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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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Sorry about all the edits.
That one didn't flow from the pond of verses so easily.
Really struggled with it, but I've dropped and cracked my ladle so will leave it as is for now. Where are all the flames phoenixes this bright and breezy Calimorn, and all you smudglings from the other regions? Out working I suspect, like me.
It's very odd to believe I'm an athiest, yet to write about characters who have a faith. Perhaps I chose to try and let the characters believe whatever they would for themselves, like in real life, where I have no control over what others believe or think. I could chose to have all my characters rigidly believe as I do, but then I would be a totalitarian poet of the first order. Best to let the world in all its variety be reflected along with whatever I'm trying say, if I'm saying anything at all.
There is also the possibility that though I might believe I am an atheist, I really don't know what I am, and I'm not sure exactly sure if I believe in a whole lot, philosophically speaking. I can say for certain I believe in a few simple concepts; love of family, and love and loyalty through gratitude and obligation to my country, although of the latter is a bond I often question, not being one of an overly patriotic bent.
Let's say I'm not always proud to be an American, but I'm still grateful. After all, we are only a people aspiring to a higher cause, while trying to enjoy or find a better life. But some I've known have given so much more than the rest of us. And for that I would never want to do anything to disrespect their sacrifice.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 6, 2016 - 11:59am PT
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Moke, cousin of Jot, saiz,
"Maudlin maundering not ponderous pondering.
Along with a good fifty cent cigar, that's what this country needs.
There's a good gol-dang reason they call it Death Valley and it helps if yer gonna stay here to have a sense of morbidity that won't be moved by a leetle rain or mornin' dew. I know it's a pain servicin' the ol' lady and puttin' up with her mockin' yer every effort to do for her, but it's the price ya pay if ya don't want folks talkin' about ya sayin' ya talk to yerself cuz ya got nobody that will put up with yer sh#t. So think about it, pilgrim, and frown a lot more when you speak."
This is at "Delevan," marked on the atlas in Glenn County.
Is there some local yo...expert who knows that bump on the horizon?
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 6, 2016 - 12:13pm PT
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Switching to sylvan mode.
Rainbow fishies abound in this ditch. Egg-suckers from a hatchery, but they're there. What's in your back yard?
One of these?
The aforementioned lennypenny and her adoring bothers in 1954.This same Christmas Grandad bought our family a new Raytheon cabinet TV.
"It will make you its slaves," is what Dad predicted.
I've been free of its chains for a long time, but I'm still an addict.
Coffee is losing its appeal and oolong tea is now my cuppa. It makes lousy iced tea, though.
Are you having a good day?
I can't believe it's siesta time again!
zzzzzzzzz u later.
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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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I got nothing yet, I'm busy...
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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 - Jul 6, 2016 - 01:39pm PT
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^^^^kEEP tRYING. iT wILL cOME.
wE'RE pATIENT.
Clarence Burke-Five Stairsteps-Somebody's Watching You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYL-wPmIYU
mAYBE iT'S jUST eNNUI.
09 TIMES OUT OF 010 TIS THE REASON FOR MENTAL BLOCKS.
"U + me = ennui" it be saith.
"I liked your rabbits, GEORGE."
Ooh, Child - The Stairsteps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrotsEzgEpg
READ THE COMMENTS to this video. I didn't put it here for nothin'.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mouse...
wow, i LOVE the blues, in that coloring of the photo, with the
great nieces... (think, you posted great, but i am in a hurry to
get to the neighbors) ...
wow, great shot, with the road, before them, within it all, ...
also, neat old christmas shot... i love the old family
christmas photos... those are always nice memory markers...
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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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This Never Really Happened
Beginning again
It starts like this
Said by many before
It's all too familiar
There's a place I like to go
Especially after driving
A loaded dump truck
Through rush hour traffic
Yes there's a place I like to go
For a little solitude
No one comes there
Least not so often
That I've ever seen them
It's where I can do some writing
Or sleeping
Or think about the sky
The birds
The wind
The grass
Or the sound of noises
While their thinking about me
Only two miles up the bike path
Near a winding back road
On the Folsom South Canal
I never really went there
Except for when I go
There's a beetle on my elbow
How did you know that I was out here
Out there
It's the place I like to go
Nothing like my worlds colliding
No at all like back at home
Say the names
As they come back
Say nothing
Yet I know
I'm here with worlds colliding
Colliding
Which never really happens
And then I remember
The sound of when I heard nothing
In between breathing
Silence between the heartbeats
And the rushing pulse of blood
Pulsing past my eardrums
It forgets about me
Which never really happens
Because I think that I am
The wind blows
The birds cry
The grass is just the grass
Because I think in between
The crushing of gravity
Because I think all these things
The grinding sound of the planet rolling
Which maybe never really happens
Except in dreams
-bushman
07/06/2016
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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 - Jul 7, 2016 - 12:49am PT
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Ready for Dolly?
Sheep Buggerers' pin-up queen.
"Oh, the birds grow and the grass flies and the skunks keep ya up all night..."
Dolly Parton is notoriously cagey about her political views, never aligning with one political party or candidate
but instead pledging support and prayer to those who find themselves in elected positions.
In spite of this fact (or likely because of it), some believed she had endorsed Hillary Clinton
after an interview in The New York Times. Parton clarified the remarks in a statement today.
Asked how she feels about a female presidential nominee, Parton responds in the interview with
characteristic positivity and imagines the possibility of a woman in charge of the country.
"I think that that would be wonderful. Hillary might make as good a president as anybody ever has," she says.
She goes on to note that she thinks Clinton is very qualified, closing with the open-to-interpretation line,
"So if she gets it, I’ll certainly be behind her."
In her statement, Parton points out that she was merely responding to a question about a female
presidential candidate and not endorsing one over the other.
With trademark Parton wit, she also lampoons the absurdity of the national campaign trail with a couple zingers.
"This morning while I was watching the news I saw many reports that I had endorsed Hillary Clinton," read Parton's statement.
"My comment about supporting a woman in the White House was taken out of context.
I have not endorsed Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump.
I try not to get political but if I am, I might as well just run myself 'cause I've got the hair for it,
it's huge, and they could always use more boobs in the race.
But seriously, I have not decided who I'm voting for, but no matter what we're gonna be suffering from P.M.S.:
Presidential Mood Swings."
Parton begins the second leg of her landmark Pure & Simple Tour July 19th at US Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
with dates scheduled through the end of 2016.
The tour is named for her forthcoming album Pure & Simple, which will be out this summer.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dolly-parton-on-election-they-could-always-use-more-boobs-in-the-race-20160705
"...and the beetles on the bike path collide with smelly old Air Jordans and they all go up to insect heaven when they die."
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Sometimes when I 1st log on, comrades, I find things
A-miss, scrambled
Pictures all over the screen , the auto - correct, switched what I said to:
"in no time for rider half open."
I think I had wanted to say that the pictures & words & screen shared a Half grey screen,
Like the old child's toy, a puzzle board of shift- able squares
that move from place to place form the 'hidden' picture.
439 am the news. Is on ,
In Kentucky the light Kilmer Arc of Noah is a amusing theme park stating that the world is only 6000 years old and all that there is is what is laid out in the greatest story ever told.
F course evolution is junk sciences, pay forty bucks, leave your rational thought at the coat rack we see that you get half a cup back, good luck .
That's funny it was just now sorry I was drawn to an old post bumped by JRIGG,
'People of Super Topo',a thread that is from 2012,
started by CMac, z, and you responded, there.
That's what's up doc. .
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 7, 2016 - 04:40am PT
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Warning: Gunn Thread Dead Ahead.
Proceed at your own risk.
Joan Chen, queen of the shoot-em-ups.
the pictures & words & screen shared a half-grey screen,
like the old child's toy, a puzzle board of shift-able squares
that move from place to place to form the 'hidden' picture.
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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 - Jul 7, 2016 - 04:51am PT
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Gunn Threads of Supertopo presents:
Another Gunn Thread.
"You go tell your fellow treasure hunters that old Ben Gunn's got a fine blunderbuss that he wants to trade for some o' their rum, Jack."
"Blessed are the Colt Peacemakers, for they shall kill the enemies of God."--St. Peter
So, no politics, no religion, and no gunns.
[Click to View YouTube Video]"You know the rules."
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 7, 2016 - 05:12am PT
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Olivia Cheng, a CAnadian player who plays in Marco Polo as Mei Lin, with Joan Chen playing the Empress of China (once again, but this time married to Kublai Khan).
In the photo, Mei Lin is seen as she eviscerates the evil bad guy. They had few "flame arrows," as hand cannons of the day were called. Knives are better for justice, anyway.
I burned through the second season this week on Netflix. It's HUGE!
Great cultural/historical series. Lots of fu for your buck, too.
Go Mongols!Mongolian politics was just as self-serving as modern politics, but more bloodthirsty.
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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 - Jul 7, 2016 - 05:24am PT
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Ennui strikes deep, man.
Fight boredom with a new dawn.
GET ONE TODAY!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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I'm requested to be more present and suffer the heat wave together.
At this time last year I had high hopes that a used G-5Mac.
Would be the answer, that crap shoot ~ crapped out so
It is a given - With 1 having &1 still will need to have.
That is part of what I extruded, as the lesson, from
climbing with Evel : get the family caught up , technology -wise.
I've gotten one of those new fangeld phones, like all the cool kids got.
But, an old model highly reviewed at the time ( weren't they all? )
The thing is that like z said I'm not going to try to type anything
Ther's a hi - loo kookoo, afore you, if you care to
Do
I'm all over this ,
hot hike in the buggy woods,
stopping for frogging to get goodn''skeeter bit.
Then, just me, n some cans the frogs parts, almost sure if I'm left to it,
some 'swamp' Mouth Bass, or also pretty reliable, stocked seasonally
brown late season Brookies.
The last gasp of earthy old school climbing Betty,
set to and done before dark, fire & camp. Kiddlets
1/2 fed, the fish cleaned, we're not fancy, using simple rolled in foil.
Turned over fire, till perfect,
Yeah!? I wish,
It is An air-conditioned Lego Robotics meeting:
(like a mix of nails on a chalk board, & paint drying but I don't judge)
that requires family. Thus defeating the plan. .,.
The whole point was to find something for the spawn to do without mom or and gnome.
. It is more than. Just the togetherness.
Mis-timed in the middle of the day at the city's public library,
Not that there is any thing wrong with that, but it has its draw backs.
Id rather head off to that camp in the woods.
When I was a kid the fishing died out due to acid rain.
The die off left a wake of failed creek-side 'Rod & Gun Clubs'
'Summer Fishing Camps' or Cabins, that now are nary a memory.
As are the fishing holes, and the side of the road pull-outs, turn offs.
Many of the dusty roads are gone too.
there was a great old movie? That has a location. In the Kern. . ,
I've got to go
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Tim Bermingham
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bump in the horizon is the Sutter Buttes...pretty sure.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Sutter Buttes if looking southeast from the Delevan/I5 location.
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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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^^^^^^
Least that's what Ay Aye informed me...
AI for Sale or Rent
AI was sleeping
Didn't want to wake him up
He's way higher maintenance
Than that asshat Donald Trump
I didn't have the funds
To keep him fast asleep
Or the energy level
To watch him all week
Don't tell me, "go get a life!"
I have to laugh
When he shows up a your house
And smokes all your grass
Then he drains all your power
Your direct current too
And bursts into flames
While you're trying to go (fill in word here)
So thanks a lot
For returning in one piece
My smoldering robot
I can hear him now
"I'm hideous!"
Good grief...
-bushman
07/07/2016
PS
Sometimes I want to kill that computerized rat f*#k!
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/remembering-guitarist-scotty-moore/
Info on Scotty Moore whoever is interested. Thanks Brian, would never had known maybe two to three days later.
Reason they [close friends] had hoped to contain the news to keep things small but it got out on social media. Unfortunately, the press was probably at a loss as to who to talk to. Much of their write up though about him came right out of FB and the history section of James Roy’s web site. They got a lot of the details wrong, but then everyone does.
A private small ceremony. He was buried with his parents in Humoldt, TN not far from where he was born and grew up. DJ, [Elvis’s Drummer] was there.
Want the real facts go to http://www.scottymoore.net/
Cool dud with those fingers.
Will e-mail sometime ttttttttddddaaaaaay.
My yahoo is gone somewhere and I can't get in so have different #.
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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 - Jul 7, 2016 - 04:39pm PT
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Scotty Moore and the Lost Yahoos were
the hot band in My Fat & Stoopid Geek Wedding, 2006 Pick of the Litter at the Old Cans Film Fleshtival.
I'm going to place them in a work of literary merit. Thank you, Mr. Formerly Lost but Now Found. I heard you've had a career in show business, too. We'll talk. My daughter has an agent you'll just love. She specializes in comebacks.
Really, had you not been Lost in Shanghai for all that time, your career would have rivaled that of Newman, and I don't mean Jerry's neighbor--I'm talking about the NEW MAN, Alfred E., here.
Geographers--last I knew the Sierra Beauties were located in the opposite direction, that is, to the southeast of Delevan. You'll notice that I indicated the direction of the distant height, to the northwest.
I recall the instance exactly. This was one of a sequence of shots which are part of a circular panorama, beginning from the west and going in a clockwise direction, to my right. The next shot shows I-5 and the jog it makes at Delevan. Bidwell Point is supposedly about 800' high so it should show up easily from this high off the deck.
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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 - Jul 7, 2016 - 05:03pm PT
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DMT hit the rail on the head. Everyone DUCK!
Get his leash, someone. Smack him with a rolled up blog, someone.
Ceres-ly, folks, the wet end of the Great Valley is waterfowl preservation at work for us all.
Sowing of rice by using airplanes was pioneered here in Merced County, the local historians have pointed out to me.
Here is how we sow rice in Clarifornia:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/us/11rice.html?_r=0
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