IV God Damn the Repo Man

[Michael Bailey]

alice reminded us that:
> St. Philip's day is May Day, May 1st. A-and A. Philip Randolph was
> called Saint Philip.
>

who converted the wife of the proconsul, was tortured,
preached upside from his crucifixion and refused to let the
crowd release him...though they released Bartholomew
(to go on to star in 2nd grade readers
in the story "Bartholomew and the Ooblick"?)
- anyway, a very devout apostle

>  is like, so beastin, but that smile on his face ...and  we've all
> experienced this smile, this bliss, is not a state of consciousness,
> but must always search for the way out waves to ride and ride those
> Giants. It's kinda like a wandering scholar culture too. Bit once
> Gidget and Hollywood and the Tube and so on get involved it turns to a
> pornography that represses freedom, sexual and labor. So Gidget, a
> little rebel, gets involved with some surf boyz and must run back to
> conservative conformity, snitch and be welcomed home to Munny and
> Daddy.
>

but the Kahuna understands that Gidget and Moondoggie must
work out their sublunary karma...doesn't he?  I seem to remember he
was rather protective of Gidget.  We can't all be Kahunas, it doesn't really
scale very well, but although Gidget succumbs to the limiting factors,
doesn't this episode of her life stay with her and shape her outlook
in an eco-feminist direction?

"Gidget" in fact - if I'm remembering correctly - was more respectful
of the Kahuna than, say,
Caddyshack, was of its guru figure...

Then there's the professor in "Beach Party" who
draws equations in the sand (like Christ) which enable him to ride the
waves with no prior training (although he at first forgets to factor
in wind resistance, I think) -- perhaps they were quaternions?