Comfort Like Baseball Bats

So the World Baseball Classic has begun and the US is 2-0 after squeaking out a game against Canada and unloading on Venezuela last night. During the game, I noticed the advertising banner just to the left of homeplate was advertising a tire company with a very interesting name. I am just glad they don't sell surfboards:
Maybe they could run a deal with Joel Tudor's new company. Buy one noserider, get a free t-shirt and a pair of radials.

Boardwalkin' on the Boardwalk

Due to the bizarrely high temperatures yesterday, Maeve and I hit up the boarwalk and the beach for a bit. In between talking to random people, birds and dogs, we did some wave watching and ran around near the water. Only a few pics:


The first step:

Karate Kid IV: Watch out Ralph Macchio!

On My Mind

Like any good piece of art, this one makes you think. Mainly I'm thinking, "what is going on inside this student's head?", but it's thinking nonetheless. I really like these drawings.

The Duh! Blog

I decided to change the title page just to switch things up. I took the pretty well known photo of Miki Dora and scrawled the lyrics to Carpenter Ant's "The Duh" song in the background. Even though the song is about skateboarding, it's a pretty good fit for surfing too. Here's a Carpenter Ant show from York a few years back that is up on youtube:



The crowd reaction is super-weak, but Carpenter Ant was tight as usual. I am looking forward to seeing the big invasion to the shore this weekend due to the warm weather. People will be coming out of the woodwork.

Two Things At Once

Some more video from the winter storm on Surfline, compliments of VBS.TV/Hi-Shredability.

http://www.surfline.com/video/webisodes/vbstv-snow-day_24932

Also for your viewing pleasure, Artie Lange on David Letterman:

Floating Boys

Check this out:
http://cbs3.com/video/?id=75419

Someone posted this on the 7th street site. Some guys in Ocean City out taking advantage of the swell that the snowstorm brought. The first minute or so is just them sitting and paddling but around a minute in, a longboarder is one screen for about one second taking off and then things pick up around 2:06. At different points you can see it snowing on camera.

Cold Snap

A good snowfall comes around about as often as a Phillies World Series Championship, so needless to say, we were all stoked to a) have off from school b) get around 8 inches of snow and c) let Maeve actually experience playing in the snow. Here are some pics from yesterday. Our snow-bro:

Maeve had some trouble navigating in the deep snow with her boots, so she opted for walking on the shovelled parts:

There are very few hills in all of Upper so I ended up piling a bunch of snow up on our front yard to create a mini-track. Maeve and I before take off:

Taking off:

Maeve was not too thrilled with having to wear a scarf. At one point, she tore off her gloves, hat and scarf.

Trying to play snow soccer:

Hanging out with the snow-bro:

Checking out the snow, minus the gloves=bad idea.
We had a blast, although I think Maeve still needs more time to warm up to playing in the snow.