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Post Assad Syria will be nothing less than chaos

If you want to know what's happening in Syria (but don't want to go there to figure it out) then check out this piece NPR did. It's fairly well laid out. And I completely agree with the general tone of the show: nobody knows how long Assad will stay in power, and things are bound to get much more complicated if the regime goes. President Assad is playing straight from the Machiavellian handbook; the entire region and Syria itself know just how horrible a post-Assad Syria will be. Chemical weapons, breakaway regions, revenge killings, and an al-Qaeda hangout in the Levant is just the start of it.

While in New York doing book stuff...

I was wholly tripped out last week when I was in New York City by the weather. Where I grew up in California, we have very few lightening bolts. But ohh man, this was out there. Fortunately, Casey Niestat captured this storm on video. Take a look.

A new kind of NARLY: The Distant Shores (the movie)

SURFING is a great sport. There are kids who do airs, dudes who get barreled, and then there are those who push the limits by other means. Hell, some even use surfing as a means to write a travel book about surfing from Israel to Lebanon. Right?

Well, these guys in Norway seem to be finding there own frozen slice of it. And how cool is this video? Surfing has become a sport that gives you "purpose" & "reason" to do things that you'd never otherwise do. Am I wrong? What surf travel have you done?