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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 11, 2015 - 12:08pm PT
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Mucous Contest
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1814981&msg=1814981#msg1814981
A blast from the past.
Gnome, I'm not sure what the problem is, of course, up-or-downloading pix.
The Doctor and the norwegian are little help, as you can tell.
Purple gunk from a bottle? Respitory illness in your family, too?
Hope it's just seasonal.
Courtesy of Amy "Fill-In" Fillin, and I thank her.
I knew this album was gonna be special.
Old Bob Dillin rocks the Grammys with an acceptable speech.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/arts/Bob-Dylan-Speech-Transcription-20150207.pdf
Dylan scored his eighth UK number one album on Sunday with Shadows In The Night,
his 36th studio album, featuring covers of 10 standards made famous by Frank Sinatra.
"I missed the Grammys, Grampa."
"So do I, boy. So do I."
//they published my earliest songs,
but I didn't stay there too long//
Tonight I'll be stayin' here with you
And I might bore you to death before I'm through
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31292870
Also, as to respitory illness, Amyjo said this, too.
in the Chinese medical realm,
there is a LOT good to be said
about the efficacy of
Shitake/Reishi and Cordyceps
in the treatment of Asthma
and other respiratory
hardships.
Please do look into it.
And I will in the long goodbye.
The Nose. What would we do with no nose?
There might be no pizza!
No music!
[Click to View YouTube Video]At 13:35 a song about the San Joaquin Valley.
http://joeynoknows.com/albums/
The Essig Brothers discuss much.They are owners of The Partisan Bar on Main Street and the 17th Street Public House on Main Street.
Neither are what you'd call Weekend Warriors. Monday nights are fine, though.
"You can consider yourself a songwriter even if you're a shitty guitar player."
"Lately I've really wanted to sing like Chet Baker."
"I like seventh chords....it's all just sort of me grasping at..."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 11, 2015 - 12:55pm PT
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Special for TimidTopRope.
Alison Rush, from the City, now here, now there...a migratory bird.[Click to View YouTube Video]She's terrific.
I watched her on the street one night at the Merced Art Hop
and she had the crowd eating out of her hand,
like tame birds, and taking REQUESTS!
Unheard of!
"There's a lot of words that go into your songs."--Joey No Knows
At 6:20 is a song for Amyjo, up there in the cheep seats.
At @ 30:00 is a song for Gnome.
Gypsy! She plays a fookin' tin whistle!
"You have to get a little bit more creative with your sadness."
"Happiness is a great thing. I like being happy."
She's goin' to Stanford U., just south of San Francisco.
Conserving bandwidth.
Expounding Universe mentioned something the other day.
Get your fog hats on.Captain Van Morrison.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Petiton and repetition.
The rain let up
And the sun came up...
A pickup truck
Nearly passed us by.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Climb it change.
2014 the Warmest Year on Record.[Click to View YouTube Video]Estimated profit change.
It's not a broken record.
February 1995 was colder than average. It was the last month that was.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 11, 2015 - 05:19pm PT
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http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=00BBBMNU
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As an unG>O D> leey I was never to tjg's (thats The Jesus Gig's site)GOD TUBE!? REALLY FOR REAL COOL THNX z
As usually I am more like ly to watch the sap run from some hostage, az he is burned to death somewhere.
The wife how ever is always watching Pit Bulls & Parollees, spelling be darned as socks.
The syncopation of the things that certain supertopians post up,
(mainly members of the Flames inner circle)
makes me think of the similarities of deeply held and cherished experiences away from the rocc, that many of us must share.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 11, 2015 - 09:25pm PT
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We prefer the word "cabal" to "inner circle."
And "coteries" are for the ladies, dans mon livre.
Victoria's.
The FBI has a fleet of these in blue.
V-6 and VO, two of the silent partners in the Flames cabal. Siblings.Their parents wanted twin V-8s, but this is what they got.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 11, 2015 - 09:47pm PT
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"End each page of The Flames with climbing content" is something the cabal should talk over.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 11, 2015 - 11:58pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
So I went out to shoot the train today.
I got to R Street and the old tracks between 16th and 15th before the sun went down and set up next to the train tracks.
It was pleasantly warm.
A few passersby stopped passing by to remonstrate.
One man said he'd seen spirits down that way.
He and I were looking southeast towards the old depot and the Yosemite Area Rapid Transit/Greyhound depot.
I openly scoffed and said that, no, my camera didn't have the ability to shoot spirits when he asked about that.
I then told him of a time back in the late 1800s and early 1900s when the area over on 16th was a rough-and-tumble place, an open city, as some described it.
Drunks abounded.
The newspapers here (the Argus, the Sun, the Star) often notified readers of the death of yet another poor sot who was the victim of a train.
Deaths from a mangled body were fairly common.
The dude left and some time later Dickie came by.He claimed to sleep nearby--over in the freeway right-of-way, I think he meant, but he was not clear and cogent, shall we say.
He said that the trains drove him bats because he could not sleep well.
Well, duh!
I told him that I'd lived part of my young-young life in Redding next to the tracks that ran through both Redding and Merced, and that I knew his pain.
He waved his hands in the southeasterly direction and said something like a professor of architecture might, only he waved his hands so much it really did distract me.
He told me the ballast stones were blowing out from the speed of the high-ballin' trains.
It's normal, I told him.
It's gonna get someone killed, he said. And he pointed at himself.
I just said Otay and he left in a happy frame of mind after we'd introduced ourselves to each other.
Then the train arrived from the northwesterly direction and when its engines came flying by I grabbed the tripod and camera and turned out from the tracks.
When I had my back to the blast of wind caused by the train's passage lasted well over a minute after it Its force had knocked my hat off, but it just lay there until I'd got some pics of the receding train.
I had forgotten how much of a thrill it is standing next to the locomotive as it comes hell-bent for Fresno and points south.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 12, 2015 - 12:16am PT
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"Cat L."
"Railroad Rose."
Have a pleasant night.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 12, 2015 - 10:28am PT
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How does a blind man determine when a page is going to end?
Only time will McTell.
You Was Born to Die
But how much time do I have?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 12, 2015 - 11:45am PT
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People gotta live and pollute somewhere.
Looking at all that flat stuff, goin' all the way to Red Bluff.
Reminds me of just how many folks have never had any
Experience at elevations much higher than a few hundred feet.
They've never taken a hike longer than a few city blocks,
or traveled further than the city bus will take them,
and never will.
And it makes the climber in me happy...
and the teacher a little sad.
See?
:0)
I'm delirious.
http://forestproject.org/
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 12, 2015 - 12:01pm PT
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They all learned to make lemonade.
This is the happenin' romantic evening spot in the bleakest city for hogs ever.
It's located down by the river next to the two broken-down ivy-covered Chevy vans.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 12, 2015 - 01:01pm PT
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OOPS i just farted on the front page what was I thinking! I still have to wait forever for anything to load,
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 12, 2015 - 01:56pm PT
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Welcome to Cabal-TV.
The first Aussie feature film, and Rod Taylor, Nicole Kidman, and Mel Gibson are not in the cast, so sorry Locker.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Andale! mi caballeros.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 12, 2015 - 05:18pm PT
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Cab log entry--star date today, expiration date sooner than you expect.
Inter'sting story...
I was looking for "cabal" related items on the net.
Came across the link to the Kelly Gang film checking under caballero.
That led to this, eventually, to make a long inter'sting story short and suck'stinkt.
May the Force of the Horse be with you, Mrs. Kirk'Out, wherever you are.
Cabtain Calloway
And now I'll be gone a few hours...I'm watching Star Wars/Threads of Destiny, which happened to show up on the tail end of that last trailer.
Whoo-hoo!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 12, 2015 - 08:46pm PT
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Too cold, too cold!
What a masochistic pastime.
Ice climbing and ice surfing...zBrown, you're tweested, mi hermano.
The dog and cat show is much more viewer-friendly!
Her daintiness, the Skittish Miss, the "decider."This may be something like Punxatawney Phil's shadow ritual in the feline idiom. Quien sabe?
The Star Wars was actually the Bore Wars, a great black hole of immense dimensions and no talent. To be avoided.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 12, 2015 - 09:29pm PT
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Me with, . . .. I'm almost normal . . . Me without is abnormal.
There is so much snow and ice to clear around my abode that I tore some thing in my
upper abdomen under the left rib cage. It hit like a cramp when I lifted and tried to
straighten up from my shoveling toil.
It feels like a twist of . . . hey post up 'A Simple Twist of Fate', please,
I have not the patients is that the wrong spelling ? prolly is lazy and bad spelling too.
5 To ten below tonight , I used to love this siht, my old climbing partner , the one who has Ms and more friends then I, of all ages,
(damn bad form starting a sentence using the word:) Many ex vets, some in thier nineties, can get out in the cold or he used to, Now he too is old and we have not spoken since the holidays I fear his symptoms are attacking his systems it is a cruel illness and more so for a climber who pounded iron in the seventies.. His name is Jon Anderson a tall blond, proud son of Norwegian stock!
With a sharp wit, it was he who insisted that I use my moniker, GNOME OfTHE DIABASE.
Mouse his writing is incomprehensible, really amazing and he knows it sorry if he is lurking but I doubt he iis and if so Jon Phones work both ways dude, same with E mail .
the climb Crazy Cat in a Bandanna, CCB is his FA on what we called Hibernia, after the first Anglo settlers of the valley this maintaining my persona is still important although today I threw it out as it were if any one cares I will go fix that now. . .
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2015 - 12:09am PT
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Nobody outclimbs me! Just then a hawk nailed him.
It's called hubris.
I love those archaeology dudes and the anthropology gals.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2015 - 05:00am PT
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The claim is that he was sober."But happy hour's always the prelude to the sunset, right?"
Gnome, you need SPEEDY shutter speed to capture birds so they don't blur. Gypsy says so, and it's as true as what the little yellow bird tells me, too.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 13, 2015 - 05:06am PT
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I asked you NOT to post any telling pictures that might show my true age or that my mother
(or her snakes) might recognize!
WTF i thought we had reached that understanding .
well the cat. . . is out of the bag
( hey how did you photo shop off my bandanna?)
Now all of taco land and it's lurkers know who I am.
I am a monkeez uncle.
By way of a test the nexy uploadz as da boyz in Gaza or really Giza but that like the tank of the chevy truck don't rhyme as well as Dodge and hopeless truedat in Gaza.
(pic of J. Garcia at Giza)
WE hail from Spitz, and the wife's family from Gratz, Austria.
( pic. of map section showing river towns inculiding Spitz,)
As for Dah f. dada,
his farm or grandpa's farm, really it was here:
( pics of great grand dad leon Spitz,(2) The view of the hillsides of the river market town of Spitz, taken from a river cruise ship,HInderhaus in Spitz,. . . .///
test fail as you see I have some stuff that you can see but not from me cause the smiling fake Frontier Buffalo that is a bison will not play nice with Cmac's servers of some techy shite about slow up and down load speeds.Fdit It took three days to get half of what I wanted Said and shown . . . Boo Hiiss!
it is bad enough that I can Not share these, worse is that the Fair Gypsy posted
"All Hail Lennon and Marx" over on the camp4 pics thread . That album is one, that forty years on, I can still recite verbatim, ( not verbate um) like gospel or the Kol Nidrea,http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4955739 the morners Kiddush, or the prayer for the dead in the old testament not that I have any jewishish, roots my friendz.
Probably why I am attracted to the flames, Catholic guilt for not being any of the above.
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