It’s gratifying to see real craftsmen still at work in this country. My wife and I were treated to a tour of the only distillery owned cooperage in the US today, the Brown-Forman cooperage. The operations manager, Darren gave us a great look into a working cooperage. Most of the barrels are headed for Jack Daniels with the balance going to Woodford Reserve and Old Forester. Thanks to Darren at the plant and Michelle from Republic.
Had a great dinner at Bo Beau in OB. Katherine Humphus is an awesome chef and gave us a very warm welcome. Amazing dinner.
“I just need a good wave….., but it needs to be a right”
“Kneeboard Steve”
On how to treat the severe back pain he was experiencing at the time.
Well I never made the cover of Rolling Stone, but I may have a board or two show up on MTV’s Real World. Apparently they are filming a new season in San Diego, or La Jolla to be more precise. Producers approached Chris at Surfindian about borrowing a few boards for the shoot. I’m pleased that they chose a couple of mine for the lineup, including this one. After the shoot it will be for sale once again at Surfindian in beautiful Pacific Beach.
First person to spot it on the show gets absolutely nothing from anybody and should be ashamed to be watching such mind rotting crap.
I’d like to thanks Glen at Liquid Salt Magazine for the interview. I’m stoked on how it turned out. See it at:
My good friend Rob Yuen’s shaper Steve Coletta, on a go out at Santa Cruz.
Shrimp sauté’ with spinach and blackened orange! Yum, go there.
“The United States Is ‘The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today’
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
One shape down. Sitting in the blue bus having a beer and relaxing. Soon I’ll be reading myself to sleep. Hopefully find some surf in the morning, stop at Mitch’s North for some fins (John always seems to fins cool fins), and back up to the hill for another shape. Today I actually started to shake off the gloom of the rainiest April in recorded weather history of the Ohio river valley. Nothing like a couple good surf sessions with friends to cheer a body up.
