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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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When I came out of the pub, having seen some baseball, I trucked into the Coffee Bandits to listen to the dozen or so bluegrassians playing a tune I did not recognize.
I went up to John, keeping time like a regular MisterE on a cool drum he owns, and asked him the name of the tune. He said, "I Can Never Remember."
Well, he didn't convince me, so I asked a gent playing a Gibson when they had done, and he said it was Big Sciota.
So without further ado, for Big Mike & Sandra, for Andy & nita, for SC Seagoat & Ferretlegger, for Khanom & Vicki, for BooDawg & Lisa, for Michael & Kali, a real lovely song, if not 'zackly a love song.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Now, just practice, okay kids?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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It's a pretty good group you had, Andy, each one different each night.
Many thanks, the campfire must be what salvation is like after a while...
"Jeez, I can't find my keys."--Big Mike
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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I did not know Satchmo did Visions
-zippity_do_daBraun
Have a wonderful day and don't forget, if you're out tonight, on your bike drain your spit valve.
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Must be a thousand hues, use 'em wisely
Things are not what they seem, think about it, fakey ending at 3:18
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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On behalf of The Flames, I'd like to welcome the new advertiser.and
Manly Style gives this place a lotta class, fer sure.
Seersucker-iously.
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How sharp are YOU?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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MooseDrool, got something for ya, pally.
A super-looking slab of exquisite slate, I'll bet, on this religious edifice.
It was destroyed in the war, however, no doubt about it.
http://blogs.transparent.com/polish/bellotto-canaletto-paintings-warsaw/
The younger Canaletto preferred Warsaw to Venice, where his uncle had lived and worked.
This book that I found years back just surfaced today, and it's titled Canaletto: Malarz Warsawy.
It is written in Polish, however. It's coming your way, sooner or later. :0)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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From Central Europe to Central California, from the banks of the Vistula to the shore of Lake Don Pedro on the Tuolumne, The Flames have some of it, but not yet all of it.
We are full of much of it and contented to be so.
Short for Modesto. Mr. Ralston, RR exec, would not let them use his name for their new town on the new railroad, the Central Pacific, so they thought his modesty deserved remembering, and 'modesto' is the result.
I should take a gaze at Chico next, but there'll be time. I got the Redding pix on T Hocking's thread, so maybe...Mound HOuse?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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My friend, my climbing partner, my best man, my favorite science guy, the mysterious Jim Shirley (all photos by him).From Canoga Park, Berkeley, & now living in Simi Valley.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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We two did all of our routes in California.
Lover's Leap, Arches, MCR, HCR, Lyell, Starr King, Box Canyon, Snake Dike, YPB, Pinnacles, Winchell, Tahquitz.
We never thought of Borneo, however, as a place we'd LIKE to go.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Now I would have started my day feeling up, not high just happy to breath
Then Synnot and crew with pup rope gun in Borneo
Damn we old guys missed out, dysentery and malaria aside,
I would have been an asset on that sort of climb
Now my day at 8am is in deed, mundane - take out the garbage 'afore the truck comes by,
do the washing up, laundry day & dishes and pans
that video swirling in my head
I soloed and climbed out of my Geo-zone
I missed the boat thrice, may be more,
Backing wrong horses,
going to Ecuador.
Long beach Island
Neuw Jeursey shore
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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This Friday, October 10th, Uke 'n Reed will be playing their final performance in the outdoor patio of the 510 Bistro from 7 until 9 p.m.
510 W. Main St., Merced
Jim Sanders and 2 others are also in the guest list.
Pat McLaughlin DahlstromSomeone to whose performance one should look forward.
She claimed once to have written the song "Too Much Fun." Mentirosa!
Pat's very entertaining, and has a FOUR-STAR "LIKE" COMING.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Bob Brozman talks about the history of the Hawaiian guitar tradition. WATCH OR LISTEN OR BOTH ON YOUTUBE. A quarter-hour of your day, that's all we ask.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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C King, no relation to T Hocking, is a very shy individual and asked me to post this for him.
He claims to have a significant FA in the area.
One little-known but important aspect of King's college background was his close association with a group of artists and scientists who embraced the ideas of the English art philosopher John Ruskin. King remained deeply passionate about art all of his life. His art group at Yale, the Society for the Advancement of Truth in Art, was nick-named 'the American Pre-Raphaelites', after their contemporaries in England, the English Pre-Raphaelite painters. The basic philosophy was to return to simplicity and practicality in art.
In 1863, as a young man, King made his first ascent of a western peak; it was Mount Lassen. Scrambling to the top with other members of the California Geological Survey, they beheld the incredible panorama of most of northern California, including Mount Shasta bold and bright to the north. King is recorded as having said, "What would Ruskin have said if he had seen this!".--Wikipedia
Ruskin was known for his admiration of ‘the sublime.’ Of which Wilkins writes:
“A raw wind howled across the mountain [Lassen] during their initial ascent on September 26, probably the first time the peak had ever been climbed. King reached the topmost shaft only to be blown back by the gale. Clouds obscured the landscape below....[They were unable to use their instruments, and so had to return another day]....But Mount Shasta, seventy-five miles away, loomed from the mists, sharp and majestic—the peak which had drawn King like a magnet. He shouted to Brewer above the wailing of the wind: “What would Ruskin have said if he had seen this!”
“A fierce snow squall delayed a second ascent until September 29. They began the climb by the light of the moon, an hour after midnight. King forged ahead, and again he was the first to reach the highest needle. “Here,
he wrote, "I wrapped my blanket round me and looked out over the moonlit distance.” It was a world of utter silence till Brewer clattered on to the nearest ledge. “
He's a nice enough guy, just really, really shy.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 10, 2014 - 05:03am PT
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSeNz6N4-e8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doIEwzc6k_k
"Helplessly Hoping"
Helplessly hoping her harlequin hovers nearby
Awaiting a word
Gasping at glimpses of gentle true spirit he runs
Wishing he could fly
Only to trip at the sound of goodbye
Wordlessly watching he waits by the window and wonders
At the empty place inside
Heartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams he worries
Did he hear a good-bye?
Or even hello?
They are one person
They are two alone
They are three together
They are for each other
Stand by the stairway you'll see something certain to tell you
Confusion has its cost
Love isn't lying it's loose in a lady who lingers
Saying she is lost
And choking on hello
They are one person
They are two alone
They are three together
They are for each other
there is a version in norwegian for those who speak it
see weedszcj, who is living a reality that nearly killed me
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 10, 2014 - 05:36am PT
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I hope Neil Young will remember who is the better guitar player, him or Stephen Stills.
C'mon, it's still Stills. Always was.[Click to View YouTube Video]Bull Run page.
Kenny Rogers was in town last night at the old Merced Theater, the Art K. center now. Sold out.
As an aside, my brother Mike used to look like Kenny when he was in his forties, same beard and general demeanor.See? Twins! Like MooseDrool and Hercules, zBrown and Bruce Lee.
Like Janis and Bobby McGee.
For Mark, my friend, a fightin' fool.
THE BEST to you each morning, as Tony the Tiger says.[Click to View YouTube Video]Mike's second daughter is named Becky, oddly enough.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 10, 2014 - 05:46am PT
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I wasn't gonna bring that up.
*belch*
Dale's for breakfast. It's Friday in Merced.
The best to you this morning, Tad.
Nice pic!
snd
Nice pick!
Ed Deeeeeeeee!
Van Halen, under the gun, produced this CD in the 90s and I bought it.
Van Halen/Dirty Water Dog [sea kayak man]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJS8jDQdeF8
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 10, 2014 - 03:03pm PT
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Rescued from Youtube Gems Hell.
Thanky, cowboythebrave.[Click to View YouTube Video]
This is a Youtube Rhinestone, cowboy.[Click to View YouTube Video]Have a long, boring old weekend, everyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxmiEuNkFJU&list=PLSf2pjjdBhIQyIk6gcHONZ-akvYUcPpMC&src_vid=AOzkN8dHnjk&feature=iv&annotation_id=channel%3A52daaf05-0-25df-9d75-1a11c2d77a
I'm goin' to the uke fest soon, so I best go preen in my new lycra outfit.
[Click to View YouTube Video]I wouldn't frickin' dare to post this over yonder in Spandex Ladyland.
The uke fest boys'll just have to like it or lump it.
At Gottschalk's Music, W. Main St., my town.
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