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mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2015 - 12:09am PT

Edward S. Curtis, internationally known authority on the history of the North American Indian, died today at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Beth Magnuson. His age was 84. Mr. Curtis devoted his life to compiling Indian history. His research was done under the patronage of the late financier, J. Pierpont Morgan. The foreward [sic] for the monumental set of Curtis books was written by President Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Curtis was also widely known as a photographer.
--obituary from Wikipedia link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_S._Curtis

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/edward-curtis-epic-project-to-photograph-native-americans-162523282/?no-ist

I was gifted by Decker tonight with an old calendar of Edward S. Curtis' photographs of Native Americans tonight ("Take this one. I have another.")

Thank you, dear friend, for making me aware of yet another great American photographer.

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber

Out Of Bed

Jul 28, 2015 - 12:14am PT

The arrival of photos in the the 420 series rare % €><

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2015 - 12:18am PT

It's a hot night.

Hot like El Chapo, the boogie-man.

Hot like the barrel of Charlton Helston's pump-action bb gun, uh, .20 gauge.

Gnome, is that thebravecowboy?, a self-portrait? I wonder...

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2015 - 12:37am PT

The soapbox is empty. What'll we do with it?

Turn it on end and put up that Free the Whole Shebang banner.

See that wall behind the tyke (is that your little girl, Nut A?), Gnome?

Some of my most pleasant and instructive seshes bouldering took place on that modest little chunk of East Bay rhyolite.

It's perfectly suited to the needs of one who wishes to develop face technique safely and alone.

What you're doing takes balls. I was just getting a mild workout after selling boots all day long, mostly. Had a few minutes to kill before it's time to drive over the Bay Bridge to pick up the little lady after work or if there was no softball scheduled, half the time I'd drive up to IRock and mellow with a doob and some moves I had wired, never tiring, always conspiring to go to the Dollies someday.

Just keep the cell phone handy and charged when you go it alone.

I got this same kind of "Mom" rap about carrying my phone from my sister this afternoon, so STFU.

Good nighty, then.

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber

Out Of Bed

Jul 28, 2015 - 12:53am PT

I to have boulderd on that glass rock!
Seems trails that once seemed strange now seem more familiar.
The nature of that rock, to sweat, or feel greasy only on the holds, is still a memorable one.
U full had to commit even to try to traverse, which was harder than the six or ten moves up ?
To what? I can not remember?
A fence? A building wall?

Was there another chunk of marble some tiny other spot?
that I walked to to check out?

Sf in 78 an then almost a religious pilgrimage
every other year or so. - always climbing, Too.
the park ?? it was a bus ride but it had routes,
Something glen park?? I could look it up but why?

As to cowboys I am trying to get thru the HB offsets, a set of Steele micro-nuts, for aide but I free climbed off the smallest .A.o0 wire we called key often,
That is not the same as your and now mine reasonable response to micro nuts answer to a six year old rant ?? And you,? an advocate of, I think,; no posting - stone left unturned or - left stoned turned ??
No Left Turn Unstoned 5.11b!
My mfm, why do I feel it is not a cowboy night after all?

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2015 - 06:42am PT

Johnny Depp was a great Tonto.

And Rango was his name-O.

Kemo sabe was his game.

El Gnomo was his flame-O.

Pard, it's cuz the Cowboys will always suck

And the Hurricanes will always blow

They screwed the Indians, by the way

After the the Alamo-O.

And Custer wore an arrow shirt

As he lay face-down in the dirt.

Ol' Pecos Bill and Calamity Jane

Couldn't put him on his horse again.

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2015 - 07:08am PT

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It's been over 49 years since you first heard this.

Release date was June 1, 1967.

I have a 50th coming up with the Class of '66 next year in August. I can't believe the years have gone by so fast.

I've gotten by with a little help from friends and for that I am grateful.

Are things getting better?

The rocking horse people have gone on to Klondike Bars.

The newspaper taxis are now under the thumb of one man, Boss Taxi.

The girl with kaleidoscope eyes has gone totally silver.

We will all live forever in excellent style and walk in the light of campfires fed by mellow young men who are from the grip crew.

So "better" is relative.

[Click to View YouTube Video]John Wayne Lennon's finest hour in the finest anti-war movie ever made on the Bar None Movie Ranch near Chula Vista.

zBrown

Ice climber

Jul 28, 2015 - 07:47am PT

Apparently these walls are a big phenomenon. First I heard (saw) of it.

Remember that brokedown disc? Still working on it. Hope I don't die before I get old.

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feralfae

Boulder climber

in the midst of a metaphysical mystery

Jul 28, 2015 - 07:52am PT

Wow, Mouse, thank you for all the Curtis photography.
I will enjoy reviewing it again when I have some leisure.

Thank you,
ff

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2015 - 08:10am PT

Before I die, I want to make a bucket list.

I want to see my mother's cousin and talk with her about Mom.

Her brother, Jimmy Coonrod, as a young blade. He drove a hot new LeMans ragtop.
Jimmy was a pace-car driver at one time.

Before I die, I'd like to go 200 mph in one of these, if possible. If it blows the engine trying, so be it. At least I will have tried.

zBrown

Ice climber

Jul 28, 2015 - 07:17pm PT

Did you mean 200 miles in that car? Even with a Star Trek transporter under the hood, that PONTIAC couldn't come close to 200 mph. If you see her hitching go ahead, bring her along for the ride.

This isn't Michele

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2015 - 07:20pm PT

Re the LeMans ragtop: If my wish were fulfilled, good buddy, to go 200 mph in that old sled, then I'd surely die from shock.

zBrown

Ice climber

Jul 28, 2015 - 07:54pm PT

Well before ... I'd like The Lord to buy me a Mercedes-Benz

Spotlight on James Brown now.

feralfae

Boulder climber

in the midst of a metaphysical mystery

Jul 28, 2015 - 09:05pm PT

What a super idea!
I know Gnome will like it. Faces. Words.

zB, I was intrigued enough to hunt this out and if I am breaking protocol, someone yell at me, but here:

https://shar.es/1sUeff

Crowds continue to form around the Alibi's "Before I Die" installation. San Diego Uptown News explains what it's all about.

This message was sent using ShareThis (http://www.sharethis.com);

Thank you for this. What a super way to get humans to check in with themselves! :) DeLightful. :)

ff

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2015 - 11:08pm PT

ff, I managed to track the other place down with Google Images Image Finder. zBrown's shot is of a place in New Orleans.

Because I have no wheels, I wish before I die to go cruise in the foothills a few more times, just me & my camera.

I picked this hitchhiker up when he and his enormous haul bags were sitting by the intersection at 49 & 140.

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mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2015 - 04:57am PT

The air temp is gonna be 100+ today, again.

I'm psyching myself up for it.

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It looks like I shot a 90, less my handicap, of course. Aggregate score is 72.

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber

Out Of Bed

Jul 29, 2015 - 05:48am PT

The taco stand is in a form that I find unhealthy in this heat.

I lean more toward fresh lettuce sandwiches .

I take the more mild sandwich peppers and escarole lettuce,

if I have black olives, and a bit of onion, some times a mushroom no salt,
a sprinkle of pepper,
then I slice that all together,
on a well used cutting board that
now in its age has a well
or slight depression just off the center,
this holds the moist 'slaw'
while I toast a scrap or a heel if i can ,
that just to warm and I push that all into my pie hole, a light meal in the heat.he is on the top of the pics of the day,

this a thing and a one that we are fond of,

if in your travels around the internet,
anyone sees daddy-o in a picture,
you bet they pull it to see if it can make stiff sore ole' leatherback smile.
zB that is so the middle of my list!

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber

Out Of Bed

Jul 29, 2015 - 06:18am PT

I was so glad to be able to pull hard! I mean as hard as I could with out tearing anything.
I so overdid it! damn I'm sore. the thing is that as the spinning of this saga or the if i don't like what some one says i take it as my right to extort performance by threat of economically damaging threats mailed to advertisers has the stink, of B.S
.)self full filling need for attention?(

some bright guy mentioned a storm in a teapot
that about sums it up,
A bitter tea, not worth sweetening up.

Then in a thread by a Climber/photographer from Vermont-, the thread tag is - Rules are stupid or some junk like. . .

i was going to comment that in the course of 40 years of climbing by a set of simple rules the main one being
Rule #1 !
rule number one do not mess the place up. make everything better or keep your hands off, leave it alone , Do Not Touch, seeing things as the best is how i have found it i try to leave it that , natural state, way. the drift on the thread and the posters as well not being copacetic, I whimped out . and posted here instead.

now what else was on the desk top ? that is full value, and this as a way to introduce the fact the dog Dina , watches TV and gets right into an errant golf shot. This would be an endering quality, if the wife had not started the On the Bed thing