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KU: (verb) look!
YAH: hear, or here
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"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face." Albert Camus
Ku Yah! roots
the original Ku Yah! started in May of 2006 on Blogger. it's still there.Recent Comments
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Category Archives: health
transmission interruption
being that I’m a donkey sometimes, I find myself inna place for action -real visceral action. having been unemployed for most the year, I’ve come to an impasse. I will be taking a little time off the interwebs and this space to focus on non-virtual activities. things like, knocking on prospective employers doors, calling contacts, [...]
Also posted in ras photo 9 Comments
#Identity part III: the break
this is a continuation of a series on identity I started a few weeks ago. 1999- 2000 from August of 1999 until December of 2000 I was completely lost inna haze of mal-prescribed psychopharmcalogy, high-grade trees, and booze. for several months I didn’t work and instead smoked a lot cigarettes, drank excessively, surfed little, smoked [...]
Also posted in absurdity, bikes, ego, identity, prose, social commentary 5 Comments
identity: part I
1975 – 1987 I was born in a hospital room in Valera, a small hot and humid city in the state of Trujillo, Venezuela. my American mother was alone when I arrived, my father not allowed to be there. old school. my father was just recovering from a near death auto accident. t-boned by a [...]
Dane Reynolds, anxiety, greed, stigma, and mental health
Dear Dane, self medicating with booze to calm anxiety works like a charm -that is until it doesn't. and the long term effects of booze are a motherfucker. you've read o'l Chinaski. you oughta know.
Also posted in absurdity, social commentary, surf Tagged anxiety, booze, dane reynolds, MarineLayer, mental health, stigma 2 Comments
Pareto, style, hipsters and grit
Pareto’s law applies to a whole heap of things -if not all. 20% of effort creates 80% of results. so the point is (and I do use this here space to point shit out to myself), don’t sweat it. focus on the 20% of shit that matters. smack talkin detractors are waiting like vultures to [...]
Also posted in absurdity, culture, ego, social commentary, style Tagged hipsters, low lifes, pareto's law 1 Comment
these absurd times: a slow project
after my morning routine today I spent a little bit of time on VBS.Tv – Vice Magazine’s web space. it’s a place where I can waste a lot of time but also find a lot of inspiration, as Vice often finds interesting people doing things which often don’t have a mass appeal but are wholehearted [...]
Also posted in absurdity, DIY, ego, prose, social commentary, venezuela 3 Comments
back to business as usual
Ok seems the last week or so has been a wee serious. too serious for someone trying to see the humour in things. so Imma change it up a little. nihlism is for the birds and physolophising ain’t much more than old piss in a beer bottle. action is where it’s at ain’t it? to [...]
Sion Milosky’s legacy
legacy is a word that’s played a lot of tricks on me. everything from wanting to be famous (absurd I know), to just wanting to be remembered kindly. recently the Hawaiian surfer died while surfing Mavericks in Northern California. the video below is a small tribute to Sion. it’s comprised of interviews with Sion’s friends [...]
Also posted in absurdity, ego, social commentary, surf Tagged legacy, Mavericks, RT, Sion Milosky, Volcom Leave a comment
today I watched and waited with swollen eye
today was a day of long glides and abrupt endings. today trying to hold onto my log in the soup I got licked in the head, above my left eye, same place where my 6′o smacked me yesterday. except today the 30 pound log split my eye like a flying knee. blood trickled down my [...]
into it
it’s been a weird three weeks. I lost my job and have been on a steady hustle since then looking for a new permenent gig as well as doing some contract work. but what has really captivated me is building surfboards. you can spend your whole life and never make anything more than breakfast. lucky [...]
moving on.
haven’t felt posty lately. perhaps it’s due to the change of pace, to the fact that things are little different these last few days. not to say that I have not been productive. on the contrary. I have schemed the spinal cord of a book idea about perturbances past and present. I have leveled the [...]
when I think…
…about how I want to live my life, this comes to mind. cheater five from late summer 2010. I’ve lots of changes on the way. I’m on the job hunt. got any leads? please send ‘em my way. email me at rasblog at gmail.com
Also posted in ego, social commentary, surf 2 Comments
redirect
gotta find a new hustle. the yard stick came down and dats dat. turn and redirect
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change: transformations
change happens slowly, over time. sometimes you don’t notice and suddenly when you do it feels like an overnight transformation. I started surfing in 1993 or thereabouts. however, I always lived 1 to 2 hours drive from surf -with a couple of exceptions – the summer of 1996 in Cocoa Beach and a few months [...]
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bruce knew
one does not accumulate but eliminate. it is not daily increase but daily decrease. the height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. -Bruce Lee
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sunday
we cooked, we cleaned, we played and lived united. today the swell is building and so is my anticipation.
resolve to lead the life I love
“love the life you live. lead the life you love.” vaugh benjamin happy new year to you all. thank you for coming here to read about my thoughts. I am grateful for this life, for the ability to express myself, and for my family and friends.
Also posted in music, social commentary 2 Comments
happy days
thanks to all of you for visiting Ku Yah! and hope you have a great holiday. I will be away from the daily internets for a few days spending time with family and friends. it’s been an amazing year here in Halifax filled with smiles from Moe and my shine-eye-girl, good friends and good waves. [...]
Also posted in halifax, home 2 Comments
lucky in the East
it’s easy to realize how lucky I am once I get to my desk on monday and look back. I am indeed one of the luckiest men on earth. saturday I had a short window to surf so I took the chance on a spot that I’d known to work on small east swells. sure [...]
the good things -they take work
one morning about a month ago I got outta bed like normal and went about my routine: shower, boil water and grind the beans, dress and feed the bruiser, walk him to the sitters. one my way back my left knee started to hurt so bad that I couldn’t put pressure on it -not even [...]
dia de los muertos pa los vivos
feel good today. got out for a surf yesterday on the log. lots of fun little waves coming through once the tide came in a bit. had to swim for my board only once after digging the nose on a bowly left but lucky I got to it before the rocks did. in the afternoon [...]
few things I’ve learned