Search found 3323 matches

by Lucky Al
Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:20 pm
Forum: Travel & Health
Topic: September in Hanoi
Replies: 65
Views: 16751

Some of the fish I saw appeared to have spent their dying moments in attempting to escape the lake's vile waters.

Image
by Lucky Al
Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:17 pm
Forum: Travel & Health
Topic: September in Hanoi
Replies: 65
Views: 16751

The apartment is in the neighbourhood of Truc Bach lake, which yesterday I saw is full of dead fish.

Image
by Lucky Al
Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:13 pm
Forum: Travel & Health
Topic: September in Hanoi
Replies: 65
Views: 16751

Image
by Lucky Al
Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:12 pm
Forum: Travel & Health
Topic: September in Hanoi
Replies: 65
Views: 16751

After eight years stuyding in Seattle my girl just moved back to Hanoi to work as an anthropologist, and I'm here for a few days helping her settle into a new apartment. During her working hours, when I'm not at home waiting for workers or deliverymen, I walk or ride her Italian scooter around town,...
by Lucky Al
Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:04 pm
Forum: Travel & Health
Topic: September in Hanoi
Replies: 65
Views: 16751

I had thought it was funny yesterday when they delivered the plants on the back of a Honda Dream. Today the fridge and TV came on the back of a Honda Dream, too.

Image
by Lucky Al
Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:01 pm
Forum: Travel & Health
Topic: September in Hanoi
Replies: 65
Views: 16751

September in Hanoi

Last night I slid back into bed after a trip to the toilet and my girl asked how I'd been sleeping. I said, 'Fine, how about you?' And she said, 'My dreams are full of furniture.' This morning after walking her to work I came back and sat in one of the new armchairs to wait for the fridge and TV to ...
by Lucky Al
Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:10 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Nth Narra Thug faces court.
Replies: 119
Views: 33871

what the hell is a corporate platter?!
by Lucky Al
Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:09 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Nth Narra Thug faces court.
Replies: 119
Views: 33871

and how's what this woman rosa brooks says in her los angeles times article dated august 25! In a culture in which the sexualization of childhood is big business - mainstream mega-corporations such as Disney earn billions by marketing sexy products to children too young to understand their significa...
by Lucky Al
Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:06 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Nth Narra Thug faces court.
Replies: 119
Views: 33871

how sexy's disney's little mermaid!

Image
by Lucky Al
Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:01 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Nth Narra Thug faces court.
Replies: 119
Views: 33871

how's this sexy doll by toys'r'us, targeted at children aged six and above!

Image
by Lucky Al
Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:04 pm
Forum: Shortboarders only!
Topic: Show us your....pics!
Replies: 310
Views: 93090

there weren't many surfers around at the time, maybe as few as twenty in all, and i'm happy to be able to say that on my first visit to g-land i surfed my brains out. unhappily, however, i never stopped feeling that something wasn't quite right. one night a friend offered me hits from his bong, and,...
by Lucky Al
Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:52 pm
Forum: Shortboarders only!
Topic: Show us your....pics!
Replies: 310
Views: 93090

when i went to g-land for the first time in late 2000, everyone was talking about gerry, who'd been for his annual month or so and just left. because everyone kept talking about him and possibly for other impossible reasons, it really didn't feel like gerry had left g-land at all. and so for the dur...
by Lucky Al
Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:39 pm
Forum: Shortboarders only!
Topic: Show us your....pics!
Replies: 310
Views: 93090

the next day the swell came up and i took a shot at surfing punta roca. when i got back in after couple hours in the water my girl said, 'where were you?' instead of me surfing long rights, she'd taken pictures of beach kids clambering over the rocks in front of the restaurant. i sat down at her tab...
by Lucky Al
Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:28 pm
Forum: Shortboarders only!
Topic: Show us your....pics!
Replies: 310
Views: 93090

woo! here's a shot of me in the shorebreak at la libertad, where i went with my girl last year to take a look around and see about taking a shot at punta roca, a spot i'd had my heart set on since the early nineties, when mum shacked up with her salvadoran boyfriend, an fmln refugee to sydney who'd ...
by Lucky Al
Sun Sep 03, 2006 12:30 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Do you want breakwalls at Collaroy > Narra stretch?
Replies: 84
Views: 22064

how's this article came across in seattle post intelligencer, thinks damn if the venezuelans can do it for poor why can't we do it for beaches? move the nice one s back! Caracas takes golf courses for housing Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006 CARACAS, Venezuela - Three major Caracas golf courses, long favored ...
by Lucky Al
Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:59 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: Do you want breakwalls at Collaroy > Narra stretch?
Replies: 84
Views: 22064

push all the humans and their buildings inland hundred metres or so and revegetate with natives be sweet a walk to the beach among shrub-covered dunes poking your head over the top in spots trying to catch sight of the waves and if humans object to being pushed back well three months community servi...
by Lucky Al
Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:53 am
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: bluebottles will be in early this year
Replies: 99
Views: 20760

Obviously Nick's keeping essential information to himself again.
by Lucky Al
Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:05 pm
Forum: General surf discussion
Topic: PIPELINE MASTERS - Movie
Replies: 6
Views: 2495

but what a film should be eh!