THE BALLAD OF DALE VELZY: BOARD-MAKING COWBOY WOULD HAVE BEEN 88

Dale Velzy died of lung cancer, at 77, a little over ten years ago, and its amazing he actually made it that far. Look at the last bit of footage in the clip above. The man's got a Marlboro lit up in his surfboard factory; smoke dancing in and out of the benzoyl peroxide fumes, a hanging cigarette ember just out of the frame no doubt looking for a still-hot resin bucket to dive into. My God what a...