I feel honored to work for such weirdos. John and Kara Weld are truly freaks of nature.





They must live underneath some power lines. Ooh! I bet that will make their mustache hair grow all funky or something.



Other strange news...

My good friend Joey Hall left me a present on my office wall recently. Everyone should see this. It is truly a work of art and a political statement about the economy... errrrr, terrorist acts and stuff...

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Effort.tv is thinking about making this into a t-shirt. It's crazy that this web site can think about t-shirt designs. Recently I interviewed Joey Hall about surf kayaking. That's something I like to do from time to time. Interview my friends. Anyway, Joey said that he, "don't need no surf report, he just goes to the beach." Spoken like a true professional ladies and gentlemen. He don't take no crap off nobody, and he don't need to surf report to go surfing. Now that's assertive!



More other news, not strange. Took a run on the Green River yesterday at 100% with some young fellers. Well, they're 10 years younger than me so I can call them young I guess.

We shot a little of the run... HERE

GREEN RIVER 02.23.06

Congratulations to my friend Rob Bartlett, fellow paddler, who caught a delicious bass for us all to see. He was competing in the USA BASSIN' Tourney Chickamauga Lake in Tennessee this weekend where he won the Big Fish award.



Mmmmmm! That's delicious bass Rob! Now Rob aint afraid to compete in no Mustache Contest... are you big fella? Yeah, he'll be competing. Rob got facial hair growing skills. Reconize.



It's out. The Mustache Contest starts April 1st. Growing facial hair has never been so rewarding. Read the details and see how to enter...

NEW! Groundbreaking video! A must see.

Go over there to the left and click on my video. Your life can't possibly go on without seeing this. Oh, here's the link too...Link



Also, check out this video. This is from an event my good friends at Oudoor Sports Marketing put on every year for their retailers. If you love the outdoors, backpacking, lake paddling and such, you'll like this. And the music is really nice, a la Flav-o-rich (from Raleigh, NC).

OSM Video - watch it, click here

Captain Caveman here is actually the singer of the music in that video . His new band, OATMEAL CONSPIRACY, debuts this friday night in Raleigh, NC. Look at their site.





Other news. Moustache growing contest, still being developed. Get ready!

Here we go. I guess this is the news. Let's seeeeee. I put a post on the Riot Blog about Joey Hall. You could read that for some entertainment...read... Joey is a heehaw of a guy. So, we got that out of the way. Next on the list... issssss. Oh yeah, Joey and I competed at the first of a series of surf contests that the ESKA is putting on this Spring. This was in Jacksonville, FL. Read about dat too... Twas a ton of fun. We had wicked awesome surf. I took 2nd in HP & 3rd in IC. Jho took 1st inthe Big Trick Contest. This was the podium for the HP division. Left to right is Gordon Rock, Carlos Marrone, Myself, then Anthony Bell



Oh man, the biggest news of all. Soon Effort.tv will be hosting the first official Moustache Growing Contest of Paddle Sports. Come back soon to sign up, compete, humiliate yourself and maybe win a prize or not. It will be great. Since I'm the only one who reads this I'll be the only one to compete. All the fabulous prizes for me and a big lightening bolt moustache.



Ahhh, let's seeeee.... Nothing else I can think of. Crap.

Note to self...since self is the only one who reads this: I'm glad to report to myself that Joey Hall, Chris Gragtmans and I have joined the team of Fortress Watches. Being a Fortress Team member I now consider myself a professional time teller.

Here are we three at the creek on the Saluda.



Oh, thanks a lot self. Maybe I'll run out and buy a Fortress watch now...click logo for fireworks

Dear three, maybe four if I'm lucky, people who have ever visited my web site and propably won't return, and actually won't even see this,



1. Feel free to check out the Riot blog. I just made a post yesterday about the Saluda River in Columbia, SC. It's fun!...read it

2. I happen to really like surf kayaking and I plan on attending most of the events that the ESKA is putting on this Winter and Spring. First event is coming up very soon in Florida. Feb 4-5 in Jacksonville. See you there I hope.



visit ESKA site

Here's some horror news for you on Friday the 13th. Have you ever wondered where all of a particular group of people are? Let's say you were Catholic, for example. Wouldn't it be cool if you knew where all the Roman Catholics were in the world and then have the ability to email or chat with them? Wellllllllllllll, my friend Felipe has done that on Frappr.com, except on a WAY WAY LARGER scale...for Surf Paddlers. Yes, you can now see where all those legendary Kayak Surfers live and send them some fan mail. Those famous people have to first register themselves on the site, but after that you can bug them all you want. Just go to this here linkypoo http://www.frappr.com/paddlesurfers

Nice idea Felipe! Good thinking. Now everyone will think that you invented Frappr.com and Myspace. Oh, that's right, you did. Sorry to insult you.

Also, you have to check out Felipe's Surf Page on myspace. It is dingdangdiggitydawg hilarious

http://www.myspace.com/surfelipe

Two of my friend's bands put up new web sites today.

* OATMEAL CONSPIRACY *



Oatmeal is a jazzy, hiphop influenced collection headed up by my best friend Mitchell Morton. Mitch and the other Oatmeal guys were previously members of Flipside Phonics and Flavorich, now defunct, but da funct stayed with these guys. Listen to some sound samples on their site and listen for their songs on some of my upcoming videos.

* JAY BROWN *



Each time I've seen Jay play I think of Bob Dylan. Jay even played Subterrainian Homesick Blues for me one time...well, part of it anyway. Go see Jay Brown if you get a chance. He's very entertaining and a heck of a nice guy.

"Founding member of the old time, swing band Lazybirds, Jay Brown is focusing on his solo career"...Read more...

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TODOS PHOTOS

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Just got back from surfing in Ecuador a couple days ago. I'm gonna put a big blog post up about the trip as soon as I get all the photos, video and journal processed. Here's a pic for the meantime. That's Drew Hayes doing a huge air dropin at Punta Malo.



While we're waiting for the Ecuador trip report check out the last Riot post I did about the rock slide at Wilson Creek. Video of helixes off the rock is there too...Riot Blog