Posts Tagged as ‘the Surfers’

June 17, 2009

Is Top Fuel Wormhole an alternative NHRA history?

Is Top Fuel Wormhole an alternative NHRA history? Could Steve Jobs save drag racing? Or is too late? TalkRadioOne.com digs into the Top Fuel Wormhole with talk of Jocko Johnson, The Surfers, and “Wild Bill” Alexander — the outside, bizarre and death-defying figures who once defined drag racing….
Listen to the interview with Cole Coonce here: [...]

March 3, 2009

LIGHTS! CAMERA! NITRO!

(PUBLISHERS NOTE: THIS STORY TO BE INCLUDED IN VOLUME 2 OF THE COLE COONCE DRAG STRIP READER)

by Cole Coonce

Zukovic and I were kickin’ it in some rather trendoid hipster coffee klatch at Melbourne and Vermont in East Hollywood, drinking espresso and discussing the troubles with the age we live in. Zukovic is a failed [...]

February 27, 2009

THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EXPLODING INEVITABLE

THE EPIC SAGA OF THE SURFERS

There is a philosophy of the world that states that there is a common realization about the interconnectivity of all things physical and spiritual—that there is a unity at a profound level—and that our actions have somewhat infinite repercussions. This discipline is known as Zen. In the mid-1960s, it was [...]