BIG SUR BONANZA #3 at The Outdoor Weblog

As far as I could see out to the horizon there were lined-up set waves. All those six to eight foot mush-burgers crumblers that were pushing us closer to the rocks were nothing but lull tasters. The real meat was much, much bigger, and I was about to find out just what I had gotten myself into. Putting my head down, I pressed my chest down hard on my board [...] Read More


Big Sur Bonanza #2 at The Outdoor Weblog

I was feeling my oats a little bit that fateful morning. A recent string of sessions at OB had me pumped and overly confident. When we walked down to the bluffs to check it, we knew it was going to be big because all night you could hear the crashing. A crescendo like that was indicative of macking waves, and we were not going to be disappointed. Waves were coming [...] Read More


BIG SUR BONANZA #4 at The Outdoor Weblog

I was lucky to be still enjoying my Turkey Day. The severity of Sand dollar on that day became much more apparent when helicopters began circling the beach park later that afternoon. Apparently, an unlucky 27-year-old surfer went to check the chaos from a little bit too close of a vantage point. While up on the aforementioned rocks, which at low tide become climbable from the beach, he was swept [...] Read More


Who's next in the bail-out bonanza? at Sox First

Now that Citigroup has been thrown a lifeline, people are asking who's next.Questions are being asked whether Bank of America is next. And will there be more? Paul Miller, a Friedman Billings Ramsey banking analyst, has told Associated Press that more banks will be lining up because the finance sector needs $1.2 trillion in capital. As journalist David Hirst notes, it's become a case of viral bail-out mania. "The entire [...] Read More


Thain's bonanza at Sox First

So John Thain has finally been ousted at Merrill Lynch.But the extraordinary part about this story is about his talent for self-enrichment and arrogance beyond belief. Merrill Lynch was in serious trouble and the US government had to bail it out with tens of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money, but Thain continued to lavish himself with payments and luxuries. The Daily Beast reports that in early 2008 as he [...] Read More