The Surf Blog Spot

Check out last weeks carnage that the California winter storms brought to Pacific Beach, CA. This guy is kayaking at Pacific Beach Drive and Mission Blvd (San Diego, CA). No more sidewalk surfing during these storms!

Pacific Beach Street Kayaking

I just had to add this to The Surf Blog Spot! Just in case you missed last weeks American Idol and the “Pants on the Ground” song. Watch out William Hung!!

Video courtesy of American Idol and The Daily Beast Blog

Did you get your Major Award this year? No? Well, now is the time to own your very own Leg Lamp! Don’t let another year pass without your Major Award or a piece of the original house used in the classic movie, A Christmas Story (1983).

Get your own A Christmas Story Leg Lamp at the official A Christmas Story House Gift Shop!

Mr. Parker: [Reading Telegram and doing a little jig] Tonight! Tonight! It’s coming Tonight! Tonight! Tonight! Tonight! Hot Damn, Tonight!

[Mr. Parker reads a side of the box with the prize that he won]
Mr. Parker: Fra-gee-lay. That must be Italian.
Mrs. Parker: Uh, I think that says FRAGILE, dear.
Mr. Parker: Oh, yeah.

Mr. Parker: [unveiling his major award] Would you look at that? Would you look at THAT?
Mother: What is it?
Mr. Parker: It’s a leg!
Mother: But what is it?
Mr. Parker: Well, it’s… A leg, you know, like a statue.
Mother: Statue?
Mr. Parker: Yeah, statue.
Ralphie: Yeah, statue.
Mother: Ralphie!

Quotes courtesy of IMBD

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! Surf’s up!

Mick Fanning (AUS), has been crowned the 2009 ASP World Champion, following an excellent showing at the Banzai Pipeline over the weekend. The 28 year-old has claimed his 2nd ASP World Surfing Title! Great job Mick!The Banzai Pipeline was the last event on the ASP 2009 World Tour and Mick beat out his fellow mate, Joel Parkinson, to claim the crown. Not only did he wrap up the 2009 ASP World Title, Mick also took home a sweet $50,000 from the Vans Triple Crown bonus package. That will be a nice bonus to add to his 2009 tour earnings of $235,000. Not bad for 10 months of work this year!

Here are Mick’s 2009 ASP World Tour results:

Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast: Equal 3rd
Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach: Equal 5th
Billabong Pro Teahupoo: Equal 9th
Hang Loose Santa Catarina Pro: Equal 5th
Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay: Equal 17th
Hurley Pro Trestles: WINNER
Quiksilver Pro France: WINNER
Billabong Pro Mundaka: Equal 9th
Rip Curl Pro Search: WINNER
Billabong Pipeline Masters: Equal 9th

Find out more info on the 2009 ASP World Surfing Tour

See what Kelly Slater has to say after getting off a plane.  Slater is caught by a TMZ reporter in a Whole Foods parking lot.  Find out what he had to say.

Happy Cinco de Mayo to all the surfers out there!

RIP CURL PRO BELLS BEACH QUARTERFINAL MATCH-UPS:
QF 1: C.J. Hobgood (USA) vs. Joel Parkinson (AUS)
QF 2: Mick Fanning (AUS) vs. Jordy Smith (ZAF)
QF 3: Adam Robertson (AUS) vs. Kekoa Bacalso (HAW)
QF 4: Kieren Perrow (AUS) vs. Fredrick Patacchia (HAW)

 Watch live action!

Here is a funny quote I overheard Saturday after surfing Sunset Cliffs, CA.
“Dude, everybody is having fun! It must be surf Saturday!”

Does anybody have a spring break anymore?

Is anybody traveling this spring break on a surfing trip?  Where are you going?

Oh well, I didn’t make the final cut at the Wheel of Fortune tryouts.  The audition was almost 2 hours long and there were about 70 people total.  I had high hopes of being the next Wheel of Fortune superstar, but I guess I wasn’t good enough.

There were 4 Wheel of Fortune “coaches” there choosing who made the cut and who didn’t.  The audition was in a medium sized hotel  conference room and the contestants all had their own chairs. There was a digital puzzle on a projection screen in front of the room and the contestants were called on randomly to solve the puzzles.  The contestants had to stand up where they were seated, choose a consonant, choose if they wanted to spin or pick a vowel, and then decide if they wanted to solve.  One of the WoF employees would spin the wheel, 2 coaches would look at us and judge us, and the other one would put up the chosen letters on the screen.  Each potential contestant only had 2 chances to “try out.”  About 3 seconds if you yelled out an incorrect letter and about 1 minute if you got a few letters in a row.  After the projection screen puzzle solving, we were given a 5 minute written puzzle exam.  We had 16 partially filled out puzzles and had to solve them in 5 minutes.  Make that 5 very quick minutes.  I filled out 5-6 puzzles and only filled in the other partial puzzles.

After the exams and mock digital puzzles, the coaches came back into the room and read off the names of the winning contestants.  Needless to say, I was not on the “Made It” contestant list.  Too bad, so sad.  Now I have to wait a full year before I can try out again.

Just a heads up…I am off on my Big Adventure tonight.  I will be away from The Surf Blog Spot for a couple days because I am auditioning for the most watched syndicated program since May 1984.  Hopefully I will make it all the way to Pat Sajak and Vanna White!!  That’s right, I am auditioning for the famous Wheel of Fortune.

I received an email last week for an audition spot on February 4.  The tryouts are in Culver City, CA and the audition will last 1-3 hours. I won’t know until the end of the audition if I made it or not.  Wish me luck!!

Does anybody have any strategies or insider tips?

Sign up for the Wheel of Fortune!!

Wow, I need to surf again soon! I haven’t surfed since the Saturday after Christmas.  My friends and I happened to score some left over storm surf at Carmel Beach (11th street) that Saturday after Christmas.  All the Holidays, California rain and work definitely got in the way.  There is supposed to be some swell right now, but I will miss that swell too.  Time to go look at the forecasts and find out when I should surf again.

Happy New Year!!

2008 is out and 2009 is in!

What is your new surfing resolution??

Get your online shopping on!!

Today is “Cyber Monday” and today is the day to do your online shopping.  Black Friday is more commonly known as the kick off to the holiday shopping season.  Black Friday is traditionally associated with the brick-and-mortar store shopping, while Cyber Monday is the official kick-off to the holiday online shopping.  Shoppers can find tons of online shopping deals like free shipping, cyber discounts and other promotions.

Make sure you check out my website and surf the online shopping possibilities.

Check out the Cyber Monday website (sponsored by Shop.org):

http://www.cybermonday.com/

I live, work, and surf in San Diego.  I am also a huge San Diego Chargers fan.  If you have ever visited San Diego, then you know that the county is huge.  The county has a geographic area of 4,200 square miles and about 3 million people live here.  The county is approximately the size of Connecticut.  You will also notice that San Diego County has 70 miles of Pacific Ocean coastline.  That many miles of coastline equals that many surf spots.

Since there are so many surf spots in this huge county, I find myself driving around checking the local surf spots.  Most of the time I have my radio on and I am listening to the local sports talk radio.  So I hear all of the Chargers smack talk and discouragement.

Listening to or watching Chargers game this year is very tough.  They have lost 4 games in the last 24 seconds.  Their defense is horrible (compared to last year).  LT is not the same LT.  Listening to the Chargers game yesterday was embarrassing.  They played the Atlanta Falcons and Michael “The Burner” Turner proved San Diego wrong.  We should have kept him.  What is wrong with this once All-Star Chargers team?  They can not cover anybody and their offense is sooooo predictable. 

What is wrong with this team?? Send a comment if you want to vent!

I guess we can all look forward to the San Diego Padres season………

Some fellow surfing buddies started a band, Weazul Meat, back in our high school days and decided to get the band back together.  The members of Weazul Meat sent me their best rendition of Cheech and Chong’s - Battle of the Bands song “Earache My Eye.”  I think the lead singer sounds just like Alice Bowie (Cheech Marin’s character in the band). Wow, check out the drummer!  Is that a double kick bass I hear??

Check it out and let me know what you think.  If there are any music producers out there that think they have a shot, then email me!

Here is the Weazul Meat song:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDpzmz5Tsgg

You be the judge!

Happy Halloween!

Enjoy a safe and happy Halloween all you surfers and everybody else in the world.

I would also like to say Happy Birthday to my wonderful and beautiful girlfriend.  Happy Birthday Special!