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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Please don't EXPECT anything around here. Nor expectorate. Thank you.
Remember meeting Laura Cunningham, the artist and naturalist, a few weeks ago, the native of El Cerrito? She has an exhibit at the Merced County Courthouse Museum still, and it is marvelous. Try to catch it.
Here is something else she has been into, along with Ken Brower: it's prompted by my concern for red salamandars who may have been involved in the rockfall at Hetch Hetchy yesterday.
What a tragedy that must have been for hundreds of the little guys! the horror! It gives me "the Willies."
http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/a_vision_for_restoring_yosemites_hetch_hetchy_valley/
One thing that's kept me awake at night more than one time--how many versions of the Mickey Mouse Club show have there been?
Three, at least. My medications are kept in a lunchbox from the 1977 version.
http://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/annette-britney-most-successful-mouseketeers-035054563.html
You all knew this info, huh? I'm the last to know Timberlake was a Mouseketeer, then, or Britney for that matter...*sigh*
http://summerexplore2010.blogspot.com/2010/07/hard-life-of-high-end-sneaker-shops-in.html
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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Returning from Europe, or probably anywhere, in a snit is a difficult task even for a speed skier or BB gun artist. Just think if it went down near some Australian Mountain Range. No reason for it, but I imagine it would be some kind of change.
Likewise, a gnat, as far as going down near Australia. Ease of use significantly better.
...the Gnat possessed outstanding performance features including a 10,000 foot-per-minute climb rate, and a roll rate in excess of 360 degrees per second.
I can honestly say, that I don't know if anything belied it and there appears to be no published data on down-climb rate, but probably faster than a speeding BB.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Tanks for the polyhyphenated hydrocarbons.
Ahh yes, Daisy and the Beast inside the boy.
Begged for a Daisy (many of my rural Salt Lick County male friends had 22's or even bigger, Howard even had a 30-30. Talk about big gun envy!).
Me Dad (WWII Royal Navy officer) said no "real man needs a gun" except police or in warfare. I kept begging.
My B'day came around (10th perhaps). There's the Daisy!!! A few stern words from me Dad: "don't you ever fire it at a living thing"
A few weeks later, thinking I was unobserved, took a shot at that Blue Jay on top of the power pole in my front yard. Missed the blighter of course. Me Mum had seen it. Me Dad got home, out into the front yard, down with my trousers and a spanking. Right there in front of God and all the kids walking home from school. The only spanking I ever deserved(mostly), or got. And I kept the Daisy. Got to be a pretty good shot with it too. But never at another living thing.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mouse... oh my, just trying to imagine you and mike, trying to collect all those b'b's... :)
BBB:
better b-b boys...
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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Did I ever tell ya how, B.B. King got his name? Don't start me to talkin'.
And, doncha tell Henry nor talk to Lucille, she'll talk back,
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_(guitar);
The 80th Birthday Lucille
In 2005, for B.B. King's 80th birthday, Gibson made a special run of 80 Gibson Lucilles, referred to as the '80th Birthday Lucille'. The first prototype was presented to King as a birthday present. King used the guitar as his main guitar until the summer of 2009, when it was stolen from him. On September 10, 2009, Eric Dahl* unknowingly purchased the stolen instrument from a pawn shop in Las Vegas. Upon researching information on the instrument, he was contacted by a Gibson Artist Relations representative, who informed Dahl of the stolen status of the guitar. This Lucille was returned to King in late November 2009, who was happy to receive his 80th birthday present back.--link
*Eric Dahl wrote the book titled B.B. King's Lucille and the Loves Before Her, Blue Book Publications, 2013.
Pee Wee King/Texas Toni Lee & Southland Polka
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Question: Does Mexican music have German roots? I was listening to a radio station with an eclectic selection of music and I heard what I thought was a terrific German polka band. And then I found out that the band wasn't German at all, but Mexican. Is it just coincidence that so much Mexican music sounds like German oom-pah-pah?
Answer: It's no coincidence at all. The story of the Mexican style of music you're talking about had its origins in central Texas around 1830 when a few immigrants established the first German settlement. The word about Texas spread back home, and within a few years formal efforts were under way to help Germans establish themselves in what would become known as the German Belt.
At the time — and even now, to a certain extent — the Río Grande marked more of a political and geographical divide than a cultural one, and the musical styles of the immigrants became popular among those of Mexican heritage. One of the most important musical instruments of the Germans' musical style, the accordion, became especially popular and was frequently used in dance music such as waltzes and polkas.
Today, various overlapping styles of music that descended in part from the German music include tejano (from the Spanish name for Texas, Tejas), conjunto (which features the accordion along with the bajo sexto, similar to a 12-string guitar), Tex-Mex, quebradita (heavy on the horns), banda (similar to the polka), ranchera, norteño and various mixtures of the above. The musical style also has influenced music from other parts of Mexico, such as the mariachi music of the Guadalajara area. Such musical styles are especially popular in northern Mexico and in places of the United States where there is a large immigrant population of Mexican heritage. Incidentally, the music is nearly always performed in Spanish, even by Mexican-Americans who speak primarily English.--link below
http://spanish.about.com/cs/culture/f/germanmusicqa.htm
"An Orchestra in a Box."/NPR All Things Considered, eyes & ears esp.
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=136891051&m=136930308
Raul Barboza/Tren expreso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ2f_AqAK-s
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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Apr 10, 2014 - 11:02am PT
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Too hot to handle - factory declared a nuisance http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26975852
Caution: flaming drivel could be next. Let's all look sharp here.
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Orchestra in a Box. Pffft - How about an orchestra in a little piece of vinyl. At the risk of redundancy, let's look sharp. Note: NEW ORTHOPHONIC HIGH FIDELITY
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OT: Jerome's family actually hailed from Spain and Sweden/Ireland, all of which aren't that far from Germany. What with "Deutschland Uber Alles" I can see it happening. Carlos, who is actually slightly younger than me, hails from Jalisco and Tijuana, so you can't blame him. Steve Jordan is
A graduate of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music in New York and though Germany and Italy are oftentimes associated in impolite conversation, he isn't taking the rap either, being more inclined to give up the rap, if you know what I'm sayin'.
Anyway, to bring it all home, is musta been Jerome.
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OT2: Still haven't figured out yet who the girl in the red dress is, but the harmonica in "Jerome" appears to have been played by Billy Boy Arnold and was added in production. [Bo Diddley week here K-OTAY].
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 10, 2014 - 11:13am PT
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Mouse, things woulda gone a lot better for Mexico if they had adopted the music of the Irishmen
in St Patrick's Battalion instead of the Germans in the same unit. But, as you well know, you
can't buy good taste. Do read up on the battalion.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 11, 2014 - 11:55am PT
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Johnny Cash/Wayfaring Stranger (Over Jordan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIlbZAP8ASQ
He took a swig of whiskey from the bottle before putting his pen down to the paper, "It's done, Angie. I just put the last son of a bitch to ever make your life a living hell to rest out here in the Nevada desert. The police will be here any minute, but I won't waste too much of their time. Don't be too sad, there is happiness in the world for you, just not enough for people like me."
The flashing red and blue lights caught his eye in the rearview mirror as they broke on the horizon. With shaking hands, he put the pen down and picked up his .357 magnum. As steady as he could, he put the gun to the side of his head and closed his eyes. As the sound of the shot rang out, a single teardrop fell onto the last thing he wrote in his note to Angie, which was, "Be happy."
--From the commentary on Cash's recording above
Is it a round hole and a square peg or the other way round? Either way would be otay, but not Otay ('oh-TIE').
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 11, 2014 - 12:16pm PT
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Reilly, lad.
I've read a novel about the St. Patricios. The hangings stuck in my mind.
Some vicious bastions in that crew, shooting officers in the main during the last battle. Opportunistic and maybe fulfulling, too, for some, but good form, all the same!
I found it slightly odd, considering your recommending this subject, that they were led by a certain Jon Riley.
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zBrown y Woodie de La Playa/Erin Go Right aka Beach Battle Bingo
[Click to View YouTube Video]"That man wants to die."
Dudes would simply not heed our warnings. Stay out of our patch. Surf here and you die.
Homer had it all wrong. Besides, Helen was his GF's cat.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 11, 2014 - 12:49pm PT
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Speaking of cats, I would like to extend an official Flames condolence to neebee over your recent bereavement Bobby-Bob, companion of many years.
Recently, "BB" (the little BB brain!) was the center of a storm when he swallowed a needle ("What were you thinkin'?"--Dr. Pheline).
It came out all right in the end, but this time...I'm so sorry for your loss.
This for you, then--
THE PURRY GATES
(Anon)
It seems that I've reached Heaven, or its doorstep at any rate,
And been winding round St Peter's ankles by the Pearly Gates,
I've plucked the angels' harp-strings and made a merry sound,
But it's plucking at my heartstrings that you are not around.
So I think I'll sit and wait here, just outside the door,
And as the souls come floating in, I'll tap them with my paw,
And when you seek admittance, they'll rename this place -
It will become Purradise, and these the Purry Gates!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Apr 11, 2014 - 06:58pm PT
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hey there say, mouse... oh my, thank you so very kindly... i never thought i'd get through that awful cat-needle episode...
god's love and grace, and the thanksgiving scoop, as to the 'poop' was:
a miracle victory...
was a hard sad time, this time, getting over this, too, as:
i had LEFT him behind for a trip to my grieving mom... :(
ol' bobby must have somewhere along the line, slipped a knotch, :(
was okay, but not very well, when i got back... did my best, but wow:
23 years, is a long time and the good lord knew--it must have been time to go home... at least, i was here for him...
dear friend lisa, too, tried to help--just in case...
a good just in case, last a lifetime, even if the case, was not to be...
here is ol' bobby bob, back in his 'hay day' or, 'pillowstuff' day,
as, modern-life, our pillows are not stuffed with 'hay'... ;)
thank you for thinking of me, and my critters, mouse... :)
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