this is a Bad Ass
And now I introduce you to another Bad Ass, aka BA:
He is acquainted with the Bear of La Jolla. Bear Mirandon kicked his ass when he first moved to La Jolla
in the fifties when Bear outweighed him by thirty pounds. About forty eight years later, just last month, BA pushed
Bear out of his wheelchair and took him down for the count. He thinks it was him? Maybe not. . . . maybe it was
the old fellow that lives in the White Sands retirement home above Horseshoe. Don't know. Trying to remember
the way it happened.
But he is the real deal. Butch started after him in the physical education class at La Jolla around 1959 and
he backed him down when Charlie Broan vouched for the kid as having saved his life in the surf off Turtle Rock when
Charlie overestimated his skills as a Waterman. From then on, in Butch's presence, BA felt that he, too, was a Bad Ass.
This is an index to rantings and ravings about things in the surfing world that irritate BA.
He surfed before your parents knew one another. Probably introduced them. Probably dated and
DON'T GO THERE your mother. He may even be your father, so listen to him!
He knew the DUKE, up close and personal.
He worked for the surfing magazines when they actually had readable, coherent text. Now they consist
of photographic advertisements. He managed surf shops. He managed clothing companies that employed
Thai women in sweatshops. He surfed almost every break you can name before it had a name. He gave that
secret spot you've been whispering about its name twenty years ago!
Skateboards? He was there in the beginning.
Black's Beach? He knew the Blacks and surfed there with a handful of friends for years before UCSD
started taking undergraduates.
I won't bore you with the rest of his credentials because with your sixth grade reading level, your finger
is probably getting tired from following the text, your mouth is getting droopy from mumbling the words,
and your eyes are starting to strain from looking at the individual letters.
Suffice it to say, "You gotta problem, then talk to him. If he can't fix it, then maybe he is the problem!"