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The Way of Life
In the California of the dream world you wake up, have your shot of wheat-
grass and roll down to the beach while the surf's up. Lifeguards wave to you
as they go jogging by in their bathing suits. You skateboard down the board-
walk to your yoga class where everyone admires your downward dog. A food
truck pulls up with your favorite: low-carb, sustainable fish tacos with organ-
ic mango chipotle salsa. Wait, can anyone honestly make this dream come
true here?
Living the Dream
Let's keep dreaming. Napping on the beach after yoga class, you awake to find a casting
agent hovering over you, blocking your sunlight, imploring you to star in a movie based on
a best-selling graphic novel. You say you'll have your lawyer look over the papers, and by
your lawyer you mean your roommate who plays one on TV. The conversation is cut short
when you get a text to meet up with some friends at a bar.
That casting agent was a stress case - she wanted an answer in, like, a month - so you
swing by your medical marijuana dispensary and a tattoo parlor to get 'Peace' inscribed on
your bicep in Tibetan as a reminder to yourself to stay chill. At the bar, you're called on-
stage to play a set with the band, and afterwards you tell the drummer how the casting agent
harshed your mellow. She recommends a wine country getaway, but you're already doing
that Big Sur primal scream chakra-cleansing retreat this weekend.
You head back to your beach house to update your status on your social-networking pro-
file, alerting your one million online friends to the major events of the day: 'Killer taco, sol-
id downward dog, peace tattoo, movie offer.' Then you repeat your nightly self-affirma-
tions: 'I am a child of the universe…I am blessed, or at least not a New Yorker…tomorrow
will bring sunshine and possibility…om.'
Riptionary (
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), the world's most definitive online lexicon of surfer slang,
will help you translate stuff like 'The big mama is fully mackin' some gnarly grinders!'
