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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 14, 2013 - 02:17am PT
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Andy, I'm so dang careful I am psycho about it.
I'm lucky, as of now.
Thanks, bud, for the spot, as it were.
The place had no snakes.
Makes it like unto paradise.
Another thing, lack of water.
I wouldn't drink Merced River water unless it were treated for giardia, boiled heartily, and made into a cup of coffee. I bring my own from Fern or from my tap. That's it. Why fool around with strange bacteria?
And the wildlife I do not ever bother knowingly. I refuse to chase little birds to photograph and pretty much take what comes. I get plenty of good shots without risking much; and I have learned to plan my moves (down-climbing included) and to abandon the thing if it turns the least bit sketchy.
Here is a good example I wouldn't have shown but for your comment.
This happened a few feet up on one thing I tried. A chunk came out after I rapped it with my hand. It made a good hand hold. I got up and used it to jam my foot and it was solid, but there was no place to go but down, man, after I saw the thing wasn't worth any more risk.
As far as the old bones aching, this trip was gentler on my knees and I've noticed my legs have much more resiliency to fatigue. They are ready to go right now.
I might take off in the morning again, cuz the weather's still fair.
We shall see. Maybe I can turn the Keystone Light cans into some cash for gas.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 14, 2013 - 01:09pm PT
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This is a video posted by Gypsy on her FB page lately.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Thinking of you, Ms. Flores.
Call if you find work. :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 14, 2013 - 10:34pm PT
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A toast to the vets!
God love 'em!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 14, 2013 - 11:36pm PT
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Try
RAZIN' BRAND BREAKFAST CEREAL!!
More Clifornia convicted arsonists prefer a bowl of lip-smackin', day-lightin' Razin Brand
than they do a poke in the eye with a sharp fireplace implement.
Just try it.
I heard about it through the grapevine when I worked next to Cosmo's.
[Click to View YouTube Video]And I'm just about to drink my wine.
Oh, honey, honey!
I heard it through the grapevine.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 15, 2013 - 05:01am PT
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Try Facebook Rim - Fire T Shirts.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 15, 2013 - 11:05am PT
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Call me a taxi, Andy.
Andy Kaufman's Brother Says Comedian Is Alive, in Love and Has a Daughter
THR, THE Holly Wood, Reporter, totally objective and guaranteed drivel-free.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/andy-kaufmans-brother-says-comedian-655760
A mysterious woman's claims that she is the daughter of Andy Kaufman have helped to revive long-standing rumors -- fueled in life by Kaufman himself -- that the comedian may have faked his own death.
The far-fetched admission, reported first by The Comic's Comic and Defamer, occurred Monday night at the Andy Kaufman Awards, held annually at the Gotham Comedy Club. The woman was introduced by Michael Kaufman, Andy's brother, who first explained how years ago he'd discovered an essay in which Andy detailed plans to fake his death. Official records state the Taxi star died of lung cancer in 1984 at age 35. (See a copy of his death certificate here.) Were he alive today, Kaufman would be 64 years old.
Michael did so, he said, whereupon a man he did not know walked up to him and handed him a typed letter. The letter, which Michael read for the crowd on Monday night, was allegedly from Andy, who wrote that "everything was great in his life and he just wanted to get away from being Andy Kaufman," Parinello says. The letter also stated that the comedian, famous for his bizarre alter egos like cantankerous lounge singer Tony Clifton, had fallen in love with a woman and that the couple were raising a daughter together.
Michael then explained that the daughter, now 24, had made contact with him several months prior, and had subsequently agreed to accompany him to the awards. The woman then shyly took the stage, wearing a black dress covered in a pattern of colored bows. (TMZ has posted video of the moment.) No one in attendance seems to know the woman's first name, though Parinello says she went by the surname "McCoy," a name Kaufman used when checking himself into hospitals.
An account of the event posted to Facebook by one audience member says the woman then told the crowd that her alleged father "is alive" and that "the passing of [their] father [Stanley Kaufman] this July made him want to reach out" to his brother. The account calls the moment "as real as any reality that I've seen." Another account said the room fell silent during the presentation and that one woman "burst into tears" as Michael read the letter.
According to Ed Cavanagh, showroom manager at the Gotham Comedy Club, "You could see by the look on [Michael's] face that it had an emotional impact on him." Asked whether or not he believes the woman's story, Cavanagh adds, "I don't know whether somebody is perpetrating something on [Michael] or not. I'm truly 50-50 on this one."
Parinello, who met Kaufman when they were undergrads at Grahm Junior College in Boston, says he is convinced of the story's veracity, even though he attended Kaufman's funeral and saw his body with his own eyes.
"It was a closed casket," he recalls. "Only the family [and myself] actually saw the body." How then does he reconcile Monday's events? "Andy was an aficionado of meditation," he explains. "One of the things Andy was taught at the highest level was a process where one could slow down his breath to a point where you can literally fool anyone that you may be dead when in fact you are alive. So that's the one thing that Michael checked for."
Adds Parinello: "It was a very formal affair -- it wasn't as though they could prod or anything else. They were simply in the room and saw Andy lying in a coffin."
Contacted by THR, Michael Kaufman said that the woman claiming to be Kaufman's daughter was impossible to reach, for reasons he would explain later. He then excused himself, saying he had a dinner date with his wife.
UPDATE: Kaufman tells THR, "I'm as skeptical as anybody else." He then tells CNN's Jake Tapper that he believes he is the victim of a hoax.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 15, 2013 - 01:20pm PT
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"I made it to the Mexican border just fine: 690 miles in 12 days from Lodi to San Ysidro."
"I stayed in the Central Valley until Bakersfield, then climbed up to Tehachapi, then up and over to Palmdale, then down into LA where I hit the coast at Santa Monica. Your suggestion to turn south where we met was a good one and saved me several miles of poor shoulders and bothersome traffic. Thanks!
Hope your climbing adventures are good. Do you climb places like El Capitan?"
An email message from this morning from Eric, a gent whom I met on Highway 140 as I was stopped to take a picture. We were at the ag museum and he had stopped as well, just short of me and on the opposite side, but since I had intended to take shots of him as he approached and this wan't working out, I crossed over and approached him instead.
It was a pleasant encounter, one of those whimsical things. He and I are pretty close to the same point in our lives, getting out as long as we can and fulfilling some inner need and spending out time wisely.
Or trying to do that.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 17, 2013 - 01:37pm PT
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Parker Bradway/She Chose To Love Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgqNh621nBo
I am still celebrating though she's been gone these last fifteen years.
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Our honeymoon was in Wawona and IT SNOWED!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 17, 2013 - 07:23pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Liz marched right in with her sons and took possessionof my heart for all time.
My new brother-in-law, David, sang this accompanying himself on the guitar as she did so.
The only climbers present were Jim Shirley, Jeff Mathis, and the Bill Nickells--Lauren was preggers with Andy at the time.
Enchiladas made by Liz's family--her aunts and sisters, supervised by her abuela, Margaret.
My last climb had been the Crescent Arch on Daff Dome, another milestone for me, as well.
It was a consolation for failing on Lurking Fear. Liz told us to go back to the park with her blessing and get SOMETHING done worthwhile, else Kelly had made that trip out for nothing from Minnesota and she would have an unhappy Mouse with whom to deal!
She understood so much about how I ticked by then, who could ask for more?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Nov 17, 2013 - 10:01pm PT
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Weirdest thing happened. A frame fell on my mouse and broke it, making it difficult to navigate the old ST Ocean.
How many seas (rhymes with seize - more later) must a whitedove sail?
It must be getting late. The rear wheels on my Datsun 280Z are seized. So, long story short, forget about all that macho sheeit, get yourself a $20.00 puller and pull down hard. Unless, of course, you're a hard man. Then all bets are off.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 17, 2013 - 10:30pm PT
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Those boys don't look like Lost Boys.
They look like trouble, especially that one on the left.
Wilson? And Powell?
Guessing games, the frame game, battered mice,and pulling trannies.
We got it all here on this thread, indeed we do.
I hop the new mouse is half the man your old one was, zBrown.
"Let's eat, my son. My new Cobra wife has prepared some beer-battered shrimp. She takes it out on them instead of me. She's still crazy, though."--Old Dodge Skins
THEM CHINAMEN HAS GOT A LOTTERY
Only eight years old
Bobby Gene was a tattletale
told everything he heard
like the time
he rushed in out of breath
and gasped
Harvey and Lowell played the
lottery
and won seven dollars
I ain’t lyin’ to you
them Chinamen has got a lottery
in Merced
right back of where we eat
the noodles
at Sing Lum’s Rice Bowl
Oncet I peeked behind the
curtains
and seen ‘em wearin’ funny
robes
--Wilma Elizabeth Daniels
It really is a lottery, of sorts.
I realize all the Asians are not expecting to be reincarnated.
This is probably helpful with regard to the dynamically increasing population of the world.
Goin' down the road feelin' hungry...
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Nov 17, 2013 - 10:56pm PT
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I'm glad to see the old rice bowl is still cooking, but in my recollection the Vienamese and Chinese did not get on all that well with one another.
How they decided to form a conglomerate eating establishment is beyond me.
I was reading just this A.M. that they're tearing out the aphalt at the old Mariposa Grove to allow the tree some room to breed and multiply (apparently this is old news, but news to me all the same). I was wondering if they're going to be selling little chunks of the stuff like they did with the floor of the Boston Garden.
Just who are they? I hope it's not the same group that was tracking down Butch and Sundance.
http://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/5/000/2ac/3d3/373e95f.jpg
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 18, 2013 - 01:11am PT
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The fencepost of fate is not just fickle, it is fallible, followable, and pointin' at YOU, my friend!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 18, 2013 - 03:39pm PT
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MaidInTheShade, I had to check out Lucha VaVoom when you mentioned it yesterday.
Thank you for the cheap thrill.
Here's a photo of Ringside Art.I love dose wingtips!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Nov 18, 2013 - 05:09pm PT
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A bird was sitting right on the top of a stick the other day. Wouldn't hold the pose till I located the camera. No tree, no Mariposa, just an old broom stick. Could be a bruja.
I "won" an auction for a $9.00 replacement mouse, free shipping. Will be here sooner or later. So until then, it's El Rajon de Merced.
If you're gonna skate on ice, it better not be thin. That's what I always heard.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 18, 2013 - 05:15pm PT
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Birds on the hand.
neebee, I'm being good. :0)
But still feel a little bit fickly.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Nov 18, 2013 - 09:35pm PT
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Rust never sleeps. After 24 years the shoes rusted right to the drums. Was it cold fusion?
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