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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 19, 2015 - 12:43am PT
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Pamela Brown, you have a hottie mother.
Mrs. Brown, you have a way with kids.
But Mrs. Brown, your daughter loves another.
Won't love me, and rejects all my bids.
Kottkecetically speaking, that was twice as nice as a six-string version.
You have the Kot keys? Let's give one to MooseDrawl, y'all.
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zBrown, did you find John Brown's body out there in Julian, or some John de Conqueror Roots, or did you happen to see a man named Bautista who dresses in animal skins with doves in a cage?
Sorry to hear of M's silly knee. They are all the same, jointly or separately.
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And into the world comes Arid Zone A.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 19, 2015 - 05:11am PT
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Your correspondent, F.E. Gimlett, is also known as the hermit of Arbor-Villa.
He writes of the past "glory" days and nights of Leadville, Colorado (as opposed to THE Leadville, leading coffee-house of the West, known to Fritz the Boss of the Rancho of Choss Creek).
Herewith, this hermitic diatribe on the tribe of women who are apparently only supposed to be "homemakers" for their prey, er, mates. I do believe the man has spent too many nights alone and he carries his bitterness on his sleeve. It would look better dumped on his head or pissed into the jug beneath his lonely bed.
(N.A.H. is short for the Not At Home gang/society.)What would my cousin, Connie Jo, say to this dude? It would be nice to be the fly on the wall. You may remember my cousin, my mom's cousin, actually, who owned The Leadville in Ketchum, ID. She was a Berkeley gal, a wearer of the beat beret, and hip and wise and beautiful.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 19, 2015 - 06:31am PT
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Pancho and Lefty put a bug in my ear. A gold bug, perhaps. Oftentime I've heard it said it would be just the same with a bug of lead.
Big Nose George and Dutch Charley: A Cautionary Tale.
Kindness is not in the vocabulary of many old westerners. Why they are so durn west stern is not beyond me, but don't speak here of the milk of human kindness.
Boom town gals won't you come out tonight and dance by the light of the moon?
What bedevils me is that I am intermittently reading Larry the McMurtry's collection of essays on life in the Old West, Sacajawea's Nickname.
He has special insights which seem to have escaped many, including the Arbor-Villain, Mr. Gimlett.
Mining claims of my own invention which reflect the fickleness of fate in searching for mineral wealth:
John Shaft
Fallen Timbers
The Golden Shower
The Huckleberry
The Daisy
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 20, 2015 - 03:36am PT
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There are genii in that lamp, apparently. But nowhere else in sight.
Then and Now// is the title of a novel by W. Somerset Maugham about Niccolo Machiavelli and his attempt to rise in the world by being the tool of the Florentine signory, the city's ruling body. I am currently reading it and enjoying Maugham's take on Machiavelli's way of thinking.
Of course, most of us were told to read The Prince and that's the extent of our knowledge of this genius. The Renaissance seems to have abounded with geniuses, but it's not so. They were promoted much later by succeeding generations.
I found this to be a gem and the actors were very well-directed and it's all in all a good thing to watch on a foggy, drizzly night like this has been.
[Click to View YouTube Video]I'm about done in from all the rest I have been getting, nursing myself along with good lit and the occasional toke.
And so to bed, peep-peep.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Jan 20, 2015 - 07:54am PT
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Say man.
What's that boy?
you look like you oughta have a peak named after ya.
OK, but the only one available is kinda far away. Those Pakistanis, being the fickle lot they are, why not just stick "Eternal" right in the name?
You wanna hear the rest of it?
Where you from?
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Obligatory drum solo (it is possible to do a short one). Though we all know Slater used his hands and feet, it almost appears that he only used his feet (well and the rope and board).
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Jan 20, 2015 - 11:36am PT
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As i must so do I trust that if It is Z the ominous , the soundz amnongst us, that I am
following I hope it is not
Crossing his sicks
This IS a short drum solo. . .
I Do Not read before I leep ...
I do this Often , as in like right now Giving all A furrowed brow
do I like to go to the poetry thread no , no I would rather not as I said it's got a lot to do with
ernest Insparation, I like to right with out a glut of others verbs ruining my creative thought.
That all being said I only zuxt now went aND FOUND THAT BIG MIKE FINGER SHOT AND ALL YOU SAID AND ALL . . . 88FREAKY88[Click to View YouTube Video]
HELLO COSMIC
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 20, 2015 - 02:06pm PT
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Bungle, oh Bill, the intro into the tipi,
tripping over the lip of the entry,
stumbling into the conical room,
six-shooter drawn but shooting at whom?
There's a wicked stepmother of a wicked papoose who's shitting in her lap
because the brightness of the lifted flap
sacred the crap out of him.
She lifts her face and spits and then...
you awaken with sweat on your face, drenching your body all over the place,
but you got the nerve up, in your dreams, to go invade that village and Custer is right behind you.
Such brave little men.
Such heroes you've been.
Revisioning your lives is the mission of knives,
wielded by medical men.
Which doctor is the gynecologist?
You pussies need your hormone balances adjusted.
and the real thing, or Neil thing, this bud's for you.
git down.
No reflection on old Bob Fuller, you understand. None. Nor James Drury, who respects his peacemaker.[Click to View YouTube Video]The cattle stopped grazing the pastures out back in about 1962.
"Willie ever go home, or will he be stuck on that MTA thing-a-ma-Bob?"
"Nope, he's crashed out in his truck."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 20, 2015 - 03:54pm PT
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The Seahawks?No te dije!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Jan 20, 2015 - 05:04pm PT
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Didn't Buffalo Bill die?
Turn left - you could end up in Deep Elem. Get your ten dollars ready?
'Scuse me, jet let me tune up my guitar for a minute
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 21, 2015 - 12:02am PT
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Look out, Lookout Mtn!
They made a grave mistake.
When Pawhuska died (our hero's ??Latin Indian?? name--you'll have to look them up earlier in the thread, somewhere out there in the Flaming Desert) in 1917, Harry Tammen, Denver newspaper tycoon, forced the Widow Louisa to have him interred at Lookout Mtn, near Denver. Cody always had favored being laid to rest in Cody, WY.
At least the original Guardian of Yosemite, Galen Clark, got his wishes fulfilled after having prepared his own grave years beforehand. His burial was given the blessing of the NPS as the last officially-sanctioned inhabitant of the Yosemite Cemetery.
But let's talk about the Cold War, not the Indian Wars.
Check out the white pants--Bridwell would have loved them around camp.[Click to View YouTube Video]Le Corsaire. Nuryev would have been a climbing phenom with that trim build and control and all.
Other corsairs...the US Navy jet, ca. 1975.And the vintage version.
Glibert & Sully & the Dancing PO-leece.
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Erring fellow creatures, take egrets, for example,
Sometimes err egregiously, like great bobbies.
"Test me, then arrest me, whyn'tcha?"--Bobbie Weir
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 21, 2015 - 04:29am PT
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Culture: not just for yoghurt anymore.
Plaudit and a kudo to "shaddokiddo," or neebee, for posting such a grand menu of music on her FB page. I've liked them all, for the most part, but forget to "like" like them. Egmont Overture is my favorite of them all, and I did give it a "licking."
I've said it before, though, my all-time fave is the Moldau by Bedrich Smetana.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/17029/music-5-other-composers-who-went-deaf
It's so hard to resist posting stuff you find while investigating another topic. Hence:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/50173/when-and-why-did-people-start-saying-um-when-they-talk
And I got yer all-time & mammal drum ensemble performance here. Mr. Gnome...[Click to View YouTube Video]Enough to drive you deaf and um. What you can't hear are the "No-z-ums," but wait till you try to sleep!
"What's that noise?"
"Um, mosquitoes, um sure. Now go the f to sleep. PLEASE?"
Which brings me to gnomenclature, or name-calling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_names_of_mountains
fluitantis glaciei mons
Slim Dusty/Pub With No Beer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E0aZ387M_I
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Jan 21, 2015 - 04:56am PT
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Um, It's not the size of the dog in the fight , It's the size of the fight in the dog.
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