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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 - Mar 5, 2017 - 09:01pm PT
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Scott is like that, Andy. His character totally belies his avatar.
Sorry about Tony. Sorry, nita. Condolences.
I hadn't realized the time element involved in coming to this mile marker.
If it's any kind of a record, you know you guys contributed.
If the treatment for the screenplay gets a green light, and then if the screenplay gets taken on for a pitch to an actual Producer or Assistant to a Producer, and it's in the budget, you'll be given credits.
"Just anyone" won't do for the actual roles of Andy and nita. I would think on this some before any suggestions emanate from this quarter. I might call LostInShanghai for input. And my acupuncturist in Berkeley. My inclination is to go with Gypsy for Gypsy, for there's no sensed not using her fame. If she's done with shooting glamorous and exotic things in Corsica by then, of course. Flip Flop could double as himself and as Big Rock Candy, the Mountain, a pro wrestler turned bull rider and Toronado racing, once known for his Burial Move, in which it's nearly impossible to see the opponent, he has him wrapped up so skillfully. When a bull fell on his legs, both knees went, and they cut the legs off there, so all he could manage was sitting in a driver's seat. His dad left him his old '58 Merc Monterey and he traded that in for a front-wheel drive, the Toranado in light pearl and white. Wilt Chamberlain is a natural for zBrown, but he daid. T Hocking = Sting. T Hocking as a young climber = Vitaliy M., who will likely be known as Vitaliy in the near future, just like Manolo.
It's mellower here in this muni parking structure than in the one across the street. Especially on the weekends when nothing's happening like bike races or downtown events. I did not see one single car on the upper level, parked or coming and going. The city parks a good-sized muni vehicle fleet up here behind locked gates. The view is pretty decent. I had to take the stairs up from the ground level because the elevators are locked down and I have this stiff knee. I felt like an old man hiking up so I took it easy and appreciated the odd perspectives of things I've been shooting for years.
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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 - Mar 5, 2017 - 09:25pm PT
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CHILO'S CHILI.
The only condiment we recommend
ABSOLUT-LY
Hiya, PocoLoco1!
Like I told you in that email, something like this.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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why iz it everytime I go to Wallmart there are peeps comin out the entrance door?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
sorry I missed out on ur chili mouse😿 next time I gets a nibble fur sur. Meowww
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Helpless & Knocking On Heveans Door ( There has to be a for ever young! )
Niel Young And Bob Dylan, but from 1975 now that's when they were fun.
https://youtu.be/2sDGTZRdQdw
Then this, Knockin' ~ as has been said,
Van D'ha Mhan"! & Bob. ? This is 'Standout!', ( wow, too "Man In The Bliack Coat"!)
https://youtu.be/i2_zzNwGaTw
I'll tapper off?
Wow ? Jeffe? I did not swoop the 10,000 post!
Stomped on your #420 ? Not really, I just don't sleep
My OCD demands I fill out any post # 20, take a look it is nearly diagnosable !
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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 - Mar 6, 2017 - 02:23am PT
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I don't know about Daisy the Dawg, but I know HAL the computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey. And I know the reasons why he sang Daisy, Daisy, seeking an answer. It involves a blues bar on Earth (in Silly Valley, of course, where else? China?) that burned and HAL lost the only gal, Daisy, a vacuum cleaner, in The Flames. The song that was playing at the time was Lucille, BB King's masterpiece, the original version. He had a droid's "body" at the time, with a very clever set of facial expressions just like Brad Pitt's complete with Pitt's vocal patterns in a range of different languages (the German accent used by Brad in Ten Years in Tibet and the Irish accent he affected in The Devil's Own.) Daisy was a simple country gal, from Eureka, CA., but her bag was new and she sucked HAL right in with a voice patterned after Sukey Tawdry. One rendition of CMac the Knife and HAL was enthralled. They got drunk and went out to work an OW jam on the building across the street during a set break and the next thing you know, the bar's on fire. Daisy ran back in to save her bag, back in the manager's office where the band stashed their gear at night. That was the last HAL or anyone saw of poor Daisy. So that's the tale.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
HAL was originally a Tweet sent from POTUS' phone to the effect that he was using his instrumentalities to raise the number of characters allowable in a Tweet to 200 from 140. HAL is based on a real person, or as real as a computer gets.
I was told this story by a droid I met in Camp 4 named Watson. He claimed to be a big time Jeopardy! champion, but no one ever heard of him that I knew. He just showed up one day in a shiny new Mercedes van. And he claimed to have known Millis, but didn't even know his first name was Dillis, so you may choose to believe the tale of Daisy or not, bearing this in mind.
I respect my readers' judgement, except in Gnome's case. [Click to View YouTube Video]For Mr. Langley.
This kid is probably cranking out hard stuff in some gym. This was shot in C4 in summer of 2014 and I think his parents said he was four.
"I know you see me
Now here's a surprise
I know that you can
Because there's magic in my eyes"
"Who's he talkin' to?"
"That weird old homeless guy with the camera?"
"At least he's not wanderin' around lookin' for Pokemons."
"He sure is pokin' along."
"He told me he's always slow but his shutter speed's amazin'."
Who - I Can See Four Miles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ZJn0cTASo
In Remembrance of a GREAT TIME IN AMERICA.
Rat Pack - Bertha the Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7tq4RdH1I
Where The Flames started, what it is, what it will become, it its what it is, otay? Philosophy class is over.
Like Johnny Carson says at the end of that Rat Pack session, it's been fun and I'm glad for any fun The Flames has provided. And anything else it may have placed on your plate.
Thanks for watching, now go click on
http://chiloschile.com/
and tell 'em Mouse from Merced recommended you try their fine products.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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stand by!
edit: HEY ... MOUSEtro ... nudge nudge dood
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Trice for naught, if tweet knont
A Three-peet
Sum ting for every one
I, Me, and you
We all that washed out once
Upon a time in a Granite Valley
And it's highlands majestically
10k how many 'o's is that ?
like how many fingers ?
ISaw them fine shades
And I felt the tug to
Answere L L directly
When
Good Fences Make Good Nieghbors
Played
There is no
Lspeciallity
To a number of postsDOH! no index fingers while when this posted it was the coveted 10k spot, I did not covet it!
It was as random as a thought!
I rolled over and saw that mfm, had left off at post 9999'
I was not up, I rolled back over,
But I grumbled about it and caught a sock in the snout.
She Said "Oh no, get out", it was 5:35 am I did lay out some numbers of pics to post.
In my morning stupor I messed that up, that's why it says below (what I'll also show)
( It was not meant in anyway as disrespect for mfm, by me)
so close. (Palm to face)
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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 - Mar 6, 2017 - 03:20am PT
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"Speechless in Merced."--Mouse from Merced
"Sightless in Gaza."--Phil Cher
Cheap Bouquet
This must be the way it ends
Calm down as I drag myself along
These severed hands are doing the very best they can
As I drive my car into the sea
(I taste you like a hammer through my teeth)
Will someone tell me what it means to be alive?
It feels just like the feeling when you die
Oh, all right, I'm dead and I don't care if it's cold outside anymore
So come on, let's have some f*#king fun
--Victor Fuentes, Michael Fuentes of Pierce the Veil
For Guido.[Click to View YouTube Video]1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
There.
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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 - Mar 6, 2017 - 03:41am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]a cayeary video
a scary-good video
THIS VIDEO IS A MUST SEE-VIDEO.
Thanks, Tony Tremendous.
Thanks, Dave.
Get back to work, Lynnie (and thanks).
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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In a world turned upside down sometimes we need a quiet place like the Flames to take some peaceful refuge. At least long enough to recharge for battle.
As Though the World Were Sleeping
A refrigerator whines and lays down a constant tenor
Hum
A dog whimpers in his sleep
While somewhere in America a hitchhiker sticks out his
Thumb
The heat pump roars to life again
And whoosh a world once silent fills
With light
Of throbbing audio pulsations
To make the cold of darkness full and
Bright
In distance are the train tracks
Rumbling
As I hear the world turn and feel it
Tumbling
The low pitched hum of something droning
Distant and oblique
To concurrent high pitched trilling crickets
Makes a stereophonic night
Complete
The low grinding sound of planetary
Vibration
It feels just right
This constant Rotation
And though I cannot sleep
It feels right
The whispering world is replete
Tonight
-bushman
03/06/2017
Cigars and Congrats to Mouse and the Flames crowd on 10,000 posts!!
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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 - Mar 6, 2017 - 04:11am PT
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One half of the globetrotters known as Heidi and Fritz.
Both are amateur shutterbugs from Choss Creek.
That's in Idaho.
This is Heidi's most recent and decent.
Credit's given to Fritz because he posted it.
But it's a selfie, and a masterful one.
Let's have at least a polite golf clap for
Dorita the Sweet o' Choss Creek.Famous world-traveling Heidi.
Are those Rays coming out of her head?
She may look harmless, but she's the Scourge of the Range.
#heidifritz&commonlands
St. Galen goes to JT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM4AlwfejbE
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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 - Mar 6, 2017 - 12:22pm PT
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Celebrating with World Wildlife
(spoofery, satire, irony)
Put however much komodo meat into a skillet. Brown it in a bit of olive oil, garnish heavily with fajita seasoning. Heavier the better, IMO. Then add when browned a helping of chopped bells and yellow and/or red peppers followed by red onions, chopped coarsely. Let it go for a time, stirring it to keep it from charring. Use a medium heat. Take a half an apple and cube it. Put it in a cup and add Tajin powder, shake to coat, then clear a space in the skillet in the center, add a touch more olive oil and let them sizzle, turning the cubes to brown on all sides. Mix it all up together and let it sit till you have your tomatoes chopped and your tortillas warmed. Then put a portion on the tortilla and eatafajita, a perfectaco.
I gotta find a way to make komodo bacon without getting the Fire Dept. involved. Maybe a nice safe dehydrator instead? But I might just get Jerked Komodo, a Locker favorite, sure, but I'm looking for bacon, not jerky, boys.
IF you have no Chilo's Chili, tough beans. Order some online.
Here's a link that offers other seasoning options for Taco Lovers or those who appreciate fine chili products.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ho88lH_SU
"Mesilla been very, very good to me so far."--Juan Dominguez (aka the No Me Chinges Kid)
#TheFreshman
#BorneoRedeye
#NoGills
[Click to View YouTube Video]Kimodo, komodo, meh. Lizard's dead.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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I am feeling a bit digital, posting this. :)
Thank you for all the great images and the poem.
I'd better get back to work before the boss fires me.
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 - Mar 6, 2017 - 04:36pm PT
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Bushman,
I'm a miserable churl
Thank you for this pearl
But it sat waiting
Anticipating...
What, exactly, I don't care.
Steinbeck could explain it, maybe.
Ten Thousand Flaming Yaks
Ten thousand maniacs posted all their deepest thoughts
Breaking through the silent screams imprisoned by robots
The world as told by climbers and old climbers on the blink
With photos, music, stories, and poems, and things that make you think
Our life is like a Ferris wheel that just keeps going 'round
Catapulted into space our feet don't touch the ground
Until our mind is motionless the ride is never done
This climb that we have started we all follow past the setting sun
The world is seen much differently through a climber's eyes
As long as there are mountains tall the spirit in us flies
Though some of us can't climb like we always loved to do
The climbing spirit carries forth in everything we do
These words are but a tribute to the members of this tribe
Exclusive to the Flames thread and intrinsic to this scribe
Ten thousand posts are memorable and noteworthy as a score
I hope our humble host presides o'er tens of thousands more
So I leave it to the Man and the Mouse as he is known
To guide along the pages of this blog to the unknown
So for now I shall withdraw to my hovel in the west
Allowing winds to blow this palaver wherever it is best
Retreating with this allegory to stairways in the sky
Imaginary windmills and my robot friend Ay Aye
-bushman
03/04/2017
I felt it needed more exposure.
I really thank you heartily, bro.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Gracias Amigo,
bitte schon!
I don't know much Spanish, or German...
Wie gehts?
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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 - Mar 6, 2017 - 06:07pm PT
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Normally, we gets. Sometimes we feels like a mushroom.
A dead mushroom.
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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 - Mar 6, 2017 - 06:33pm PT
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Just a lip-smackin' day here in the valley of the sun.
Every day's a fun day.
But today was Manic Monday...I made two circuits again, and met another photographer up on the roof of the parking structures.
Nice to converse with an expert on the spot.
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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 - Mar 6, 2017 - 07:02pm PT
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