[Wishing you happiness and joy on your Birthday today and every day Trishah, love you]

Wishing you happiness and joy on your Birthday today and every day Trishah, love you

I'm happy to have found you my friends
love and peace and health for the new year, may the 010111 bring us happiness

Deeply saddened by Tammy's passing,
I feel as though I lost a sister. a small tribute to her is on my FB and it may be the last thing I put there.
I love you my JFC family,
Peace and well wishes to you all

-patrick

hello monadistas !

Evening folks,
nice to see you guys here and fun to write more.

Patrick, it seems to me that the scene will be better noticed - and appreciated - on "Write your Own" thread.
What do you think?

I think you are right, I didn't see that thread - it has been moved  ;D

[- Kai and Shaun go to the Gulf -]

- Kai and Shaun go to the Gulf -

(Kai and Shaun , now 18, are traveling to Louisiana to join other surfers
as part of the 'Hit the Surf, Help the Gulf' relief effort to help with the massive oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico )

(The 737 is making its approach to the terminal at Louis Armstrong International airport .)

(Kai nudges Shaun awake)
Kai : We're getting ready to land Shaun, grab your stuff, I want off this plane.

( stretching out,Shaun lifts his sunglasses up on his head)
Shaun: Oh man, I was having this wild dream.

Kai: (laughs) Yeah, I'm sure the hot flight attendant is dreaming of you too, dude.

( they walk thru the terminal, backpacks full )
Shaun: So where do go from here, the hotel?

Kai: Yeah, we'll drop this stuff off and head down to the beach at Grand Isle, it's about 50 miles from here.
There should be all sorts of volunteers there to help with this fucking mess.

Shaun: Could you see how bad it is from the plane?

Kai: I could see some streaks in the water, but that doesn't tell half the story,
it's gonna be ugly when we get down there.

( Kai and Shaun arrive by rented jeep to the beach at Grand Isle, they spot their group of fellow surfers by
their t-shirts , donated by Cissy's shop )
Shaun: Whoa, the smell , damn!

( Kai is taking pictures )
Kai: Ahh man, look at this. Globs of oil on the sand, it's coming in with the waves.
the smell of the oil and.. shit, look at those poor birds, they can't get off the ground.

Shaun : And this is just one beach, how many hundreds of miles of coastline look like this?

Kai: Look, over there, there's a station set up. Looks like they're trying to clean birds, Damn.

( Shaun ties his long blonde hair into a pony tail and dons a baseball cap)
Shaun: Let's meet up with the others and see what we have to do.

Kai: Hope there is enough hazmat gear for all of us, you don't want this shit all over you.
Even breathing it in too much can make you sick.

Shaun: I'm a little sick just seeing this shit here Kai. What if this were IB?

( Kai and Shaun meet up with the others there. Soon they are walking the shoreline collecting
balls of oil and placing small red flags where they find dead birds and sea life that will be
collected by special teams later).

(Shaun has drifted far from the others, lost in the task at hand. As he stands at the shoreline
looking out at the waves, he feels a hand on his shoulder from behind .)

John : The earth is bleeding, Shaun. It has been stabbed in the heart .
John was stabbed once. Remember, Shaun?

( John mimics the thugs who attacked him in IB a couple years back:
"You think this is a joke cabron?"
"You stare me down? You stare me down!" )

Shaun: Fuck, you scared the shit out of me, John. Where did you ....?

John: I am here now, Shaun. ( looks down sheepishly ).
Kai and Shaun are here to make the waves clean again to surf.

Shaun : I don't know, John, There is so much oil, so much damage. It's still pumping into the ocean.
Good men died out there on that rig.Those corporate assholes are destroying the whole Gulf coast.
It's gonna be a long time before anyone will put their sticks in this.

John: Many will help Shaun. This will take a long time. Lessons will be learned.

( Shaun hears a whistle blowing and looks off to the west. It's Kai waving him to head back to the meeting area.
John is no longer behind him )

(By days end, the group of volunteers are exhausted. Kai and Shaun return to their jeep ready to head back
to the hotel for the night )

Kai: Man, so many of us are here and it just keeps rolling in on the waves, it breaks my heart.

Shaun: What are we doing to our planet Kai? This shit here will last for decades.

( Kai drives slowly out of the beach parking lot past the local news vans and satellite trucks.
As she heads north on LA-1, Shaun sits back adjusting his sunglasses and begins to drift off )

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Didn't know where to put it, so it landed in Ep. 18

Kai and Shaun help out in the Gulf

feel free to edit, add, fix up   ;D

An oily wave crests , so sad 

Yes Walter,
it is a nice place, and open once again !

Hello All

Hi Trishah,
Hope you don't mind, I posted just a partial piece of the latest newsletter on JFC bb's.
Thanks for so much effort and the donation is for a great cause

ANGEL, We LOVE YOU and MISS you my dear, please be well
We all think of you and wish you the very best

- patrick ( Myles7)

Hi Trishah,
In response to the newsletter 'Our Long, Strange Trip...'

I would agree to the  WildCoast.org donation, a good cause

HAPPY Labor Day , Long Live John From Cincinnati  :'(

Well folks, still no On Demand for JFC...Yet

The good news is that they REMOVED TMYLM from OD
( I doubt anyone watched as the empty BB's can show)

I noticed that HBO has just added 'Extras' to OD.
I'd like to contact them with a question of Why and/or When JFC might be on the rotation.
Just because it was only 1 season doesn't seem to be a reason to exclude JFC.
I truly believe that a new audience for this would find it and watch.
Like the rest of us,it only takes a couple episodes and you get hooked.
I want more people to discover this.

Hey Trishah,
Want to check in and say hello, we all hope you have recovered and are doing well. Thinking of you and hope all is well.

- pat