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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 - May 22, 2016 - 11:20am PT
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Ay Aye
Social climber
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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May 22, 2016 - 12:22pm PT
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'By the Way'
Someone like you is difficult
To miff or say bad things about
You worry me because I can't
Remember uncles or my aunt
But always I remember how
When things I've said most up to now
Some may have taken the wrong way
But never you I have to say
So far you've been most tolerant
When mostly I've left feelings bent
In those I love and those I shan't
But some like you won't rail or rant
When some like me go on and on
That being said before the gong
I know I've gone on much too long
But know by now it's just my way
Of saying what I meant to say
-It ain't me, girl
May 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 - May 22, 2016 - 12:26pm PT
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I just spoke to Linda, who made it to Vegas but had to wait for a bus that was late leaving Bakersfield by an hour and a half.
But she got home safely and we've promised to keep in touch.
All is well that ends well.
It's tough going it alone, but some prefer it.
SOLO.
(This Mike Hoover film is presented in the Short Climbing Films thread.)
http://vimeo.com/76171439
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 22, 2016 - 12:37pm PT
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I followder to the station or she followed me, one.
San Diego Cuyamaca & Eastern Railway Depot (Otay?)
The Other One (courtesy Grateful Dead)
5-11-1969
May be some confusion. This photo purports to be 1967, but 1969 is correct.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 22, 2016 - 12:58pm PT
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GD Trouper's Hall (L.A - 1966)
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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 - May 22, 2016 - 01:52pm PT
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Lest we be accused of losing our manliness by listening to Christopher Cross and Carly Simon, we give you this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuKykU-VEGk
Angela has moved recently to Catheys Valley.
Linda Allen lived her childhood behind the Catheys Valley post office.
I was in Catheys Valley two weeks ago with the Rev.
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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 - May 22, 2016 - 02:20pm PT
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What in Creation has happened to YOU lately?
New map discovered in Merced County has cartographers in a tizzy.
Dog eats purported map showing Creation with no ill effects.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 22, 2016 - 02:25pm PT
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The thing about imbeding the video, is it is easier to suspend my disbelief,
think that everyone clicks on the video at least for a second
to hear the background noise, favored to accompany
The snaps 'n Rantz' [Click to View YouTube Video]
Short version, "official music video" whatever that means?
http://youtu.be/HrxX9TBj2zY
Really annoyed owner of tablet thinking of patricide, sending me off line.
But. I've been taking similarsubjects, starting with a Nomad, the car kind , ending in
A close-Up, a study, ten or more of the same. Backlit pink bloom, 1st bloom. . .
They are Still in the camera.
I've been warned now I'm being physically threatened time to make. Dinner. .,.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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May 22, 2016 - 04:24pm PT
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X Seventeen Nine to Edwards AFB
X Seventeen Nine to climb
Altitude is fifty nine
Everything is right on line
Our crew is good and doing fine
Tower Edwards AFB
Systems check out 123
Confirm to us what you can see
Down here you're pretty staticky
X Seventeen Nine to AFB
The desert floor is blue and green
The southern sky so brown in spring
We're at 85 thousand you can see
X Seventeen Nine you’re upside down
You've been off the radar once again
You're on and off transmission friend
Request descend
Come in
Come in
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X Seventeen Nine instrument check
Tower we’ve had some luck
Had a moment there in effect
But systems check were heading back
Due immeasurably to the worth
Of test pilots and their hollow mirth
A trait they carry from their birth
X Seventeen Nine was back on earth
If you trek the eastern Mohave
Rarely you might find debris
A scrap of airframe you might see
Or a shards of someone's canopy
Tower here
Come in
Come in
Tower to flight
Descend
Come in
-bushman
05/22/2016
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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 - May 22, 2016 - 07:08pm PT
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Routinely, the Rev and I will recite the first many lines of the Prologue to the Contwaraburg* Tales when appropriate or sometimes just for the hell of it.[Click to View YouTube Video]'struth!
*Contwaraburg = Saxon spelling
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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 - May 22, 2016 - 07:42pm PT
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"What is May 24th?"
http://www.startribune.com/forever-young-25-things-you-should-know-about-bob-dylan-on-his-75th-birthday/380314781/
"I hear you've changed your name to Jones, Bob."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bHGilyC7U8
“Hibbing makes a great day for Bob Dylan fans”
4 of 5 stars
Reviewed February 3, 2007
Really, a trip to Hibbing is a great half-day stop for any Bob Dylan fan. Plan to load up your car with Dylan CD's and take a road trip to see the town that Bob grew up in.
Bob's old house and Hibbing high school are just drive by attractions. Be sure to eat a good lunch at Zimmy's restaurant, that Bob has no association with, but is really just there as a novelty.
Finally, and the best part about Hibbing, is go to the Hibbing Public Library and they have a Bob Dylan Museum in a back room in the basement with original memorabilia from his high school talen shows, a collage of many of his record albums, and miscellaneous photogs and articles relating to Bob. It was a great time!
Helpful? 13 Thank zacmacdavis
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Ask zacmacdavis about Bob Dylan's House
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g43160-d126822-r6745459-Bob_Dylan_s_House-Hibbing_Minnesota.html#
http://nodepression.com/article/jorma-kaukonen-remembers-cream-santana-bill-monroe-and-bob-dylan-blowing-his-mind
“All I remember from that evening is that I got what Dylan’s show was about,” Kaukonen recalls. “As an aspiring finger-style guitar player, his guitar work was no interest to me. However, the show made quite an impression on me. I am sure my New York pals and I drove back to New York and picked until the sun came up.”
I was at Cream's Winterland gig, like Jorma. All I remember from that evening is...
Meh. So it might come in a flashback.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 22, 2016 - 08:07pm PT
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Don 't get me started on Babalu. He never returns the records he "borrows".
Which brings me to the other Miller's tale.
Though it was misappropriated*, Steve Miller often sang of the pompatus* of love. He wasn't much of a carpenter, but he knows his way around a slide all right..
*In the non-Anglo-Saxon song by Vernon Green & The Medallions. If y'all are in a hurry or just don't like the Green Party ff to 1:50 or so.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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zBrown
Ice climber
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May 22, 2016 - 08:48pm PT
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Well the birthday season is upon us, so here's Little Bob and Jerry Rubin's sister Judy (who later became the Flame of Cary Grant).
Bigger Bob and that gal who gave The Everly Bros so much grief
Just an Echo of the past.
What up doc?
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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May 22, 2016 - 09:08pm PT
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Riding Reversed Electrons through Time and Space
Surviving now to break the tie there's no place left to hide
In all the years and all our hopes and dreams that we should bide
On the waves of distance monuments on future waves we ride
On ships that sail and waves at sea we hope that we survive the tide
Let's sing songs of the travelers from far across the universe
And hope that all journeys would be none as perilous as mine
No record kept the risk too great the pain too much
For each and every lad and lass the heart laid bare for all to see
And so we go from galaxy to galaxy across the cosmos in our search
How far back in time or to the future some may never know
Thus we go and thus we ride in distance times to far off places
Oh to go a riding on the advanced electron wave once more
To ride the same electron wave back before the advent of time
Is something my descendants heard in sounds of future winds gone by
-bushman
May 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 - May 22, 2016 - 11:59pm PT
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I got a visible wave for you, Bushman.
Don't know 'bout the invisible kind.
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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 - May 23, 2016 - 05:00am PT
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In My Mind Own Dream of Things Past
or Creationism
Bored and belligerent I went to bed
Only to dream that now I was dead
My soul, set on re-set, by a liquid light being
Was all set to trans-migrate, but I felt like peeing
As the juice was applied a short-circuit took place,
I came back to Earth from that time and that space.
The continent of Africa is where I soon landed,
Among an ape tribe it seems I was banded.
It was not so bad living with the apes in the jungle
I’d just recently been some “monkey’s uncle.”
I liked banana more, and I could climb so much better,
But the Rain Forest just kept getting wetter and wetter.
The storms that I saw caused several to drown
But the weather got worse, even more rain came down.
We were soggily sitting in our nest high in our tree
When Noah floated by with his sons numbering three
Shem shouted to Ham who shouted to Pop
There’s a pair of creatures there so we better stop
Japeth ran and got him some rope,
He flaked it out first, he wasn’t some dope.
The line fell between us, his cast was so sure,
Ladies first is the rule, to my mate I deferred.
She was hauled wet and bedraggled aboard the huge Ark
Japeth re-flaked the rope and again hit the mark
They got us installed in a space that was free,
Before the voyage ended, it was filled with us three.
Down the slopes of the mountain, we ran and we tumbled,
Heading back down to the drying out jungle.
I tripped on a stone, falling down on my head,
And woke up just now sitting safe in my bed.
So I thought I’d get up and tell you about it.
--MFM
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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 - May 23, 2016 - 05:19am PT
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As sometimes happens, a person might post an asterisk and forget to insert the footnote.
I believe that the * used in zBrown's post upstairs was of this nature.
*Google sez:
"The word pompatus, also spelled pompitous, /ˈpɒmpᵻtəs/, /ˈpɒmpətəs/, is a nonce word** used in the lyrics of Steve Miller's 1973 rock song "The Joker."
**Google sez:
"A word coined for one single occasion only."
THE LETTER
(Vernon Green)
THE MEDALLIONS (DOOTONE 347, 1954)
Darling, darling, oh how I love you, really do
But you just, just won't be true
Darling, I'm writing this letter
Knowing that you ain't never read it
But each time I write you darling
I pen what lips can't say
Because I love you, although you're so far away
My words caremily* that love alone can't tell
I always hope and wish you well
Oh my darling, please hear my plea, please
Darling, what is there worse on this earth
Then to be unable to stop lovin' you
Knowing well that I should
To me a black day, to me a black night
To kiss and love, and then have to fight
All the time...
Let me whisper sweet words of pismotality*
And discuss the pompatus* of love
And put 'em together, and what've you have
Matrimony, oh my darling, please hear my plea
Oh darling, darling, oh how I love you, really do
But you just, just won't be true
*All nonce words--clever man, that Vernon.
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