<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' gd:etag='W/&quot;CkUBRnY4fSp7ImA9WhZbFE0.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864</id><updated>2011-06-18T08:30:57.835-04:00</updated><title>Queen of the Surf Pirates</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default?alt=atom&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default?alt=atom&amp;start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>510</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;C08DRHs-eCp7ImA9WhZbEU4.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-6130036316532982357</id><published>2008-01-14T07:00:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2011-06-15T05:57:55.550-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2011-06-15T05:57:55.550-04:00</app:edited><title>Sammy's Back</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s1600-h/sammy_dog.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s200/sammy_dog.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118199576624536402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;Mornin Surfin Dude and Dudette People this is Sammy the Surf Dog with Ur Outer Banks Surfin Report .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiNj_bpKOI/AAAAAAAABRs/buBuroFS9po/s1600-h/nssd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiNj_bpKOI/AAAAAAAABRs/buBuroFS9po/s320/nssd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100482227459401954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt; My momma has been all busy writtin her &lt;a href="http://lezgetreal.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;New Site&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; site but I think that site is really borin cos they never talk about gettin birds or playin Frisbee or surfin or dog  treats or nothin. So I don't like to read it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if my momma ain't gonna write this blog no more then I guess I will. So startin today this now the Sammy the Surf Dogs Blog and I is gonna be tellin you all about surfin and beach stuff. Ok?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If u want to asked me any questions about my surfin report or want to tell me about some surfin news u think I should tell all of the other surfin peoples about, I have my own E- Mail now; its&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:ADDRESS"&gt;SammytheSurfDog@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;so write me somethin if you want.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;And Now for Sammy's Surfin and Beach News.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right now I don't really have any news to tell you, but come back tomorrow and I will have bunches&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I usually have this report completed in the morning, but please take into consideration that I am a dog after all and I can't read and write all that well and can sometimes get distracted by birds, squirrels and dead things on the beach. Also the weather conditions on the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Outer Banks of North Carolina&lt;/span&gt; can change in a short period of time. So for a detailed current forecast and more daily pictures go check out what Kevin the Surf Forecast Guy has to say at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.obxsurfinfo.com/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img alt="obxsurfinfo_2_477" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/99/300193632_210b8ededa_m.jpg" height="42" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Todays Surfin Report was brought to you by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cafepress.com/sammysd"&gt;Sammy Stuff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;.... You should buy some Sammy Stuff cos this is my blog now and I need money to pay my cable bill and buy dog treats.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiEpPbpKNI/AAAAAAAABRk/NwaAS0LWn2g/s1600-h/sammy%2Bstuff%2B1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiEpPbpKNI/AAAAAAAABRk/NwaAS0LWn2g/s320/sammy%2Bstuff%2B1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100472422049065170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;This is Sammy the Surf Dog wishing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; you peace,love and good waves....  I'm out for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-6130036316532982357?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/6130036316532982357/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=6130036316532982357&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/6130036316532982357?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/6130036316532982357?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2008/01/sammys-back.html' title='Sammy&apos;s Back'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s72-c/sammy_dog.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;AkYBQ30zfSp7ImA9WB9bEUo.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-9020440638787211763</id><published>2007-12-20T14:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-20T14:15:52.385-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-12-20T14:15:52.385-05:00</app:edited><title>An Open Letter to Digg</title><content type='html'>Gentleman,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently you banned a site I author called &lt;a href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/2007/12/open-letter-to-digg.html"&gt;Lesbiatopia&lt;/a&gt; for mature content, you also recently banned another lesbian authored site called &lt;a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/12/digg-strikes-again.html"&gt;Just a Girl in Short Shorts &lt;/a&gt;for the same reason, but a search of your site with the word ‘lesbian’ reveals that there is still plenty of prurient lesbian content present, much of which I can assure you would be considered by many of my lesbian readers as exploitive and insulting…  for example the content and comments of this very popular string that I had no problem finding on your site titled &lt;a href="http://digg.com/celebrity/Britney_Spears_has_lesbian_footage_of_Paris_Hilton"&gt;Britney Spears has lesbian footage of Paris Hilton&lt;/a&gt;.  This post is seems only the tip of the iceberg when it come to efforts by your users to humiliate and degrade lesbians and gay people in general.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it sort of seems to me and several other lesbian and gay  publishers I have contacted that your action against Lesbiatopia and other lesbian authored sites recently may well be a bit homophobic on your parts and that you seem to pander to a misogynistic and lesbiaphobic element who tend to frequent your site.  We can only take this to mean that your only concern would be material this element considers ‘offensive’ as lesbian material posted by lesbians for other lesbians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore since you are a San Francisco based company and you have chosen to ignore any communications from me about this matter to date, I feel I have no choice but to contact the San Francisco Human Rights commission to see if they might be of some assistance in this matter and I will be asking my readers to do the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank You&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paula the Surf Mom&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-9020440638787211763?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.lesbiatopia.com/2007/12/open-letter-to-digg.html' title='An Open Letter to Digg'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/9020440638787211763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=9020440638787211763&amp;isPopup=true' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/9020440638787211763?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/9020440638787211763?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/12/open-letter-to-digg.html' title='An Open Letter to Digg'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CEcBQH8_eSp7ImA9WB9bEUw.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-6817677620628265658</id><published>2007-12-19T19:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-19T19:54:11.141-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-12-19T19:54:11.141-05:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lesbian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homophobic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='censorship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lesobhobic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Digg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free speech'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='freedom'/><title>Digg Strikes Again</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A word on this from &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/"&gt;Miss Becky&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/" title="Kick Me"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2001/2123629210_210c85621b_o.gif" alt="KickMe" height="295" width="343" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/" title="Becky's Stuff"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/151/375291506_92d6696532_o.jpg" alt="a2" height="137" width="100" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; If  mud wrestling &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;pretend lesbians&lt;/span&gt; are your thing, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Digg&lt;/span&gt; is the place to find them. That would be such things as &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://digg.com/television/Cute_Lesbians_having_Fun"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cute Lesbians Having Fun&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://digg.com/television/Two_hot_and_horny_Lesbians"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Two Hot and Horny Lesbians&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. The ever popular feature is &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://digg.com/celebrity/Britney_Spears_has_lesbian_footage_of_Paris_Hilton"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Paris Hilton&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;in a sapphic romp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, as I have mentioned before, if you are are an intelligent  red neck &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;lesbian &lt;/span&gt;who favors short shorts and has a tad bit of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;feminist&lt;/span&gt; concern, forget it. At first you will &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-digg-dont-digg-me.html"&gt;be buried alive&lt;/a&gt;, and if a picture of a &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/12/uber-boob-fascination.html"&gt;topless woman&lt;/a&gt; appears on your &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;blog&lt;/span&gt;, the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;pseudo-geeks at Dig&lt;/span&gt;g will be oh so  appalled, and get you &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-digg-dont-digg-me.html"&gt;permanently banned&lt;/a&gt; for being a  dirty old &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;dyke&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have already whined &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ad nauseum&lt;/span&gt; about &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Digg's&lt;/span&gt; campaign to bury me, until I was &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-digg-dont-digg-me.html"&gt;ultimately banned&lt;/a&gt; after posting&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/12/uber-boob-fascination.html"&gt;Uber-Boob Fascination&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However today I got word the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Digg  Dweebs&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/2007/12/diggs-says-we-are-bad-girls-and-we-ask.html"&gt;have struck again&lt;/a&gt;. And this time things may get a little uncomfortable in the adolescent playground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my in box this morning was notice that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/"&gt;Lesbiatopa&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;has  been banned.  The site is a compilation of thoughts from  the greatest &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;lesbian &lt;/span&gt;minds in America, with one glaring exception.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This time &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Digg&lt;/span&gt; may actually get a kick in the nuts.   &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lesbiatopa's&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; editor-in -chief &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/"&gt;Lesberita&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; used to write for the old  &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.queersighted.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;QueerSighted.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and prefers hanging  with &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;gay rights&lt;/span&gt; activists, rather  than stoned gun slinging &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;libertarians&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-digg-dont-digg-me.html" title="boycott digg by beckychr007, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2233/2123635874_bb1c5be1c2_o.jpg" alt="boycott digg" height="157" width="195" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Anyway, the word is going to get to the right places, which would  include the seat of their pants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Rose"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kevin Rose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; may find it a little unpleasant clubbing in &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;San Francisco&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/" title="Becky's Stuff"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/375291505_f0d88f3810_o.jpg" alt="a1" height="76" width="136" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a title="Becky's" stuff="a" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img alt="Becky's Stuff" src="http://dl2.glitter-graphics.net/pub/30/30042g8e8dv6kgj.gif" border="0" height="135" width="73" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Strikes_Again"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://digg.com/img/badges/91x17-digg-button.gif" alt="Digg!" height="17" width="91" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-6817677620628265658?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/6817677620628265658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=6817677620628265658&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/6817677620628265658?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/6817677620628265658?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/12/digg-strikes-again.html' title='Digg Strikes Again'/><author><name>Becky C.</name><email>beckychr007@yahoo.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16480939612731874599'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DUEGQ3Y6fip7ImA9WB9bEU0.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-8339493707880533004</id><published>2007-12-19T18:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-19T18:40:22.816-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-12-19T18:40:22.816-05:00</app:edited><title>Is Diggs Homophobic?</title><content type='html'>&lt;h2 style="text-align: center;"&gt; Lesbiatopia Gets Spanked By Diggs&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/R2mbaHBH9fI/AAAAAAAAB-U/geuXGyLSGWE/s1600-h/amberbeltedoutdoors24.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/R2mbaHBH9fI/AAAAAAAAB-U/geuXGyLSGWE/s320/amberbeltedoutdoors24.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145814922110170610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well friends and readers it did not take us here at &lt;a href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/"&gt;Lesbiatopia&lt;/a&gt; long before we have reluctantly found ourselves entering the realm of controversy as it would seem that&lt;a href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/"&gt; Lesbiatopia&lt;/a&gt; has been banned by the internet book marking service Diggs, for displaying Adult content. But it is our option that our banning has more to do with a homophobic and misogynistic group think element by a of a small number of Digg users that tends to only wish to promote their personal views on homosexuality, lesbians and women in general.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diggs likes to promote itself as a non-hierarchical community-based popularity website, that uses a form of democratic editorial control were news stories and websites that are submitted by Digg users. Digg users then promote these submissions to the front page through a user-based ranking system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But in the past Diggs and its system has been not been without criticism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diggs has accused by some of allowing companies to pay member of the inner circle for posting and promoting stories endorse their products and services to be submitted to the site and for allowing faulty or misleading articles to be posted and promoted. It has also come under fire from some, most notably sites promoting gay and women’s issues, that they have been blocked from posting, and their accounts disabled, for making comments in the user-moderated forums that conflict with the personal interests and views of the Digg's inner circle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only last week Diggs banned another Lesbian authored site that I am sure many of the readers here are familiar with called &lt;a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/12/digg-strikes-again.html"&gt;Just A Girl in Short Shorts&lt;/a&gt;, for exactly the same reason as it banned &lt;a href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/"&gt;Lesbiatopia&lt;/a&gt;… but if one reads this authors page you can see the banning of this site was probably motivated more by the fact the author is a lesbian with a brain, who presents content that is targeted primarily to a lesbian readership and that talks frankly about lesbian issues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I am reasonably sure that Diggs will justify its action because &lt;a href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/"&gt;Lesbiatopia&lt;/a&gt; has a section that frankly discusses Lesbian sexual issues.  These articles are clearly labeled as sexual advice that is solely targeted for lesbian readers and when they were posted to Diggs it was expressly noted that these articles were exactly that and not so much perv bait for the Diggs Geek Squad. But in scanning Diggs after discovering that Lesbiatopia had been banned, I could not help but notice that lesbian content that would be considered by most of the lesbian readers here at Lesbiatopia as exploitive and misogynistic in nature has been allowed to remain in abundance on Diggs. I would then only have to assume that Diggs seems to value its pervs opinions and telling them to stay away was not something that went over well with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other writers have also noticed this…  The feminist blog &lt;a href="http://academicpointillism.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/why-are-there-so-few-women-on-digg/"&gt;Academic Pointillism&lt;/a&gt;  can be quoted as saying….&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I have read stories that have a large number of sexist, racist and/or homophobic comments that are dugg up far higher than the comments that challenge the comments or the story as sexist (etc). While sexist stories may silence some users, racist and homophobic stories increase that number further. Users who may fit into multiple categories, such as lesbian women, gay men of colour, or lesbian women of colour may feel even more excluded from digg.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And also…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Since geek culture is predominantly male-dominated, it is not surprising that sites like digg feature quasi-pornographic images on the front page, or that geek conventions feature booths with bikini-clad babes pushing products and computer games that even have female characters generally sexualize the hell out of them. Reverting to “sex talk” in groups is also one of the patterns that Bion identified in his study of groups. I am not arguing that praising women for their brains and beauty are a bad thing, but I am arguing against the unrealistic expectations for women’s bodies that diggers frequently perpetuate. This may not be surprising, but when the smart women start to go elsewhere because of a blatant objectification of ‘style’ over ‘substance’ maybe there needs to be some room for some reflection on why this might be, and if fantasy women are worth driving the real ones away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmmm me thinks that possibly there may just be a double standard at Diggs and I think it just might be time to let Diggs advertisers know that if they are looking for a demographic that has a proven track record for spending their money on line they just might want to look at the Gay and Lesbian demographic and remember that we tend to support firms that support us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on this later… of that you can be sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Make a Lesbian Fashion Statement&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Shop at the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.cafepress.com/themonkeysuncle"&gt;&lt;img src="http://logo.cafepress.com/1/1949041.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Roses are red, violets are blue, please leave your comment, after your reading is thru.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Homophobia+and+Diggs" rel="tag"&gt;Homophobia and Diggs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-8339493707880533004?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.lesbiatopia.com/' title='Is Diggs Homophobic?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/8339493707880533004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=8339493707880533004&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/8339493707880533004?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/8339493707880533004?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/12/is-diggs-homophobic.html' title='Is Diggs Homophobic?'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/R2mbaHBH9fI/AAAAAAAAB-U/geuXGyLSGWE/s72-c/amberbeltedoutdoors24.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CEcEQ3o9eyp7ImA9WB9WFEg.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-3391659892760751796</id><published>2007-11-18T19:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-19T01:00:02.463-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-11-19T01:00:02.463-05:00</app:edited><title>New LGBT Website for the OBX</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s1600-h/sammy_dog.png"&gt;Hey everyone! Paula has allowed me to post on her fabulous blog! I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up on the Outer Banks' newest LGBT website! Its called 'The Island' because, well, we live on an island... (I'm a simple guy.) The address is www.outobx.com and it is set up with a forum and a place on outobx.com to get your own personal blog! The Outer Banks is a fantastic place to live, and now we have a means of communication! &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So go on there! Post your favorite restaurant, your favorite activity, your favorite spot! ANYTHING! Lets come together and patronize those companies who appreciate and support our cause!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks,&lt;br /&gt;James Miller&lt;br /&gt;www.outobx.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-3391659892760751796?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/3391659892760751796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=3391659892760751796&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/3391659892760751796?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/3391659892760751796?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-lgbt-website-for-obx.html' title='New LGBT Website for the OBX'/><author><name>www.outobx.com</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09842280274490395901</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08772102616063501397'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;D0AERHw8cCp7ImA9WB9WEEo.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-204281280331684298</id><published>2007-11-14T10:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-14T16:28:25.278-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-11-14T16:28:25.278-05:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><title>They're Backkkkkkkk</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RzsQ37ekzxI/AAAAAAAAB3Y/grbhi4RPU_I/s1600-h/poltergeist.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RzsQ37ekzxI/AAAAAAAAB3Y/grbhi4RPU_I/s320/poltergeist.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132714753363595026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ok where have I been?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well as many of my regular reader know Paula the Surf Mom has been MIA from the Queen of the Surf Pirates for a little while now… and my In-Box is full of e-mails asking me where the hell did I go as a consequence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well it’s like this…. I was walking down the beach one evening and aliens abducted me…. Ok, not buying that one are you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RzsPkbekzwI/AAAAAAAAB3Q/zykGHUnaMlc/s1600-h/Halle+Berry01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RzsPkbekzwI/AAAAAAAAB3Q/zykGHUnaMlc/s200/Halle+Berry01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132713318844518146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How about this? I’ve was on a secret mission for the government and ended up in a North Korean Prison, but I escaped, and while making my way back to the Outer Banks hidden in a secret compartment of Chinese container ship I discovered a malevolent plan on the part of the Kim’il Jung’s mutant son to undermine the very structure of this great nation of ours with poisoned pet treats and lead tainted baby toys. So first stopping in Cuba, I teamed up with Halie Berry. Halie and I first had hot sex and then afterwards we blew up Fidel Castro’s beard salon and then flew to Greenland where we found il Jung juniors secret fortress hidden in a volcano and after battling his evil henchman in a final helicopter born laser confrontation, we blew up that place too, destroying all of the lead tainted toys and poison treats. Then we had hot sex again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok that’s not true either… what has been going on is I have been really pretty busy these days, taking care of my girls, Sammy and my granny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have also been working pretty hard on another blogging project with my friend Renee Gannon at &lt;a href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/"&gt;Lesbiatopia&lt;/a&gt; and now that we have up and running I’m back here to get some life going again here at the Queen of the Surf Pirates… because I have really missed all of you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RzsSCbekzyI/AAAAAAAAB3g/TGrdXckmppc/s1600-h/big.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RzsSCbekzyI/AAAAAAAAB3g/TGrdXckmppc/s200/big.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132716033263849250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We are all doing well here; the girls are really getting big and are becoming quite a handful. Sammy’s leg has almost healed and soon I hope to be back on the beach again with him as that was really and truly one of the main reason I took a bit of a hiatus writing here… you see my walks on the beach with my little bud turned out be a big part of my inspiration for this blog and when I sat down to write here with out my muse I had a hard time coming up with anything, but I expect Sammy to be back strong next week so expect to see more from the both of us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its so good to be back.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s1600-h/sammy_dog.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s200/sammy_dog.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118199576624536402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;This is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img1.imagechef.com/w/070330/anm614de098c3cf40c1.gif" alt="ImageChef.com - Create custom images" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;and Sammy the Surf Dog wishing you peace,love and good waves... and we are out for now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-204281280331684298?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/204281280331684298/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=204281280331684298&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/204281280331684298?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/204281280331684298?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/11/theyre-backkkkkkkk.html' title='They&apos;re Backkkkkkkk'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RzsQ37ekzxI/AAAAAAAAB3Y/grbhi4RPU_I/s72-c/poltergeist.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DEIDQXs-fyp7ImA9WB9XFk0.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-6799820144469781817</id><published>2007-11-09T06:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-09T06:09:30.557-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-11-09T06:09:30.557-05:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Surf Photography'/><title>Surfing Art: The Surf Photograpy of Kenny Onuforck</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RzQ_rgQyleI/AAAAAAAAB1E/ozTiAY0Ism4/s1600-h/inside%2Bthe%2Bcurl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RzQ_rgQyleI/AAAAAAAAB1E/ozTiAY0Ism4/s320/inside%2Bthe%2Bcurl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130795892109120994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The essence and beauty of surf photography is capturing that moment in time when everything comes together. The ability to intertwine independent forces; the weather, the swell, the surfer and the light, make surf photography an unparalleled art form.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://dpsurfer.com/"&gt;Kenny Onufrock&lt;/a&gt; is a surf photographer based in Wilmington, NC. He has been a freelance surf photographer and a full time real estate photographer for several years now and couldn't be happier.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;His work has been published in  Eastern Surf Magazine, Surfing Magazine, Juice, Tide, Etc. and Line Up. He is also a frequent contributor to www.surfermag.com and www.surfline.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;This is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img1.imagechef.com/w/070330/anm614de098c3cf40c1.gif" alt="ImageChef.com - Create custom images" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Wishing you peace,love and good waves...  I'm out for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/surf+photography" rel="tag"&gt;surf photography&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Kenny+Onufrock" rel="tag"&gt;Kenny Onufrock&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/surf+photographer" rel="tag"&gt;surf photographer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/surfing" rel="tag"&gt;surfing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-6799820144469781817?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/6799820144469781817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=6799820144469781817&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/6799820144469781817?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/6799820144469781817?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/11/surfing-art-srf-photograpy-of-kenny.html' title='Surfing Art: The Surf Photograpy of Kenny Onuforck'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RzQ_rgQyleI/AAAAAAAAB1E/ozTiAY0Ism4/s72-c/inside%2Bthe%2Bcurl.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DEYHQngzeyp7ImA9WB9XFk0.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-5214256488000249558</id><published>2007-11-09T05:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-09T06:02:13.683-05:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-11-09T06:02:13.683-05:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><title>Surfing Art: Cloud Rider by Meegan Feori</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RzQ90wQyldI/AAAAAAAAB08/TQ7EqnOa-cc/s1600-h/cloudriding_lg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RzQ90wQyldI/AAAAAAAAB08/TQ7EqnOa-cc/s320/cloudriding_lg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130793851999655378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The integral nature of surfing and creativity, for &lt;a href="http://meeganfeori.com/"&gt;Meegan Feori&lt;/a&gt;, stems from her father, who introduced her to the ocean, and her mother, who encouraged her to create.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;As surfing seeped into &lt;a href="http://meeganfeori.com/"&gt;Meegan’s&lt;/a&gt; soul, her artwork found its direction. Her figural style developed through a series of compromises and has since become a process of exploration and refinement. Surfing and art-making give &lt;a href="http://www.waveridersgallery.net/catalog/Surf-Artist-Meegan-Feori/c25_46/index.htm"&gt;Meegan &lt;/a&gt;a purpose. Each challenges her to grow while also rewarding her for her efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“I am a bella niña bruja ocean-loving dreamer compelled to create what my heart and mind envision. While my work represents surfing, it is not exclusive to surfing. It transcends the act of surfing becoming a visual representation of human emotion and experience.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;This is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img1.imagechef.com/w/070330/anm614de098c3cf40c1.gif" alt="ImageChef.com - Create custom images" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Wishing you peace,love and good waves...  I'm out for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Meegan+Feori" rel="tag"&gt;Meegan Feori&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/artwork" rel="tag"&gt;artwork&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/artist+Surfing" rel="tag"&gt;artist Surfing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-5214256488000249558?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/5214256488000249558/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=5214256488000249558&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/5214256488000249558?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/5214256488000249558?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/11/surfing-art-cloud-rider-by-meegan-feori.html' title='Surfing Art: Cloud Rider by Meegan Feori'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RzQ90wQyldI/AAAAAAAAB08/TQ7EqnOa-cc/s72-c/cloudriding_lg.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;A04FRng-eip7ImA9WB9QGUQ.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-2140458347053616978</id><published>2007-11-02T06:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-11-02T06:38:37.652-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-11-02T06:38:37.652-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guest Posters'/><title>Lancelot Link - Surfin' Spy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Guest Post By The Queen of the Surf Pirates Pundit at Large... &lt;a href="http://www.gorillasushi.com/"&gt;Jason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.gorillasushi.com/files/pictures/picture-18.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 84px;" src="http://www.gorillasushi.com/files/pictures/picture-18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Whenever posting here at QSP, I always try to bring my own perspective and sensibilities to the topics that make up the broader base of this site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes it's difficult to find an overlap that anyone would find interesting. I'm not gay. I'm not a surfer. I have no kids. I've got boy parts. I &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt; love pirates but who doesn't?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, just when I'm most frustrated, I find something like the video below. A beautiful marriage of Paula's site and my own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mm3CtlvMA90"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mm3CtlvMA90" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;that's&lt;/span&gt; a proper way to start of your day!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-2140458347053616978?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/2140458347053616978/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=2140458347053616978&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/2140458347053616978?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/2140458347053616978?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/11/lancelot-link-surfin-spy.html' title='Lancelot Link - Surfin&apos; Spy'/><author><name>GorillaSushi</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;D08CRX4-fip7ImA9WB9QGEs.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-2926734689914060340</id><published>2007-10-31T17:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-31T17:24:24.056-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-31T17:24:24.056-04:00</app:edited><title>Look whos One Today</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Ryjwe8f8IKI/AAAAAAAABxU/X1XTDe1wP0E/s1600-h/lookwhos1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Ryjwe8f8IKI/AAAAAAAABxU/X1XTDe1wP0E/s320/lookwhos1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127612590188142754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Yep, the Twin Surf Princesses are a year old today... I cant believe its only been a year since I was  in the hospital pushing these two little bundles out.... messing myself and  screaming&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt; Oh my Fuckin God what was I thinkin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;g&lt;/span&gt;?...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But really, this has been a wonderful and magic year, if albei, a fairly sleepless one...  But these girls have brought things into my life that I never thought possible...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Girls I just want to say you can't even begin to know how much I love you and how glad you came into my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Birthday....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;This is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img1.imagechef.com/w/070330/anm614de098c3cf40c1.gif" alt="ImageChef.com - Create custom images" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Wishing you peace,love and good waves...  I'm out for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-2926734689914060340?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/2926734689914060340/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=2926734689914060340&amp;isPopup=true' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/2926734689914060340?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/2926734689914060340?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/look-whos-one-today.html' title='Look whos One Today'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Ryjwe8f8IKI/AAAAAAAABxU/X1XTDe1wP0E/s72-c/lookwhos1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;A0AEQn8zeSp7ImA9WB9QFks.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-6357518760563523348</id><published>2007-10-29T10:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-29T10:55:03.181-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-29T10:55:03.181-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daily Surf Report'/><title>Sammy the Surf Dogs Outer Banks Surf Report</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s1600-h/sammy_dog.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s200/sammy_dog.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118199576624536402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;Mornin Surfin Dude and Dudette People this is Sammy the Surf Dog with Ur Outer Banks Surfin Report for 10/29/07.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiNj_bpKOI/AAAAAAAABRs/buBuroFS9po/s1600-h/nssd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiNj_bpKOI/AAAAAAAABRs/buBuroFS9po/s320/nssd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100482227459401954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;I has not been here for a while, cos my momma was helpin my granny lady move and boy was we busy… and momma says movin granny lady can make a human want to drink… a lot. But I hope you didn’t miss any surfin cos I was gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My leg that got hurt by a crazy drunk lady hittin me with her car is gettin better though and I is startin to try to walk around on it. Momma yells at me when I do, but I really don’t care cos I is really really bored and would like to play on the beach now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This morning the waves is really purdy big; the surf chest to head high and sometimes even bigger but the wind is blowin really strong from the Northeast at 25 mph and all of  the surface conditions are by and large blown out. Surfin is not very good right now cos you would prolly get drowned if you went surfin, I think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also it has got kind of cold outside and I think winter is comin here to the Outer Banks… we is only lookin for hights in the middle 60’s and right now it is kind a cloudy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok is done with the surfin report now….&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If u want to asked me any questions about my surfin report or want to tell me about some surfin news u think I should tell all of the other surfin peoples about, I have my own E- Mail now; its&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:ADDRESS"&gt;SammytheSurfDog@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;so write me somethin if you want.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I usually have this report completed in the morning, but please take into consideration that I am a dog after all and I can't read and write all that well and can sometimes get distracted by birds, squirrels and dead things on the beach. Also the weather conditions on the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Outer Banks of North Carolina&lt;/span&gt; can change in a short period of time. So for a detailed current forecast and more daily pictures go check out what Kevin the Surf Forecast Guy has to say at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.obxsurfinfo.com/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img alt="obxsurfinfo_2_477" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/99/300193632_210b8ededa_m.jpg" height="42" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Todays Surfin Report was brought to you by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cafepress.com/sammysd"&gt;Sammy Stuff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiEpPbpKNI/AAAAAAAABRk/NwaAS0LWn2g/s1600-h/sammy%2Bstuff%2B1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiEpPbpKNI/AAAAAAAABRk/NwaAS0LWn2g/s320/sammy%2Bstuff%2B1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100472422049065170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;This is Sammy the Surf Dog wishing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; you peace,love and good waves....  I'm out for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-6357518760563523348?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/6357518760563523348/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=6357518760563523348&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/6357518760563523348?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/6357518760563523348?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/sammy-surf-dogs-outer-banks-surf-report_29.html' title='Sammy the Surf Dogs Outer Banks Surf Report'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s72-c/sammy_dog.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DEcHQno8eCp7ImA9WB9QE0Q.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-4664679622276839895</id><published>2007-10-26T06:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-26T06:53:53.470-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-26T06:53:53.470-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guest Posters'/><title>Hi Shredability - Dan Malloy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Guest Post By The Queen of the Surf Pirates Pundit at Large... &lt;a href="http://www.gorillasushi.com/"&gt;Jason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.gorillasushi.com/files/pictures/picture-18.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 84px;" src="http://www.gorillasushi.com/files/pictures/picture-18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;VBS.tv makes some great little films and documentaries. As I was catching up on their recent ones, I came across this documentary on surfer, Dan Malloy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's nothing too exciting or spectacular but it's simplicity makes me smaile (and wish for warmer weather).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VS40bHN1SaM&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VS40bHN1SaM&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-4664679622276839895?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/4664679622276839895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=4664679622276839895&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/4664679622276839895?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/4664679622276839895?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/hi-shredability-dan-malloy.html' title='Hi Shredability - Dan Malloy'/><author><name>GorillaSushi</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;A0EMSXY7fCp7ImA9WB9QE0w.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-1270537932165074923</id><published>2007-10-25T09:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T09:41:28.804-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-25T09:41:28.804-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><title>Be back soon</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RyCcesf8HvI/AAAAAAAABsw/udmfP2dafIk/s1600-h/scream1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RyCcesf8HvI/AAAAAAAABsw/udmfP2dafIk/s320/scream1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125268427102756594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok I bet you are wonder where I am and what I am doing…. Well let, see…. I’m moving my granny …. Fun fun fun… I will be back soon. Ok?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img1.imagechef.com/w/070330/anm614de098c3cf40c1.gif" alt="ImageChef.com - Create custom images" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Wishing you peace,love and good waves...  I'm out for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-1270537932165074923?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/1270537932165074923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=1270537932165074923&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/1270537932165074923?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/1270537932165074923?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/be-back-soon.html' title='Be back soon'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RyCcesf8HvI/AAAAAAAABsw/udmfP2dafIk/s72-c/scream1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DEUMRHc_eyp7ImA9WB9QEU4.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-5256808444175232408</id><published>2007-10-22T19:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-23T06:44:45.943-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-23T06:44:45.943-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lesbian News'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guest Posters'/><title>Surrpunded by Boobs, Worshipping Bush</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rx3L6gLCjeI/AAAAAAAABrg/Yhw6B2bb9S0/s1600-h/condi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rx3L6gLCjeI/AAAAAAAABrg/Yhw6B2bb9S0/s200/condi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124476156946583010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Not only the story of my life, but also lyrics from the song, "Condi" written and performed by Maxine Lapiduss live at M-Bar in Los Angeles. Apparantly, Maxine has it bad for our Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. So bad, she wrote a "lesbian love lament to the Secretary of my Tortured State". Of all the celebrity lesbian crushes I've ever known of, this is by far the most interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Condi, as Lapiduss lovingly refers to her as, lyrically expresses her love with such memorable lines as "Forget Osama and come to Mama", "Not gay, but hey, you're halfway there" and "Damnit girl, you're Condilicous" . I guarantee after hearing this song, you're whole view on political figures is going to change. Mine did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The name Maxine Lapiduss may ring a bell to you. In fact, she's been making people laugh for years. Her stand-up act was featured in the documentary Wisecracks, and she has written and produced some of the most successful and ground-breaking sitcoms in television history, including Home Improvement, Dharma and Greg, Ellen, and Roseanne (which she was involved with when she came out).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rx3QOALCjfI/AAAAAAAABro/tnwA_7RHoWk/s1600-h/lapid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rx3QOALCjfI/AAAAAAAABro/tnwA_7RHoWk/s200/lapid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124480890000543218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;According to AfterEllen.com, after a long stint with television, Lapiduss returned to the stage again in Los Angeles last year with a four-night production of Mackie's Com-Varie-Ality Show! Co-written with Wendy Miller and starring Lapiduss. The show was partly inspired by the dismal state of television, over-crowded as it is with uninspired reality programming. In her show, the multi-talented Lapiduss does what she knows best; riffing on entertainment, politics, and being queer in Hollywood, in-between musical numbers with a talented cast and guest stars Deborah Gibson (aka former teen pop star Debbie Gibson) and Wendy and Lisa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I think reality TV has it's place, but it doesn't have to be 24 hours a day on every channel. TV is supposed to be this medium that entertains and educates. There's so much to learn in the world. I think that's why Broadway is thriving right now, because there are stories and music. And when you watch American Idol, you see that people are hungry to be entertained. They want to hear the music and sing along." Lapiduss adds with a laugh, "Ice dancing! Anything, we're grabbing at friggin' straws here. Give me some ice skaters, I don't care, I'll take it! Rollerball, I'll take it! Anything! Yo-yo tournaments, please! Anything with people with some talent!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rx3QOwLCjgI/AAAAAAAABrw/DhRqWkMV7pQ/s1600-h/susiemldeborah_lg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rx3QOwLCjgI/AAAAAAAABrw/DhRqWkMV7pQ/s200/susiemldeborah_lg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124480902885445122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Maxine, former pop sensation/Ice Dancing with the Stars participant, Deborah Gibson, and comedienne Susie Mosher (star of Hairspray) sing their tale of woe about how reality TV has ruined their lives, in "That's The Reality."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's people like Lapiduss that we need, with Mackie's Com-Varie-Ality Show! which is a refreshing alternative to the boobtube that we get sucked into night after night. She wants to bring sexy (variety shows) back and with a little help from Mark Waldrop (who wrote the award-winning, all-gay musical review Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly) they collaborated together to write the cheeky love song to Condoleezza Rice. Thus a musical masterpiece was born. Without further ado, I present to you "Condi, a lesbian love lament to the Secretary of my Tortured State".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CpSMSNHYgLA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Condoleezza+Rice" rel="tag"&gt;Condoleezza Rice&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Lesbian" rel="tag"&gt;Lesbian&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Maxine+Lapidus" rel="tag"&gt;Maxine Lapidus&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Variety+Show" rel="tag"&gt;Variety Show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-5256808444175232408?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/5256808444175232408/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=5256808444175232408&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/5256808444175232408?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/5256808444175232408?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/surrpunded-by-boobs-worshipping-bush.html' title='Surrpunded by Boobs, Worshipping Bush'/><author><name>Renee Gannon</name><email>reneegannon@gmail.com</email></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rx3L6gLCjeI/AAAAAAAABrg/Yhw6B2bb9S0/s72-c/condi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DEQDRX8_eyp7ImA9WB9QEEQ.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-681209044732666307</id><published>2007-10-22T19:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-22T19:39:34.143-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-22T19:39:34.143-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Surf momisms'/><title>Spank Me</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rx0x9QLCjcI/AAAAAAAABrQ/7n5goFMKWX0/s400/Lesbat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124306879400545730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a confession… I have been cheating on all of you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rx0zMwLCjdI/AAAAAAAABrY/ZCkrOHJ1fw0/s1600-h/ryouschoolgirl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rx0zMwLCjdI/AAAAAAAABrY/ZCkrOHJ1fw0/s200/ryouschoolgirl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124308245200145874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes it’s true, I’m over at Renee Gannon’s &lt;a href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/"&gt;Lesbiatopia&lt;/a&gt;, flashing my boobs for all to see, talking about wild lesbian sex and writing about being a very naughty surf mom indeed. As a mater of fact, I think you should come over and spank me, please, because I’m being so so very naughty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But if you do come over to see what I’m up too over there just remember this… What happens in&lt;a href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/"&gt; Lesbiatopia&lt;/a&gt; stays in&lt;a href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/"&gt; Lesbiatopia&lt;/a&gt;, I mean after all my Mom and Dad read this blog and we wouldn't want them to know what I've been doing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;This is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img1.imagechef.com/w/070330/anm614de098c3cf40c1.gif" alt="ImageChef.com - Create custom images" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Wishing you peace,love and good waves...  I'm out for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/wild+lesbian+sex" rel="tag"&gt;wild lesbian sex&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/flashing+my+boobs" rel="tag"&gt;flashing my boobs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/spanking" rel="tag"&gt;spanking&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/naughty" rel="tag"&gt;naughty&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/cheating" rel="tag"&gt;cheating&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/spank+me" rel="tag"&gt;spank me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-681209044732666307?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/681209044732666307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=681209044732666307&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/681209044732666307?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/681209044732666307?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/spank-me.html' title='Spank Me'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rx0x9QLCjcI/AAAAAAAABrQ/7n5goFMKWX0/s72-c/Lesbat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CUQARn84fip7ImA9WB9QEEo.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-3644077442546830659</id><published>2007-10-22T01:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-22T13:15:47.136-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-22T13:15:47.136-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guest Posters'/><title>I'M COMING OUT TO PLAY</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s1600-h/sammy_dog.png"&gt;The &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/"&gt;Queen of the Surf Pirates,&lt;/a&gt; took time out of her busy schedule, to perform a special ceremony on my behalf.&lt;br /&gt;She graciously entered my comment box, raised her fearful weapon above my head, lowered it swiftly and accurately and declared me an honorary lesbian, by which I am truly honoured.&lt;br /&gt;It has left me with a bit of a problem though....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RQBYT694JrE/Rxw2uDrgKKI/AAAAAAAAAAs/BEGJZpKOZ0A/s1600-h/1010774680_53fa85cab7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RQBYT694JrE/Rxw2uDrgKKI/AAAAAAAAAAs/BEGJZpKOZ0A/s320/1010774680_53fa85cab7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124030640930433186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I now have to build a closet so that I can come out of it and unfortunately the apartment isn't big enough. It's all right for her - she already had a closet to come out of. I have decided therefore, to step into a cardboard box [a large one obviously]  and cover my head with a sheet. After a few days, I'll whip the sheet off my head and step out of the box. This will cause quite a furore I can tell you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an &lt;a href="http://blog.papersurfer.co.uk/blog"&gt;International DP post&lt;/a&gt;, showing both sides of the Atlantic, almost, but not quite, simultaneously.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Perhaps if I quietly close the curtains and the door and turn the light off he'll just stay in there -  waiting for the dawn which never comes................ Lo,TG Ed)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Message for my readers from Paula the Surf Mom, Queen of the Surf Pirates. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;For my newer readers who might be wondering just what the hell the author of this post was talking about or for that matter just who the hell he is; I’d like you to meet &lt;a href="http://blog.papersurfer.co.uk/blog/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Daddy Papersurfe&lt;/span&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.papersurfer.co.uk/blog/"&gt;Daddy Papersurfer &lt;/a&gt;lives in a gated distant seashore slum in England and he has no friends … He resides with a terrible goddess who scarcely tolerates his existence and he lives in constant dread of the eventual day when that tolerance will surly end and she finally just kills him and is done with it, his son moved to Portugal just to be away from him and his only real company is a pet male llama named Gertrude who tends to run away from home a great deal; his main claim to fame is his unsuccessful attempt to assassinate &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery,_1st_Viscount_Montgomery_of_Alamein"&gt;Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.&lt;/a&gt; Earlier this month in my Queenly compassion, I declared him &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strike style="font-style: italic;"&gt; a charity case&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; an honorary lesbian just to give him a place to feel like he could belong (and now I can’t get rid of him).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;So Daddy Papersurfer and his blog Old Git are one of the many charities we are &lt;strike&gt;forced&lt;/strike&gt; happy to support here at the Queen of the Surf Pirates&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; and I would encourage you to join us in that support,(if for no other reason,as a personal favor to me).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Your readership of Daddy Papersurfer’s blog will provide you with more than  just &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; amusement that comes with watching the ever deteriorating mental health of this sad case of a man, it delivers a rare opportunity to witness an old life totally spiral out of control over time, and for only one visit a day you can make a difference. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;By visiting Daddy Papersurfer you will be creating a unique bond between you and this very ridiculous man. You will get daily photos, updates and can join the legion of readers already ridiculing his sad life and then just maybe he will stop showing up being a nuance here on my blog all of the time because he will start stalking you instead of me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;So wont you please help?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Daddy+Papersurfer" rel="tag"&gt;Daddy Papersurfer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/sad+case" rel="tag"&gt;sad case&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/English" rel="tag"&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/help" rel="tag"&gt;help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-3644077442546830659?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/3644077442546830659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=3644077442546830659&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/3644077442546830659?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/3644077442546830659?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/im-coming-out-to-play.html' title='I&apos;M COMING OUT TO PLAY'/><author><name>Daddy Papersurfer</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='03235152572193672469'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RQBYT694JrE/Rxw2uDrgKKI/AAAAAAAAAAs/BEGJZpKOZ0A/s72-c/1010774680_53fa85cab7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CUEFQn84fyp7ImA9WB9RGUo.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-3333865537229877073</id><published>2007-10-21T06:29:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-21T09:33:33.137-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-21T09:33:33.137-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><title>Rainbow at Coquina</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RxsqOgLCjPI/AAAAAAAABpo/AHM_PJGFXQc/s1600-h/rainbow.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RxsqOgLCjPI/AAAAAAAABpo/AHM_PJGFXQc/s320/rainbow.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123735429706845426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Somewhere over the rainbow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Skies are blue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;And the dreams that you dare to dream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Really do come true&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Good Morning World&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Matthew Norman&lt;/span&gt; is a local &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nags Head artist&lt;/span&gt; who works in various media, but mostly in oils. His works include monochrome portrait sketches, as well as full color renderings of local &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Outer Bank&lt;/span&gt;s subject matter; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nags Head &lt;/span&gt;landmarks, the old cottages, the wonderful people here, the wildlife and foremost, the ocean, the beach and all the activities that surround them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The peice I've featured here today is called &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Rainbow at Coquina &lt;/span&gt;and is an excellent rendering of one of my favorite surf spots, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Coquina Beach&lt;/span&gt;  , at South Nags Head in the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cape Hatteras National Seashore&lt;/span&gt;. It is considered by many of us locals to be the loveliest beach here in the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Outer Banks&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think Mr Normans work beyond doubt captured it a very special and beautiful light,  his vibrant colors are the very essence of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Outer Banks &lt;/span&gt;in every respect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you would like to see more of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Matthew Normans &lt;/span&gt;work you can go to his website at &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://normanstudio.com/"&gt;normanstudio.com.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://normanstudio.com/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;This is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img1.imagechef.com/w/070330/anm614de098c3cf40c1.gif" alt="ImageChef.com - Create custom images" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Wishing you peace,love and good waves...  I'm out for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Matthew+Norman" rel="tag"&gt;Matthew Norman&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Nags+Head" rel="tag"&gt;Nags Head&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/artist" rel="tag"&gt;artist&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Outer+Banks" rel="tag"&gt;Outer Banks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/paintings" rel="tag"&gt;paintings&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/art" rel="tag"&gt;art&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Coquina+Beach" rel="tag"&gt;Coquina Beach&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Rainbow" rel="tag"&gt;Rainbow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Cape+Hatteras+National+Seashore" rel="tag"&gt;Cape Hatteras National Seashore&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-3333865537229877073?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/3333865537229877073/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=3333865537229877073&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/3333865537229877073?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/3333865537229877073?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/rainbow-at-coquina.html' title='Rainbow at Coquina'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RxsqOgLCjPI/AAAAAAAABpo/AHM_PJGFXQc/s72-c/rainbow.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CkAAQHw9eyp7ImA9WB9RGUw.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-6837155759653030468</id><published>2007-10-20T15:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-20T16:05:41.263-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-20T16:05:41.263-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daily Surf Report'/><title>The Outer Bank Surf Report: Surfin Don't Stink Anymore</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s1600-h/sammy_dog.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s200/sammy_dog.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118199576624536402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;Hello Surfin Dude and Dudette People this is Sammy the Surf Dog with Ur Outer Banks Surfin Report for 10/20/07.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiNj_bpKOI/AAAAAAAABRs/buBuroFS9po/s1600-h/nssd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiNj_bpKOI/AAAAAAAABRs/buBuroFS9po/s320/nssd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100482227459401954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;We finally is gettin some good waves here in the Outer Banks today and surfin don’t stink here anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Momma was out surfing all morning and she said the surf is purdy first-rate. The waves are about thigh to waist high and the offshore wind we got blowin today are givin us glassy surface conditions with really purdy long and open lines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now momma said that if you go across the big bridge you is gonna find some even bigger waves cos she says so and my Momma knows what she is talking about when it come to waves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The weather here in the Outer Banks is just almost like summertime; we is havin mostly sunny and highs in the mid 70s to low 80’s with a west wind blowin at around 10 mph...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Outer Banks area water temperatures is still coolin down, but is not too bad; Duck Pier haz 71 degrees, Avalon pier is 70, Oregon Inlet Marina haz 79 degrees, Avon pier is 77 degrees, and Hatteras Island fishing pier reported 78 degrees. So you will prolly need ur wetsuit if you is surfin today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We is kind at high tide right now and low tide is gonna come at 9:27 pm tonight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is really a good surfin forecast so I think you better go surfin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If u want to asked me any questions about my surfin report or want to tell me about some surfin news u think I should tell all of the other surfin peoples about, I have my own E- Mail now; its&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:ADDRESS"&gt;SammytheSurfDog@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;so write me somethin if you want&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I usually have this report completed in the morning, but please take into consideration that I am a dog after all and I can't read and write all that well and can sometimes get distracted by birds, squirrels and dead things on the beach. Also the weather conditions on the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Outer Banks of North Carolina&lt;/span&gt; can change in a short period of time. So for a detailed current forecast and more daily pictures go check out what Kevin the Surf Forecast Guy has to say at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.obxsurfinfo.com/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img alt="obxsurfinfo_2_477" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/99/300193632_210b8ededa_m.jpg" height="42" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Todays Surfin Report was brought to you by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cafepress.com/sammysd"&gt;Sammy Stuff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;.... Buy some Sammy Stuff cos I asked you to.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiEpPbpKNI/AAAAAAAABRk/NwaAS0LWn2g/s1600-h/sammy%2Bstuff%2B1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiEpPbpKNI/AAAAAAAABRk/NwaAS0LWn2g/s320/sammy%2Bstuff%2B1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100472422049065170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;This is Sammy the Surf Dog wishing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; you peace,love and good waves....  I'm out for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Outer+Banks+Surf+Report" rel="tag"&gt;Outer Banks Surf Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-6837155759653030468?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/6837155759653030468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=6837155759653030468&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/6837155759653030468?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/6837155759653030468?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/outer-bank-surf-report-surfin-dont.html' title='The Outer Bank Surf Report: Surfin Don&apos;t Stink Anymore'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s72-c/sammy_dog.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DUABQXc8eyp7ImA9WB9RGU0.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-4396297436563573912</id><published>2007-10-20T13:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-20T15:15:50.973-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-20T15:15:50.973-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guest Posters'/><title>If You Don't Eat Meat, You'll Look Hot Like Alicia!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"&gt;-- &lt;a href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/"&gt;Lesberita&lt;/a&gt; is the new special correspondent here at the Queen of the Surf Pirates and will be reporting on all that is babeage. She calls her regular break  &lt;a href="http://www.lesbiatopia.com/"&gt;Lesbiatopia,&lt;/a&gt; and is a very funny writer so welcome Lesberita to the Queens break grrrrl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.peta.org/"&gt;PETA&lt;/a&gt; has a new GoVeg campaign featuring Alicia Silverstone, the new face (and body) of PETA. This drop-dead gorgeous beauty pretty much bares all in PETA's new risque "first-ever naked veggie testimonial". After watching the ad, I had to pick my jaw off the floor and commend PETA for bringing sexy back to such an earthy, crunchy issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if PETA is using the ad to target straight men and lesbians? Are gay men and straight women next? Picture it: Jake Gyllenhaal riding bareback at a Midwestern ranch to bring attention to the issue of meat. Oh wait, that's a movie of an entirely different sort ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got beef?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, if a naked Alicia Silverstone is asking you might have to reconsider.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HdNEhREYJ1c"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HdNEhREYJ1c" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Alicia+Silverstone" rel="tag"&gt;Alicia Silverstone&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/naked" rel="tag"&gt;naked&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/PETA" rel="tag"&gt;PETA&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/sexy" rel="tag"&gt;sexy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/GoVeg+campaign" rel="tag"&gt;GoVeg campaign&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-4396297436563573912?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/4396297436563573912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=4396297436563573912&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/4396297436563573912?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/4396297436563573912?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/if-you-dont-eat-meat-youll-look-hot.html' title='If You Don&apos;t Eat Meat, You&apos;ll Look Hot Like Alicia!'/><author><name>Renee Gannon</name><email>reneegannon@gmail.com</email></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;D0cCSHozcCp7ImA9WB9RGEo.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-2518870290152226018</id><published>2007-10-19T14:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-20T06:11:09.488-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-20T06:11:09.488-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Humor'/><title>E-Mails to the World Only Lesbian Surf Mom</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rxj43QLCjGI/AAAAAAAABoo/vrxWRvZDA5s/s1600-h/upschick.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rxj43QLCjGI/AAAAAAAABoo/vrxWRvZDA5s/s200/upschick.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123118204251704418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Oh My, I've got Mail&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you Google &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lesbian Surf Mom&lt;/span&gt;, that whole search is just about all me, so as you can imagine, I get a lot of folks showing up here at the Queen of the Surf Pirates to see just what &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Worlds Only Lesbian Surf Mom&lt;/span&gt; might be up to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I should probably not be able to make such a rash claim as to being &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Worlds Only Lesbian Surf Mom&lt;/span&gt;, because I personally know of other &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lesbian Surf Moms&lt;/span&gt; out there, some even have web pages and blogs. However currently I seem to be the only &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lesbian Surf Mom&lt;/span&gt; here on the interweave who has brought hers out of the closet, leaving me to pretty safely surmise that until my sister &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lesbian Surf Moms&lt;/span&gt; decide its time to stop hiding and join me out and proud in the blogesphere, that makes The Queen of the Surf Pirates pretty unique place to visit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That just being the way it is for now, as you can imagine I get loads of e-mail from readers interested in what appears to them to be &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Worlds Only Lesbian Surf Mom&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Understandably a huge amount of this mail tends to asks the similar questions, so to save time answering all of it individually I’ve decided that once a week I will select a couple of the better e-mails I’ve gotten from my legions of fans during the preceding week and answer them here on the blog in a new feature I have creatively named ‘&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;E-Mails to the World Only Lesbian Surf Mom&lt;/span&gt;’. Always the altruist, I named this feature thusly with the intention of shaming the other blogging &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lesbian Surf Moms&lt;/span&gt; into coming out and to stop hiding, but until they do I plan to revel in the uniqueness of the whole situation that I find myself here presently in cyber land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let get started.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today our first &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;E Mail to The Worlds Only Lesbian Surf Mom &lt;/span&gt;comes from a reader in Durham, North Carolina, who does not want anyone to know she reads this blog and has consequently asked that I not use her real name, but she writes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Dear &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Worlds Only Lesbian Surf Mom&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been wanting to ask you for a long time, and ignore me if you think I'm too nosy---but who is the twin’s dad and what happened?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Name withheld by request&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear withheld,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, I don't mind you asking... it was a question that was inevitably going to come up anyway... so lets see... its like this ... I was hanging out at the beach shack one day and this angel named Gabriel appeared at the door and said, "guess what girl, your pregnant".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, actually my partner Debbie and I were on the outs for a while, she was drinking pretty bad and running around on me, so I put drunk cheating ass her out of the house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I started surfing with this kind of thoroughly cute Coast Guardsman...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before I got pregnant I always prided myself on how flexible I was. One day after a surf session with Mr. thoroughly Cute Coasty, we got a bottle of my favorite poison, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cap’t Morgan’s Spiced Rum&lt;/span&gt;, proceeded to drink up me hearty’s yo ho and got a little loaded together at my place. In a diminished state I happened to ask him if he would like to see me put my feet behind my head... well the next thing I know.... TWINS!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now as we all know shit will happen and my one drunken dalliance with Mr. thoroughly Cute Coasty did not change my sexual orientation. I was still a lesbian, just a pregnant one and this is how I became &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Worlds Only Lesbian Surf Mom&lt;/span&gt;. Not exactly &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;the Immaculate Conception&lt;/span&gt;, and it sure taught me not to put my feet behind my head in mixed company of thoroughly cute &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Coast Guardsmen&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Captain Morgan Spiced Rum&lt;/span&gt; anymore.  But in any case Debbie and I do have this kind of co-dependent thing going on and we do love each other, so we ended up getting our excrement together, started working things out and got back with each other again. But I think someday I will have to write a whole blog article on this subject to be sure, till then.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flexibly and now Learnedly yours,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Worlds Only Lesbian Surf Mom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;This next letter came from Dan in &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Utopia, Ontario, Canada&lt;/span&gt; and somehow got through my spam filter I think, but he writes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Hi &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Worlds Only Lesbian Surf Mom&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My good friend Bob Bly has been a freelance copywriter since before dirt ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He probably knows more about the business of freelance copywriting that anybody else on the planet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And today I just bought the rights to use all of the forms, templates, contracts, agreements, and lead generation letters etc that Bob uses to run his business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The whole enchilada!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thought you might like to get in on them ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.hypertracker.com/go/dlevis/tools/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These materials are much more than a great timesaver. They're a virtual set of x-ray glasses into how Bob does what he does to consistently bag a very high 6-figure income as a freelance copywriter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every one of the essential activities from how he prepares for a job... to how he interacts with his clients... to how he gets paid and everything in between is documented and ready to swipe... right here in these documents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check 'em out!&lt;br /&gt;http://www.hypertracker.com/go/dlevis/tools/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until next time, Good Selling!&lt;br /&gt;Daniel Levis&lt;br /&gt;Selling to Human Nature&lt;br /&gt;5482 25th Side Road, RR#1&lt;br /&gt;Utopia ON CANADA&lt;br /&gt;LOM 1T0&lt;br /&gt;705 424 3232&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Dan,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come on… I know this has to be a scam, because first and foremost I know there is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;no way that&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Utopia&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;can possibly be found anyplace&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CANADA&lt;/span&gt;; I know, because I’ve been there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My dad was stationed at &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFB_Cold_Lake"&gt;Cold Lake, Alberta&lt;/a&gt;. He was testing cruise missiles for the US Air Force back in the 80’s and I am sure the reason our air force tested their cruise missiles in Canada was because if they went off course there was absolutely nothing of consequence that would be harmed.  The only thing I saw while I was there were drunk hockey fans, -60 below wind chills and The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) which gave us such wonderfully interesting shows as &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hockey Night In Canada&lt;/span&gt;, and&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Reruns of Hockey Night In Canada&lt;/span&gt; during the off season and you have just got to love that&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Cherry_%28ice_hockey%29"&gt;Don Cherry&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;hey?&lt;/span&gt;; such a wit that man is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So sell it someplace else dude, cuz I know all you just want my money. Spam me again &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;hoser&lt;/span&gt; and see what happens. My dad still works for the Department of Defense and I bet he even has some of those cruise missiles he was testing laying &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;aboot&lt;/span&gt; someplace, so possibly I’ll see if he will send one your way… I have your address now ya know. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hey?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aggregately yours,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Worlds Only Lesbian Surf Mom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Well that’s all we have time for today. I hope you enjoyed this edition of&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; E-Mails to the World Only Lesbian Surf Mom&lt;/span&gt;. Keep those E- Mails coming and please join me again next week as I answer all of your questions to&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; The Worlds Only Lesbian Surf Mom&lt;/span&gt; … till then,&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;This is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img1.imagechef.com/w/070330/anm614de098c3cf40c1.gif" alt="ImageChef.com - Create custom images" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Wishing you peace,love and good waves...  I'm out for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/The+Worlds+Only+Lesbian+Surf+Mom" rel="tag"&gt;The Worlds Only Lesbian Surf Mom&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/E-Mail" rel="tag"&gt;E-Mail&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Hockey+Night+In+Canada" rel="tag"&gt;Hockey Night In Canada&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Cold+Lake+Alberta" rel="tag"&gt;Cold Lake Alberta&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Utopia" rel="tag"&gt;Utopia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Captain+Morgan+Spiced+Rum" rel="tag"&gt;Captain Morgan Spiced Rum&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Coast+Guardsmen" rel="tag"&gt;Coast Guardsmen&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/the+Immaculate+Conception" rel="tag"&gt;the Immaculate Conception&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-2518870290152226018?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/2518870290152226018/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=2518870290152226018&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/2518870290152226018?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/2518870290152226018?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/e-mails-to-world-only-lesbian-surf-mom.html' title='E-Mails to the World Only Lesbian Surf Mom'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rxj43QLCjGI/AAAAAAAABoo/vrxWRvZDA5s/s72-c/upschick.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;DEYAQH4yeip7ImA9WB9RF0Q.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-8094976413742641307</id><published>2007-10-19T07:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-19T08:15:41.092-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-19T08:15:41.092-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guest Posters'/><title>Cats</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Guest Post By The Queen of the Surf Pirates Pundit at Large... &lt;a href="http://www.gorillasushi.com/"&gt;Jason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.gorillasushi.com/files/pictures/picture-18.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 84px;" src="http://www.gorillasushi.com/files/pictures/picture-18.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Don't you hate it when people drone on about the superior cuteness of their cats?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me too. I'm glad I don't have to read my own blogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is my kitty violet. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;She's one sexy beeyotch&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ubqbO0Ff7A/RxiPwtvAKzI/AAAAAAAAAAU/DCjoVGI47GA/s1600-h/sexy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ubqbO0Ff7A/RxiPwtvAKzI/AAAAAAAAAAU/DCjoVGI47GA/s320/sexy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123002643207170866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;She also a huntress of kitty toys, dust bunnies, paper clips, plastic bits and spiders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ubqbO0Ff7A/RxiQF9vAK0I/AAAAAAAAAAc/7JEcXa_CipI/s1600-h/huntress.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ubqbO0Ff7A/RxiQF9vAK0I/AAAAAAAAAAc/7JEcXa_CipI/s320/huntress.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123003008279391042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;She &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;hates&lt;/span&gt; the paparazzi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ubqbO0Ff7A/RxiQVNvAK1I/AAAAAAAAAAk/nL1aAXIAmfU/s1600-h/paparazi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ubqbO0Ff7A/RxiQVNvAK1I/AAAAAAAAAAk/nL1aAXIAmfU/s320/paparazi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123003270272396114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;But she &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;loves&lt;/span&gt; to cuddle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ubqbO0Ff7A/RxiQmNvAK2I/AAAAAAAAAAs/CADKGQQ6RTc/s1600-h/cuddle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0ubqbO0Ff7A/RxiQmNvAK2I/AAAAAAAAAAs/CADKGQQ6RTc/s320/cuddle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123003562330172258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;But most importantly, little kitty is the best alarm clock I've ever had the pleasure of knowing...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GmwqpHsMExg"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GmwqpHsMExg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-8094976413742641307?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/8094976413742641307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=8094976413742641307&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/8094976413742641307?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/8094976413742641307?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/dont-you-hate-it-when-people-drone-on.html' title='Cats'/><author><name>GorillaSushi</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0ubqbO0Ff7A/RxiPwtvAKzI/AAAAAAAAAAU/DCjoVGI47GA/s72-c/sexy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;AkMGSXY-cSp7ImA9WB9RF0w.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-2394335862038028555</id><published>2007-10-18T04:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-18T10:40:28.859-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-18T10:40:28.859-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Surf momisms'/><title>When I'm an Old Surfer Babe: Will you still need me?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/boxes-full-of-memories.html"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/boxes-full-of-memories.html"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RxcgRALCjFI/AAAAAAAABog/10Ka1H1wOg0/s320/surf_phixr.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122598577633397842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;When I get older losing my hair,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Many years from now.&lt;br /&gt;Will you still be sending me a valentine&lt;br /&gt;Birthday greetings bottle of wine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I'd been out till quarter to three&lt;br /&gt;Would you lock the door,&lt;br /&gt;Will you still need me, will you still feed me,&lt;br /&gt;When I'm sixty-four.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Good Morning World&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Surf Moms word of the day is&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;end·ing       (ěn'dĭng)  Pronunciation Key&lt;br /&gt;n. &lt;br /&gt;  1. A conclusion or termination.&lt;br /&gt;  2. A concluding part; a finale: a happy ending.&lt;br /&gt;  3. Grammar The final morpheme added to a word base to make an inflectional form, such as -ed in walked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/boxes-full-of-memories.html"&gt;Please read this related post.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;This is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img1.imagechef.com/w/070330/anm614de098c3cf40c1.gif" alt="ImageChef.com - Create custom images" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Wishing you peace,love and good waves...  I'm out for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Aging" rel="tag"&gt;Aging&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Endings" rel="tag"&gt;Endings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-2394335862038028555?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/boxes-full-of-memories.html' title='When I&apos;m an Old Surfer Babe: Will you still need me?'/><link rel='enclosure' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/boxes-full-of-memories.html' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/2394335862038028555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=2394335862038028555&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/2394335862038028555?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/2394335862038028555?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/when-im-old-surfer-babe-will-you-still.html' title='When I&apos;m an Old Surfer Babe: Will you still need me?'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RxcgRALCjFI/AAAAAAAABog/10Ka1H1wOg0/s72-c/surf_phixr.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;AkYFRns5fyp7ImA9WB9RF0w.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-5289684694910737253</id><published>2007-10-17T19:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-18T10:35:17.527-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-18T10:35:17.527-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Life'/><title>Boxes Full of Memories</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RxajCALCjEI/AAAAAAAABoY/Pqln_z8igec/s1600-h/box.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RxajCALCjEI/AAAAAAAABoY/Pqln_z8igec/s320/box.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122460880981888066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This has been difficult parenting week and it has also been an equally tough week for me to be a child and grandchild,I’m a little down tonight and thinking about ending, more than beginnings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are about two weeks away from Halie and Kyma 1st birthday. I can’t believe a year has passed already and they have grown so much. When they first came into my life they were helpless little preemies, now they are walking,  getting into just about everything and doing a pretty good job of kicking their mommy's butt.  The house has become a veritable obstacle course of baby gates, barricades and childproof latches that the girls are everyday figuring out how to defeat. They are also getting more new teeth this week so they have been particularly cranky the past few days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My week has been overflowing with broken stuff, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;bad-tempered babies&lt;/span&gt; and also a lot pretty&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; strong emotions&lt;/span&gt;; I’ve been helping pack up my Granny, we are getting ready to move my her to an &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Independent Living &lt;/span&gt;center here on the island and that has made this week especially&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; emotional&lt;/span&gt; for everyone involved as we experience both the glad &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;new beginnings&lt;/span&gt; of the girls first birthday and&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; sad endings&lt;/span&gt; with my Grandmother moving from her home of some fifty plus years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I read an article once that said endings are a catharsis, that  they give meaning to what came before, and change us from the way we were. I feel &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;endings&lt;/span&gt; are a paradox, they define ones life and give that person cause to rejoice but they are also such a downer to those watching the end; we have to be gratified to see the accomplishment of a life time of one we love, yet we are distressed knowing that life will soon be finished all at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last March my Grandfather passed away. Grampy and Granny had been married for 66 years and they had owned the home that she is presently living in since 1955. Earlier this month she sold it and will be closing next week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On One hand Granny seems happy to be moving, that house; it is so big and it’s old. Granpy wasn’t gone two weeks when the bottom of the hot water tank dropped out, then the Air Conditioning went out and the guy we have taking care of stuff says that is only going to be the beginning; Grampy had a system of fixing things that was meant to save as much money on repairs as he could, so there was a lot of duct tape holding that place together. She is also pretty lonely living by herself, and she is looking forward to spending time with folks her own age. But on the other hand, most of her life was spent there and I can only imagine the variety of memories one must accumulate living in the same residence for fifty plus years and having to decide which memories she will be moving with her  has to be hard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has to be sad leaving the place where you have been living for so long, giving away or selling things you have come to love and view as your treasures; she is resisting getting rid of anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Granny and my mom, who grew up in that house and who I'm sure has her own memories, spent most of the day alternately arguing and crying about what would be kept and what would be gotten rid of as we’ve packed up Granny’s stuff.  It  took us what seemed like forever to pack because Granny had to  touch and hold everything  just one more time; I’m sure she was remembering the time she got a particular item and she seemed to be saying goodbye to it before she put it into the box once she has decided it must go. I found myself in tears more than a few times as helped her pack today. I have my memories in that house as well and it was sad watching Granny remember, pack and cry  because it really hit me that soon Granny too will be gone, I will miss her so much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So tonight joining the normal clutter here in my living room this evening are the boxes full of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;memories &lt;/span&gt;my Granny gave me today. Some of what Granny bestowed  holds no real &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;memorie&lt;/span&gt;s for me at all, but some, like the little Christmas bears she always kept on her coffee table during the holidays, the old hand made antique  clock she got in Tennessee and the brass souvenir bells she got traveling around the world with Grampy while he was in the Navy, certainly do. But I came home this evening with some things that I have absolutely no idea what I am going to do with or where I am going to put.  Someone besides my Granny might consider much of this stuff junk; but it was her junk so I took it because it seemed to mean so much to her to know that I did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The girls are having a field day getting in to the boxes as I type this, but they have been so crabby this week and its seem to be entertaining them, and I am completely drained from the day, so I am just leaving them alone, because there is nothing they can really hurt anyway.  Maybe later I will even go join the girls and see if we can remember Grannys life together. I’m sure we will find something good in those boxes and maybe Halie and Kyma will&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; begin&lt;/span&gt; to know their Grandma better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;This is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img1.imagechef.com/w/070330/anm614de098c3cf40c1.gif" alt="ImageChef.com - Create custom images" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Wishing you peace,love and good waves...  I'm out for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Memories" rel="tag"&gt;Memories&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Aging" rel="tag"&gt;Aging&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Sad" rel="tag"&gt;Sad&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/endings" rel="tag"&gt;endings&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/the+paradox+of+endings" rel="tag"&gt;the paradox of endings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-5289684694910737253?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/5289684694910737253/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=5289684694910737253&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/5289684694910737253?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/5289684694910737253?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/boxes-full-of-memories.html' title='Boxes Full of Memories'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RxajCALCjEI/AAAAAAAABoY/Pqln_z8igec/s72-c/box.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;CU4MRnw4eyp7ImA9WB9RFk4.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-4919062323747837001</id><published>2007-10-17T10:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-17T11:13:07.233-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-17T11:13:07.233-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Daily Surf Report'/><title>The Outer Banks Surf Report: Surfin Stinks, you should chase birds.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a  href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s1600-h/sammy_dog.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s200/sammy_dog.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118199576624536402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;Hello Surfin Dude and Dudette People this is Sammy the Surf Dog with Ur Outer Banks Surfin Report for 10/17/07.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a   href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiNj_bpKOI/AAAAAAAABRs/buBuroFS9po/s1600-h/nssd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiNj_bpKOI/AAAAAAAABRs/buBuroFS9po/s320/nssd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100482227459401954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;Today surfin still stinks here in the Outer Banks; we only haz a knee high break that is kinda glassy with light onshore winds blowin right now, but they will be changin around to the Southeast later on. So again the surfin is not very good here in the OBX and I think we won’t be seein any good surf till maybe Sunday. So instead of going surfin, I think you should go chase kids or birds or somthin, cos that will be more fun then surfin today and later I plan to do some barkin at the mailman when he comes cos that is always fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The weather in the Outer Banks is gonna be partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers mainly south of the Big Bridge and we is gonna have highs in the upper 70s to low 80s with Southeast winds blowin at around 10 mph.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Outer Banks area water temperatures are startin to cool off some now; Duck Pier haz 73 degrees, Avalon pier is 70, Oregon Inlet Marina haz 73 degrees, Avon pier is 74 degrees and Hatteras Island fishing pier reported 73 degrees, so if the birds you are chasin run into the water then I think you will prolly want to wear your lightweight wet suit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;High tide is gonna be at 1155 am and low tide is gonna be at 635 PM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If u want to asked me any questions about my surfin report or want to tell me about some surfin news u think I should tell all of the other surfin peoples about, I have my own E- Mail now; its&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:ADDRESS"&gt;SammytheSurfDog@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;so write me somethin if you want.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I usually have this report completed in the morning, but please take into consideration that I am a dog after all and I can't read and write all that well and can sometimes get distracted by birds, squirrels and dead things on the beach. Also the weather conditions on the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Outer Banks of North Carolina&lt;/span&gt; can change in a short period of time. So for a detailed current forecast and more daily pictures go check out what Kevin the Surf Forecast Guy has to say at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.obxsurfinfo.com/" title="Photo Sharing"&gt;&lt;img alt="obxsurfinfo_2_477" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/99/300193632_210b8ededa_m.jpg" height="42" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Todays Surfin Report was brought to you by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cafepress.com/sammysd"&gt;Sammy Stuff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;.... Buy some Sammy Stuff cos I think you is nice peoples and nice peoples would buy some.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiEpPbpKNI/AAAAAAAABRk/NwaAS0LWn2g/s1600-h/sammy%2Bstuff%2B1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RsiEpPbpKNI/AAAAAAAABRk/NwaAS0LWn2g/s320/sammy%2Bstuff%2B1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100472422049065170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;This is Sammy the Surf Dog wishing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; you peace,love and good waves....  I'm out for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Outer+Banks" rel="tag"&gt;Outer Banks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Surfing" rel="tag"&gt;Surfing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Surf+Report" rel="tag"&gt;Surf Report&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/waves" rel="tag"&gt;waves&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Surf+conditions" rel="tag"&gt;Surf conditions&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/tides" rel="tag"&gt;tides&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/weather" rel="tag"&gt;weather&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/waves" rel="tag"&gt;waves&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Surf+Dog" rel="tag"&gt;Surf Dog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-4919062323747837001?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/4919062323747837001/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=4919062323747837001&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/4919062323747837001?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/4919062323747837001?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/outer-banks-surf-report-surfin-stinks.html' title='The Outer Banks Surf Report: Surfin Stinks, you should chase birds.'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/Rwd_ZcZCm1I/AAAAAAAABlc/lww3_qA7jJs/s72-c/sammy_dog.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry gd:etag='W/&quot;Ck8ASXs5cCp7ImA9WB9RFk8.&quot;'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36004864.post-5527898823216126512</id><published>2007-10-17T07:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-17T07:34:08.528-04:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app='http://www.w3.org/2007/app'>2007-10-17T07:34:08.528-04:00</app:edited><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OBX'/><title>Inspired by an Outer Banks Sunrise</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RxXwD4EiAYI/AAAAAAAABoQ/wJ-ZUOx2pUo/s1600-h/Sunrise.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RxXwD4EiAYI/AAAAAAAABoQ/wJ-ZUOx2pUo/s320/Sunrise.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122264100585472386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Morning has broken, like the first morning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Praise for the singing, praise for the morning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Praise for the springing fresh from the word&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Good Morning World&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;img src="http://img1.imagechef.com/w/070330/anm614de098c3cf40c1.gif" alt="ImageChef.com - Create custom images" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Wishing you peace,love and good waves...  I'm out for now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="tag_list"&gt;Tags: &lt;span class="tags"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Inspiration" rel="tag"&gt;Inspiration&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Outer+Banks" rel="tag"&gt;Outer Banks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/sunrise" rel="tag"&gt;sunrise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36004864-5527898823216126512?l=queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/feeds/5527898823216126512/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36004864&amp;postID=5527898823216126512&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/5527898823216126512?v=2'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36004864/posts/default/5527898823216126512?v=2'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://queen-of-the-surf-pirates.blogspot.com/2007/10/inspired-by-outer-banks-sunrise.html' title='Inspired by an Outer Banks Sunrise'/><author><name>Paula Brooks</name><email>sammythesurfdog@gmail.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name='OpenSocialUserId' value='00368503993113263166'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3A41cw14sOg/RxXwD4EiAYI/AAAAAAAABoQ/wJ-ZUOx2pUo/s72-c/Sunrise.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>