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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Nov 23, 2015 - 12:51pm PT
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Waxed the 'chort
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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 - Nov 23, 2015 - 11:49pm PT
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Cotton Tomatoes Review
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMBxvnSF2TY
Click here ^^^^ to watch Al Pacino in Danny Collins.
Danny Collins is a 2015 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Dan Fogelman in his feature directorial debut. Inspired by the true story of folk singer Steve Tilston, the film stars Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale, and Christopher Plummer. Giselle Eisenberg plays the little granddaughter, Hope Donelly, a very nice job for seven years old.
Interview with Steve Tilston.
http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/danny-collins/
Don't bother with the offering of this song in the link.
The sound is better on Youtube itself.
Steve Tilston/On the Road When I Was Young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqxFGT-Csp0
This is a quality story and one which I enjoyed very much. It's about redemption and family and friendship. But there are drugs and alcohol, part of the rock star lifestyle, so it's not for everyone, really. One helluva part for Pacino, but he's magic, isn't he mostly? The supporting cast is small and highly skilled. It's a good debut for the director, Dan Fogelman.
The movie link is one of those "free movies" on Youtube, and the ending is cut brutally short, as many of these are, but the story is complete, at least I hope it was.
I thought that it was a good mmatch to the Keith Richards documentary which I posted this morning.
John Lennon's music abounds in the soundtrack.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Nov 24, 2015 - 09:54am PT
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"So I packed it up and I went to the Winds
And I lived out of my VW bus for a year or two
Ain't nothin' but this pipe dream and my guitar
Livin' off apple fields and old cigars."
Glory Bound,-Martin Sexton
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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 - Nov 24, 2015 - 02:02pm PT
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Brook, I believe great minds are on the same page today.
The synch-line from Merced to Chula Vista obviously passes throut North Fork.
Witness:
Photo credit for the book's cover to Charles Phillips.
"Clouds, Mitchell Peak, Bridger Wilderness, Wind River Range, Wyoming."
William Haywood Henderson, creative writing teacher at Brown and at Harvard, is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing. He's up there in the stratosphere sometimes, but the story unfolds.
I'm put in the mind, roughly, of Rabbit Boss by Thomas Sanchez, a landmark 20th C. novel. This is slow going because it's enjoyable parsing out the ideas presented by an unusual character.
Hey, it's raining lightly and the wind was blowing slightly a bit ago but has relented to zippola here.
Following a nine o'clock wake up from Greeley Hill (the Rev).
Later.
"The jester he sleeps
But the raven he peeps
Through the dark foreboding skies
Of Middle Earth."
-Guinevere sung & composed by Donovan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHe1JFANpI0
And in that short time in between waking and watching this wetness (with lightning flashes now and much more wet goodness! ooooh!), here is what I concocted.
I don't think I'd change or add a thing to this fruity tooty glop.
Maybe a dash of cinnamon? Something equally Christmas-y or festive.
Or how 'bout doing a flambe with a dash of brandy on the open-faced tostada?
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 24, 2015 - 04:13pm PT
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new camera a cannon fast priced if you have ever herd of such a thing.I hope that the Olympus that vanished now reappears some of the first things that
I care to look at if that is ok to post 'em to see them first in full size ?.
I might regret not editing 1st but I still share time, on the desk top - so brevity over perfection
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 24, 2015 - 04:41pm PT
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yes this face was there and here before, a difficult to get to
and then hard to stay long at
for most anyone that has no ties to the all girls academy.
each time I'm there may be my last
I wish that the pond snaps came out I may go back just especially to take some.
it is pushing my welcome, so I will have to feel it out.[] I know the cross parade - yikes crappy snaps
and some kind of glade in the woodsstonewallJUST STONEbut as I said no access to these blocks, and climbing has to wait till the week before Thanksgiving.
every year that I get invited I go..
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Nov 24, 2015 - 06:01pm PT
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You may drive around the town
In a brand new shiny car
Your face in the wind and your haircut's in
And your friends think you're bizarre
You may find a cushy job and I hope that you go far
But if you really want to taste some cool success
You better learn to play with fire (Flames?)
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All women around the world want a phony rock star
Who plays guitar
You can pump your iron and shine your shoes
And wear your hair just right
You go down out on cruisin' street
'Cause you want to score tonight
Ra da ra da ra da
And you really want to show your scars
Forget all about that macho sheeit
And learn how to play with the Flames
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 24, 2015 - 06:22pm PT
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two finger tight
the sort of craftsmanship to build on?
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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 - Nov 24, 2015 - 08:24pm PT
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I took liberties with your photo, Gnome.
Glad to see you got eyes again.A modified version of your glen.Tweaked just slightly. Pay attention to the shadows of the branches on the bark, you'll see they are darker.
That looks like splendid rock for building walls. What type is it, old Diabase Breath?
A twisted version of a glen, but harmless fun is what is needed around here.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1946444&msg=1946444#msg1946444
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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 - Nov 25, 2015 - 02:14am PT
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Boboquet garni, useful in stews, soups, and poaching fish.
aka bouquet garni, a bundle of herbs held together by loops of string into what is called a faggot, then let settle into a kettle of fish-head stock for poaching fish, or placed in soups and stews, boullabaisse and pot au feu, but not consumed. Instead, they are removed from the pot before soupcon.
Thanks for the card, feralfae. I love virtually most of Vivaldi's mousic. And am enjoying looking at the recipes. I'd never heard of bouquet garni, called for in the recipe for Zuppa di Verdure.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Hope your winter is over quickly. Check the speed of these players!!!! Man oh man!
Note that they are grammar-schoolers from Yarra Valley, in Victoria, Austalia, a wine-making center.
I used to work for North AmeriCAN Packaging here in Merced, which had been Rheem Manufacturing when I was first employed seasonally there in '84 making steel drums. I began full-time in or about '87, year-round.
The brand was called Nampac, a name still used by the same corporation, which is a subsidiary of an Australian firm heavily-invested in Australian wine production. That is what I associated with when I saw bouquet garni. Don't ask why, it's just the way my mind works.
Without containers, gang, things would be a mess all over the world. Our mission in Merced as Rheem was to make 55-gal. lined, acid-proof steel drums for Ragu, whose tomato paste needed to be stored safely. One of their sauce-making plants was right next door to Rheem.
I worked all over that place, it seems, including seamer operator, Loading Dock Loadie, and then got ten years in the Teamsters' Cannery Workers' union, qualifying me for vesting in the retirement program. I rode a bike to work after the VW crapped out. Then I moved into a place with Kevin and Dee, which was only a mile by bike from work. I moved three blocks further away when Liz and I were married.
I had a job at the Bianchi Tomato Packing operation there on Olive, as well, on the route from home to Nampac. That was wayback in summer of '69. I got to load green tomatoes in neat oblong cardboard boxes into semi-truck trailers that were reefer trucks heading across the country to feed the masses the tomatoes that went on their Big Macs and Big Barneys. I was highly-paid by that union job, too.
It strikes me funny that we never smoked reefer in or near those tomato-hauling reefer trucks at Bianchi's LOADING DOCK. While later, at Nampace, the LOADING took place inside and outside of the trailers, which were metal ovens at four o'clock in the afternoon during the summer, sitting on the south side of the plant on their LOADING DOCK.
When our trailers were approaching full, one of the two-man teams who had been inside the oven/trailers would jump down off of the dock afte swigging water, and then DUCK under the trailers in the shade, quite a bit cooler down there, became smoking duckers down there until it was time to start LOADING a new trailer.
The season ended for me at Bianchi's though, so that I could go back to school. Rather than go to Merced College and live with Mom and Dad, I went over to Monterey to their college and live with the Rev and Jones and Howard at Apathy House on 16th St. in Pacific Grove, uphill from boulders on the beach.
I've used a sachet of herbs and spices in fish-head stock for poaching foot-long Rainbows, but never in anything else.
A bouquet garni of reverie for you. From Winter in Venice to Summer in Merced and over to Australia for a bit, then ending in Roma.
Soup, it's what's for dinner.
Zuppa Roman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRp61he_zEs
Gorgonzola. Coca Cola.
Amore. Vino.
Spahetti. Cigaretti.
Old baloney. Macaroni.
Zuppa Romans!
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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 - Nov 25, 2015 - 03:34am PT
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Hey, gang, if you have any scans of postcards of the Valley, or anywhere, post them on this page. Let's see how many we can get. Six is my limit. I won't have any more sadly, the ones I had were lost in a virus attack on my computer last year.
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