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zBrown
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I've said before, I can't necessarily keep up, but I'll try to add a little to the ambiance, if you know what I mean.
My favorite Sam Cooke show.
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I cannot believe I was not invited. I even pointed out what I thought was a safe motel down on South Figueroa, when he nixed the Hollywood Hawaiian.
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Temporarilly at least
Achilles was bad enough
Don't get me to talkin' about Hercules
How come you get someone like him to be your guard?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Could Sam ball? I do not know.
Could he box? Ask one of his other friends.
Did he know how to shop for clothes? Do you ask The Beatles that?
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zBrown
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Heard a good one the other day
Dec 23, 2012 - 04:07pm PT
so of course ... does she care?
anyway, entertaining story - moth worthy
All this is a way of telling you that “The Moth” is one of my simple pleasures in life. It’s a podcast and a show from NPR, and it’s taken from the popular storytelling series in New York City and other places. Basically, you go to a Moth show, get up on stage, and tell a story without notes. It could be hilarious, like one I heard recently about a couple fighting and falling back in love in Italy. It could be heartbreaking, like the one I just listened to Saturday about a father trying to get over the death of his daughter right before childbirth.
Moth stories educate, entertain, and basically remind me how you really can learn something from every person you meet. Some of these tales are five minutes; others last for 20.
But all of them leave you richer for having heard them, because hearing about someone else’s life experience can only inform yours.
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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 4, 2016 - 10:41pm PT
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"Moth stories educate, entertain, and basically remind me how you really can learn something from every person you meet. Some of these tales are five minutes; others last for 20.
"But all of them leave you richer for having heard them, because hearing about someone else’s life experience can only inform yours."
--she said, you said
He was there at the bike rack at the grocery store's entrance.
An old gent with a bent back and a ball cap that said he was a WWII Vet.
And he said he'd been on a classified mission where several died.
He asked me what I thought of the situation he described in which an admiral, who he served as a highly classified steward aboard the flagship, ordered troops ashore without prior naval bombardment.
I told him that without knowing more I could not judge.
Then I went about my business inside and when I returned he was still there.
As I loaded things into the basket of my bike, he went on in the same vein, talking at greater length about 2,000 dead, not just the few he'd described earlier.
He also mentioned how he could have and should have just shot the SOB.
Well! Not much to say after that, so I commiserated, took his portrait, thanked him for his service, wished him well and got the hell out of Dodge.
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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 4, 2016 - 11:15pm PT
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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 5, 2016 - 04:04am PT
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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 5, 2016 - 05:04am PT
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Gracias, Senor hooblie.^^^
[Click to View YouTube Video]Fahey played a version of Sun-flowered River Blues.
Nedra Russ y Julio Guerra.[Click to View YouTube Video]
“Pink” once meant “yellow.” What? We know, it’s confusing. See, Dutch “pink” was a yellow pigment; but because “pink” also means a frilled edge, it became closely associated with the dianthus flower, which has notched petals. And what’s the most common color for dianthus flowers? You guessed it: pink. Still confused? We are, too.
Dutch Pink - Lora Lynn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlu8dHMSogI
Brow-wow!
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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 5, 2016 - 06:36am PT
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Gray day in May.
Happy Cinco de Mayo.
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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 5, 2016 - 10:30am PT
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Last night, puffing our way through some Goriilla Glue Blue Dream Kushie Wushy, Decker mentioned The Brogues and The RATZ (both just beyond your scope, probably, though you must know they were the Merced/Modesto roots of QSM.
He knew Greg Elmore and Gary Duncan and his lady Shelley and spent quite a bit of time rocking out himself, like you and I.
[Click to View YouTube Video]This is at the Modesto Area Music Awards and looks like the State Theater where the famous guru of rock, Royal Robbins, made his last public appearance in 10/14.
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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 5, 2016 - 10:41am PT
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The Brogues really brought it, too.
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http://mercedmusic.wordpress.com/the-brogues/
And there's more good stuff to listen to on Youtube, so go forth and boogie, children.
When I got out of Merced and attended St. Mary's College of CA in Moraga, this band played one of the concerts held in the gym there. They were the locals, known as the Warlocks, some lived there in Moraga at one time, but were out of Palo Alto; they put out a single called "The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion" that fall under the name of The Grateful Dead.
The Warlocks were constantly, and still are, confused with these guys called Morlocks, as you can tell. I've still not got it right fifty years later!
[Click to View YouTube Video]Morlocks are a fictional species created by H. G. Wells for his 1895 novel, The Time Machine.
Morlocks - Get Outa My Life Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuUeiUtyVRU
The MORlocks were a Sandy Eggo band.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Like I said, "confusion" abounds, especially when Gorilla Glue Blue Dream Kushie Wushy is involved...
zBrown, yer turnin' orange, dude! 'sup?
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http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2010/02/grateful-dead-and-menlo-park.html
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Some times I spent the travels out west in the company of a childhood friend
one of my earliest climbing partners, he morfed from fun & adventures suburban kid through a period at Reed College where, he went to the brink ,
he worked up several "tries" the best was an ORANGE powder we called Bromo
with time, he went from suburban kid to rock producer not that he had anything
To do with
"HMm? Seems like some good Chinese - Locked & Loaded"[Click to View YouTube Video]
Then more Surf Zoom tunes with a side order of Chinese orange chicken,
http://youtu.be/woVYOY6jQw4
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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 5, 2016 - 11:24am PT
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Good surf music from the Anacondas, Gnome.
It was fifty-one years ago today
Captain Trips taught the band to play
Songs that have never gone out of style
And which continue to raise a smile
So let me introduce to you
This band known to old Magoo
And yes it is really true
That Pigpen resembles CosmicCragsman in this shot of the Dead's first gig.
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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 5, 2016 - 04:17pm PT
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Roy Orbson of Finnskogen.
The Strommens of Sønsterud.
Could this be...Marlow of Oslo?
Excellent pix, buddy. Choice. Top notch.
Norwegian Woods is "the goods."
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zBrown
Ice climber
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In the park, Richard York hippie priest, before James Rector was shot.
I went by the park in the morning and everything seemed pretty calm.
It didn't last.
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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 5, 2016 - 05:15pm PT
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Among the asteroids.
The Upside-Down Arete following a rainstorm.
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