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It was the 1960s.

The surf media was just getting started, and Mickey Dora was its darling.

Although the phrase was not extent at the time, I think bad ass would do it.

Yeah, not to be fucked with.

The reigning king is at work.

I mean, he was acknowledged to be the best there was.

This is Drew Campion.

He started surfing in Malibu in the early 60s.

He wrote for Surfor Magazine and later became the editor.

So it was a conservative publication, and I'd been living over the hill up from Malibu

and in the San Fernando Valley and had been introduced to LSD and marijuana.

I had tasted enough of each of them to have a bit of a wrinkle in my perception of the

world.

And so I brought that wrinkle to surfor, I think, and people seemed to respond to it.

Right after he got hired, Drew got a plum assignment to interview Mickey Dora.

It was the fall of 1969.

Mickey had made his reputation as an enigmatic misanthrope, a trickster.

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