Just the very basics in here. More details below Dear Surf Nerd, Let’s talk about surf forecasting. I have a little email chain (that does need to turn into a Zoom meeting one day soon guys . . .) with a few people about developing a new surf forecasting app, a potential competitor to Surfline. I’m not sure I am personally up for launching a global forecasting hub, but it has been fun to read about what kinds of things these guys want to see and know from a forecasting site, especially since...
about 3 hours ago • 26 min read
WE WENT HARD Seven days straight of swell and progress with the crew. Salutations! First of all, I'm proud of myself for getting the zine out last week at all. And on the best day of the swell to boot! Last Friday morning was also the worst session of the swell for me. I had some hunches of what would be good, and at least one of them was wrong. But the thing next door to it threw me two perfect set waves on my surf check. It looked a bit lully and easy to access with tubes on offer and there...
7 days ago • 12 min read
Screen grab from Day 2 of the Fay Swell. This was a particularly fun wave. Filmed by MG Bruno. Salve! We are deep into NE Storm Fay here in NY. It's day 4 of what will be a 5-6 day swell bender after a prolonged period of very fun, accessible baby waves (don't call it flat cuz it wasn't). The waves have not been perfect, but there is juice. Everyone who has been craving waves above chest high is relishing in it. I've been surfing Rockaway, and I did one strike to Rhode Island to surf...
14 days ago • 17 min read
Dear Friend, To continue where we left off, Sophia reminded me that new James Patterson novels have been installed in Costa Rica. Makes sense. Patterson churns them out. Andrew buys them at airports, brings them down for his trips, and leaves them. Honestly no matter how bad of prose someone enjoys, it’s good that people still be out there reading. Those all have to go (everything on lefthand shelf). We are currently culling a shit ton of books here in Rockaway Beach. We’re separating our...
21 days ago • 14 min read
Surfing Moss Landing with my brother, Andrew, in 2017. Salutations. While in Costa Rica I found myself desiring to read something other than Huizinga’s Homo Ludens, so I perused our now greatly culled bookcase at Rancho Diandrew (airbnb.com/h/ranchodiandrew). Books die fast of mold at RDA and still it is worth keeping a few in the case for ourselves and our guests. I admittedly binned Andrew’s enormous collection of James Patterson novels and not because I don’t like my brother. More because...
28 days ago • 16 min read
Back at it in NY for September and October. 3ft @ 10 seconds here. Ideal east coast coaching buoy reading. Good tidings my fellow-being-unto-death! In NY back from CR. Putting massive gears in motion. Already logged a few coaching sessions. Teeth and incisions are still healing. Definitely out of the roughest part of the woods with that health stuff. Here's a medical tourism whirlwind grand tally for you: Dental total: $2,545.00 (668.53 + 441.27 + 225.00 + 1,131.88 + 78.32) Health total...
about 1 month ago • 16 min read
Dear Philo-surfer, Put your reading pants on – this one is text heavy, but there's a vid at the end to reward you. I hope today’s zine finds you thriving, but I also cannot guarantee that it will. Perhaps it has been flat too long wherever you are. Perhaps you’ve had a personal or family health emergency. Perhaps the flood in Tibet/Nepal, the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Iran, and Trump’s continued erosion of American democracy are getting you down in such a way that you just want to be sad...
about 1 month ago • 18 min read
Salve Amici Mei, I’m supposed to be on a plane to NY right now (or back in NY depending on what time you open this email). Alas fate has different things in store. My medical tourism adventure has turned into a medical tourism dental emergency. The good news: I’m getting everything taken care of and am in one of the best places on earth to take care of it. I also know even more about medical tourism in Costa Rica, which I’ll share with you should you decide to rope some in to your own surf...
about 2 months ago • 9 min read
It's just toooo surf-able down here too much of the time! Dear Friend, Coming to you today in the height of my medical tourism game; or at least the beginning. I’ve actually never had a medical tourism game to begin with, so starting one at all has to be the peak. Also I’m just on a roll medically. I’m fine if we want to call this my mid life crisis. Although becoming critically concerned about one’s health in midlife before there’s an actual crisis just sounds reasonable. Let’s take some...
about 2 months ago • 16 min read