Tones of Home, or things learned when your lady is in STL

Remnants of the country's prohibition still linger, despite the massiveness of the alcohol industry. Take for example, this odd ordinance:

It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis.

Apparently, curbside boozing threatened the success of local saloons! And Missourians must have had an impressive penchant for heavy imbibing given that explicit decree against swindling the XXX from a bucket.

Beware, St Louis drinkers.

Lack of energy

This blog is in desperate need of a reprieve from an overload of surfing content. I'm just too lazy. And there's surf in the air; autumn's approaching, the winds are blowing, cool temps are dropping in, and hurricane season is on. I'm preoccupied. So, while I devise other ideas worth posting, this short clip of Kelly Slater testing new boards--some of which he shaped at the nearby Channel Islands factory--will have to do. Watching Slater win all the time on the WCT (until this year, anyway) has gotten old, but the guy's free surfing is still stupefying. And motivating. (This vid made rounds on the surf sites a while ago. It ain't fresh!)

Location: queen of the coast, Rincon; Santa Barbara, CA

(As other users have noted, appreciate the class Kelly employs on a longboarder who snaked him at :40 seconds. A simple tap, no flipping out, causing a frackus, just a, "hey man, heads up. thanks." Who knows if this was because he knows cameras are always on him in the water?)