk

watching >choke< holiday programming tonite [incl. 'elf' + 'mean girls'], resting up for freak south swell supposed to be coming up tomorrow, lasting all week! kenzen reports they're saying biggest out-of-season south swell in december for 20 years! UI!

'family business' from danny's rap mix - "dis is 4 da family dat can't b w/ us" ...

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out to POPS for da 1st time yesterday - fun waves, some nice technical rides by tom-A-hawk; and, two times, when i was alone, came my 'aumakua' da sea turtle, up to say welcome back...

doves flyin thru sunset waikiki outside r window w/ doves 'b+w town' on da itunes ...

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[we missed it but we're thinkin if we party w/ him later we still might get a chance 2 check it out ... ]

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mick got a 10.0 !

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so like i mentioned - the irony is that i'm getting better wireless here at the beach house, on the north shore, in the country - than i'm getting at the condo in waikiki, like i want to be sitting around 'blogging while i'm here, but i'll try ... the highlights: fun bonfire w/ nice local boys friday night w/ a full 'good game' round of handshake introductions, bodysurfing waimea yesterday, pipe masters contest down the beach today - jamie o'brien cruized right by us on the way to + from his heat - so close i could have reached out + grabbed one of his love handles! [the source of his powers?] that started a regular parade of surf rock stars marching past us - slater paused right in front of us to put on his rash guard then hit the water w/ a superstar standing shred before he started to paddle, tom-a-hawk's new crush mick fanning cruised by a couple times before + after his heat [uncle kenzen tells me word is he likes to get drunk, get naked, and show off his other talent], surf hero of the people rob machado came by smiling, local blondie nate carroll cruised thru workin da crowd, never saw andy irons up close but saw him catch a few out there ... in their heat slater + o'brien were the ultimate showmen w/ simultaneous takeoffs: first slater taking pipe [left] + jamie going backdoor [right], then coming back w/ o'brien going right + slater going left. mick was sportin some hot b+w psycho stripe new wave board shorts, but i noticed that bruno santos, the surfer from brazil in his heat [not this guy, but - WOOF anyway] committed the faux pas of wearing the same shorts - hav to say that bruno filled out the seat of his trunks a little better tho...

in the absence of surf mom dirkdirkdirk, who just moved back to da mainland, we have all stepped up admirably in the cooking department - i even made dinner for the 4 of us on thursday nite - my [famous] linguini w/ clams. mc kicked it in yesterday incl. fresh bread - several times a day! Stevie's preparing the traditional surf club beach house pork tenderloin as i write ... after narrowly avoiding being sucked into a portal to another dimension by our surprise visitor - the ethno-botanist from maui - on friday night, i'm happy to report to jake, who unfortunately had to leave yesterday, that i've had a clear view of my chips all weekend.

of course i'm getting better wireless here on the north shore...

[wanted to make sure i saw one last show in minneapolis before we left - i saw 4 ... i work well w/ a deadline. silversun pickups were the perfect band to see at the entry w/ my uptown yw rocker girl co-worker kimberland, and my plan for it to be my last big show would have worked perfectly if it hadn't been for the noxious fumes someone near us kept emitting - shame on you whoever you are ... then i heard that a local band i'd been wanting to hear for 3 years on the basis of their name alone - coach said not to - were playing at a new venue i'd been wanting to check out since lori barbero told us to - the nomad world pub (in the old 5 corners saloon building on the west bank) the day after thanksgiving. liked the venue, but the coach said not to girls should have listened to coach. good thing the band that opened for silversun pickups - solid gold - were headlining and they have a decent sound so that saved face for me since i brought my sis + nephew along ... i had known for weeks that brazilian girls were coming to the fine line and i kept on telling myself i wasn't gonna go even though i knew i'd end up going ... kung called the night of the show all excited about devotchka, who were playing a few days later, and since i have no interest in that band i talked him into going to the brazilian girls show that night - we went w/ danny + alana and ended up partying w/ the band in a south minneapolis basement until almost four a.m. w/ one of our party waking up on the tour bus in chicago. pussy pussy pussy! ... took me a couple days to recover and i thought i'd had my fill until i heard about the big doomtree blowout (incl. p.o.s. !) at 1st ave last saturday night. it was so obviously the big deal of the season that i bought 4 tickets from fifth element before i even know who i was going to take. sold out show w/ a fully hyped b-boy/girl break @ intermission was the perfect final send-off for tom-a-hawk (plus it allowed kim + me to redeem our 1st ave experience - fragrance free!) ... but that didn't stop me from running through the hot party crowds on frigid 1st avenue after the show for a few final drinks w/ kung as he finished up his shift @ sawatdee (where they were just zipping up a takeout order for g'n'r ! rock'n'roll !!!), then to an art department dance after hours in the warehouse district that would have been quite lame if it hadn't been for the drunk skinny gay boy dancing around in his jockstrap ... i know i should be finished but i can't let go until i also mention that i heard solid gold again, live on the current's sunday night local show, the night before we left ... like i said, i work well w/ a deadline.]

when dec arrives n da islands take time 2 reflect on winter n paradise + remember dat n many parts o da mainland is snowing

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2nd warm-up sesh out @ canoes this morning ... not quite as good as yesterday + a few more dangerous kooks but plenty cute boys - still good fun!

amazing to make the pacific passage, the transition from living in the middle of a continent to living in the middle of the ocean ... just like when i flew out this spring, i crossed from land to sea over san francisco: last time at a relatively low altitude right over the city w/ an incredible full color view of golden gate park and the big red bridge; this time impossibly high and to the north, with a view like the space shuttle, of the sacramento river emptying into the bay, marin, the lighthouse on the tip of point reyes, the east bay w/ thin fog in the berkeley hills and, connected by wire-thin bridges and looking like the master computer chip in the center of an endless organic circuit board, the city. it is bio-electro-magnetic to me that place, + i could feel it connecting to my nervous system like a wireless signal, lighting up my cells, realigning my molecules, drawing me back.

watchin 'da hulk' ... so darn good.

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jus pau 1 nice 1st sesh out @ canoes - surftrack: walker kong's 'televisions' ... + i had 1 break brother =>

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and tom-A-hawk is gettin wireless in da condo, bros ...

full moon over waikiki ... hawai'i aloha.

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just took my seat on my trusty ol' dc-10 ... c u in honolulu !

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from "peace machine" in da uptown neighborhood news - "the gift of december's darkness: days getting shorter. sit on the couch in the dark and just sit there. accept yourself. not available in stores."

dang jus got da doomtree materials out: postcards, stickers, tkts ... wish i showed u guyz

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hey i'm @ s side 11th + lasalle + i'm a real easy pickup

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omg p.o.s. / doomtree @ 1st ave 2morrow nite ! jus got 4 tkts !!!

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