Roger Dawkins | New Gear Patrol Contributor
From Patrick Tuttle: When Gear Patrol set out to create a community of real men, we had little insight that we’d be expanding said community into Australia. As it turns out they have real men, too. One of them, Roger Dawkins, is part of the newest crop of GP Contributors. It’s our hope that Roger’s interests in surfing, grooming, and, well, gear as well as his international vantage point will perpetuate our own evolution. And besides, we now have a whole new vocabulary of jargon to play with.
“There Ain’t No Way to Hide Your Lyin Eyes.” That song is playing on the radio right now. I don’t like it, but I know it—from when I was a kid 20 years ago. I think it played on the car stereo sometimes when we were going on family holidays to the north east coast of Australia or something.
Now it’s playing while I’m at work. It’s the kind of song (and radio station) that doesn’t offend anyone in my communal office. I don’t mind stuff like that, ’cause if there were pumping tunes, they’d distract me from my grueling tasks. I used to lecture Sydney’s wasted youth about the academic importance of the movies, but now I write about hair.
My new surfboard is right here on the ground, next to my desk. It’s in a new cover: a “slim fit.” It’s svelte, like a compact attaché case full of weapons or money. I think that, as I grab the cover’s handle and carry my light 5’11 to the car at the end of the day towards the long drive through the tolls and down the tunnel and past the beach, back to my house on a crowded street in Bondi.
Roger can be reached for question or comments via e-mail at rdawkins@gearpatrol.com.
