It’s Cowbell Monday which means only one thing… Cowbell tunes to get the week started! Below are a selection of great Cowbell tunes which have lived down the ages. So Surf Sista, Bruce et al, get your feet tapping and Cowbell banging as we play along with Cowbell Monday. 1. Charm City Devils – Pour [...]

Due to the increased demand for Shark Fin Soup over the past decade the incidence of shark finning is ever increasing in number. Some humans are showing themselves to be the real monsters of the deep with sharks having good reason to fear man more than man has to fear from sharks (cue blatant plug [...]

Ever since Steven Spielberg unleashed Jaws onto the world back in 1975 Sharks have had a really bad press. Throw in the yearly world news hysteria of ‘Man gets eaten by shark on holiday’ and you have a climate of fear built up around the Shark that is massively undeserved. For if you dig just [...]

Its a montage and that can mean only one thing, a story told through incremental improvement set to music as a loser with no hope battles against the odds to become champ. Well except in this case where the guy in question, Kelly Slater, is already world champ many times over and stands head and [...]

Non surf related but having just seen this on the always excellent theendlessbummer blog and cried my eyes out I thought I’d better share with my American friends as not sure if this has hopped the pond yet. If not make sure to look out for the series. The premise of the series, called The [...]

As I lay near death, certain of my impending demise from either the consumption, the plague, Tuberculosis or some other dreaded disease which causes one to believe the end is near, I wondered how I would get myself out of my predicament. There was still much more life to live. I had a child to [...]