Another Memorial Day Monday Surf & Culture Report



Lost Boys & Co...

If you don't think they're watching you, well think again...  We were sent this screen grab from the Hermosa Swell Magnet cam.  It is clearly the Professor and Doc ? checking out the surf...  No doubt that 15 minutes later you could have seen them disporting themselves in the surf right there by the pier...  If that wasn't enough, ten minutes later we got an I.M. from Lethal Keithal saying that he had seen our fine asses on Channel 5 heading to the surf...  Of course our first reaction:  To thank our publicist Forest Vishnevsky!  Without him you might have seen some flatlander from Carson plodding across the sand with a wagon full of sand toys...

Everybody went to the beach today.  There was 10 miles visibility under hazy skies, but did that stop them?  Winds were onshore, light early and then bumped by 10 o'clock, but still they came...  The air was only 61.3 and the water is a spring-like 60.8 and there they were frolicking in the surf, even if they didn't get their hair wet...  Low tide was at 6:04am -0.6' and high tide waited until 12:55pm to get to +3.3'.  We have a SSW swell out of 202º at 2.3' and the combination of low tide and small swell made it a 1' morning with not much in the way of surf...  Oh, yeah, there were people out "surfing" because it was Memorial Day and it looked great for taking out your foamy and getting wet.  We went for a walk and checked out all the cool masks people were wearing...

We always thought the house at Topaz needed something...  What it needed was this archway (#2) to welcome you to the ancestral home of the Paine family.  Here we have Lady SPaine and the Sensei Joey testing for water resistance...  The arch was fine, Suzanne got drenched...  Speaking of Suzanne and Joey, it looks like their wedding is going to be postponed for next year around the same time.  Apparently there is some kind of pandemic raging and groups of over 50 people are discouraged...  The pair were philosophical and suggested that the additional time would allow them to work on their dance routine for the reception...

#3  The ever popular Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills Sunday afternoon around 3pm (photo:  Ansel Vishnevsky for "Not Our First Rodeo Weekly").  The typically crowded thoroughfare is almost devoid of traffic and there are a total of five cars parked along the street.  There are usually five cars waiting for cars to move away from the curb so they can get a spot...

In the midst of all of this pandemonium (which MUST be what happens when there's a pandemic)  Capt. Chris Sellars has taken to baking breads and making pizza dough.  Not being a shirker, he didn't stop at making the dough and saw the process through to making entire pizzas!  To say he's good at it would be an understatement of epic proportions.  When we got up to leave he had to use the pizza peel to get us out of the chair!  We're okay now, but it was touch and go for a minute...  Black olives...  Yes...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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