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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2015 - 02:24pm PT
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I was wonderin', "To where next?"
"Good taste costs no more."
--Gump's store motto
and
"You can't afford an ugly thing at any price."
--Richard Gump quote
http://ihesm.com/Guckenheimer/
[Click to View YouTube Video]May I have this waltz, neebee?
Try making a camera from an empty sauerkraout jar!
"The plausible impossible."
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jun 29, 2015 - 02:59pm PT
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Oops the intro and up tempo of the album are , to me very memorable and I find in the cords some calming flow that I tap into on a visceral level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_RHsZ2tDcI
but it is the whole album, so I added the song below, as a sleeper version.
Meees ,You queried as to why no more abstractions from this guy? .
matty
Trad climber
under the sea
May 15, 2015 - 01:57pm PT
contact bob banks the author of said book. I believe he has a crate of them at home to sell. He posts here sometimes as bob_banks. Tell him Quiet Horse sent ya;)
http://www.supertopo.com/inc/view_profile.php?dcid=Oj8yOTs7NyU,
This was
From ,
Ho shoot I forgot, wait till it is 4 o'clock . . . . .for then I will come back. . . .
The thread that was from was this one;
"Ocean's Eleven: Bouldering Around Santa Barbara"
That led to the link that led to Bob_Banks, - that, led to the Kevin Brown Appreciation thread
From the end o September 2009, A thread added by Kevin Steele, who it seems is related to the Steele Famiy, that I know from the old days in the Gunks. One of my best photos , lost to the dust, was of Dr Pete Steele, on True Grip. The climb is at Sky top, the opening crack , also known as Fissure Ramins, a sweet fingers & hands JStan, Fa, from '72, that is followed by roofs first turned by Henry Barber in '74. . . ,.,.[Click to View YouTube Video]
All of that aside the Kevin Brown thread has 73 posts mostly the usual but a fair share of gold .
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Jun 29, 2015 - 03:20pm PT
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The name of the album, Rainbow Seeker, that is Only a coincidence,
a simple twist of fate. . .
Nice and long and slow odo'ncha' knoe
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TRYING TO GET A HANDLE
But the Vandles
man the trolls and vandles Prepare for stormy wether,
I am the albatross,
Not a handle
The Left Peg from My old pals Last ride,
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2015 - 03:29pm PT
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I can no more keep Farouk from posting here or anywhere than a single ant can dig a colony.
I wash my besmirched hands of the entire matter, will never address it or him again, but that thread about his cage...that stands.
Are we bleeding hearts?
Are we Farouk farts?
I should say not,
But it's all in the eyes of the beholder.
The eyes are the windows of the sole.
Step It Up and Go.[Click to View YouTube Video]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2015 - 04:02pm PT
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Coming into July, the next two days here might be up around 107 or 108 degrees.
Which means be extra-alert around moving water, especially.
Thanks to zBrown for finding this video, which is part of the YOSAR website.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
I witnessed what might have been a double fatality right here about twenty-some years ago when two Fresno hotshots tried to impress the party by crossing the river:
1. With no life vests.
2. Barefoot.
3. Wearing only T-Shirts.
4. Stoned as hell.
5. While my back was turned.
6. With NO BACK-UP rescue facilities worthy of the name.
7. After a big meal (first-graders know about cramps...were these guys drop-outs?
When shyte happens,
Just be cool.
Don't try to be a hero if someone is swept away by jumping in after them!
Have a reliable phone nearby to call 911.
Check that paddles are not rotted on any old craft sitting around (canoes, etc.)
...which is why I couldn't help these two beauzeaus from F-O...there was a perfectly good rowboat moored at the dock, but the right side paddle snapped in half, leaving me rowing in a circle!
It all worked out, but only because of luck.
Don't get me started on fireworks in the hills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2015 - 04:19pm PT
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With kind thoughts for my lovely daughter, Bevin.
P.S.--I'm still alive, little girl.
See, the tie-dye works with the stripes! Vogue and Cosmopolitan, look out!
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drljefe
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El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Jun 29, 2015 - 06:38pm PT
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Good to see that our good friend and fellow basketball aficionado/dead fan dropped by.
Hey Zbrown
I made a meme especially for you.
;-)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2015 - 06:38pm PT
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Not to make fun of a serious Act of God, you understand...Will that be all, Sir?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 29, 2015 - 06:44pm PT
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Gonna haul keel on outa here.
Like Ike Turner always used to say (paraphrasing of course): you can trap a house, but you can't trap a zoid.
Photo due to Martin Meyer (10-23-1980).
Lyrics due to Robert Hunter
Some folks look for answers
Others look for fights
Some folks up in treetops
Just look to see the sights
On January 5, 1988, Maravich collapsed and died at age 40 of heart failure while playing in a pickup basketball game in the gym at a church in Pasadena.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2015 - 07:08pm PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2015 - 07:18pm PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 30, 2015 - 03:16am PT
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This is by way of surprise-surprise for the biggest R Fuller fan I know.
Mr. Bob Fuller got to play the character Vin in "Return of the Seven" (1966), the replacement for the ailing --he was really not sick, but he was "obligated to Nevada Smith" --Steve McQueen, who played the same bad-ass, er, white-hat hero, meant to say...in The Magnificent Severn, the original movie.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 30, 2015 - 10:18am PT
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For Gnome...and the rest...a dream-ish little thing I dreamed up.
Dammit, you're late for work again! :0)
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"MY LITTLE FRIEN' "
(Profusely illustrated DR or Dream Report)
You say eet lak these--frayne"--becoss Anglo ees your secon' langwedge.
I had a dream the other night,
so I had this sort of discourse with a professional from Berkeley the other day
and this is generated from the discourse on that...that strange dream.
You, or one, I should say, generally like to introduce people to your friends.
One's friends reflect one's character (not your character--see how commas make a difference?) in many ways, so...caveat emptor in this emporium of pals.
Only, this particular "friend"
(which has magically become visible behind you thanks to modern dream technology)
is NOT LITTLE and DEFINITELY NOT FRIENDLY-LOOKING because it is either:
Some super-weaponry capable of killing at a high rate;
or it is a souped-up 4X4 with a gun mount, cammo paint job, and huge tires;
or it is a giant-sized EVIL DUDE who looks DECIDEDLY UNLOVABLE AND WOULD KILL YOU FOR A DIME
OR DISAPPEAR YOU FOR A QUARTER.
The hoped-for reaction is for the viewer to display his horror and then to run away;
or it is for the viewer to become awed, non-plussed, or slack-jawed in wonderment, thereby allowing you to haul ass;
or it's really someone like me, mentored by that guy at the table in Josh...
someone who was his one-time big brother, role model, and friend.
The reference is literally to a line from the movie Scarface spoken by Tony Montana,
the cocaine kingpin--not to be confused with Tony Manero from Saturday Night Fever;
or with Nevada Smith, the main character in the movie "Nevada Smith" ('66);
nor with Malcolm Margolin, author of "The Way We Lived," "The Ohlone Way," and publisher of Heyday Books.
And Millis, whether in Josh or not, loved to do that Tony Montana impression in his act,
the one that followed the jugglers and the clowns.
It wasn't that great of an impression, truth to tell.
He knew it and didn't use it often,
but once--at a reunion for older Camp 4 citizens on the Eastside like in 2002, maybe--he used it on me,
who didn't know he was armed and a wannabe Hunter S. Thompson into the bargain.
He was a "peace guy" years before, when we hung out, definitely NOT a "piece guy."
I had just come into the small group at the back end of Millis' trailer,
they were smokin' it, and then so was I with them,
and all was cool until Millis looks at me and says to me,
"Mousie, I want you to meet my little friend."
Then he reaches under the green tarp shading his doghouse on the back of the trailer
and he hauls out this huge chunk of shootin' iron, an automatic .45 cal handgun that he had made his LITTLE FRIEND.
I felt jealous,
then afraid,
then better
because I'd had another toke of his home-grown,
which I passed on with my left hand.
I stuck out my right hand and said, "I'm pleased to meet you, Little Colt .45."
And Millis turned the piece around butt-first and I gripped it in my right hand and said, "Millis, may I?" And he said, "Yes, Mouseie, you may."
I took off the safety and stared uphill for a target, acquired one I thought I could hit.I took deadly aim, and that thing kicked like a mule!
It was very loud, too--the campers had all grown silent
and they were rubber-necking us, most of them,
but there weren't that many as it was still early Friday evening
and the big crowd had yet to gather the next night, Solstice Eve,
during which the discharge of firearms in and around the camp was
"discouraged."
It was the only time I had fired a gun in about a twenty-five year span.
Pellet rifles and bb-guns are not included.
It was a thrill, though, and that is because of my father's Beretta pistol,
the one he carried in the cockpit in the war--another story.
This Flames bonus package is free of charge and entirely or mostly stream of conscious,
so use it at your own risk, but remember it's free.
Brought to you by the Advice and Cheese Shop nearest you, which is here.
A Sneak Preview of Bookshoe the Gumshoe, coming here to DR Theatre soon.
I'll send "Laura" along, amyjo. I love her, but she needs more attention than I can give her,
and her daddy left her with us, and we love her like one of our own, but we have so many younger ones to read...
you understand, right?
We're keepin' her shoes, though, cuz she's almost outgrown them,
and we got a little 'un who can use them shoes, even though she's three years younger!
If you don't mind...
Beginning to sound like the Firesign Theatre at your house?
Visit the Advice and Cheese Shop...maybe something can be done about that.
Watch for our upcoming special on "Advanced Duck-Talking."
Meanwhile, around the "Heavenly Campfire,"
Millis is being pestered by Dolt and Harding
who are importuning him to tell the one about
how Yul Brynner's "Magnificent Seven" became known,
after that movie was filmed, as "Big Ten-Inch."
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