Fall Begins

Forget what the calendar says, it's started. Fall is here. The air is cool, the wind is from the northeast.

You can figure out the rest.

Yes, Sunday was fun. If you missed it, I'm truly sorry for you. You should have thought about that before you decided to:

A. Get married.

B. Have kids.

C. Clean out the garage or mow the lawn on a Sunday with NE winds.

D. All of the above.

E. Whatever other fucked-up thing you did that keeps you from surfing.

The pictures do not do it justice.

That is The Sewer Pipe's fault, not the waves. We won't go into technical details, but sometimes, when you choose to make pictures on film, instead of just being a monkey with a digital camera, mistakes can get made.

You can make them in the water while trying to stay on your board, while being worked by a wave, at the same time you're trying to photograph a surfer, while not loosing your camera to the depths of the cove. You can make more mistakes when you come home, tired after hours of surfing, and develop the stuff for the wrong length of time for the chemistry you are using.

All sorts of shit can happen when you are relying on a human being to make a picture, instead of a collection of 10-cent chips from Samurai Land. All that sorts of shit happened to me, Sunday.

In spite of it, I did at least wind-up with these.








But don't worry. It has only just begun for this year. There is still time to:

A. File for a divorce.

B. Put the kids up for adoption or send them to military school.

C. Sell the house and move into an apartment so you have more time to surf.

D. Enter some kind of ten-step program or find Jesus and fix the mess you've made of your life.

Or, just stay tuned here and next time we at The Sewer Pipe promise to do a better job with the pictures.