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Meme Guy
Boulder climber
NC
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Oct 24, 2014 - 05:36am PT
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The ship they used for the mutant on the bounty sank right off the coast of my beautiful state. The captain went down with the ship after sailing into a hurricane, lost forever to the sea similar to this loads tar lightning story being lost forever.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Oct 24, 2014 - 08:12pm PT
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Just when folks were beginning to wonder whether all the main characters had died, up like the baubles on satan's jeweled crown a few pop. The burning issue to my way of thinking is whether or knot there was any weed on the Bounty lookalike. Did anybody profit from it? And (you guessed it, right?) when is the book due?
Shades of David Foster Wallace!
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Licky
Mountain climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 25, 2014 - 04:56pm PT
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I didn't see sidmo in Modesto Thursday night. I would have thought since he claimed to have been there back then that this would have been an event he'd not have missed
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Braunini
Big Wall climber
cupertino
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Oct 25, 2014 - 06:14pm PT
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The lack of any sense of urgency to publish on Licky's part as always made me wonder about his motives, or lack thereof. If he wanted to write the book it would've been written by now. So what is it he's up to? Posing as a writer? No glory there. Playing detective? No charges would still be viable today, and no rewards are forthcoming. Justice for his buddy? She is nowhere to be seen on this thread and may or may not exist except in Licky's mind. Which leads to the most disturbing possibility: is Licky just deranged? Who knows, and better yet, who cares? As for a book about the plane, I'm not writing one, contrary to one of Licky's paranoid delusions, so if you want to read it, write it yourself.
This keeps you up nights doesn't it
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Licky
Mountain climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 25, 2014 - 07:45pm PT
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Oh yeah, sidmo makes me eat my liver. NOT
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
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Oct 25, 2014 - 10:44pm PT
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I do not doubt Licky's motives or sincerity. But it certainly appears that he is finding it easier to spend time investigating and researching than writing. There reaches a certain point when a writer has to decide that he's gathered enough material to write, and sit down and focus on writing. There are lots of wannabes who are not able to do this. They procrastinate and delude themselves that they will "just need to do a little bit more research." Like it's essential to know the brand of sneakers the mechanic wore when he last serviced the plan.
Over FIVE YEARS AGO, Ghost wrote:
Aug 22, 2009 - 03:39am PT
There will always be facts missing and incorrect. You can work on this thing for another 20 years and you still won't have "all the facts." You will never have "all the facts."
At some point you have to decide whether you are enjoying a lifetime hobby, or writing a book.
Licky, you didn't respond well to that. Mighty Hiker retorted:
Sep 7, 2009 - 03:00am PT
It's possible that you know things about writing and editing publications of a historical nature, and indeed writing and editing generally, that ghost doesn't. But it ain't at all likely. Trust me.
Ghost is a talented and accomplished writer who has successfully written and published many books. You should consider hiring him to help you write this one.
Or at least stop lying to us and to yourself that you are "writing" a book. You're not. You're doing research and hoping that you will write a book at some vague, distant time in the future. It's not the same thing at all.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Oct 26, 2014 - 12:02pm PT
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^Amen. I've heard of the dude many times. Ghost Writer. Pale fellow, well met.
At the present rate of progress on the book, one has to wonder whether Ric may be in league with Th Holy Ghost Writer. (it is Sunday today isn't it?)
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Braunini
Big Wall climber
cupertino
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Oct 26, 2014 - 06:00pm PT
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Oh yeah, sidmo makes me eat my liver. NOT
i was talking to sidmo
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 26, 2014 - 06:42pm PT
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Books, climbs and other works of creativity are finished when the time is right. I can understand anxiousness to see what the finished product is, but I don't get how butthurt so many of you are that this project is taking longer than you want it to.
Life goes on. Some day there will be a book, or not. You whiners are acting like he owes you something, because he started a thread. I think this is why most artists don't share works in progress.
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sidmo
Sport climber
general delivery
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Oct 26, 2014 - 06:50pm PT
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my girlfriend keeps me up nites
licky and I have two things in common: we are not writing books about the plane and we don't eat liver
The only thing licky ever writes is insider coded messages to some of you others and his version of a snappy retort to me occasionally (witty repartee seems not to be his forte, if indeed he has a forte) - I've said it b4 and I'll say it agin: licky's a poser, maybe a wannabe but most certainly a phony
and Phuck You jaybro, maybe your butt hurts from the curry roids (bonus points to any Yosemite climbers who remember that graffitti)
but licky's taking too damn long for his work of fart - like my boss used to say on the hotel construction crew "this ain't the phuckin' Taj Mahal you bums, let's go!)"
licky needs old jimmy kicking his ass like we had building those holiday inns
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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Oct 26, 2014 - 06:57pm PT
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Damn Skidmark, what have you written beyond the drivel you post here? what do you have to offer to anyone beside hate and anger? I feel sad for you. . .df
Edit; wow you got a workie job! Guess it beats the last one you had at the Circle K. Please put up a link so's we can check it out and give you advice. .
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sidmo
Sport climber
general delivery
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Oct 26, 2014 - 07:07pm PT
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don't waste your time bulltwinkletoes - I just got a new job feature writing for an E-zine, that's right, a paid gig - this is a thread, remember? licky is the writer-in-residence at this institution, or more like writer-in-reticence
and in the spirit of the holiday I've done some ghostwriting too, licky needs to get his research haunted, then it might not be such an apparition
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
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Oct 26, 2014 - 08:13pm PT
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As someone who is a successful author posted 3 1/2 years ago:
On the other hand, some of us who actually have written books know that it can be done in less than however many years this one has been going on. Which is not to say that this particular book ought to have been written in a much shorter time span, just saying that it has been going on for a very long time.
As to the lack of goodwill, that's easy: Ask people for help with a project, accept their help, then do not produce the project. People get impatient, and then write snarky comments on internet forums. Maybe they shouldn't get impatient, but they do.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Oct 26, 2014 - 08:52pm PT
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I will read the book if it comes out. However, isn't it time for the rock opera in the interim?
or at least,
Rejectees (Plane Wreck at Lake Lower Merced)
Apologies to Woody
"The sky plane caught fire near the Yosemite Valley,
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills,
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says, "They are just Rejectees"
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Braunini
Big Wall climber
cupertino
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Oct 26, 2014 - 09:31pm PT
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don't waste your time bulltwinkletoes - I just got a new job feature writing for an E-zine, that's right, a paid gig - this is a thread, remember? licky is the writer-in-residence at this institution, or more like writer-in-reticence
and in the spirit of the holiday I've done some ghostwriting too, licky needs to get his research haunted, then it might not be such an apparition
perhaps you should ask yourself why you give a shit
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cuvvy
Sport climber
arkansas
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Oct 26, 2014 - 11:25pm PT
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Did you really go through five years of posts granite climber....to say that? I'mlmao... You a librarian or something? Sidmo, rhymes with didno...thing interesting with his life
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Licky
Mountain climber
California
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 26, 2014 - 11:32pm PT
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As I have said many times before, the book isn't about only those in Yosemite. Unfortunately sidmo seems to think that the only story is what went on after the dope was located and how it benifited those that sold it. I have managed to link the purchase of the plane to a well know Washington political figure and a Bakersfield mega farmer and the IRS, but then that would not be of interest to sidmo. Get on with the book licky. Comic books...that is what comes to mind when I read sidmo's posts.
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sidmo
Sport climber
general delivery
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Oct 27, 2014 - 01:14pm PT
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Sidmo didno, cute - as for " well know Washington political figure and a Bakersfield mega farmer and the IRS" . . . WOW!!! NOW YOU'RE REALLY POSTING DUDE - I take it all back . . . what else ya' got?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 27, 2014 - 04:21pm PT
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Sidmo, you realize hat if he publishes his book your whole gig evaporates? You have got nothing but (self) righteous indignation. You offer us nothing!
I ask you, what kind of lame ass shtick is that?
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sidmo
Sport climber
general delivery
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Oct 27, 2014 - 06:01pm PT
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i notice you say "if" not "when" - I'll be moving from a rockin' chair to a wheelchair and looking for my bedpan by the time this book gets done - but it really cracks me up that you morons don’t think I'm busy - I sure wish you were right about that
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