VL 'Stokely's dog' 49.1

[Robin Landseadel]

On Dec 14, 2008, at 2:43 AM, Rob Jackson wrote:

> ... guess I'm just a sucker for a custard pie fight in a hot-air  
> balloon for a custard pie fight in a hot-air balloon's sake ...


. . .and I'm a sucker for dirty rocket limericks and alliterative  
inedibles too. It might be that I like lawn savants & Vato & Blood  
more than some others, or maybe it's because of having been in a  
number of the places described in Vineland and finding so much  
accuracy and humor in TRP's descriptions of those places.

I'm sure that some material in Vineland will have big play in Inherent  
Vice. Oddly enough this weekend I was in Capitola, barely north of  
Aptos. Capitola appears to be surfer central, even at this late date.  
In fact, the bed & breakfast we were staying at was directly across  
the street from the home of Jack O'Neill:

	Traditionally, most say it was Jack O'Neill who invented
	the wetsuit and started using neoprene, which he found
	lining the floor of an airliner. . .

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetsuit

The beach in Capitola was filled with surfers in wetsuits last night,  
like some wet-suit mecca.

Thanks for the link concerning Stokley Carmichael.