clip from 2009 posted again in honor of Alva's 53rd birthday.
think about this when you watch the new school trickery
at the hurley pro this weekend. 35 years ago TA's generation paid the price in
love, blood, broken bones, and pain that took 'em above the lip...on a harsh and
unforgiving medium...

"...do you ever get the feeling that the story is too damn real and in the present tense...and that everybody is on the stage and you're the only person sitting in the audience..."

year one...

"Meanwhile back in the year One...
when you belonged to no one...

you didn't stand a chance, son...

Cause you were bred
for humanity
and sold
to society...
one day you'll wake up,
in the present day
a million generations
removed from expectations
of being who you really want to be

skating away
skating away
skating away
on the thin ice of a new day.

so as you push off from the shore,
won't you turn your head once more
and make your peace with everyone...

...looking for a sign
that the Universal Mind
has written you
into the Passion Play

Skating away
on the thin ice of a new day.

SQUARE ONE: IN THE NEW SURFER'S JOURNAL...

SQUARE ONE: Serious fun with Lindsay Lord and the Yard Possums by RK.
Being loaded for distribution right now...
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for more please buy a copy and support real surf journalism
from the source. thank you.

MISTADOBLINA

see link at right...18 years later and no one
says it as well as Del.

TIJUANA II

'The dreamer is the designer of tomorrow. Practical men can laugh at him; they do not know that he is the true dynamic force that pushes the world forward. Suppress him and the world will deteriorate toward barbarism. Despised, impoverished, he leads the way...sowing, sowing, sowing the seeds that will be harvested not by him, but by the practical men of tomorrow, who will at the same time laugh at another indefatigable dreamer busy seeding, seeding, seeding."

- Ricardo Flores Magon

Written in the face of failure and death after the 1911
Battle of Tijuana. The Tijuana colonia that bears his
name is on the high mesa overlooking the Rio Tijuana
where it meets the Pacific at the Tijuana Sloughs.

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