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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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May 30, 2013 - 05:24pm PT
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I was wondering why (on Earth) Dale would ever do quayle-ludes on a school bus.
Isn't this dangerous? I do know they did not help Dan get elected.
Father's Day and graduation are coming up.
This one I dug up in La Crescenta when it was about 9 inches tall.
Finally, it appears that Tad has found a way to get the Feds corrected. Thanks Tad (watch your back and don't use email).
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 30, 2013 - 09:56pm PT
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hey there say, mouse.... wow, great fun grandkids stuff!!! and say, did he find an owl feather??? my mom found one and gave it to me!
wowwwwww...
say, and that little curly head babe, i KNOW who that is... after painting her face, i sure remember it twice as well, :))
god bless... thanks for the fun!
love the great ot doors!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Guerilla knitting
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City Hall Park commemorates the site of the 1865 Battle of Seattle, when Indians led by Chief Leschi made their final effort to save their land.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I need to take a night off. I need to elevate my feet. My hypertension has thickened my feet. Can't type, must lie...down...gasp...
So it was a great trip.
Lots to tell.
Best shots, a tie, IMO:
Bob's line goes: "The moon in the meadow makes me want to low like a cow."
It is from a novel by James Branch Cabell.
"More Cabell."--Bookstore Melissa
For a cantaloupe, who was it that was the barber of renown in George Meredith's The Shaving of Shagpat?
Hint: It wasn't "the poet", who, by the way, wrote:
Ripe with oft telling and old is the tale.
But 'tis of the type that will never grow stale.
It was another little shaver.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Other highlights iclude the two old copies of Cabell and Meredith that I found in the Funky Bazaar in Idyllwild.
Also, the two musical masters.And yesterday's storm in the High Sierra.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.
Edit (4:30 a.m.):
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It's play a song for me, not a video. What were you expecting? Less than the truth, or slightly more?
You are going no place, dude.
Run, there are no fences.
No fence shadows.
No shadows.
Just nothing.
I know: I just woke from a dead sleep and my feet refused to believe it.
All that memory, all that fate. Drowned in my sleep.
I feel capital?
Oh, hell yes, compared to a few hours back.
A bite of sleep goes far 'round here now.
Being on the road teaches one the basics anew.
Black is basic.
Hence the blind man's video.
And my being up is only part of this dream.
A demain, mes amis.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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This is responding to the reawakened El Cap Rockfall thread. I didn't want to post this right there, I might get flamed. Just keeping an orderly house...
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/737694/El-Capitan-Rock-Avalanche-Article-by-Greg-Stock
This jive about big falls of rock might help in explaining why the boulders in the Sentinel Fields Forever appear so much larger to me than do others elsewhere. Of course, this is simply my own impression and there is likely no basis in fact. Some may call it drug residue. I call it the result of casual observation, not careful observation. It is obviously worthy of more careful observation.
And more animation! That's way too cool for this school!
Meanwhile, they are getting ever larger...they will have more room for their kind in a little while, geologically-timed. It is manifestly their destiny to outlast humans. Now we are being out-sized as well as out-sourced.
I always envied rocks, having nothing to do all day. But maybe it is cosmic punishment? Part of hell?
Scary, innit? We'll all be dust and they'll still be rockin' it.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Note to zBrown:
I am awfully sorry not to have gotten down to Chewy Vista to visitaya.
The fact is my body was weary, and the roads were wet but the weather it was dry, like in a Dylan tune.
I had to retreat. Hell, I'll tell ya, is being halfway somewhere and having to turn around.
I gave it to Jesus and He released it.
Tell all the little lower cases I'm sorry and we can get together in the sweet by and by.
With God on our side.
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I learned with loss to abide.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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That was quite some High Sierra Storm there mouse. Reminded me of Storm Thurmond and that young Dylan fellow and Storm's rich wealthy daughter. They were so much older then.
Coulda used a made up story, so he says to Little Steven (the original Disciple of Soul).
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Anyway, may you climb on every rung
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there mouse, say, hope you rest up from that trip very well, take care...
just saw your post...
say, also, read, if you can't post now, ;))
hope you get to finish my books, :)
say, can't wait to hear more of your trip, either...
thanks for new pics-of-the-trail...
:)
and the link to the rockfall thread...
sorry have not emailed much, i had some chores out in the yard,
and while i STILL have some painting going, too, so i been
realyyyyy more busy than usual, :))
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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The pellet's in the poison, and y'all be puttin' on the dog
While the king is in the kitchen, eatin' him some hog.
From that interview (I'll scan the thing later.)
"Leroy Carr gave me the inspiration for singing the blues. He was a terrific blues singer and he played with a fellow named Scrapping Iron or Scrapper Blackwell, something like that. I play in almost the same style they do. I’ll take Floyd Smith for blues playing today, and I’m crazy about Alvino Ray for his style...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rAkJtGx-E0
He uses a Hawaiian guitar, but you can’t make it sing the blues. I can’t play the Hawaiian guitar, can’t make a note on one of those things. But I like his tone and his style."
From Wikipedia:
Alvin McBurney (July 1, 1908[1] – February 2, 2004), known by his stage name Alvino Rey, was an American swing era musician and pioneer, often credited as the father of the pedal steel guitar. He was mainly associated with orchestral, big band and swing music, and towards the end of his career, jazz and exotica.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapper_Blackwell
How Long Blues/Carr & Blackwell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-isFa9LvOo
"It will be too late, baby,
I will be gone.
So long, baby, so long."
From Wikipedia on Floyd Smith:
Floyd Smith (January 25, 1917 – March 29, 1982[1]) was a Black American jazz guitarist.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Smith studied music theory as a teenager and learned ukelele as a child before taking up guitar. He spent his early career in territory bands, playing in groups such as the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra, the Sunset Royal Orchestra, Eddie Johnson's Crackerjacks, Andy Kirk's band, and the Brown Skin Models. His 1939 Floyd's Guitar Blues lap steel guitar instrumental with Andy Kirk and the 12 Clouds of Joy's was the first ever electric guitar hit record. He enlisted during World War II and following the war led his own small ensembles in soul jazz and straight-ahead settings. He played with Bill Doggett early in the 1960s and then with Hank Marr and Wild Bill Davis.
In the 1970s Smith moved into record production, founding a label in Chicago. Among those he produced was disco star Loleatta Holloway;supposedly, though not confirmed, he married Holloway later in the decade.
Smith died in Indianapolis, Indiana in March 1982, at the age of 65
Floyd Smith Combo/Floyd's Guitar Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmsP23jVSX4
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/23/loleatta-holloway-dead-di_n_839398.html
Loleatta Holloway/a capella Love Sensation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDDwuFa33go
Serious blues hounds--
Have any of you ever bothered to read White Jazz by James Ellroy? Recommended for afficianados of R & B as well as jazz.
The clubs were crawling with talent in LA in the late fifties/early sixties and some of the action is rather violent, shall we say, but that's Ellroy. A lot of history is put into his fiction, however. Look him up on Wiki, check out his LA Quartet.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Unlike a foaling roan
A hand-cranked telephone
Just leave it to Jerome
Muddy, please phone home
Eat at the Mono Cone
Rewinding Home Alone
In a low-down monotone
Tanning with Coppertone
I want my Kodachrome
An apple is too a pome
Not every poem stands alone
I don't like your tone
But you can borrow my comb
What do I want on my tomb?
"Late again."
What will you do on my tomb?
Picnic, I hope, and share my joy!
At least dance! Attaboy!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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"The faster you travel the slower you age"
 Albert Einstein
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