John here again, Allan's publishing cohort and webguy. Don't worry, I'm not writing this time because something's wrong with Allan again. Well, at least there's nothing new wrong with him. All the usual suspects-- including crankiness, oddity, and the weird quantum atomic field that radiates from him and destroys electronics-- are still quite wrong with him. But you knew that already.

Anyway, I'm taking care of the DSP this time because Allan's sitting 2 desks down from me with Daniel, busily engrossed in the Water Time film's editing. He's got his head down on this thing, and the footage he's brought back with him is looking pretty great. I think he's well on his way to producing the first feature-length documentary that manages to blend Endless Summer with Grizzly Man, Dr Strangelove and Apocalypse Now. Wrap your brain around that for a second. No, wait. Maybe don't.

But with Allan here and this film ping-ponging through all our heads, the subject of World Affairs has been coming up a lot in my office. As many of you know, Allan's quite convinced that the world's going to hell in a handbasket, and that we've just entered into the fastlane in our descent with the whole economic meltdown/swine flu combo. So, seeing as how he hasn't been wrong about more than half of the things he's ever said to me, I started thinking that there's maybe a 50-50 chance that I might be headed for a dirt nap sometime in the relatively near future.

That got me thinking about some things I want to do before I die. And the first thing that popped into my mind was Denise Richards' funbags.

Check out Denise Richards' funbags.

Back? Good. Guys, if you got all stoked thinking you were going to get something not-safe-for-work, sorry for the bait and switch on that one.

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Hey, here's some news: in early May a filmmaker working on a documentary about Puerto Viejo and Captain Zero himself is coming down to mainland Mex to reunite Allan with his old partner in crime, maybe get them surfing together again. The filmmaker is just crazy enough to pull this off - packing the Captain himself onto a flight out of Costa Rica in search of some mellow Mexican point waves. The whole thing ought to be pretty interesting. We'll keep you up-to-date when we know more about that film project and how the meeting went.

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Hey, don't forget, we still have some great surf DVDs in our online store at banditobooks.com - a great distraction from all the doom and gloom in the news. Also, if you haven't seen Allan's blog over at Surfline.com, be sure to check it out. Pretty entertaining stuff, and a great insight into his current life down in Mex. The reaction has been mostly positive, though some of the post-blog commentary ranges from unintelligible to downright idiotic.

That's all for now. Hang in there!

--John