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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Well, I can't say what jcarry has in his febrile mind. But I do know where there's smoke, there's Flames.
So this might be, can't be 100%, of course, but it might could be the beginning of the Meadow fire near Half Don't, Half Do, Gonna Half a BBQ.
T Hocking, the Moussolini is the central balcony, not a real one, just a fake for show...no doors, just the crawl-out window, now screened permanently by the fake Richie Cunningham.
The fire escaped, got in the wind, and went to Little Yo for some rest, but wouldn't ya know...he got burned for his reservations, just like a year ago when the Park shut down. (All in a midsummer day's imagining...it didn't really happen.)
Those eight fire escapes, four per "tower," look like a ladder of zzzzz's down the front of each tower. The penthouse residents have to jam down the stairs to floor five to stay alive in the event of a fire.
Tad, I know it's early when you rise, especially on a Tursday after a WHOLE WEEKEND of NFL, Ray be-damned Rice, and fires eating up our public spaces...it makes me want to drink.
Harry Steier/original "Trink, trink, trink."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4R2A2WNO-4
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I used to own a Royal. I had to do a term paper in HS seniour English class, and it took me all night to type it on that portable torture chamber.
It saw me thru the FROSH year (love that word, in a sophomoric way) at ST. Mary's in Moraga. It documented my steady decline into a FroshLush.
That burger was pretty bad. Soggy bottomed burgers DON'T make the world go round. It was good beef, lots of everything, but it was a fake restaurant burger, really, if "One" is a Carl's Juniour fan, which "I" no longer claim to be because "They" ditched the salad bar! Bastions!
Well, Carl's rich and famous like Amous, or Amos, and "Those" cookies.
"I" cooked burgers over the hill at Rheem Valley for T-Bone's Drive-In during that Frosh year. Or more specifically, in 1967, the second semester. "They" dropped me from my gig in the college kitchens because "I" stole the brothers' wine and wasn't reliable. "I" didn't give a darn.
The "I" in "Me" tried to blame Obama, but couldn't because no one knew "He" was around yet.
This was in the days back when the ladies in Playboy were uniformly white-skinned, in a manner of time-framing-speak. No offense, liberated blue-skinned friends.
So let's see, "I" was all primed to join the Navy, being a drunk. What happens to a drunken sailor? Put the man on the base (or keep aboard ship) and confine that unfortunate to quarters for the rest of the day. Yeah, as tiresome as writing with quotation marks around all the pronouns may seem, it needed to be done to fulfill a minor bet that I made with a guy that beat me at Scrabble, a former neighbour of mine, Lamont. So that's all over now, baby blues.
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What do you do with a drunken drummer? Same thing, only the musical bass, not Treasure or Corona, both fine beers.But only one is a serial killer.Both of these fine citizens gave up drinking. All greatness demands sacrifices.
[Click to View YouTube Video]And a tank of helium.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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what do you do with a failing burger joint?Start making tacos and burritos. Keep the soft drinks, they'll always need cold drinks cuz it's Merced, in the Heat Zone.
Another business that bit the dust, on old Business 99,It wasn't a cruising destination at all, really. Just a burger joint not near enough to a freeway ramp to make it pay. Their burgers strike no memory chord in my mind, for I probably never ate one of their burgers.
I had not much money as a teen, and we were fed well at home, besides. When we cruised the drag, we were cruising the drag, not chowing down. We turned around at Cecil's Golden Chicken Drive-In on one end of the drag and at Vernon's at the other end.
There was Rose's Chili Dogs and Fosters' Freeze on the drag, and over on old Bussiness 99 was the A & W, a really good spot to visit, especially after dark on a hot night. They had a patio with a real oak tree shading it. Back when we were in Jams and huaraches and being surf-less surfer-types.Still open, but a different name on it today. Both the others are gone, and Cecil's is now a BBQ restaurant, not a drive-in.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Looks good for it's age - NO?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Does it run, Forrest? Duh Cati, huh?
What's your prisoner number, son?
Where's your maroon shirt?
http://baynature.org/articles/alcatraz-island-is-a-renowned-prison-but-a-horticultural-gem/
Are you one of them Wisconsin surf bums?
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Seen a man named Algernon of Alcatraz recently? He surfs the Prison Break when it happens, but it's highly unpredictable, with time & tide & prayers said in desperation to ST. Patrick Swayze.
"Hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true."
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In answer to your question, zBrown, it looks like crap right now. Goos luck with it.
Enjoy this one...so good.
Moto Guzzi in the Alps & Dollies, 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Galib_Vg6X0
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I love it when a plan comes together.
--former Colonel Hannibal Smith
"It's zPlan, Boss!"
--Hervy Vylly Chase
"Fail to make zPlan, plan to fail."
--Bird Colonel Bird, in Catchy-22 by G.I. "Joseph" Hellmanners
"Sh!t. I pity the fool's a brokedownbiker on a brokedownducati in a brokedowncity like that."
--Mr_z
And there you have, the zTeam, run by not one, but two ex-Cols, an ex-felon, and a brokedownmidget.
Their mission: Impossible to Describe. You had to have been there. No TR, so sorry, Yosemite Yossarian.
That Bird has flown.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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DOES IT RUN YOU SAY? Only if I chase it.
Just finished it an hour ago.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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"People don't kill people, guns do!"
and
"People don't kill burgers, wet buns do!"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Curves, yep.
Permanent wetness.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Shasta Dam's veterans and history.
http://vimeo.com/74129294
The 75th Anniversary Celebration to honor Shasta Dam and its workers was scheduled Sept. 14-21, 2013.
Rally wish I'd known about it. Double dang!
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Hey Z...here's my red project that was once a pile of parts. Couldn't bear to paint the tank and side covers...can't buy that patina!
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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when it was just parts
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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close....
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mosto Betto, Throwpie!
I was visiting with Skip Johnson last night.
He's good. He's not Norwegian, he's Adopted.
His mom's family back in Iowa are all "Weejes," he informed me.
Nice project, dudes.
Speaking of projects ~
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Isn't that damn shasta project the one that was supposed to end up with the faces of MFM, Donini, Crimpie & Pat Ament carved in the rock.
Good work T-Pie. In the rather immortal (could be mistaken, may be immoral) words of MFM - do it run?
Dadoorunrun.
Fonzie said that.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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It runs. Ring ding ding ding (with a Spanish accent)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 10, 2014 - 02:09am PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Sep 10, 2014 - 08:05am PT
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High-Tech Survey Exposes Hidden Stonehenge (at Shasta Dam site).
... using ground-penetrating radar, high-resolution magnetometers and other techniques to peer deep into the soil ...
The project produced detailed maps of 17 previously unknown ritual monuments and a huge timber building, which is thought to have been used for burial ceremonies ...
The building appears to hold remnants of Italian motorcycle ...
Some images bear striking resemblence to MFM, Donini, Crimpie, Pat Ament ...
Who's Next?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Sep 10, 2014 - 08:45am PT
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Does this mean they've finished their bucket list? Who's Next?
6.535 million bash.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 12, 2014 - 06:06am PT
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"Play 'Shibboleth' for me, Pilgrim."
Gilead then cut Ephraim off from the fords of the Jordan, and whenever Ephraimite fugitives said, 'Let me cross,' the men of Gilead would ask, 'Are you an Ephraimite?' If he said, 'No,' they then said, 'Very well, say "Shibboleth" (שבלת).' If anyone said, "Sibboleth" (סבלת), because he could not pronounce it, then they would seize him and kill him by the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed on this occasion.
—Judges 12:5–6, NJB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
Corn, ears of grain, shibboleths.
Stream, torrent.
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