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zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 20, 2017 - 07:58pm PT
By a strange quirk DC and his dad (Raymond) died in the same year (2007)

"I trust the process of life. I'm on an endless journey through eternity and I have plenty of time!” - Dave Chalmers


"My time is not of money, but of living and giving what I have learned in life, to those good friends of mine who have the time to listen.”
-DC
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2017 - 08:36pm PT
Arthur Lee - How To Remove Vision Loss (wink-wink, nudge-nudge)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYLUsZh6m9A
zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 20, 2017 - 08:50pm PT
Arthur left us too - in 2006, but was pretty young to be doing that song at such a young age.



Always liked The Red Book mo bettah

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zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 20, 2017 - 10:21pm PT
This isn't it, But may jog me memory

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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2017 - 01:54am PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2017 - 05:45am PT
Perfect Vision

Oops!
I’ve drawn a blank,
as you can see.

So...
here’s my poem,
sans imagery.
--MFM



















mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2017 - 07:37am PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2017 - 07:51am PT
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Rusty Cage

You wired me awake
And hit me with a hand of broken nails
You tied my lead and pulled my chain
To watch my blood begin to boil
But I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
Yeah I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run

Too cold to start a fire
I'm burning diesel burning dinosaur bones
Yeah I'll take the river down to still water and ride a pack of dogs
But I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run

Hit like a Phillips head into my brain
It's gonna be too dark to sleep again
Cutting my teeth on bars and rusty chains
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run

When the forest burns along the road
Like God's eyes in my headlights
When the dogs are looking for their bones
And it's raining ice picks on your steel shore
I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my
I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
Songwriter: Chris Cornell (RIP)
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2017 - 11:23am PT



Clickit!



zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 21, 2017 - 11:50am PT
“WE DON’T SHOOT COMEDIES, WE SHOOT MOVIES THAT HAPPEN TO BE FUNNY.”

zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 21, 2017 - 11:58am PT
Found it.

"For the thought that I caught that my head is the event of the season"

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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2017 - 12:27pm PT
eyes~windows~soul
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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2017 - 06:48pm PT
WE, on the other hand, have been known to shoot a few cowboys.

Curley Bill has been shot & killed at least ten times, for example.

(Suggested reading time: 5.5 minutes)
http://thegreatwesternmovies.com/2013/11/04/frontier-marshal/

This 71-minute "mini-epic" is bare bones and stripped down, taking flights of fancy from the very first frames...silver mining in the Alabama Hills with Whitney as a backdrop...but the directing is "OK", I suppose, because it's entertaining, even in the age-darkened versions you'll find on Youtube.
Caesar Romero plays Doc but doesn't get to stay alive long enough to make the finals at the OK Corral, which Randolph Scott handles single-handed but using two pistols.
Your "Old Wagonmaster," "The Major," Ward Bond, usually a good guy, is the cowardly marshal who loses his job to Wyatt. Bond was in several Earp westerns in a relatively short time back then.

Bob Dylan never played Doc, though there is an urban myth to that effect. It was, in fact, donini who played him and that now bygone footage is nowhere to be found.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2017 - 08:04pm PT
Some excellent photos of the area on the north boundary of YNP.

I had only one experience in here and it did not pan out the way we'd hoped. Only time I have ever been frostbitten.

https://pantilat.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/sawtooth-loop-matterhorn-finger-peaks-kettle-peak/

zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 21, 2017 - 08:17pm PT
Was always more inclined to Randolph Scott, but in keeping with the browniZation of Cali, HAIL CESAR

This should suffice to explain why the fifth Wilson did not make it in The Beach Boyz

Not only a bad choice of instrument, he spent hours trying to tune it

https://sites.google.com/site/bwesterncowboycomics/_/rsrc/1276997208010/home/whip-wilson-comics/Whip%20Wilson%2011%20-%20cover.jpg?height=400&width=268

Saving, if not amazing,, grace it kept his hands out of all the wrong places.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2017 - 08:45pm PT
Checking into the cast's pasts--

here's Binnie Barnes' story in her own words from a few years prior to her appearance in Frontier Marshal.

https://silverscenesblog.blogspot.com/2017/04/binnie-barnes-shares-stories-of-her-past.html

I know neebee likes this sort of old stuff. RIP Snowy the milk delivery horse.
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Nov 22, 2017 - 03:58am PT
Bushman

climber
The state of quantum flux
Nov 22, 2017 - 05:47am PT
Ode to a Fisherman's Knot


A clove hitch is fine for a walk in the park

Or walking your schnauzer in the dark

And better a bowline or figure eight

For tying your harness that would be great

A truckers hitch will tighten your load

You'll avoid disaster on the open road

The hangman's knot's for when you're blue

When the granny knot it just won't do

But safer to use the fisherman's knot

When you're landing your flounder in the pot


-bushman

Hope your day is 'knot' too shabby, flamesmeisters!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 22, 2017 - 06:17am PT
Knot bad.

Thank you both, amigos.


It never occurred to me that Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday might show up on '50s TV, but both were characters spotted this morning
in an episode of Stories of the Century, the b/w western series starring Jim Davis as Railroad Detective Matt Clark,
and ably assisted by the fair Frankie Adams played by Mary Castle.

We can add to the Earp/Holliday canon the names of James Craven and Kim Spalding, respectively, as men who have played the roles in film or TV.

There was an Ike Clanton in this episode, played by lantern-jawed Frank Richards, who seems to be more of an Italian gangster type. His brother Billy Clanton is gunned down by Holliday, leading to the OK Corral showdown, this time 4 on 5, with Doc getting plugged by the Italian gangster and later dying of complications of the wound and TB, Ike being shot by one of the Earps, I think. It all happened so fast...

The background scenery shifted from the Alabama Hills to Chatsworth and SoCal locations--the revered Vasquez Rocks among them. They were named for Tiburcio Vasquez, the California bandido, another westerner whose story is included in Stories of the Century.

In both episodes, wild plot leaps were made, tradition took a hike, and legendary feats were made into vignettes. But when you're writing scripts for weekly series episodes, this is so typical. No time to sit and poke holes in the plot, which stands, and later becomes ingrained into the minds of the little folk like me and my siblings.

I'm fast becoming an old movie junkie, it seems. But there is the new Dickens film out in theaters yesterday and I love Dickens, especially A Christmas Carol.

I'm still reading The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens by Palmer...London pea-soup and Newgate Prison stuff right down the line.

It's a bit foggy here this morning, too.

Good day.

WyoRockMan

climber
Grizzlyville, WY
Nov 22, 2017 - 06:42am PT
How could one knot appreciate Bushman's wonderful poem?
-


Ode to the Naked Thread (with apologies to Bushman)

The climb is over, now what to do?
Grab the long screw, empty holes please drill two.

Make them intersect at an angle that's right.
Don't go too far, or threading is a fight.

All put in,
It looks mighty thin.

It looks scary, yes that's true.
Your rope will return if you pull blue.*

The fishermans knot. Perhaps a triple one at that was used above on the yellow cord.
*pull the orange, knot blue in the example provided.
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