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throwpie
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Berkeley
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Jun 27, 2013 - 01:22am PT
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As a kid, I always thought the sign to Agua Fria road meant "fried water".
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 27, 2013 - 09:24am PT
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"Here comes the sunshine, Superman! Blow your little Kryptonian mind!"
Wait for it...
Wait for it...
Sunshine came softly through my window today.
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zBrown
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Brujo de La Playa
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Jun 27, 2013 - 12:09pm PT
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As a kid, I always thought the sign to Agua Fria road meant "fried water".
And as an adult, it sounds good to me.
Some folks have thought so highly of it, they made it into a national monument.
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zBrown
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Brujo de La Playa
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Jun 27, 2013 - 01:29pm PT
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Isn't all this a bit premature? Aqua Friday doesn't arrive until the dog figures out how to cross the river.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 28, 2013 - 04:59am PT
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Fried A, on the menu under Plan B.
Plan B involves building bridges going back into The Day: The Day Bridges.
http://beniciaherald.me/2011/06/10/building-bridges/
I spent a long time on it and the other two and now its time to do something else, like getting my Leonard Nimoy impression down pat. It would be a logical follow-up to bridge-building.--Frellson Powell
Frellson Powell is NOT, NOT, NOT related to Mike Powell or his daughter, Emily, who seem to be cornering the used books market on the West Coast.
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Powell-s-Books-looming-large-in-the-Bay-Area-2514719.php
Which brings us to a real Jullabaloo, featuring the YOUNG Stevie Miller, not the aging gangster, who played on Flaming Pie with Sir Paul.
Paul McCartney/Used to Be Bad--09 Flaming Pie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOFk-lgJ14I&list=PLF6C1AC41F1CF86DB
That guy, the young Stevie Miller, learned his lessons a long, long time ago, as did Sir Paul.
Goldberg-Miller Band/The Mother Song on Jullabaloo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLB261z-7PQ
"Beam me up, Bones."--Magnetic Dog in the Milky Way Bar, ready to call it a nite, not wanting to swim the Milk River, and knowing he doesn't know how to swim
Presented, to you, our loyal customers, by the Leland Powell Company.
Say, if Ru Paul hooked up with Sir Paul...Ru Paul McCartney?
Flamin' Groovies/Between the Lines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sanueRku7n0
"Poetry is read best between the lines."--some American rhymsester with a pointy-tailed friend
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 28, 2013 - 05:50am PT
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One for neebee.
The wide-open in Mariposa County.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 28, 2013 - 06:40am PT
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This sequence of road shots is of Bear Creek, which comes out of Bear Valley, I think, and flows down to Merced. The road is Indian Gulch Road and it parallels Slate Gulch.
And then I came to "Gordo's Place."
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 28, 2013 - 07:08am PT
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Geo. C. Gordo may well be deceased and a live-in caretaker/renter in this spread now. It isn't too neglected yet, but there is evidence no one cares: the chairs, for example. And the mailbox.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 28, 2013 - 07:12am PT
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This place is on Indian Gulch Road (5470, in fact) and is not far from Cathey's Valley, where I intersected Hwy 140 again, a quarter mile from where I turned of on Old Highway earlier that morning.
And THEN I got to the Ag Museum and old Charlie...
And yesterday, Thursday, I drove out on Hwy 59 just north of town and found the place I'd photographed for the tractor thread. I went to the door and Willie told me to take all the photos I wanted.
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zBrown
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Brujo de La Playa
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Jun 28, 2013 - 10:29am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 28, 2013 - 10:57am PT
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Woody Holly, buddy?
Woody Wood Burner, outa Turner Ranch, Merced County, north o' Chowchilla, ma'am. Ah'm new in town and was hopin' ya might be able to tell me how to git to the Statue o' Liberty?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 28, 2013 - 12:56pm PT
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Taken yesterday from the replacement.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 28, 2013 - 01:59pm PT
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There is a book I have read, the name of which I have forgotten, which features Modoc fly-eating people being taught English from a copy of Robert Burns' poetry, so that the boys grew up speaking like the Scots gift shop owner.
"Och, if it's not Modoc, it's fly-shite."
The book treated with a cure for rabies, among other weird subjects.
All this char-smell in the air kinda makes me thirsty.
And it's Friday night.
And I quit drinking.
Ghosts.
I'll live.
So will this poor bloke.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 28, 2013 - 02:11pm PT
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And as long as we got videos on this page, let's stack them. Like barrels of wine.
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Hey, hey, hey!
Tony, Tony, Tony!
Q. for ya, bro: Why is white wine white and red wine red? Is this within the ken of Tony?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 28, 2013 - 02:47pm PT
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WHEELS on Fires. Where the rubber meets the rock.
BIG TIRES on Wheels. Where the rubber meets the dirt.
My memory serves sherbet on hot afternoons.
This last wheel may explode.
The stack of tires may burn.
The whole world fits inside
Of an ice cream churn.
Raspberry, please.
Or watermelon, if ya got it.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jun 28, 2013 - 03:31pm PT
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Great wheels photos mouse. I was wondering, however, who balances and trues all those wheels? Could it N&M or JB30 de Fresno?
Feeling a bit more inquisitive today (more on this later perhaps), but if the wheels are on fire, where is the smoke or is this all done via smoke and mirrors.
How do you supercool a mirror? Obviously, by being super cool (SuperTopo will not suffice).
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 28, 2013 - 03:38pm PT
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