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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 18, 2014 - 09:31am PT
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All this maundering got me thinking of that Bukowski.
I tried the moonshot again from my unique perspective, the lowest stair in the second flight of eight steps leading from Middle Earth to the fourth floor. The one with the foot print on the wall below the window through which I finally shot the moon.
It's not Ansel, it's not a weasel.
It's a moonstruck mouse.
Amy's trying again, too.
I love you, kiddo, and if you're out there watching the moon tonight somewhere in Red Rocks, LV, wear a smile and dance.
And watch out for parrots.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jan 18, 2014 - 12:17pm PT
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Got a new gig for your photos, courtesy of Mr. Jones.
Something happening here
What it is ain't
Exactly clear
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jan 18, 2014 - 12:29pm PT
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Herr Mouse:
The Bull is a bit wobbly afoot and his back hurts alot. I guess it comes with the two purple heart territory.
He's going strong though, has been for ninety years.
You can see why I paid heed when he said "you better leave my daughter alone", when she was a Jung blood. All is forgiven now and he (actually all three of them) really like me a lot.
Thanks for askin'
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 19, 2014 - 11:59pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 20, 2014 - 02:25am PT
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One Chapter from this old WWII book.This was not printed on "wartime stock." And it's a second printing, too.
KIRKUS REVIEW
This parallels, to some extent, for aviation training in the Army what Love At First Flight by Spaulding and Carney (Houghton, Mifflin) did for the Navy. Ryan and his chum, Sod, brush rejection aside and manage to get in; they report at Thunderbird Field, Phoenix. They despair over preliminary conditioning, over the boners they pull; Ryan makes his instructors grow old before their time, and Sod stays in his own brand of hot water. Eventually, they solo, and go on up the ladder but it takes Pearl Harbor to sober them. Bakersfield -- Stockton and graduation, supply further background. Pleasant reading, light amusing, basically serious.
like endless rain into a paper cup
My dad flew trainers at Tulare during '43. He had his cadet training at Des Moines, IA, where this book by Mr. Ryan begins! The only other book I've read like this is Old Man In a Baseball Cap.
Really?
"The real flight of discovery consists not in seeking new vistas but in having new glasses."--Biter Old Man in a Salary Cap, after Proust
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 20, 2014 - 09:02am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 20, 2014 - 09:33am PT
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Hop on, Pop.
"You could always ask for more, Mouse."--the little dickens inside
"Happiness runs like a stunned roach--in circles."--Georgia Boyd Howdee
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Inside corner, outside corner,
Die, He Drilled.
My, my, my, my, my
Dentist leads 5.3,
Let's go to the coffee shop.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jan 20, 2014 - 12:11pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 20, 2014 - 02:42pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 20, 2014 - 03:02pm PT
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Otay, this is a plea for understanding. Please sign the petition when it comes in the email.
A grateful California wants your support!
BRING BACK THE CODPIECE!
BRING BACK BOTH OF "OUR BUSHES!"
"As a pair to draw to, they have no Campari, son."--Yosemite Sam on the New Divine Right
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 20, 2014 - 04:10pm PT
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The above is brought to you by the makers of Brawny Bonnie Butt Bags.
This ad is approved by Bilbo Baggins, his new GF--the Author Styled Miss Howdee, and the Two Nuns Modeling Agency, Fresno, who supplied the cheerleaders.
Butt shots rock.
And racquetball needs to be played indoors. Climbing, anyplace, really.
Killshots rock, too.
W.O.R. = intense warlike outdoor racquetball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-io71im_xOw
I spent many many hours on the indoor courts while the Sierra Nevada waited "out there," beyond Yosemite Avenue, on the horizon, for me to come to my senses.
It was a good reason for hitting the bar after a match--like horseshoes, the drinking guy's perfect sport.
On the other hand, the cardio workout was beneficial, as all I did at work was lots of standing around on hard concrete watching the machines that I kept fed.
Had I the partner, back then in the eighties, or the true calling, really, ultimately, I'd have been climbing instead. Or I wish it had been so. If this is regret, so be it.
This sound familiar to some of you?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jan 20, 2014 - 09:08pm PT
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Right on brother, ya know what I mean?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jan 20, 2014 - 09:10pm PT
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Hairless Elephant bracelet - Good Luck - You may want to wait for the G-C4 model
If Mr. Honnold showed up wearing one of these, would it catch on?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 21, 2014 - 02:29pm PT
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Cold-cocked.
Monday Night Fights.Miss Tastes Great vs. Leslie "Young" Frilling. Les lost."New York snubs Paris. Biche fight ensues at Vegas Hilton. Nation goes to war over halter top. France loses. Champs Elysees changed to Rue Cesar Chavez."--National City Cuidado/Shade Bulletin
JUSTIN CASE,
If you got to get married now, if you MUST do a ceremahoney, do it in the only city that matters, THE NAKED ONE, the one named for it's own island, I'll Land Ya.
It's the other country with three words in its name.
The United States of I'll Land Ya.
Islandia is a classic novel of utopian fiction by Austin Tappan Wright, a U. C. Berkeley Law School Professor. Written as a hobby over a long period, it was posthumously edited down by a third by his wife and daughter, and first published in hardcover by Farrar & Rinehart in 1942, eleven years after the author's 1931 death.1
Islandia is a fully realized world which has drawn parallels to Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, but it contains no magic, so it is much more a utopia than a standard fantasy.
Remember, there is no free will in I'll Land Ya. It is a con-trac-tion but it's otay, it is a brand new world, one with only apastroffs, no free will.
Everybody be wearin' codpieces? What? Huh? Utopia?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 21, 2014 - 02:46pm PT
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He/they/his daughter/his sister came in throughout the back room windows.
then pawned it for a norwegian wedding troll.
I heard some things. Visual proof that I did. Cameras don't tell fibs. Fibbers tell fibs. When cameras are outlawed, only the gov't will have cameras.
Lens pray that never happens.
Vote Bush.
Keep Strawberry embarrassed, cuz I don't think Mr. Donini never been there.
Hey, hey, hey say Ray, thought I'd come up and see ya, eh?
Elbin "Bishop" Band/Hey hey hey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knaO0q00AnU
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 21, 2014 - 04:21pm PT
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King James Donini, the fiftieth of that name.
KJ-50.
Bow and Scrape.
Avert your eyes.
Straighten your cod.[Click to View YouTube Video]
"I love how these guys rape the body. if only the heavyweights learned some actual body punches, we'd see more skill fighters, as opposed to the lumbering soviets."--Chinese Boxer
I'm the Exhibitionist. You lookin' at me?
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical adventure
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Jan 21, 2014 - 07:33pm PT
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Mouse, sir,
You lead an interesting, colorful, varied, and highly entertaining life.
And I enjoy your chronicle of it here.
Thank you.
feralfae
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