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I wrote a coffee table book about surfing for the publisher Te Neues, which was about as much fun as a girl can have at a laptop, really. It's available for pre-order now 💃 Information + sample pages: teneues.com/en/book/the-... Pre-order: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

the freelance dream right here. editors who like your whole deal and just like, call you up to do that.

the el niño tides are so wild! it's like, never low tide. super weird if you are accustomed to the ocean working in a certain way, and now it does not!

tfw you can't remember the name of the invoicing platform

I interviewed a couple of people who made a surf film with an intricate storyline and they went on and on about how much fun they had writing the film. Like, you can imagine things! And just have ideas! Anything is possible! Yes. Yes, this is the whole thing, actually.

oh man, i would buy a new mini so fast. mine's still holding on, but it's days are probs super numbered honestly

gettin' the el niño rain thing started down here. i had to run out this morning and repark the car -- we have a carport, not a garage -- so the engine wouldn't get wet. the vw does not like rain in the engine lol

I'm seeing a bunch of high-tide flooding clips from Southern California today -- and the tide isn't even *that* high. But, thanks to the el niño heat, the sea level is effectively 18 inches higher, so a 5.6-foot tide is now like a 7-foot tide. That's gona be interesting this winter...

ICE is fucking relentless right now on the Central Coast. I hate these people so much I will die hating them

weird to surf hurricane swell in warm water at the same time as the lobster boats are headin' out

Good, detailed update here — with more to come — on the coming winter in California. tl;dr very wet, much raining

tfw you need a selfie for the dang socials and it’s 100 ddgrees 🫠

I'm so happy to be included in a new collection of surf writing called Glass, with beautiful images from the very talented Jake Richard. If you'd like a copy, check it here. glass.surf/products/gla...

Public lands friends -- and all friends really -- tomorrow is the deadline to leave a comment on the roadless protections on public lands.

For my California friends, I found this post -- and part 1 -- helpful in understanding the ballot initiatives this time around.

Happy Sunday, here's a story. Watch out for peas. frothyfools.substack.com/p/anticipation

I wrote a story about fall, the ocean, and surfing. Every fall promises the perfect winter -- never more so than this year's el niño. What if we just like, ignored all that? frothyfools.substack.com/p/anticipation

my neighbor goes to the gym at some unreal hour and returns at 6am and hi there, his car honks at us all good morning to you car

i would like to have words with the car designer who decided that all of them should honk any time a driver decides to lock the doors. i do not need to hear this all day i do not

this is a rad story with some lovely photos of new england.

i am supposed to be cutting words and i am adding them (breathes into paper bag)

if anyone ever claims one of my dumb stories is ai, they will surely enjoy the deluge of drafting and editing files they will receive in response. why yes, my process is chaotic, why do you ask

i would read the hell out of a novel about the ai-lsd-sex cult thing

the lede and kicker of this story are great the stuff in between is a disaster so it's going fine everything is fine

Just re-upping this one for daylight times. If you'd like to help out with hurricane relief efforts on Kauaʻi, here are some links.

always love the second-wave commentary on viral stuff, like you guyssss they're just trying to get attention! why are you reacting! but in the case of the women's sports thing, man, i have just loved seeing so many strong assertions of how beautiful women's sports can be. it's been nice.

Can I teach myself a new keyboard layout? Letʻs find out!

Ages ago when I wrote about cycling regularly, I switched my keyboard layout to Swiss-French to have easy access to French and German diacrits. In the short term, this was smart actually! But I never really switched back and now, what I really need most often is Hawaiian diacrits.

Thanks to Sidney Sweeney, my Instagram feed is full of extremely heartfelt celebrations of women's sports and it's lovely. So, uh, thank you naked blonde lady, I guess.

always appreciate the fall clothing ads in california when it's not at all fall clothing weather thanks capitalism you're crushin' it

stood under the hose. a++ recommend

i just put my phone in the fridge is how it's going over here

it's 100-degrees a mile from the beach here lol lmao it's going amazing

solidarity to me friends in coastal california without air conditioning lol lmao i do not think there are enough popsicles for this man

i am trying to write the what is this story about graph and it is going about as well as you'd expect

i do not need to take the dialect quiz it's just southern california all the way down. there's a few odd northern bits thrown in the mix, but really... i got in so much trouble from my very correct phd advisor for this, actually! but i talk like i talk, man

meanwhile i'm super blocked on a feature i'm supposed to write, which is honestly hilarious. like, brain, you have one job! you have had one job for a long time now! you produce words when it's time to produce words. oops.

today was happy miles day which is basically the most flat 2ish hour ride i can possibly design. and, seasonally appropriate candy for the turnaround. candy corn today, natch