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zBrown
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Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 14, 2015 - 02:36pm PT
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Not unlike the stories surrounding Stagger Lee and Billy (Lyon, Lyons, Delisle, DeLion ...) there is not a lot of detail on the lion (actually a lioness named Elsa) hanging out in the guitar player's kitchen.
Did it break into the house. Not likely, since it is being fed.
Even more confusing is the Lee part of the mystery.
"Stack-a-Lee" and "Stacker Lee"; "Stagolee" and "Stagger Lee"
"Stag Lee" or "Stack Lee"
"Stackerlee", "Stack O'Lee", "Stackolee", "Stackalee", "Stagerlee", and "Stagalee"
Staggering, no?
Maybe we should Ask Sam!
Dick Dale and his Bengal Sumatran Tiger "Sam" circa a long time ago
Obligatory climbing content. Bouldering.
I'll tell it to you just like Dylan said it to me, "Dick Dale taught Jimi guitar". When I asked Dick about it in Glendale (at where else? the car show). He said "yes, I've heard that story before".
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 14, 2015 - 06:38pm PT
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Where is La Rumorosa?
Bouldering content.
Orale y mira, Pito
rocy mendez
Así pues yo soy muy libre de opinar lo que se me de la gana y aunque me odies me vale, lo que si sigo pensando es que me vomito en tecate ok? y si ni te paso pues que pena, pinche pueblito bicicletero. ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja ja
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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May 14, 2015 - 11:14pm PT
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The one pitch Chockfull of Rock Block, is on the Rockefeller; Sunny Vale estate, in Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, in New York Exit 23 "east view" off the saw mill parkway.
If you wanted to find it and drew a line from the gas station next to the Wendy's across the double lanes and past the paved walking trail, about a mile and a half of up the hill then down till you hit a wide Forrest road, on bridle trail is this, the CRB is on the right you could belay off your horse.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 15, 2015 - 12:18am PT
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Mountain travel is so much FUN! Why spoil it with modernized 4-lane roadways?
In the name of progress.
The video of los camiones de carga at the hairpin, with a bus thrown into the mix, now that was FUN TO WATCH!
I admit to being thrilled when Hwy 120 through Groveland to the YNP boundary was straightened in the seventies. It cut the time en route by probably twenty to thirty minutes. I was not driving that route much, as I really preferred the more southerly route through Merced when I lived up in the Bay Area.
And the old way to Tahquitz from Oxnard was a pain, too, before the 210 (Interstate) cut out the need to travel on Colorado Blvd. through all that traffic to get to I-10. But that was not mountain travelling.
As a matter of fact, tonight I was checking out the histories of both State Routes 74 and 243. NO KIDDING! I really was.
243 is the one I always took, the more scenic of the two to get to Mountain Center and Idlyllwild. I think we drove 74 twice when I was climbing with brother-in-law Ike. Jim Shirley and I might have gone that way once, but the route from Banning is just more fun to drive.
The route has been in existence since 1910, first as an oiled road, then paved sometime in the very early fifties, it seems. It has the name Banning-Idyllwild Panoramic Highway, and in 2007 it was named Esperanza Firefighters Memorial Highway in honor of five firefighters who died while fighting the Esperanza Fire in October 2006.
It seems longer, but it is only 29.66 miles from Banning to Mountain Center.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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May 15, 2015 - 04:35am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Heavy day BB king was It !!
The first rocker that my kids ever heard.
why couldn't it have been my mothe?
well some day as she has all but shrunk away And I still love her in an annoying itch sorta way
another Box of magazines she has bestowed one me
Get It that my belongins are streched from Mass. TO NO MUSS,
man I quit.
so like the carrot on the sticki
get led and find a box full of rock &ice and climbing and a few old ,from the '70s jim! issues.
it is a lot a lot of old news
that was the glossy siht to follow back in the day ( that is as easy to type as BITD!!)
I really wanted to include[Click to View YouTube Video]but the video is blanked out the music rises though. so i picked it please take a moment as the mouse and i do today to say
SO LONG JAKE ! The celestial choir has gained the great BB KING!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 15, 2015 - 05:12am PT
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This day in history, 1941:
The E.28/39 was Britain’s first jet powered aircraft. The seemingly strange name comes from the fact that it was a joint design between the Gloster Aircraft Company and Frank Whittle (later Sir) who invented the jet engine.
The ‘E’ means that it was an Experimental aircraft and it was ministry approved design number 28 of 1939.
This aircraft still exists and is on permanent display at the Science Museum in London.
Is this the date assigned to BB's death or did he pass on the 14th?
"Listen to the blues."[Click to View YouTube Video]Good night, BB.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 15, 2015 - 05:26am PT
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Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.--A beatitude.[Click to View YouTube Video] Never make your move too soon. Good advice for climbers.
A very understated and serviceable rendition of BB's signature song.[Click to View YouTube Video]
There are no muddy waters when it comes to the king of the blues.
Albert King claims the title, as well.
It's like Merced and Madera, each claiming the title Gateway to Yosemite. It's all in what you are used to, what you are more familiar with, and the historical facts as we each see them.
But here in America, we have no actual kings. Let us bow our heads and thank the King of Kings, with a nod to Tom Jefferson and friends, even though they were slaveholders.
It's all in what you're used to.
We tolerate Madera's claim as they tolerate ours.
We must tolerate the idea of the founders of our country as slave-owners.
The blues would have been the blues with or without slavery, which imparts a certain je ne sais to them.
What gives the blues meaning is its simplicity. We can say, "Why, that guy's got it worse than me."
That's compassion. And that's a good thing.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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May 15, 2015 - 06:23am PT
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WTF? The jaundiced nerve of the posters to this place
Ten post of tribute? That is an insult
Wait a bit Eight post or four if you don't count MFM, Toking, And me twice!?
Well
If you fail to respect the great ones when they pass they will forget you as well!
For all the hours and tears I shed to the sweet Lucille and the king I am forever grateful dead!
And as a head I know who buttered my bread and made it so I had some bread that led to all that I am
The climbing and the Music of my life's' movie, seem scripted to the sound track of BB King
And the Grateful Dead.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 15, 2015 - 06:43am PT
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About all the sunlight we're gonna see for a while. Good.And this is how the scene looks outside if you look up.
So I'm goin' back to bed.
Nobody dependin' on me for anything today.
I did see that the hatched squab is no longer in the nest. There's one egg left. I think this is totally natural, that a pigeon can clean its nest of sickly or unwanted critters.
One of the things which makes us different as humans, though it is accepted in many places--even in old Greece "exposure" was practiced.
Something to think about, at any rate.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 15, 2015 - 06:57am PT
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nun and slim
Back in 1963, LOUIE LOUIE by the Kingsmen was very close to becoming a #1 Billboard hit. There was one song that stopped LOUIE LOUIE from reaching that special destination. “Dominique” by the Singing Nun was the big roadblock that stood in the way of LOUIE LOUIE.
get some rest, mfm, neebee and Nome - rough roads ahead
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 15, 2015 - 07:23am PT
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Inside of Cathedral of Amiens (WWII)
Oh, and I guess we can start calling him Saint Junipero now.
I didn't dream I saw him last night. Did you?
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 15, 2015 - 10:02am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Well this all going to be put every where but here first[Click to View YouTube Video] so pick your poison I think the whole show is full of gems If it was a bit of a sleeper,
The sound is terrible . . . That figures . . . .It was my last show!. . Just call me Charlie Brown!
Well second to last in September (October?) I went to Saratoga NY, it was after this I think But? . . .
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 15, 2015 - 01:10pm PT
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I still feel Fr. Serra was a part of the Spanish military-industrial complex.
As far as Pope Francis is concerned, his sainthood is a done deal.
This forever makes me no longer a Catholic boy.
Such blinders, like the wings of a nun's headgear.
The missions themselves are wonderful to look at, good for the tourist industry, and historic.
But they only represent repression and imperialism to me.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 15, 2015 - 01:41pm PT
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My apologies in advance again,
Now i am going to piss zB off by insulting his sound trax with this trash
I provide the First version for the Follow the bouncing ball
sing along no ball though.[Click to View YouTube Video]Now this version that was aired so is soft at .37 seconds in/
the girl in green Taylor Swift gets a mention in the lyric,
the thing is i hate the song on many levels,Here ARE THE BOUNCING BALLS I PROMISED NOT TO SHARE AND SINCE Cher CRAPPED OUT HERE YA'GO[
The balls are at three min, and then skip to just before the end at 12 min isa dream catcher but it is not worth the pain
My kids love these guys ?
They try to watch"Good Mythical Morning" (the name of the show)
Every morning Howard Stern for children?!
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The hard drive is buggered again . I can add text or delete this construct under constructive stop work order maybe just the offensive or I of the beholder eye of the be hold in'
Beholden , Beethoven ,babe holdin' behold ing beaholddin' man now this thing ?
Auto correct not the bogus buffalo is to blame .
HO HAPPY DAY I FRIED THE BLASTED HARD DRIVE AGAIN TRYING TO JUST CAPTURE THE BALL DROP WITH THE QUIK TIME. . Great it is me I am sure the gremlins and I are kin, she is jJay Boyd again and my place is now the kitchen sink drain!
and was looking for this Bang Bang right here , now this sweet young thing sings and seems possessed and she is Norwegian. . . you must've known that.
have you the dour soul to listen to her dirges?
more of them are to be scanned: Fly me to the moon or her channeling Billy Holiday...
[Click to View YouTube Video]You have to give this Jax chic a minute she just Lost as in came in third, but at 1:01 she be a rockin' mamma![Click to View YouTube Video]If i can I will post the classic, dream weaver song 'boys' from the past or if you have an Andrew Sisters' perch, ( A FISH choke) to laugh at from above,
today is that day.
well okay sharing is fun and so much more fun in the almost altogether
Man or Bruce Jenner wanna' beCher does six versions at least.
Here are three
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 15, 2015 - 01:53pm PT
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Pilgrim, it's a dern good thing you issued advance apologies.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 15, 2015 - 03:20pm PT
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Try to stay on track, if you know what I mean, Jack.
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May have spoken too soon: "The upcoming canonization of Junípero Serra"
NOT much of a complement/compliment here:
Whatever their faults, no Spanish or Mexican missionary in California ever came close to uttering the refrain that was heard among 19th-century North Americans, that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian." And nothing on the scale of Sand Creek or Wounded Knee ever occurred in connection with the California missions.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 15, 2015 - 04:19pm PT
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It wasn't an easy process to "civilize" the indigenous people of California.
The perps were just more thorough and the locals were not especially warlike in the main.
And the missionaries were simply doing their job.
And the settlers were merely protecting "their" land.
The Great California Genocide
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/08/15/567667/-The-Great-California-Genocide#
The Wyott Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_Wiyot_massacre
ConCow Maidu Trail of Tears - Overshadowed by the Civil War, it seems
http://www.maidu.com/maiduculture/firstcontactto1863.html
Why bother to learn of these things when life is so cool in the OC, the hills of Marin, and Yosemite?
A compassionate pope would admit the wrongs done, as in the case of the slaughtered Jewish population of Europe in WWII, where there are apologies which have been made.
In no way does this man Serra deserves to become a saint.
He might make a good LEO in the valley.
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