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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Mouse,
Thank you thank you for the rock photos. You look happy out there in the rocks.
Healthy, too.
ff
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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 - Oct 9, 2016 - 05:27pm PT
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feralfae, that and this photo both were taken just after Christmas,2013.
In the second pic, I'd finally gotten over Y2K and was on Sunnyside Bench Terror with my niece Amy.
She gave me a haircut and we had a nice visit there, hangin' out above the hoi polloi.
Here is neebee's rendering of the event. We were at Degnan's having lunch, extending our visit.
Amy & Uncle Mouse.
by neebee
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Wow, Mouse, that is a great and happy photo of you there in the rocks and brush. You do look well and happy, and filled with lots of Grace as well. Nice.
Thank you for sharing that great and happy photo.
ff
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Hooblie, the Angelique Kidjo piece is stunning, so much power in her voice.
Thank you for posting that.
ff
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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 - Oct 9, 2016 - 07:28pm PT
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The Perch.
MFM
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Nice smile mousie.
ff - that was indeed a powerful video. Michele's dad was in a combo rehab and long term care facility recently. He got out and is now back home. It was very humbling.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 10, 2016 - 01:21am PT
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Yes Nice pictures & painting.
I know I'm not the political one but what a terrible choice we have to choose from.
Both useless self interested
Liars vying for the top job in the world.She really is a weak mealy mouthed un like able turd
And he cannot form rational answeres or explain
away sexual assault by saying the husband of my opponent
is accused of doing worse.
Hi time I took a bump of coke, is all I got from the show.
I think I know some one who knows
someone who knows where a druggy neighborhood is,
but from what I hear the current flavor is pills and heroin.
Thanks to the ol'CIA for the open flood gates from Afghanistan.
Im sick of thinking about it but I can't vote for a coke head with a miserable history of failure and sexual assault.
My wife worked at the World Trade Center I'll never trust a politician republican or democrat.Both my wife and I knew women who submitted to and signed non-disclosure forms just to go
On a double date with Donorta rumpit,
When I was a real estate gadfly, he showed up un invited to a private real estate marketing event I was instrumental in organizing.
We had tethered hot air balloons to take guests , potential buyers of ten acre parcels,
Up to see the land that was lit to show the lay out of the proposed development.
His suragates, drivers of two limos, tried to just crash the gig .
A relative of The Actor Paul Newman, who was a part of the group of investors involved in the sale took it upon himself to make the cops press trespass charges, or threaten to if The Trump brigade was not removed.
The cops involved now run a county in NJ. Hunterdon county, if you check it out
You'll find that they are armed to the teeth in a rural area and do fat Christies bidding, while DMT showed a bit of the beauty of the place. It is bucolic but towns like High Bridge & Calafon, have given up police duties to state troopers,......
I'm falling back to sleep
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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 - Oct 10, 2016 - 04:30am PT
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Damn! That shot ye gnome posted from Guido of Russ was of the "instant recognition" type for me.
"Base of Fairview Dome" went through my head when I saw it. Click to enlarge and sure enough, it's seen as coming from a thread on the Great Pumpkin. That doesn't happen often.
I've only been on Fairview the one time successfully and one time not. Both on the same old regular route, but it's surprising how that recognition kicks in after forty years or so.
It's an unique experience, so maybe the mem is just more able to access its files.
On another subject, the thought of having to hole up in a home for the aged is horrific to me. I know, "I'd rather die first." But if it ain't your time, whatcha gonna do? They won't allow you to go sit on a hill in the Dakotas and call out to the Great Spirit to take you.
Even going to a rehab center to spend time, as patients do here in our county at Anberry, out in Atwater, which specializes in short-term care for adult medical patients, seems like a sentence of some kind. No one likes it when their mobility or other abilities fail, but doing so amid others in your state probably sucks, because of the fact some are so much worse off that it must get depressing.
So The bull is lucky to have kin. Anyone is, except for the Manson Family. There's always an exception, huh?
Gnome and Bushman, I couldn't agree more on the rotten presidential choices we have. I will try to refrain from commentary on the Trumpet or the Clit (it's gonna be or is her private name in the oppo's smokey back room, given the Donald's lack of sexual decorum.
The man is a menace. The woman's a lying bitch...hardly a choice worth having, is it?
But this is it. We have over a month to run up to the election. I just found an official voting pamphlet thick as a comic book in the mail which is still sitting there. I suppose I'l give it a run-through today and then trash it.
As in the past, I was thinking of ZZ Topp as a write-in, but they've made it clear they aren't interested. Back in the days of Watergate, or Carter or Reagan or Bush I, but not in the present.
I can't just fill in Goofy and Snoopy, or Dennis the Menace and Lucy, but I can't think of anyone I'd really trust who's human. It's a crap-shoot, from my narrow Middle Earth view. I threw up my hands in the last election and did not cast a vote for anyone. I abandoned my rights for the first time ever. I felt bad. I'm voting this year, but not for the president.
I want my hands clean afterward.
Really, there is no place here for politics. But as we have seen, they make themselves vulnerable by thinking they will get away with certain practices. We are so insistent that our candidates be squeaky clean, morally upright MODELS of DECENCY, and yet, see who we get?
I'm ranting, after midnight...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
So, can we keep politics off the air here for as long as we can? This Flames thread has become/is a refuge, but even innkeepers have their bad days. Just ask Joseph the Carpenter.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Oct 10, 2016 - 06:03am PT
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five minute poem #5
Boy
Five minutes ain't much
So this mornings poem
Sh#t show past
Hard un live....that
So movin on
Gotta say
Today's gonna be a great day
Rhyming
That's what I say
Timing
Go to my website
Read about my blog
See me on Facebook
My twitters a slob
My Instagram post
And snapchat hosts
Are blowing up YouTube
Oh....
Yawn
Five minutes are up
Talk about climbing
The northwest face of half dome
Happy Columbus Day, bitches
But that's another sad story
Y'all that got the day off
Climb on!!
-bushman
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Oct 10, 2016 - 10:45am PT
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With and without epiretinal membrane.
On the left, before surgery - OCT image showing severe epiretinal membrane.
On the right, after surgery- OCT image showing near normal foveal contour. A normal eye would look similar to this.
I had never heard of it, until I was told I had it. It's much more common in folks over 60. Nobody seems to know what the cause is. Interestingly, it's only in one eye.
The first step is to get your cataract removed. Then 'see' how your vision is and monitor the epiretinal memebrane determine whether removal is warranteed.. The membrane can and does grow. My eye was done and now I am no longer legally blind in one eye and am at about 20/50. This could improve with recovery from the surgery.
You want to avoid the surgery for two reasons
1) It's a difficult surgery to do, kind of like removing a very small bit of wet kleenix sitting on the back of your eye
and
2) There is a process whereby the excess tissue is dissolved with a chemical which is under testing now as we speak.
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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 - Oct 10, 2016 - 11:10am PT
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A grotesque on a fountain in a park in Manchester, England.
Not fade away
Stone-washed denim uniform Levis
tie-dyed T-shirt with a Sanskrit message
centered in a Happy Face
representing your Happy Place.
Headband made of hempen fabric
batikked for the use of beatnik culture
white kids trying to be not black
but with soul
nonetheless.
Trying to have a sun dance
in Hyde Park
at Woodstock
Altamont
Monterey
Sky River
Glen Helen Regional Park
with varying degrees of temperature
rain
lasting fame/influence
and population growth
impermanent cities
abandoned after the weekend
funny weeds now a-growing
the devastation over
and the Age of Aquarius
is here and gone
amid New Age festivals
EST
and mortgages.
Ten minutes of reverie
for five decades of living
hardly seems sufficient
but I need to take my nap.
TURN THAT GODDAM RAVE SH#TE DOWN, SAMANTHA!
(My great-grand-daughter's a bit hard of hearing too,
and she's just 16.)
Edit: I was going blind, or so I thought. The doctor helped me by adjusting my headband. He only charged $550. It's a miracle!
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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 - Oct 10, 2016 - 12:09pm PT
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Cia Dope Calypso
In nineteen hundred forty-nine
China was won by Mao Tse-tung
Chiang Kai Shek's army ran away
They were waiting there in Thailand yesterday
Supported by the CIA
Pushing junk down Thailand way
First they stole from the Meo Tribes
Up in the hills they started taking bribes
Then they sent their soldiers up to Shan
Collecting opium to send to The Man
Pushing junk in Bangkok yesterday
Supported by the CIA
Brought their jam on mule trains down
To Chiang Mai that's a railroad town
Sold it next to the police chief's brain
He took it to town on the choochoo train
Trafficking dope to Bangkok all day
Supported by the CIA
The policeman's name was Mr. Phao
He peddled dope grand scale and how
Chief of border customs paid
By Central Intelligence's U.S. aid
The whole operation, Newspapers say
Supported by the CIA
He got so sloppy and peddled so loose
He busted himself and cooked his own goose
Took the reward for the opium load
Seizing his own haul which same he resold
Big time pusher for a decade turned grey
Working for the CIA
Touby Lyfong he worked for the French
A big fat man liked to dine & wench
Prince of the Meos he grew black mud
Till opium flowed through the land like a flood
Communists came and chased the French away
So Touby took a job with the CIA
The whole operation fell in to chaos
Till U.S. intelligence came in to Laos
Mary Azarian/Matt Wuerker I'll tell you no lie I'm a true American
Our big pusher there was Phoumi Nosavan
All them Princes in a power play
But Phoumi was the man for the CIA
And his best friend General Vang Pao
Ran the Meo army like a sacred cow
Helicopter smugglers filled Long Cheng's bars
In Xieng Quang province on the Plain of Jars
It started in secret they were fighting yesterday
Clandestine secret army of the CIA
All through the Sixties the dope flew free
Thru Tan Son Nhut Saigon to Marshall Ky
Air America followed through
Transporting comfiture for President Thieu
All these Dealers were decades and yesterday
The Indochinese mob of the U.S. CIA
Operation Haylift Offisir Wm Colby
Saw Marshall Ky fly opium Mr. Mustard told me
Indochina desk he was Chief of Dirty Tricks
"Hitch-hiking" with dope pushers was how he got his fix
Subsidizing the traffickers to drive the Reds away
Till Colby was the head of the CIA
--Allen Ginsberg
3 June 1926 – 5 April 1997
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