Little Jumbo Dumbo

The story goes something like this. BM is down in Malibu hanging out with friend DP. DP has this old 5’-0” something kneeboard which he asks BM to paint some crap on it. So BM takes the board with those intentions but never gave it back. Sometime goes by and BM along with JL need to show some junk at an art showing put on by OP in SF. This board was sitting around so they used it in the show. It has the words GO HOME written on the deck in blood-dripping red spray paint. About a year after the show BM is cleaning out his studio and this board made its way into the garbage mound. So JL rescues it and asks me to glass some fins onto it since the previous one was broken off. I forget from who or where the whole idea came about but we decided on some ridiculously over sized keel fins. More of a joke then anything. The best part was walking it down the beach to the water and having all of these hardcore surfers staring at you with a WTF expression on there faces. So I finished glassing on the fins and sent out the photos to a few friends. One of my friends, CR, who I sent the photos to was in Australia at the time visiting TW learning the process of making wooden surfboards. It turns out that DP is also living in Australia and is also friends with TW. That night after dinner CR shows TW and DP the photos I e-mailed him. DP is blown away! First he couldn’t believe that someone would do something so stupid like that but gets a laugh out of it anyway. Then he realizes that, that board is his and he’s not laughing so hard now. DP makes the connection about the circle of friends and how the board moved around over all these years. To top it all off, he wants his board back but he hasn’t got it back and he probably will never get it back. I’m sure the first thing he does if he gets it back is hack of the fins and of course shake a strong fist at us. The board surfs like shit which everyone expected but we all gave it a go anyway. It’s like riding a raging bull down a muddy road. The last I heard of it was when AK took it out to only be defeated by the beast. -MR