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Images of a Faceless Author
Here are some photos that author Giancarlo Guardascione took while traveling around the world looking for waves to surf. These photos and the experiences behind them were the inspiration behind his...
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Hemingway's suicide note (128 pages) (We think)
I was reading Kurt Vonnegut's book timequake about 15 years ago. By then my ADHD had reached astronomical new heights, so I was only able to get through the intro. Vonnegut made a great point though....
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Samuel Beckett gives us the greatest party favor: A devil we would invite to...
Treat yourself to a copy of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, you deserve it . No one has ever made the devil so appealing, chic and totally in season. Here is a nimble...
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Pulp vs. Code (Cherish your grandfather's ink, crafted from his palm and...
My Grandfather, even in his elderly years, never failed to give my mom cards on her birthday. Even as he entered his 80's and my mom in her 50's. I can remember the scenes of them excahanging...
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First Chapter: Black/White Out - Jonah Gee
………………………………………………………….. ………………………………………………………………………………………… “…………………… We had to stick you with a tazer…….TWICE!!.........(laughter)………..You’re bigger than you...
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Catch Your Friends Lying!!!!!-Just Like Hamlet did...... with "The Mousetrap"
When your guilty of a lie, there is a little piece of that fiction that stays with you and hangs on with parasitic intent. I've seen it happen with the best perjurers. Guys and...
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Listen to: Takt..... watch your stock soar.
Forget the music you hear on the radio. Its been bled dry, skinned, hung out to evaperate and passed around from executive to executive like a freshman at a first mixer. (and how much do frat boys...
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Hell is.... Other people. (Mainly in Walmart and Starbucks). 36 pages of...
A hotel room with no windows. A door that doesn't open, except when you ring the bell for the bellhop, who is very helpful by the way, in terms of answering all your questions, only one time though....
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.... Welcome(?!) to Papua New Guinea...
Read: Before your next (surf) trip: The U.S. State Department Warning and Fact Sheet for Papua New Guinea…… (and other non-U.S. countries) Since I love to scare myself, and I hadn’t been out of the...
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Find Your Own White Whale!!! Write a best seller!!!!
A friend recently asked me "What should I write about and how do I make it interesting?" The first and most important thing I said was he came to the wrong person. Next, I told him I could help him...
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Obsessed by Inches: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway Visit the David...
There are many reasone to read Ernest Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast." Here are at least 3: 1. Lines like this: "You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell...
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I went to an Amusement Park instead of going surfing....
It's true...................... kinda.... It was a Wednesday when I got the alarm……. My wife called and asked,,,,, “Wanna take the kids to an amusement park on Friday.”...
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Remember: Puerto Rico is a steady friend.....
North Eastern United States.......... we have, among many things, thick accents, receding hairlines, grime and grit and humans that become "lost" under questioning. The list is endless, literally....
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Brazilian Storm Troopers
Note: This article First appeared in the comments section on the website www.beachgrit.com. The author is an avid surfer and follows the World Surf League. A league that for many years was dominated...
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Commitment: My long term relationship with 'Lord Jim'
I'm EXAUSTED!!!!!!!!................ Who knew this diminutive, 322 page little ball of pulp and ink could frazzle and debilitate me like my wife discussing our 'Financial Plan' during dinner....
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European dogs are cooler than ours...
Despite the man speedo bathing suits and alien electricial outlets, You have to love Europe!!!!! (where this pic was taken. Spain, specifically. ........ How could you not?...... even the dogs...
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A Simple Education: Movement.... or, run away from the resort
It's amazing what you can learn from simply getting on a plane, landing, and going somewhere away from the comfort of the resort. The girl on the left is beautiful, charming and intelligent. Raised...
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Japanese Author Commits Suicide by Disembowelment....(in 1970. But still.....)
I recently realized I had never read a book by any author form Japan...... sad ,,,, ignorant..... but sometimes such are the consequences when prostrating to the Western monatary cash gods during...
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Morocco after the 8'o clock news
I was traveling through Southern Spain around 2007. I'm not a big numbers person, but I know thats after 9/11. I had always wanted to go to Morocco but wasnt so sure after New York got hit. So I...
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Let Your Sister Live. Caddy's Sound..... and Fury.
WW II was a terrible tiff. Sure, the Vienna art school reject with the maligned, square(?) mustache had to be dissolved. Amazing how ending one man's live took , like, 500 thousand. What a ratio!!!!!...
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Alluring: Stretch Surfboards
Like the rest of us, I'm prone to the occasional lie. Not the malicious, 'Here's a self help book, you don't need therapy' kind of lie. More like the benign 'You don't look fat in that outfit' type of...
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The Hoot-In and Pull Back (Cuckold by a 6 ft. wave)
cuck·oldnounarchaicnoun: cuckold; plural noun: cuckolds 1. the husband of an adulteress, often regarded as an object of derision. verb 1. (of a man) make (another man) a cuckold by having a...
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Listen to: Rayzinni ... Be the coolest kid in the room.
By now, if your cruising in your car and still have the presets on your radio programmed to ANY music station, you probably can still make it to the senior special at the local 4.99 buffett before...
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Friends (3rd grade)
Here is something new! A friend of mine called and was excited about his kid's writing. "He's doing great in school and he really loves writing etc... etc..."We thought...... 'Why not publish...
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The Revolt- Secrets from Israel
"NO, civilization is not essential. You shake it off quickly if you are forced to. Yet, strangely enough, the less civilization in your life, the greater your desire to live...... man is a vigorous...
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