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zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
Feb 22, 2014 - 10:31am PT
Crash on the Levee mama (or near it anyway) N 32° 36.151 W 116° 50.696

The pilot and co-pilot--and, to a lesser extent, a Federal Aviation Administration employee who gave them instructions--were officially blamed Monday for the plane crash on Otay Mountain last year that killed eight members of country singer Reba McEntire's band.

The twin-engine executive jetliner slammed into 3,570-foot Otay Mountain at 1:43 a.m. on March 16, 1991, about three minutes after it took off from Brown Field, near the U.S.-Mexico border.

All 10 on board were killed, including pilot Don Holms; co-pilot, Chris Hollinger; tour manager Jim Hammon, and musicians Chris Austin, Paula Evans, Terry Jackson, Kirk Cappello, Michael Thomas, Anthony Saputo and Joey Cigianero. McEntire and other members of her entourage were on another plane.





mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 22, 2014 - 11:20am PT
It's Lenny![Click to View YouTube Video]You were expecting that wannabe Copland?

Cheese!!!

CANDIDE CAMERA

F-stop It, Mouse, you leave your house,
Each day has different light,
The scenes you shoot are much the same,
One day you’ll get them right.

You look at things with glassy eyes
At mountains, cars, and cloudy skies,
You snap the scene, the face, the “look,”
You’d like to make a picture book.

And so you edit, edit, edit,
Crop and chop and fade,
Maybe someday God will grant
Your fortune to be made.

"Cela est bien dit, répondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin."
-Monsieur Voltaire


Now the way I see it, the best things in life are free.

Souls, for example.

I could have started an ordinary thread, for sure, and called it "The Blames." But how original is that on the Supertopo?

Not very.

We'll take the drivel and drive it out to the end of the pier, dump it, smoke a jay and hear some tunes. And take a few pix to post on This Just In's or on Guido's threads, for instance, where no acrimony exists.

Bastions in the sky keep on turning a blind eye to the rest of the cruddy world of politics, eco-freaks, and hate-mongers.

I'm happiest in our own garden, with my friends, few but valued and loyal and some of whom actually still climb.

5.6, ISO 800, let's all go to Coffee Bandits. I'm NOT buying today. I'm sober.


Have a Great Saturday and I hope you come home safe.

With images.



mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 22, 2014 - 12:15pm PT
Fire On the Mountain

Long distance runner, what you standin' there for?
Get up, get out, get out of the door
Your playin' cold music on the barroom floor
Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core
There's a dragon with matches that's loose on the town
Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down

Fire! Fire on the mountain

Almost ablaze still you don't feel the heat
It takes all you got just to stay on the beat
You say it's a livin', we all gotta eat
But you're here alone, there's no one to compete
If Mercy's a bus'ness, I wish it for you
More than just ashes when your dreams come true

Fire! Fire on the mountain

Long distance runner, what you holdin' out for?
Caught in slow motion in a dash for the door
The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor
You gave all you had. Why you wanna give more?
The more that you give, the more it will take
To the thin line beyond which you really can't fake



Naux faux in this civilly-run thread. McNaughton much!

Vaya con dios, Ian. Gaux with God, sir.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 22, 2014 - 12:42pm PT
Jesus says to his followers, "The Flames of Hell shall not prevail.
And The Flames of Merced shall ride low and cruise slow and they are our homies.
Go now and spread the Word. Please take some more fishes and loaves, too, by all means, guys. How did you like the wine? Cana, '33."

"Lord?"

"Yes, James, son of Thunder?"

"I thought we were to go fishing down at Briceburg."

"Well, eventually. But I think Paradise can wait."
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
Feb 22, 2014 - 01:21pm PT
Barrett Junction, (east of Otay Mtn. - courtesy of Wheelbase Magazine))


Psilocyborg

climber
Feb 22, 2014 - 01:38pm PT
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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 22, 2014 - 02:41pm PT
Psiliboy, please, why no knee pads?

Alla same, a great time was had watching that one! Whew!

And name that tune, por favor.

And thank you for them tunes you passed along!

But I left Ed Phones at the bar, bud.
[Click to View YouTube Video]For ewNice.* No more mentioning of wizards and witches.

Civility Code, U.C. Luke's Veritas is mine, too.

Luke 6:27-36
English Standard Version (ESV)
Love Your Enemies

27 “But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. 29 To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic[a] either. 30 Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. 31 And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

32 “If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. 35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. 36 Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

Merced downtown's a violence and hate free place, like this one.

It all begins here, in Middle Earth, in the middle of California.


* Satire seeks to hold up the mirror, not to break it.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 22, 2014 - 02:49pm PT
Big Music, Big Band.

Old school rock and roll.

zBrown's good today, in'he?

[Click to View YouTube Video]Rock 'n' roll Saturday.

Not Spanky and Our Gang.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 22, 2014 - 03:05pm PT
Four tee tude.

A soupcon of attitude.

Buds, let's not be too crude.

Several ladies are present.

Kakawete. I think it is also called ST. VINCENT'S PLUM.They are so broke, they need St. Vincent's thrifty ways, so they certainly shop there.

I got some wine glasses there last year.
One broke when I packed it up when the roaches got sprayed, and I didn't know.
I nearly cut my hand on the thing, two nights ago, whist shifting things around,
looking for something else in that basket of kitchen items.

I was being protected, I believe, from a partial faux stigmata.

"The sound of one hand bleeding matches the rhythm of one heart bleeding."
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 22, 2014 - 03:43pm PT
More street shots from last Saturday.Gentle people with powers in their chairs. She moves right along in that rig, quite happy to be alive and in the sun.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 22, 2014 - 03:50pm PT
In case you don't care for the Stones, we got steel.

Let's make a fire![Click to View YouTube Video]
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 22, 2014 - 04:55pm PT
Wonderful book, Misfortune, by Wesley Stace. There is a (dead) sister of the protagonist named Dolores. He spend his time inside a doll house conversing and playing with her shade. She fell to her death from a tree while they contemplated the clouds in the high branches. She was only five. She is AKA Anonymous(e).

Complications abound: He is in need of an heir, apparently, to satisfy his mum, who is not mum, just lays in bed and cannot move her limbs, waiting for him to regenerate the Loveall; Pharaoh delivers and manages to escape to live another day. The tyke is supposedly a he, but really a she. How can a she inherit in the early eighteenth century under British law?
I'm just now getting into it. It's like candy. A chapter a day keeps the Doctor away. It's very funny in parts, and full of lore about the richest folk in Great Britain (not very nice), as well as the poorest (some nice, like some mice). Very like Dickens.

That said, it's a beautiful day. I'm takin' it to the streets.

Ciao for niaow.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
Feb 23, 2014 - 12:01am PT
Big fifty year high school reunion coming up in September. There's a website and all. So this is a duplicate post I guess.




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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 23, 2014 - 12:57am PT
Kazantzakis can dance,
Zanz can't dance.

Let us dance & sing,
Ching, ching, ching.

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UC είναι αρκετά για εσάς;
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 23, 2014 - 01:42am PT
Manana, super people and super trolls.

See ya to da bike race, eh?

This ain't no troll.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 23, 2014 - 05:52am PT
Original Merced Criterium.

http://www.ncnca.org/ncncaevent/original-merced-criterium-2

Begins early, is a closed-circuit loop of downtown and Courthouse Park.

http://www.ncnca.org/sites/default/files/01/06/2014%20-%201:47am/355%20Original%20Merced%20Criterium%20OKED%202.pdf

Come have your picture taken and watch the thing.
I think I might set up on the top level of the parking arcade between Eighteenth and Nineteenth to see the Starting Line/Finish Line from on high instead of street level.
I'll be at the corner of M Street and 19th Street.

It all starts there. It ends there, too!

It ALL starts here, in downtown Merced.

It would be diverting and it's going to be a nice day, too.

Il fait beau, Pappa!

My all time favorite movie on bike racing is Breaking Away, naturally.
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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 23, 2014 - 06:43am PT
Hey, climbing content is not appreciated. I know.
You don't come here for it, do you?
Bull.
More of it here than on lots of other places.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 23, 2014 - 10:24am PT
Via Gypsy Flores onna the Faceboog.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Feb 23, 2014 - 10:38am PT
To stay in Denmark:

Hanne Boel - Soundtrack of the night
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The flames are an extra plus...
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 23, 2014 - 10:41am PT
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