Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.5.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Wavecursed every blessing holds a curse ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [What is this](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/2023/12/05/why/) - This web site is a massive cope. It's a "screw you" letter to the thing I most liked doing in my life -- surfing -- which now represents an oppressive chore, a pool of guilt, anxiety, and regret. Why? First, because I'm well out of my prime, and racked with injuries. It kind of sucks Why indeed? - [Hashtags](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/2024/02/08/nobody-cares-what-you-read-or-what-films-you-like/) - Reading Lately Michel Houellebecq, Ted Chiang - Exhalation, Ursula K. LeGuin, Annie Jacobsen - Nuclear War, David Mitchell, Charles Yu, Jeff Vandermeer, Margaret Atwood, John Mearsheimer, Whitney Webb, Martin Gurri, Catch-22 Substacks: Lee Fang, Matt Stoller, Sam Kriss, Grayzone, Ken Klippenstein, Aaron Mate, NS Lyons, Niccolo Soldo Classics Cormac McCarthy, Philip K. Dick, Dorothy Parker, - [Hello](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/2022/12/12/henlo/) - Contact: info@wavecursed.com - [Salt](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/2024/02/10/salt/) - Trevor and Chase jogged down to the edge of the water, clean white boards under right arms, fins back and facing in. They stretched and did a few twisting warmups, then launched into the relentless, pounding shorebreak, eventually fighting their way through to the long, roiling middle section, where you could sort of catch your - [Weird Friday](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/2024/03/21/weird-friday/) - December 1994 was the best month of surf I've ever seen at Ocean Beach. It was double-triple overhead+ for three weeks straight with consistent, moderate offshores and well-groomed sandbars. Mavericks was breaking for much of that month too. The last week of that three-week stretch was particularly notable: Monday was "Jay Day" at Mavs, with - [The Carpenter's Tale](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/2024/09/26/the-carpenters-tale/) - David Donovan's number was called next. Donovan was around six feet tall and slim. He carried himself with a quiet confidence, and was a respectable regular in the N Street lineup. He wasn't antisocial per se, but at the same time it was not uncommon to see him sitting off on a little side peak ## Pages - [Well there was that one time...](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/815-2/) - I was never a Mavericks guy, just an Ocean Beach guy. But I did surf Half Moon Bay's world-famous reef break exactly twice. In 1994, Mavericks was not yet insanely crowded with jet skis, photographers' boats, and people flying in from all over the world every time it broke. So I thought I'd get myself - [Why I stopped surfing (mostly)](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/why-i-stopped-surfing-mostly/) - I won't bury the lede: it's just not all that fun anymore. The bad seems to outweigh the good, and it rarely feels like a worthwhile way to spend a couple of hours. It feels strange for me to finally come out and say all this, since I've been surfing for 48 years and basically - [Rehoboth Beach Jetties](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/rehoboth-beach-jetties/) - There's an unwritten rule with surf writing: don't expose local spots. Especially not the secret ones. Go ahead, say whatever you want about Pipeline, or Mavericks, or Teahupo'o, because everyone in the world knows about them already, and the crowds will be insane any time those waves break. But that little rivermouth in a third-world - [Smushy's](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/smushys-2/) - This place has an official name -- not as a surf break, but as a landmark on local maps. I call it "Smushy's" for obscure personal reasons. Years ago, I happened to see it breaking pretty much by accident. So I thought I'd paddle out and just poke around. And it was actually pretty good: - [This damn place](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/this-damn-place/) - I paddled out at this place four or five times over the course of a thirty-year span, and never really got a decent wave. It gets very big, and never closes out; but it's a low-quality wave, with giant holes in the reef, massive rocks in the lineup, and strong currents due to its position - [Devereux](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/devereux/) - Working at the liquor store in the off-season was always pretty dead. I'd stand out front and watch the high school kids drive around. Usually a friend would come by and we’d talk about things that happened that day, like one of us having just fixed a window or whatever. We’d exaggerate for effect. “Look,” ## Categories - [Uncategorized](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/category/uncategorized/) - [Fiction](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/category/fiction/) - [Nonfiction](https://wavecursed.deadspell.com/category/nonfiction/)