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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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4,100 photos in Gypsy's folio. And they're all "that" good.
There is always, ALL WAYS, someone who's got their stuff so together
that you want to do a Dooley and hang your head in shame.
Dooley noted? Now I mall done.
Today's weather:
Terrific news for photographers.
Every time I download, the window's open.
As I'm decidin' which are worth postin',
out the window the scene's constantly changin'.
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And a couple of oddball shots.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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I have been asked, "so just how many members of The (Original) Flames were there" and did they have colors? Were there dues? Could Tom Dula have enrolled?
When is the re-union?
You can never go home, apparently. I do not recall any of these folks from my youth.
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On deck: The Otays. There is a difference you know.
Born in CV, living in Otay.
Where you from SA?
That's a good question puto.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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No. of Flames, original group/chapter in Merced and Atwater.
Me, song writer.
the Rev, front man.
Jones, rhythm.
MC McAllister, lead.
John Yeates, high-pitched whiney voice, background vocals.
Deacon Swank, bass and artwork.
Wentworth Lewis, drums and wooden rollercoaster.
And that's about it.
Flames mamma Clare.
Flames mamma Sharon.
Flames mamma Belle.
Flames mamma Julie.
(All doin' vocals and various percussion.
(Throwpie was in the "wings," and yet to graduate in '68, our first year.)
No dues.
No colors.
Doo-langs abounded, so Doo-las would have fit right in.
There are no current plans for a re-union.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Combination fire drill and safety meetings were a highlight of weekday inactivity. Lots of "shake" action.
And then the kilo came from Cam Rahn.
Things changed.
Yosemite opened up.
Fertile ground up in the caves back of Camp 4.
The rest is geological history, historical history, grammatically incorrect, politically irresponsible, and carefree fantasy of white punks on dope and granite.
[Click to View YouTube Video]The critics have called the Flamingo Groovesters a poor man's Souling Roans.
The Flames were cautious of becoming just another gerund band.
We already had my name, Burning Ham, in our clique, anyway. No need to overdue the product. We thought about organics a lot the summer of '68.
One day Jones and I threw the frisbee into a deodar, so we climbed it and we got up to where it was, lit up, and dropped the joint to the ground.
That there told us to drop the "flaming" and the "burning" and Watts-not.
It was a "sign," the rest said.
A peace sign.
So we were left with the Flames.
As Phil Spectrum may have questioned, once, "Colors?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound
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The Ronettes - Be My Baby
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1144822/Former-Ronettes-singer-Estelle-Bennett-dies-67.html
Phil, the Ronettes, and George Harrison, the fourth Beatle.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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OTAY ?
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Apparently, the 'sidro TINYLOCOS are not uniformly appreciative.
VARRIØ
SØUTH SIDE
SAN YSIDRØ
=TINYLØCØS=
F*#K PUTAY YØU VATØS ARE SOME BIG LAMES F*#K YOU DEAD ASS VARRIØ THE BIG v.SIDRØ =TLS= BITCH
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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I keep miss hitting and opening up the wrong thread.
I opened the Sirlion thread and followed it all around, That Cade!? wtf? he was a fine person who all were a bit envious of! it hadme in tears to read all the back ground and the family left to question why,. He was the second child of seven! The epitome of the big brother.
ca not figure out though, cause WBraun said that it was not Cade that threw himself off of el Cap, on 7/4,5?/13. and when after a lot of reading Cade's obit. led to his family saying he went away from Oregon.
So my morbid curiosity demands who flew off ElCap on 7/4/13?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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For what it's worth, I opened it too,
as I was sleepy and there was no plays I'm goin', too.
I wasn't following you.
Am i clear?
Slow Death Comics.Sure looks like Throwpie, huh?Any Dylan in a storm, he said gravely.
Dylan's next me yell.
Rip rock
Reel rock
Choke me
With a tube sock
Don't you know
The Jokers
Laugh
At you
Along with the jugglers
And the clowns
All along the Watchtower
Strugglin' to be free-wheelin'
Robert Edminster's amazing book Streams of the San Joaquin, is a self-published gem.
This book reflects years of personal experience in the San Joaquin Valley,
invaluable for those wishing to become ecologically literate in the Central Valley of California.
Every point and local description is illustrated by color photographs.
Bob was our football coach at Merced High.
He was a P.E. instructor, too.
A man of the place,
He made us race
Along Black Rascal Creek
Until we complained.
He called us slackers and ten-percenters.
We just hated running when we were swimmers, dammit!
He was as glad to be shet of us swimmers
as we were to be out of his mis-guided clutches.
That shotgun was scary, even if the gun wasn't loaded.
For what it's worth the Dylan Vape is now available,
a few serious millimeters longer.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Not that I know too much about looking stuff up, but I don't see anything for July, 2013.
INLINE EDIT: Caleb Nathanael Brickman died in Yosemite July 4, 2013. There is no mention of the cause.
Apparently Mr. Brickman, like the Otays, was not uniformly appreciated either.
Jonathan Fisher
April 29, 2014
This man was my biological father, and I never knew it. I had always wondered who my father was, and now I know. He ran off when he found out my mother, Melissa Gates, was pregnant, with a woman known by the name of Julia. I have a half-brother, and all I know is that he lives somewhere in Tx, is also the son of Caleb Nathaniel Brickman, and is named Jordan. My name is Jonathan Wilson Fisher of Onalaska, Tx. I just want to make sure everyone knows where my late father's trash is buried. Thanks for nothing "dad"!
There was an unlucky fellow, Felix Joseph Kiernan, from London who died June 2, 2013 after being struck by falling rock on the East Butress.
I'm thinking of moving to Yosemite. There do not appear to be any gangs there (except for The Flames). You can tell by the lack of grafitti. (Wenthworth or Mickey Jones on bongos).
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Otay is not just a catch phrase, repository for gangsters and a state of mind, but also a couple (Upper and Lower, clever , no?) of dams and lakes.
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Notice how clean the Lower Dam is? It requires some effort (not a lot) to get to.
Otay did have it's own plane crash during WWII. I don't think weed was as popular then, because when they finally got around to resurrecting the plane in 2010 no drugs were found. SB2C4 Helldiver
Flames? Yeah, microcosm that it is, Otay has them too. Harris fire, 2007.
And we haven't even touched on the mountain yet.
Despite the lessons of WWII, reckless pilots still choose to fly over.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/F-16N_A-4F_NFWS_over_Lower_Otay_Reservoir_1991.JPEG
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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When Doug Ross and I chose off the Triple Direct for the second time
and changed our direction home by angling off on to the Salathe,
causing our followers down there on the ground some dismay,
Doug wanted a "money shot" of me climbing the Headwall Roof
while smoking a Benson & Hedges and having it crushed against the roof.
It was a poor idea in many respects.
It's hard to hold that pose
while smoke's drifting up your nose.
The wind steals the smoke away
and the embers lodge in your beard.
It's just too weird.
But not half as weird as the folks who bring you Spanish Leather aftershave.
You don't know what all goes in that bottle and you don't want to know.Moving on to the other end of the spectrum,
death in Spain though not a moment of celebration, it does have its own charm.
In fact the official morgue in Madrid where the near and dear ones pay their condolences
to their loved ones takes the form of a modern day airport with video monitors directing visitors
to the right corpse, vending machines, a lounge room, TV screens scattered around and also a small bar.
This is because, in Spain the family is required to stay besides the dead for a week after their demise.
Another fascinating aspect was that in Spain ( and may be also in other parts of the world )
a fee has to be paid for the resting place of the deceased.
This fee has to be renewed by the future generations which if not paid
either due to ignorance or poverty,
mechanical diggers are ready to remove the corpses from the graveyards
to make place for other deceased residents.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Public Service Message (another in an occasional series)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Marine air layer back there.
Layers of old dirt in London.
Yeti skull found in Notting Hill.
Excavated records show the perilous past of 17th century Londoners
By Sam Wilkin
LONDON (Reuters) - Londoners in the 17th century were never far from danger as plague, infant mortality and angry mobs menaced the capital, burial records dug up by the Crossrail construction project showed on Monday.
Crossrail, a 15 billion pound ($23 billion) railway link connecting east and west London due to open in 2018, is conducting a marathon digging operation for the 42 km (26 miles) of new tunnels under the British capital.
Sixteen volunteers working with Crossrail did a different sort of digging, combing through parish records to provide the names of more than 3,000 people at the Bedlam Burial Ground under Liverpool Street Station.
The majority of those identified were buried between 1570 and 1729, a period which included the English civil war of 1642-51, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of London of 1666.
"This research is a window into one of the most turbulent periods of London's past," Jay Carver, Crossrail's lead archaeologist, said in a statement.
Among those identified was Nicholas Ambrose, a mayor of London buried in 1575, and John Lamb, an astrologer with noble clients who was stoned to death by an angry mob in 1628 after allegations of rape and black magic.
But most of those buried at Bedlam were London's poor, and the records paint a picture of a fragile existence where disease and infant mortality were never far away.
One man, John Smith, buried three of his children within a month in 1574, and made his own final trip to Bedlam four years later.
Hundreds more of the people identified had fallen victim to the plague or other epidemics such as small pox and tuberculosis.
The burial ground took its name from the nearby Bethlehem Hospital for the mentally ill whose name was commonly shortened to Bedlam.
The ground did not keep its own records, so the volunteers searched the records of over 100 parish churches in central London which sent their members to Bedlam to be buried.
Crossrail will begin excavating the ground next month, and will submit the skeletons to scientific analysis before reburying them in consecrated ground.
The railway, which will link Heathrow Airport and central London to suburbs and satellite towns, is Europe's largest infrastructure project and is now half complete, on budget and on schedule.
On budget? On schedule? Zounds, Bozzy, this is unheard of!
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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:)
And their trains run on time as well.
:)
Fascinating glimpse into history, thank you.
feralfae
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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You are welcome, traveler.
We have ghost towns here in Merced County, forty-three at last count.
For official purposes, a ghost settlement or town is recognized by whether it had a USPO. Others are legitimized by an established business enterprise.
This may seem like a lot of old towns for one county, but the travel interval between places back in the olden days was longer so rest stops were nearer together.
Trips across the San Joaquin from Los Banos or Gustine to Merced, for example, took all day and when the river was up it took longer--a detour north was called for.
I have only visited a few of these sites. One I keep passing is out by Le Grand, called Union. It was established in 1864 at the end of the hostilities, and the name of the settlement had been Gwin, named for a secesh sympathizer, US Senator Wm. M. Gwin.
He had gone to Mexico where Emeror Maximilian appointed him Duke of the Province of Sonora. After Max, Gwin returned to the US, but not to Merced County.
John Fremont, first Republican candidate for US President, pathfining gatekeeper and mine operator, was upset over the name, so he got it changed. The residents were the same, the main business was the same. The Union PO was in the same building and the sun still set in the West.
The main building is a two storey stone house built for Fremont.
The community was frequently called McDermett's Tavern, as there was a small but stable operation by that name which shared the PO's space.
The place was sold later to Paddy Bennett who operated a stage line running through the area on Millerton Road, which forms the boundary between Mariposa and Merced Counties.
The PO lasted fro 1864 to 1876 and again from 1878 to 1896. It was then merged with Plainsburg and the town faded away.
Plainsburg itself, a prosperous center of the early days, suffered and died when the Santa Fe RR was laid in the late 1890s, making Le Grand the place to be. Plainsburg is now just a four-way intersection with a small store with EXCELLENT BURRITOS.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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The Current Dewar's Doers ad--they've changed.
I'm a Na'vi warrior
zimba-zimba
I'm a Na'vi warrior
zimba-zee[
Chomo Lungma
Lungma-Lungma
I come-a Zuyder
Zuyder-zee
Ida Helene
Artist | Student | Varied
Norway
Name: Ida Helene Aspenes Eitrheim
Born: 28th May 1991
I like fantasy, drawing, reading, watching movies, listening to music, singing and above all, archery.
Current Residence: Harstad
Favourite genre of music: Classical/medieval-inspired rock/metal
[Click to View YouTube Video]Bugger trolls!
Favourite style of art: Art Noveau, Impressionism, Manga, Medieval
Operating System: Dewar's
Favourite cartoon character: Pondus (from Pondus), and Sebastian Michaelis (from Kuroshitsuji), Himura Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin)
Favourite artists: Elsa Beskow, Sven Nordquist, Thore Hansen, Mucha
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