Listen to Rats

In-a-god-da-vida. Feed the ego, feed the family. Right. I got something to say it's better to fade out than... Damn. Baby steps, baby stuff. Yeah Stuff. Edie is happiness. Lawyers should be true public servants like truth and justice for all. Doctors too - both should be all about the calling. That hypo oath and a life of seeking truth, justice. Politicians should be retired wealth people? Like super cool grand parents that are just trying to give back and leave something positive for their kids, like a less creepy william burroughs. Cause it seems every politician goes in and then becomes a millionaire. And Everything excluding violence and harming kids, adults should be legal. But it doesn't matter the clothes you wear it doesn't matter if they stare It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter! - RATT

Surfing the web

Who dat? Okay. Now that that's out of the way. Peace to all, moving slow today. Out of shape for football season, excessive pregame and drinkin' Jockamos. Those three make the perfect storm. But third cup o' joe should do it. Please check out our website, keep N O Surf Shop alive. Save the "Shop" buy a t-shirt. www.nosurfshop.com

Rambling Blues...

Moving is trip. Stilling doing it too.

Pro & Con - yin and yang here

So I'm against the moritorium but MC is for it. She thinks none of 'em know what they are doing at these depths. She's usually right. But I think this is pretty much BPs F'up and the people who regulated it dropped the ball. LA as does the USA needs the jobs. And we need the gas.

& what do you think about my cartoon?

a POD mantra

Do your best to...

1. Shop local - surf shop, food, ect. - let your money do the talkin' and think before you buy.

2. Be nice to animals, if you hurt one help it, if you kill one eat it.

3. Help the environment, but don't kook out or be a hypocrite. However, if that's how you roll, focus on #1 and #2 if possible.

4. As with camping, leave little tracks. Go with nature whenever possible. You're nature too, but see #2 - have respect.

5. If you're not local act like one - "love where you're at", respect others. Help others, feels good too.

Think I lost this one too... This is supposed to be about a healthy Gulf, sounding like some self help thing. See next Post.

A pod for the Gulf.

I'm creating a Pod of surf shops, surfers, and "water people". Been struggling with "exactly" what to stand for... Let's figure on the basic ends of what the Pod whats.

Clean water(within reason), conduct friendly to animals(within reason) and supporting the people and businesses which survive off the Gulf, right?

Basically, I don't want to get sick or a rash after getting in the water. What to treat all animals and fish nice, before I eat some of them. The Pod (named after a group of Pelicans). Don't eat them just what 'em happy, playing in the gulf like us. Support Business - first off - easy ones like your local surf shops, local restaurants (local seafood!), fishermen & women... and this one may hit a bump but the oil industry, yes I said it. We use it, we need it, don't be a hypocrite.

Granted N.O. Surf Shop is the runt of surf shops in the Gulf. And I think the only one in LA. (And Los Angeles please stop calling yourself LA it's L.A.) Our shop has suffer so many Californians - ugh - C'mon, you what you're like. If you haven't been to our shop, imagine yourself, "a Californian" (note the quotes), coming into the surf shop in New Orleans, Louisiana and the things you'd say those who are working the shop. Imagine... Okay other Gulf Surf Shops may suffer this too but they can't to our scale unless maybe in Houston or something like that. Gulf states we are our own country here - let's be real. Sure we're all "united" but ehhhhh - they(states) don't act like us. And as for Louisiana - well in my opinion we're even foreign for Gulf states but y'all like to party here, so we are all good.

Okay I went off from our POD, got off target. I'll try again to keep it simple... Next Post.

Gulf Now...

The horror, the horror, the horror...
Keep trying to be both pro business here and pro our waters. And by business I do mean oil but so many days of this, so much damage, so little trust. "For now" we use oil, we need it to maintain things, and with so many people it's what they do here - oil. But this is such a mess with no end in sight. Since we're a surf shop - some want me to protest. But what? End oil drilling? So many people depend on that, hard working people. And we are all still filling up, right? Yes, I'm totally for an alternative positive environmental power source (let's do it!). But for some damn reason it's easier to get a job when your still employed.
I've surfed all over LA - with bio hazard signs that had little to do with oil in the water, but RUN OFF. Sure some of that's oil, but mainly other nasty shit. And the DEAD ZONE has been out there with little fan fair for some time...
But not our pelicans dripping with oil. The worse is seeing our wildlife helpless to our ugliness. A horror we've allowed. The shame, the shame... What would my protest sign be? Maybe a mirror.