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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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May 28, 2017 - 03:33pm PT
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In Shades of Wolfing
Matching brown with my family
Under midnight moon so bright
Stealthily crouching we slunk about
Through the shadows in the night
Some days we were golden brown
Like the eyes of the one
Alpha in every action
Launched forward towards the sun
Or way down by the field post
In a paint be-speckled shirt
I sleep supine in the weeds there
While the hounds root in the dirt
But the hue we always favor
Worn full until it slides
Remains white throughout the winter
Cold, it sticks upon our hides
For once I was a wolfing
Unobserved and running free
Now I wear my wolf sign proud
Part dog, part human being
-bushman
05/28/2017
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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 - May 28, 2017 - 03:36pm PT
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And while bushwhacking through it at night, it's been called much, much worse.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 28, 2017 - 07:54pm PT
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Fe dead
Duane
Gregg
Prince
Prince Buster
Sonny
Not so much
Little Penniman
Cher
Zimmamahn
Sony
JL Lewis
What was it that God said to Abe?
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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 - May 28, 2017 - 09:20pm PT
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Something about a shirt, right? No, wait. It'll come to me.
Kill me a son...yeah.
And then Abe says, "Say what? What is this shirt?"
And then God says, "You must be putting it on."
And then in the next stanza, some guy named Howard ain't got no clothes.
See how it goes? Life is never fair.
But it is like a carnival midway:
You'll get shucked and jived and taken for all you're worth if you're not sharp.
Which just goes to show...
That maybe we shoulda stuck with the fig leaves,
in spite of Eve and her pitiful pleas
that to stay up with the Joneses we only need these
things to impress everyone who'll then bend their knees
in awed and appreciative celebrity a--do-RAY-shun.
Fillmore Upstairs
"Tonight only"
Cloud Nine with the Heavenly Tabernacle Choir
St. Jerome and the Diddleys
Suffragette City with Emmeline Pankhurst
Lazarus
Look up here, I'm in heaven
I've got scars that can't be seen
I've got drama, can't be stolen
Everybody knows me now
Look up here, man, I'm in danger
I've got nothing left to lose
I'm so high it makes my brain whirl
Dropped my cell phone down below
Ain't that just like me?
By the time I got to New York
I was living like a king
There I'd used up all my money
I was looking for your ass
This way or no way
You know, I'll be free
Just like that bluebird
Now, ain't that just like me?
Oh, I'll be free
Just like that bluebird
Oh, I'll be free
Ain't that just like me?
--David Bowie
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Edit: "Have a Happy"
(check one)
Memorial Day!
4th of July!
Cinco de Mayo!
Halloween!
Holiday!
Birthday!
Valentine's Day!
New Year!
Thanksgiving!
Veterans' Day!
May Day!
Life!
Ending!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 29, 2017 - 01:24am PT
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Jahhaway speaks to Abe,while answering no thing, says
"Hey Abe, Merry Christmas ! get me a coffee” woud'ja.
-o- Labor Day
where'd Clowns come from anyway?
Said Putackaway, " aw ma can't I go? Mr Barnum is organizing his road show.
As it was the 1st of June, most of the crop was in, and the clowns call had gone out.
See,the way it was 'round Rocky-Top, from there to northern Connecticut,
once the fields were de-stoned; so hoe'd, rowed and sowed,
there was little work, and food was scarce for the strong hands.
As well it was then,
that like a summer internship,
a sponsored but poorly paid existence could be scratched out.
It was a right of passage to go, with bigger brothers,
to see the gathering, from the south, of the Circus.
Also, it was from the crowd, the nefarious ring master picked boys and men
by staging -feats of strength- contests. Involving ropes.
G
Tugs of war were practiced - A'game played against heavy tauplins,
pulling lines tight to raise the tents.
Teams of men from the local towns competed to land the summer "job" that was the
start of the Clown Brgade,
A much scoffed at thing by the skilled performers. It, a support gig.
The Circus fed and clothed the paupers - took them to raise and strike the traveling show.
This is what then gave rise to the "reprobate". one who for, what ever reason,
Often a reason of some merit, was detained, so had to be dropped from the traveling show.
Left, where ever, as the show rolled on to the next stop, Twenty to fifty miles further away.
The Barnum had his Brit', a solicitor of some disgrace, return to whatever Burg or Hamlet to try to rescue a favored group or single youth.
This return; repatriation to the Circus,
( a microcosm of society - a metaphor for life), was not always possible.
a 9 month sentance was, of course, not un-common, sometimes proceeded by a "shotgun wedding".
As it was the time when local " Reeves" or "sheriffs" who notoriously , took liberties, sentencing public drunkeness and rude acts with indenture'd servitude, to pay for damage or bad acts.
The start of the clowns brigade
Those clowns could get into a lot of trouble
The idea was formed a plan to keep roughnecks safe from preachers vengeance .
The uniform was part of it and the large shoes? The brilliance of the plan, to large to work in
a man was of no use with such large shoes.
Eli's & Jake's, Avuncular, Uncle. . . .
Hot Tuna!
Quah ?
( having to pick 1?' Can't )
Hamar Promanade. ~ Where I 1st, heard "Well, we have wings of Steele to fly past the home of the shadow mountain. into the pole of/in the eye . . ,
(Kunlun sic, by the mystic mountain. . . )
https://youtu.be/VK3-sv_IEes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK3-sv_IEes
Genisis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K8FucBj_q8
But it was back when the attention span of the listener was respectable,
so that to listen to a side of a platter was as if a Devine intervention
So Starting with "I Am The Light Of This World"
Side B
https://youtu.be/gI9PNE999Wc
All of side A,
https://youtu.be/au-oeWmkNKo
That
And
FUNKY #7: "Well, The Moral of the Story is for Limted crew, we're gonna be there with a lime dyed*? few. . . (Sometimes I leave auto correct, un-corrected) LIMITED FEW
https://youtu.be/BguL0e_jO1M
Watch The North Wind rise
https://youtu.be/X8m6YObzfk4
& Then:-'o
Serpent of Dreams
https://youtu.be/aVPYGDMOcy0
Killing Time In the Crystal city.
https://youtu.be/1WFV7rH2uIA
&
Sunrise Dance With the Devil
https://youtu.be/0DSYwXQU1fA
how do you choose between those three?
Double dose, the whole shebang
https://youtu.be/d4fM2_PY40k
, I wore out both albums and the tapes. If that is any measure .
[the links do not work for me]' but itz my device fo'sure ?
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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May 29, 2017 - 02:54am PT
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It's Not Prestidigitation
(Saving the world is not magic).
Dr Ong's war machine
Locked onto a little town in southern Idaho
Deported residents complained
Whatever happened to all their young people
Pacific island paradise
Beach training at five am
Ring ring ring
White supremacist in no short supply
Sergeant Grill in a mood
Down in the family bunker
Laying in supplies
Connected to the space station
Until the countdown
4-3-2-1
Scratchy signal white noise
Snow on snow the monitor shudders
Wires spark we're falling down
Even as the dust clears
We don't deserve a Tuesday
The Atacama is so cold at night
We look for water following circles
Frosted dry a lakebed beckons
Young one hides beneath the seat
We cannot see his eyes there
Dr Ong would not complete it
The purge and repatriation
The world defined by black and white
Buried in radioactive ash
Until brambles only grow there
-bushman
05/29/2017
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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 - May 29, 2017 - 04:53am PT
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Happy Hot Tuna, you clowns and moralists.
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day For Sure in all of that
is the one on which the young mistress finally gave birth
to her un-wanted and unloved child
who at least avoided being labeled a bastard
only because the mother and her family wished
to avoid her being labeled a "hoor."
It's a Morality Play or Immorality Play, depending.
Repatriation Day. Reconciliation Day. Rogation Day. All Souls' Day. Sunday, even. Two Solstices plus their Equinoxes. Tax Day, April 15, rain or shine. And the one we are least aware of when it comes, but afraid of all our lives...the day the music dies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltvM3Kwfc44
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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 - May 29, 2017 - 12:48pm PT
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Whaddya think, hooblie? Yer the interior design expert. :0)
It's a slow news day, too, folks.
"The times when we could completely rely on others are, to an extent, over."
Looks like we had them fooled up until recently. The times they are a-changin', but when are they not changing, Mr. Zimmahman?
Is there a bubblah handy?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 29, 2017 - 02:13pm PT
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I think it was a skirt!
Still as applicable today as in Bibliographical times.
Don't skirt the issue and dig it right on down to the camino real knitty gritty
Ibid et op cit
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 29, 2017 - 04:42pm PT
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Ask, if only o's and a's were valuable the no more sense would I have.
one time shoe do dude
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Made me look !
. . .huh?
I'm still Rollin,'
and stuff !
That was the funniest . ?M. Mmm? deepest- line
I've got to share it . . . . but it is yours and much respect at it judicious use.
Then your hot so why, - not you ruled again , ~ . . .before they were famous . . Was bunk.
So much a higher style standard than moof's, "gag" !
The count downs !
It scares me I was just thinking of your brilliance or at least the perfect time of the delivery of three letters that was worthy of all of what follows
By way of apology and excuse Not Bunk.
Past_]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]{%[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[_future
over weighted to 'past' ~ is my I'm balance
It will be unique, for each individual ., requires work to balance.
The % is thought , as with the action the line of ' boxes' ]]]]%[[[[[ is the continuum/time
As if a point was to try to be achieved , at the moment of thought the line from future to past is crossed.
More on that in one two three ( & that count down thing as big as the three syllabic response)
I hope I don't loose this post
Ill be da thought, what is. . . Mind the need for a hand book , an owners manual, instructions
A guide book with the beta to the mind.
Woot .
Let the misguided in
where the direction goes won't me up to them. ,
I think it's a recent and totally predictable circumstance
An obvious expectation of a breed of climbers frosted on indoor artificial which takes the entirefbfeê, I've a word in mind, that I've not been able to spell . Infant terrible?
emperor - infant referred to ; "the emperor infant terrible " , , , so, a French phrase word,?
versions of
what some say translates in movement to some types of rock climbing,,when in fact it is pulling plastic.
I think it is fair to says that in ten years , most will be for the conversion, making claims that permanent fixed gear is nessasary to the health of the ectivity and continued progress of climbing. Same as it ever was.
As much as everything changes, everything stays the same.. .
what stays the is change, the older way was always the better ways . But by the time ; three generations, have pass and to late for the last proponents to be able, to . . . .do.
( some sure still do)
I've got to look, I need to index my pictures
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Chorus
Major chorus
Refrain , ( repeat 1st, . . .
Bark-Bark , the dawg's ill come out to play. Ruffruff
it speaks schewpeama?
3> not that twisted sister? F
, sort'a fits, . . the bit. . .
Who got Doh !, hehehe a NJ road map to Middle ! Hehe haha rolling here it's so classic... Guido Too. . . . just poetry, really not deserving of mention here but. .. .it is
Hmm,mi Had'da think, then I thought , think - if that at that moment, the moment of thought
future becomes the past. . . Is there an act of thinking ? . . . . . What is Mind
As if the process was second nature ,
try really try to accept not except,
then once you embrace it ,
the line from future you are on with the past behind
as you experience a thought. . . .The -thought-, , , that is the only moment if Now
Embrace the Now go climbing
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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May 29, 2017 - 08:28pm PT
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I've watched two films this weekend.
I highly recommend "Hidden Figures" About mathematicians, and the Jim Crow days in the South. Powerful. I also watched, on the heels of "Hidden Figures" another film, "The Help." I had no knowledge of it, because I have been working on a paper and mostly surviving the tibia healing and the flood. And I don't have television, so I miss a lot of (ahem) "news." So, the second video was from about the same time period, maybe a little earlier—I wish I were better at identifying all those keen old automobiles, but I recognized a Corvette and a Thunderbird! Anyway, the second film is about black women in the South as "Help" during the same Jim Crow era. Both insightful, positive, inspiring films; both about black women. The Woman as Hero. Pretty nice. They overcome terrible odds, stay true to who they are, and are victorious.
Like climbing mountains. Any hard-won victory. I think it is euphoria.
Now I get the luxury of some time to read the posts for the last couple of days.
Sweet Dreams,
ff
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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May 29, 2017 - 08:34pm PT
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Wow, Gnome, that is a great heron photo. I posted a comment about it at its source. Thank you for that image.
ff
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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May 29, 2017 - 08:45pm PT
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It's Not Prestidigitation
(Saving the world is not magic).
Okay, Bushman, that one could be shared with the people in Hanford, WA as well. Powerful.
A good rule for Earth: absolutely no weapons of mass destruction. They are entirely unethical, no matter who wants them.
I don't think we will end that way, not our species. (Said the puny TRex of MFM's comment and image). We still need the entirely too much fun of building a space colony, maybe a Stanford Torus or a Dyson Sphere, or something else. I hope it gets done soon.
Anyway, that is a dark and brooding set of words, sir, and very well done. Bravo!
ff
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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May 29, 2017 - 08:48pm PT
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Mouse,
I love the barn window and the flowers. Thank you for beautiful and cheerful images. When we were putting flowers around today, I thought of that song, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and I think I hummed it all the way home, letting some tears fall. "Gone to graveyards, every one." Whew, when will we ever learn?
Be Well, sweet dreams,
ff
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 29, 2017 - 09:15pm PT
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I watched Three Burials ... (again)
The Princess Bride (ditto)
The Last Waltz (again ...)
If someone tells ya you'll get more pussy than Frank Sinatra (but less money)
Doncha start wondering' just how much old Frsnkieboygot?
GIMMETHATOLDTIMERELIGION
AND
The Glendale Fire 🔥 Dept.
Locked inside the Ashram with the barbedwire blues again,
"You're pretty agile" (for an older couple)!!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 30, 2017 - 01:18am PT
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Bob D' Antonio has an amazingly cool and long climbing history.
I wished he would share some more climbing but his glorious pictures of birds astound
The bird thread is the 2nd most visited thread by the family around here.
The Phili flyer , Boltin' Bob!
He is one of a kind.
At last I heard he was closing in a record of 1st ascents , Most on the Taco(?)
,(FAs) 2,000 (all recorded) if he couldn't free it he came back and did do I think with every route he ever did going on 45 years ? I think.
I've known Bob, since the 80s in the Gunks, he has no memories of me.
(Seems to be a the story of my life)
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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 - May 30, 2017 - 02:43am PT
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You can go no farther. There's a gate. Kindly stay the heck outta here.
Should have its own solar panel and battery and force field.
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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 - May 30, 2017 - 02:45am PT
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