tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166760832438419841.post7389030405874732630..comments2023-12-24T05:10:55.564-08:00Comments on The War Planner: His-to-reee..k6whphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14459579212118994056noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166760832438419841.post-52864811788993627972010-07-17T08:34:01.628-07:002010-07-17T08:34:01.628-07:00..more like vomited it back: digital commentary on.....more like vomited it back: digital commentary on the worthiness of my deathless prose.k6whphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14459579212118994056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166760832438419841.post-27782800130175135672010-07-17T07:21:26.732-07:002010-07-17T07:21:26.732-07:00Google ate it and then gave it back. Sometimes I h...Google ate it and then gave it back. Sometimes I high light and copy what I've written just in case Google eats it. Well on the large responses anyway.<br /><br />You describe my old stomping grounds so well. That Malibu trip sounds really familiar. I was there three days in a row somewhere around 1966. The first two days my friend and I shared it with two other guys (you?). On the third day F***ing Mickie Dora and about 100 other guys showed up. The word got out and it ruined it. I'll never forget those first two days though. Six foot surf and only four guys to enjoy it. Those were the best two surfing days of my life.<br /><br />Sonia, really, thanks for your additions ... Miss Birth Control.Woodsterman (Odie)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00423574390748358762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166760832438419841.post-49976652784614471522010-07-17T02:42:45.197-07:002010-07-17T02:42:45.197-07:00Crap, crap, and mega-crap!
I wrote this terrific ...Crap, crap, and mega-crap!<br /><br />I wrote this terrific response to you and Odie, Supi, and Google swallowed it. The main thrust was you are never interrupting and I just wish this venue supported a more conversational mode. <br /><br />Please feel free to blaze away to your heart's content. Maybe I'll do a skeletal post on Surfing and Southern California some day and solicit both your reminiscences.k6whphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14459579212118994056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166760832438419841.post-33934633482458915702010-07-17T02:38:45.705-07:002010-07-17T02:38:45.705-07:00Supi, you're never interrupting! A pleasure to...Supi, you're never interrupting! A pleasure to have you share your reminiscences. I wish this venue offered better mechanics for a discussion, but you two are welcome to blaze away to your heart's content.<br /><br />Maybe I'll do a skeletal post sometime on surfing or Southern California in the 60s and you folks can share your reminiscences.<br /><br />Mrs War Planner 1.0 (I am now on release 2.0) had parents who were transferred to Hawaii in '66 when I was a sophomore at UCLA so I got to hit some of the breaks on Oahu during the next 10 years. My favorites were Ala Moana, Shark Island (until I realized why it got its name), Makapuu (body surfing), and Maile on the leeward side. It was only Summers so nothing was breaking up on the North Shore -- as if I could handle it.<br /><br />I was at Malibu also when there were just a few guys out and there were only 1/2-foot "toe washers" breaking. Then, strangely, a heavy West swell hit and we had some raging good waves all to ourselves until word got out and Mickey Dora showed up.<br /><br />Odie, I loved the cliffs. The last time I was on a board (over a year ago) was there. I loved the "double break" where the serious surfers could get some healthy 3-4 foot walls when a South swell hit and the kids could learn on the inside break.<br /><br />Now, the upper end of the Cliffs is a dog beach (literally) and I take Alice (my 13-year-old ex-greyhound workalike) from time to time. <br /><br />Surfed D&Ws once on a super scary Winter day when Redondo Pier was closing out. I paddled out, got killed when a wave closed out on me, and paddled in. That whole stretch from Ballona Creek to Manhattan was terra incognita beach break I could never get into. Same with PV and Lunada Bay on cold, foggy mornings with the old freighter -- The Dominator -- breaking up outside.<br /><br />..which just about seals the deal, Odie. You gotta make it down here so we can do this live. (Talk, that is.) Supi, you are most welcome to join us.k6whphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14459579212118994056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166760832438419841.post-10931880437471398812010-07-16T18:51:33.993-07:002010-07-16T18:51:33.993-07:00I forgive you Odie. I didn't mean to interrupt...I forgive you Odie. I didn't mean to interrupt the man talk but So. Cal Beaches always perks my interest. I grew up in Van Nuys. My parents forced my eldest brother 14 years older than me, to take my other brother and me on his beach dates with his babes. Young siblings age 4 & 5 were birth control back in '63.Supihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16762818033451810409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166760832438419841.post-74244172341060929112010-07-16T17:51:43.289-07:002010-07-16T17:51:43.289-07:00Step aside Sonia were talking MAN talk here. You&#...Step aside Sonia were talking MAN talk here. You're a surfer dude too huh. I surfed from 1960 to 1980 when I moved to the mountains. My home base was D&W at the end of the runways at LAX. I think I surfed everywhere from ( hang on it's been thirty years ) Gaviota North of Santa Barbara to Cow Pastures near Ensenada. <br /><br />One of my favorite places was by you at the Huntington Cliffs, but my best time was when I was at Malibu and there was four of us two days in a row with 6 foot surf. That was the two best days of my life and rates right up there with my son being born.<br /><br />TWP, I spent a lot of time (because I'm LA school educated) getting that comment just right. I thought it was one of the best things I've ever written. It was very funny I thought. <br /><br />Oh, I'll bet I've been to those places, but they were called something different in my time or in my group. I recognized about 75% of the names.<br /><br />Sonia, forgive me, I was being silly. You were a valley girl, huh?Woodsterman (Odie)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00423574390748358762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166760832438419841.post-40692320079963551022010-07-16T17:08:12.186-07:002010-07-16T17:08:12.186-07:00You two are making me homesick for the beaches I s...You two are making me homesick for the beaches I spent time at. That's it. I do not miss where I grew up at all. <br /><br />Speaking of Carter: Our utility company sent a horrible letter recommending summer AC at 78 and winter heating at 68. I shuddered thinking Carter years are back! No re-do for me.Supihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16762818033451810409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166760832438419841.post-12477476256041868632010-07-16T14:36:13.582-07:002010-07-16T14:36:13.582-07:00..isn't one of "That Other McCain's&q.....isn't one of "That Other McCain's" silly-assed rules for getting a ga-zillion blog hits have something to do with gratuitously putting pics of babes on one's site?<br /><br />Anyway, that's my memory of Dianna and I am sticking to it.<br /><br />..neener, neener, neener!<br /><br />Where'd you surf, by the way? SoCal? O.C., Santa Cruz? I learned -- believe it or not -- on the East Coast (Long Island and Atlantic City in '62, surfed Santa Cruz in the Winters of '62 and '63. (Steamer Lane was a frozen Hell.) And then moved down to SoCal in '64 and the O.C. in '65.<br /><br />I used to hit County Line, Secos, Malibu, Sunset, State Beach, Haggerty's, PeeVee, Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, The Wedge, Laguina's Brooks and Thalia Streets, Killer Dana (yes, *that* Killer Dana), MeePees, Doheny, Trestles (of course), Riff-Raff Reef, Oceanside, Tamarack, Cardiff, Windansea, and every "K" spot North of Punts Bandas.<br /><br /><i>..hey, my memory ain't so bad after all!</i>k6whphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14459579212118994056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6166760832438419841.post-1930763642913695802010-07-16T13:00:20.273-07:002010-07-16T13:00:20.273-07:00Foul, foul ... you got me here under false pretens...Foul, foul ... you got me here under false pretenses. I saw this photo of the bodacious surfer chick in my sidebar, and hurried my ass over here. Not only is she displaying an outrageous left cheek, but she's also carrying the instrument of my favorite sport that I still miss after all these thirty years in the mountains. Run away, run away everybody ... it's another Obama article.Woodsterman (Odie)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00423574390748358762noreply@blogger.com