Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 19, 2013 - 10:11pm PT
|
Life without Pa. Let's roll.
I got run off the Mercy Hostpital campus on Bear Creek today. The lady in the little golf cart has big britches and a mean attitude.
I tried to steal the souls of the pink blossoms on the tree in front of the old play house of the dead and dying.
It made her tiny heart sore.
It makes for a good story about "authority."
|
|
zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
|
|
|
Mar 19, 2013 - 11:34pm PT
|
Could we just give those tree farmers some aid?
John and I always laugh in the face authority, like I said, I turned 21 in Berkeley.* Ya don't want my trousers to fall down now, do ya?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
*Disclaimer: Neither Mr. Mellencamp nor Dr. Wilson, receives any compensation from the Nicorette Corporation and no trees were harmed in the filming of the video.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2013 - 02:01am PT
|
I went to Applegate Park, forgetting about authoritarian hospitality and grooved on the Tuesday afternoon socializing of the Hmong...
The men gather at the volleyball courts set up near the grand old Heritage Oak in the center of the park, next to the open air theater. They play a style of ball called takraw and the group I shot here use no hands, just feet and head (one case in which two heads might be a problem). The pros usually just spike the plastic sphere with the foot.
At any level, a guy with old knees can only sit and shake his head at these acrobatics and wonder at the relative tameness of hacky-sack...
I'm including some shots of the game of Too Loo, a top-spinning game, and a couple of short instructional videos.
Tujlub, the top-spinning game.
These fellows seemed rather desultory, but there was no competition going on at this time.
Short demonstration of takraw. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITHQuA8Tsls
How the kids learn to score at the spinning game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=einA_aXvI1g
How the big guys play it. They even have southpaws. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHGnRyulJD4
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2013 - 02:15am PT
|
The rest of the afternoon I spent trying to play around with different settings and using the darker light to help bring up whatever was there. It was not the most fun, but I blame it on the fact that I have to go back tomorrow early and shoot that pink tree by the hostpital. I'll dream in green tonight, mostly.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2013 - 02:34am PT
|
|
|
PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2013 - 09:14am PT
|
Mouse:
Here's a more expensive shot
Better?
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2013 - 09:29am PT
|
How can I tell with all that smoke?
Yeah, well it's not like hair. When a forest burns it grows back, generally. Our hair is gone, sucker! :)
Mine is, anyhow, as you can tell by casual obs. Don't go by Sideshow Bob's. Got a recent photo of y'self? Is yon icon telling the truth?
|
|
Evel
Trad climber
Nedsterdam CO
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2013 - 09:46am PT
|
Say there Mouse, is there still a nightclub in Merced called Avantis? Just wondering. And a very happy Last Day of Winter!
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2013 - 09:49am PT
|
It ran out of gas
Century's passed (the Century Bowl)
But Thank God for Gabe's!
Tank God fur Sprynge. Woo-hoo! Shoures soote, baby!--Jeffrey "the Rev"/"Chaucer"/"Muskrat" Mathis
|
|
lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2013 - 04:54pm PT
|
Who else but Mouse to come up with this one
Too much fun and that was just one out of fifty moments in time.
And a few threads back when it was on the subject
The only thing I could find for why or reason is this one but does not mention anything about garbage.
|
|
Gypsy
Social climber
NC
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2013 - 07:36pm PT
|
And we are all together
boop boop pee doop
|
|
Gypsy
Social climber
NC
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2013 - 07:37pm PT
|
break for climbing content...
|
|
Gypsy
Social climber
NC
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2013 - 07:39pm PT
|
watch out for that famous "Falling Rock"...
|
|
Gypsy
Social climber
NC
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2013 - 08:55pm PT
|
|
|
zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
|
|
|
Mar 20, 2013 - 10:05pm PT
|
Hmmmmmmmmmm! You can click to enlarge. You can't say that it's not a bird not unfriendly backyard, can you?
Bzzzzzzzzzz!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 21, 2013 - 03:49pm PT
|
I wish I could say my work here is done, but the Bulldags of Fresno never sleep. The Flames, BTW, never HAD colors, accepting ALL colors, shapes and sizes. The closest we ever came to symbological representation was the Budweiser handkerchief I inherited from Liz, who wore it to biker's functions (but not to Biker's Field). We flew the hankie at the last Eastside solstice reunion I attended. Millis blew his nose on it for good luck.
You never can tell. --The Old Folks
Gypsy, those ah simply MAHVELOUS, Dahling!
"The pinnacle of coloramafication and composting."--'Little' Ed Itting
zBrown, I see you have a plenitude of holes in the yard. I counted 13.
How many boids in Hitchcock Hall?
How many voids in porosity casting?
How many holes will it take till we learn,
everybody poops and the poop's gotta go somewhere.
Mice just go.
|
|
zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
|
|
|
Mar 21, 2013 - 06:37pm PT
|
I'm fixin' a hole where the dirt falls in - 13 times, sure glad it isn't Friday.
George told me one night, someday Bruce, all this could be yours, but the sun could shine in your backyard someday too. One never knows.
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 21, 2013 - 07:06pm PT
|
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAIZb2EYFVs&playnext=1&list=PL39E75C67E8E3DD8F&feature=results_video
I fixed the "Hole in My Heart" yesterday. I didn't know I had one, but it got filled.
Lots of fresh air. The ides is past.
The First Day of Spring in Yosemite Valley, 2013.
It rained. I did not get wet.
I got my renaissance fix.
Yosemite, I love ya, babe, God knows I do.
Have another hit of fresh air. Sweet California Sunshine and Shadow.
Let's see some obscured shots from Mister Obscurity himself.
obscure: Deficient in brightness: caliginous, dark, dim, dusky, murky. Not clearly perceived or perceptible: blear, bleary, cloudy, dim, faint, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, indefinite, indistinct, misty, shadowy, unclear, undistinct, vague. Far from centers of human population: back, insular, isolated, lonely, lonesome, outlying, out-of-the-way, remote, removed, secluded, solitary. Not readily noticed or seen: inconspicuous, unconspicuous, unnoticeable, unobtrusive. Not known or not widely known by name: nameless, unheard-of, unknown. Liable to more than one interpretation: ambiguous, cloudy, equivocal, inexplicit, nebulous, uncertain, unclear, vague. To make dim or indistinct: becloud, bedim, befog, blear, blur, cloud, dim, dull, eclipse, fog, gloom, mist, obfuscate, overcast, overshadow, shadow. To conceal in obscurity: hide, submerge. To cut off from sight: block, conceal, hide, obstruct, screen, shroud, shut off.
God forbids "huh? what?" and "I don't get it." Critics!
|
|
mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
|
|
|
Mar 21, 2013 - 08:38pm PT
|
Justin was there. We met at Lenna's last week. He asked where was Ayshe?
"Turkey," I said. "She's back with Mohammed." No, I just said she left to go back to Ankara and her life as a big-time bridge expert. I hope she understands, if she's lurking, that I was enormously impressed by the similarities in our two lives. It showed me that humans are more alike in ways we can't imagine than we can imagine.
And then I went out to Leidig for an hour to see my other rock bros.
The cliffs are more like us than we can imagine.
And it's real, one more time...
|
|
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!