I'm Back.....

After a long break from "blogging", I'm back. Not that anyone has missed me or anything. I left Miami about 3 weeks ago and started driving North. I packed my pick-up truck with clothes, ipod, computer, camera, surf board, books and my beloved English Bulldog, Maggie (see above).
We will be spending our summer in Revere, MA., Sea Bright, NJ, NYC, Long Beach Island, NJ, Portland, Maine and unfortunately the Hamptons :(
I have a lot ahead of me this summer and intend to make some personal progress. I'm in the process of launching August 78, where we will be manufacturing and distributing our own line of surfboards and stand up paddle boards.
I'm also contemplating purchasing and living on a Lagoon 500 I would be living and working from the boat (which will be docked in Miami & Key West) for the better part of the year. Traveling to NYC, NJ and MA. during the summer and hopefully spend the month of January sailing the Caribbean from FL to Bahamas to Turks & Caicos to the DR to the Virgin Islands back up to FL.
We'll see how this plan works out. I should have a definite answer and plan of attack by December. I'm really hoping to be able to achieve this lifestyle for at least the next 2-3 years. Then settling back into the "Normal" groove.
Anyway, I'm signing off for now and I would like everyone to check out a great book about living your life the way YOU want to live it. Dog Man: An Uncommon Life On A Far Away Mountain
And thanks to Jason DellaValle (The Renaissance Man-Mustache & Music Man) to spark my pen or keyboard in this sense. A person whom from now on I will refer to as the Word Man.

The Man & The Mustache

It's not very often that a film comes along and you say "What an original idea!!!!"

The Glorius Mustache Challenge has clearly triggered that statement.
Filmmaker Jay DellaValle (29), has managed to take the hair that grows on a man's (and some women) upper lip and make a creative yet edgy documentary film.

Daring his under 30 year-old male friends to grow a mustache for one month. No beards. No goatees. Just the lone stache. As he began filming their adventure, more men requested to take part in the feat. The result is a hilarious look at one of pop culture's bygone trends and a tribute to the young men risking shame and ridicule to bring it back.

I'm not sure if DellaValle himself is solely responsible for the recent popularity of the mustache on younger men (we'd like to think so) but it has become a trend again. If it's not the hipsters on the Lower East Side of NYC then it's the surfers along the West Coast. On some people it really does look good! And as DellaValle says, "It's a growing business".

So now with our official "Movie Review".....
There is one basic rule about the Glorius Mustache Challenge. Either you are extremely offended by it and end up hating it or, you're like me, and think it's the funniest thing you've ever seen. It really depends on your personality.

All kidding aside. The movie was very well done and at times quite educational. The mustache has in fact been extinct on the upper lips of younger men and the fact that DellaValle was able to get this many guys to grow a stache let alone be filmed with one is genius. I strongly suggest you purchase a copy of the DVD for someone this XMAS. You can potentially be the coolest older brother, Aunt/Uncle or whatever by doing so.

Hear at Fautz Facts, we applaud DellaValle for his creativity, his ability to deliver a great film and his balls for attacking this subject matter.

For more information on DellaValle and his other endeavors click here

"Tasty Tap"

With more than 8.55 billion gallons of bottled water sold in the United States in 2007, creating 1.65 million tons of plastic waste. I think we should all think about turning back to the tap. The sources for tap water are cleaner then that of bottled water.
It's a better method of drinking water on so many levels. More cost effective, cleaner, greener and you don't have to lug those heavy cases from the grocery store.

What can you do? Be like ME, travel with a reusable filtered-water bottle. My favorite is from SIGG. Other companies such as KATADYN and CAMELBAK sell great products as well.

We all should make an effort to be a little more "Green". The planet will be a better, more secure place.

Madden & Michael's...Not Right??

It was November 4Th a beautiful night, (by weather standards) here in Miami. I tuned in to watch by beloved Philadelphia Eagles host the rival Dallas Cowboys. All focus was on Terrel Owens and long rivalry between these two teams. Rivalries and outspoken players is part of what I think football is all about. It makes it so much more exciting.
As my Eagles were getting hammered, John Madden and Al Michael's began to speak of Andy Reid's personal family crisis. It's no secret that his son's are in the midst of legal problems. For god sake it's been in every paper.
But, what really pissed me off and made me lose ALL respect for John Madden (I never had a reason to have any for Al Michael's) was how they claimed to feel so bad for good old Andy. "How he's the nicest guy", "He's so down to earth", "How much pain he must be going through", etc...
They went on for almost 3 minutes exposing details of Andy's personal troubles. Only to be interrupted by a 8 yard run. These guys are parasites like the others they spoke of.

You claim to respect him! Think he's a "Great" guy! You both should be ashamed of yourselves!!!

Talk about the game. That's what you get paid to do.

Bunker Spreckles - The Prince??

Taschen, the "world's coolest publishing house" recently released a book about Adolph "Bunker" Spreckels III, the one time surf champ and errant stepson of Clark Gable. The book, Surfing's Divine Prince of Decadence was authored by TR Strecyk and has a slate of photos by surf veteran Art Brewer (GREAT PHOTOS!). Strecyk who co-wrote the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys was a close friend of Spreckels and one of the first on the California skate and surf scene. Stecyk's glossy book is a decadent document that records the short and privileged life of one of the first "REAL" socialite. The kids today could learn a thing or two from this guy.

Born in 1949, the great grandson of a Germany-born sugar baron, railway tycoon and publisher, Claus Spreckels - grew up in the lap of luxury. When he was five, the world's most famous man became his stepfather. Clark Gable schooled him in the art of hunting and revealed the illusory insanity of the image factory to his young charge. Following Gable's death in 1960, he would use the star's Oscar as a doorstop. Need we say more-GET THE BOOK!

It's only a matter of time before some Hollywood asshole does a biopic and ruins this guys life story. I feel some of the beauty and cool factor of Bunker, after his death is that not too many people know about him. WAIT...... check this out BUNKER 77 We don't know if it's a Hollywood asshole but the trailer looks somewhat indie. Which is good.


What better person to do "Our First Entry" on. Being a pretty dope surfer :) and a man who enjoys the "Good' life we all in some way shape or form idolize people like Bunker. A young adult who truly lived his life by the Latin phrase "Carpe Diem".

We hope you enjoyed our first entry and yes it was short but we have a lot more cool shit to write about. So check back for more.