Thursday, July 28, 2011

Kerouac in Shorts : Miki "Da Cat" Dora.




“Real secrets will get you dead. I always forget to remember anything. I am a waterlogged, sun-baked old surf bum and that act always ends the inquisition. I wanted to be left alone. So I left alone. Now I don’t want anything.” -The Black Knight of Malibu. Badass. Legend. Miki Dora. Respect.




















(Most, though not all, photos above by Leroy Grannis)
For further reading, get "DORA LIVES : The Authorized Story of Miki Dora" by C.R. Stecyk III and Drew Kampion or "All For a Few Perfect Waves" by David Rensin.

12 comments:

  1. GTJuly 28, 2011 at 4:58 PM

    Legend

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  2. randallJuly 28, 2011 at 10:37 PM

    DORA LIVES!!!

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  3. PedjaJuly 29, 2011 at 2:10 AM

    Crucifixion of surfer! Great idea! :))

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  4. DSJuly 29, 2011 at 10:50 AM

    Dora is enough of a legend in his own right. He does not need to be compared to that barney Kerouac.

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  5. jamesJuly 29, 2011 at 12:22 PM

    it's a bit taken from a quote describing Dora...

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  6. DSJuly 29, 2011 at 4:40 PM

    I guess that makes me the barney.

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  7. Rogue Wave Surf ShopJuly 30, 2011 at 3:20 PM

    Miki mentored Bunker in the fine art of image

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  8. AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 3:24 AM

    jcrew for gap

    longboarding is the new snakeboarding

    (miki cut 2 feet off his longboard in 1969)

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  9. jamesAugust 3, 2011 at 10:50 PM

    Right...

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  10. AnonymousAugust 4, 2011 at 11:00 PM

    i would pay 10000 dollars to bring miki back to life to see the look on his face walking into saturdays surf shop

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  11. randallAugust 9, 2011 at 12:04 PM

    Ha. That would be priceless. He'd probably shit on the floor and throw one of the baristas through the window before pissing lighter fluid on the $75 bracelets and torching the whole thing to the ground with a vintage zippo lighter.

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