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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 - Apr 7, 2018 - 09:46am PT
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Due to anticipated flooding, Yosemite Valley is closed. We will evaluate conditions on Sunday morning and open as soon as it is safe.
All other areas of the park are open, conditions permitting. Call 209/372-0200 (then 1, 1) to check road conditions.
--NPS site
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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 - Apr 7, 2018 - 10:30am PT
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Not an ounce of fat between them.
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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 - Apr 7, 2018 - 11:31am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Eric von Schmidt's 'Envy The Thief' from the 2002 Tomato album, 'Living On The Trail', with Eric on guitar and vocals,
Amos Garrett on slide guitar, Paul Butterfield on harmonica, Billy Rich on bass, and Chris Parker on drums.
Ayres drives a cherry '58 Nomad wagon, BTW.
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zBrown
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Embarrassed to curse trout lovers
So ric finally escaped the green pastures of Harvard Universit?
No mad
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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 - Apr 8, 2018 - 02:28am 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 - Apr 8, 2018 - 02:53am 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 - Apr 8, 2018 - 03:10pm PT
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Country Joe & the Fish - Section 43 (Monterey Pop)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK-URq0h7ek
Streaming consciousness:
- Saturday afternoon: "Section 43" by Country Joe & The Fish. The crowd was mesmerized. I was, too. A great song delivered perfectly. And the D.L. Pennebaker film Monterey Pop captures it perfectly. The hypnotic vibe that comes across in the movie is exactly how I felt in the audience during this song. A real high point of the festival for me. The original studio recording of the song is a classic and still holds up as an instrumental psychedelic landmark. Very acidic. Very psychedelic. There were very few memorable psychedelic era instrumentals back then; "Section 43" is by far the best.
 Moby Grape on Saturday night. I was really into their first album and they played four or five songs from that album so all songs were familiar. Their show didn't seem to rely on the kind of studio technogy and feedback and guitar effects that was hard to reproduce like the Airplane. They were able to recreate the sound of their classic first and essentially only decent album. Could have been a little louder with a clearer separation of the three lead guitarists but still pretty darn good. Too bad they are not at all in the movie or the CD that came out - I blame it on their evil manager who screwed them out of even their band name! He probably was too demanding and the organizers told him to go to hell. Hopefully he is rotting in hell somewhere!
In retrospect, the Monterey Pop Festival was a singularly unique event that perhaps was destined to never be repeated. Especially in the backasswards political climate dominated by restaurants and hotels and other tourist-oriented businesses that was Monterey in the Minnie Coyle-dominated late 1960's.
http://derekmo.weebly.com/popfestival.html
This Pop Festival happened the weekend before I was sworn into the US naval service. The Jones was stationed in Monterey at DLI but came home to Merced to visit with me and our Merced friends at a "going away again" party for me. I'd been at college for a semester, returned to Merced for two weeks, and then was gone again like a puff of weed smoke in a high wind.
This particular weekend was the first time that Larry had smoked weed. I had partooken just a few weeks earlier at my cousin Jeffrey's behest. Jeffrey had spent time in the USMC but was drummed out for partial deafness and the fact that he lied to them about his age when enlisting. Semper hi-fi, Jeffrey (now a trusted and well-heeled financial adviser).
Larry's humorous story of that first encounter with marijuana involved green blobs rising off of the street while he drove his VW away, necessitating his turning the wheel over to the Rev, who'd had experience at driving while red-eyed.
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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 - Apr 8, 2018 - 06:55pm PT
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Rainin' fun in Yosemite.
Pics stolen (shared?) off my sister's FB page of the current debris crisis in the Valley.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Always liked that Section 43
M & Janis
M & cig
Did she get Janis hooked
Well if ya got 'em
Not 'sidro, not sidmo
Sidral Mundet - Janis drank 'em
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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 - Apr 9, 2018 - 05:06pm PT
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I'd show you a pic of what this place I'm leaving looks like, but the camera battery's died and the others have been packed who knows where?
It's echoing in here, now that the pictures are taken down, the clothing packed, the bed stripped, and the closet and cupboards bare.
Still don't know about the bunk bed's final disposal...I called a used goods place and sent a pic of the bed via Shelly the night manager's phone, but they haven't called back.
I had a lot of help this morning from a 20-yr-old El Salvadoran, Carlos. Oh, to be that young and energized once again! He had a little help from me, but he's been doing this packing all month for us residents, and he's pretty good if you just let him do his thing and just answer his questions. He has good enough English to get it the first time (I told him he has excellent English and his face lit up, such a easy thing to do, to drop a compliment on someone who is working his butt off).
I don't know if he's being paid much, but I gave him a nearly-new portable power drill I'll likely never need again. He refused my offer of lunch and kept on working.
So, basically, this move is almost ready to hit the road and that will be on Friday; and with one extra pair of hands it should go well.
There are about six residents left here. Four have not found homes. One of them is between 80 and 90 and has only one sister left who cannot help him. Another is over 80 and when she leaves it will be for a home for the elderly (storage for the living). Another is my neighbor Lulu the artist, who is moving to another apt. here in town, I think. And there's Alex and Anna, who haven't been able to qualify anywhere yet, both over sixty with no car. Then there's Jeremy, who I see every morning out walking the streets, rain or shine. He's a loner but friendly enough. I haven't a clue what's up with him.
I do owe it to myself to write a novel about this place. There are so many odd characters who've stayed here that Dickens might have been interested.
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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 - Apr 9, 2018 - 10:50pm 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 - Apr 10, 2018 - 02:42am PT
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Thx again, Ken.
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