Dec 28
Bloke rings me up a few weeks ago, says he’s Angus Fontaine and he’s writing an article for the Guardian and wants to talk about Kevin Brennan, being fifty years since he died. Bit of a memory test there but the longer we talked about Head the more came to mind.
The article was published today, here.
Header pic by Jack Eden
Keep your Tom Curran, Kelly Slater, Midget, Bobby Brown, Nat, Mick Dooley, all those fabulous heroes of the surf .. they amount to nothing when we acknowledge not only the master of the surf, but master of the nation that surfs .. in fact the many nations that surf.
A man held in great respect, a man adept in so many disciplines but able to conquer the wild surf with consummate ease, an iceman in the raging seas. The real Waterman
And he’s a natural. Plus he seems to be a good bloke, despite being a Pom.
pic is of king Charlie at Bondi .. way back then, and not a bad effort for first off.
Some men sleep with their wives, their girlfriends and other men have other sleeping arrangements , but don’t be inflamed with base desires, because we, the surfers of our generation know that of all who wish to share our bed there is only one who really counts.
To be continued and there might be some residual pain ..
Rumour has it that George Clooney may well be pressed to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s nomination to oppose Donald Trump in the November elections.
I couldn’t agree more, and would like to recommend they do so, however, as as a warning I suggest they take some care in choosing their man. Nevertheless, I am available.
May 30
Midget was an easy bloke to like and was very easy on the eye when in the water, fluid and graceful, stylish. Now his image has been carved into a large boulder up at Palm Beach. In other words, as long as everyone keeps their fingers off the nuclear button and the oceans don’t rise too high the rock with Midget’s likeness carved into it will be around for thousands of years.
Imagine that. Thousands of years
But, you know, the author of the work might have considered another image of the old lad, for instance-
This
or this
Manly 1964
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