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Bushman
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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.
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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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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 23, 2016 - 06:12am PT
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Wise men, virgins, hah!
I asked her to marry me after spending five days at her place.
I could not help myself
[Click to View YouTube Video]"I Can't Help Falling In Love With You" is the music to which my bride came to me on our wedding day in '90.
Liz's brother-in-law, David, sang an interminable version, accompanying himself on guitar,
all for a thirty-foot march down the aisle of the tiny Unity Church.
It went on and on, but it was done well.
Nobody joined in singing that time.
Not much for pomp in my circle, either.
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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 - 06:33am PT
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Oedipus Rex
by Tom Lehrer
From the Bible to the popular song
There's one theme that we find right along
Of all ideals they hail as good
The most sublime is motherhood
There was a man though, who it seems
Once carried this ideal to extremes
He loved his mother and she loved him
And yet his story is rather grim
There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex
You may have heard about his odd complex
His name appears in Freud's Index 'cause he
Loved his mother!
His rivals used to say quite a bit that
As a monarch he was most unfit,
But still and all they had to admit that he
Loved his Mother!
Yes he loved his mother like no other
His daughter was his sister
and his son was his brother
One thing on which you can depend is
He sure knew who a boy's best friend is
When he found what he had done
He tore his eyes out one by one
A tragic end to a loyal son who
Loved his mother
So be sweet and kind to Mother,
Now and then have a chat
Buy her candy or some flowers,
Or a brand new hat
But, maybe you had better let it go at that
Or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex
And
You may end up like Oedipus
(I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus)
Then end up like old Oedipus Rex!
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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 - 07:01am PT
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In Owens Gorge, not Owen's Mouth.
On on a gorgeous new multipitch (!), "Diamond in the Tuff" - 5.11a.Nice climb, Mr. T.
Nice climb, Mr. E.
Nice climb, W.L.
MisterE, you and JTM have come a long way from Canoga Park, I realize. I'm very glad you've found a dreamscape to inhabit, one free from ants, tenants, and piss-ants found in the city.
But is it all that far from Owensmouth to Owens Gorge?
A semantic glitch?
A romantic itch?
Wed in a ditch?
Where was Skip in all this? That's what you left out. Or was it a "guy thing?" If I'm being too nosy, lemme know.
We will miss you two at Facelift.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 23, 2016 - 07:30am PT
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Ha I've put up a traditionally protected route
, in the Owens River gorge,
the tip top of the 'rim' of all that choss is scary deadly.
It is the ball bearing stuff of nightmares, of skitchen' off the edge of some slab, but instead one is perched on edge with monitor and car hood sized loose blocs all around .
while benign at the bottom of an avalanche debris field.
I read the Trip Report as well and liked it.
That makes me want to start a thread
welcome to the gorge, what routes stand out?
what was your 1st onsight? what was your 1st route? your favorite?, one you just couldn't get ?
Return to try to revive some stoke, 5571,- 5647 whew, 76 posts, before I'm restored, almost . .. .
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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May 23, 2016 - 09:45am PT
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Land of Ten Thousand Lakes
The Department of Interior focuses on the land of ten thousand lakes, Minnesota, in this 1930s film.
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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 - 01:16pm PT
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Thank you, Marlow!
I'll homage (oh-mazjh) this ^^^ on to Bob, but he's probably tuned in to KMFM off and on daily. He lurks, in other words.
The word got out and he's Flames-curious, apparently, as a young man of 75 ought to be.
This is a list of lakes in Minnesota.
Although promoted as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes," Minnesota actually has 15,291 lakes of 10 acres or more,
but only 11,842 of those lakes are named.
The prevalence of lakes has generated many repeat names.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_in_Minnesota
It has generated several poems, too, I'll wager.
Why, here's one now, hot off the KMFM thingamabob...the KMFM Grapevine, yeah!
Sunk In Thought
or Musings While Bobbin' Around in Lake Zimmy
Some time back after the Noachian flood
When most of the world was mostly still mud
Out of the ark came the beasts and the birds
Soon to become vast flocks and large herds
They increased of course as anything will
When given the chance and there isn't the pill
The humans involved were no better it seems
The Earth now is flooded beyond Noah's dreams
With Muslims and Catholics and Hindus and Greeks
With Whos and Have-Nots, lots of Sikhs, and some Freaks
I could go on in this Seussian vein
To put it mildly it causes me pain
To see how we've treated this planet so fine
And trespassed on the good will of the creator divine
--MFM
Pressed in like cattle in a car
We won't go very blankin' far
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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 - 01:44pm PT
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Visit your National Parks on a regular basis.
Win valuable prizes, such as:
A Healthy Respect for the High Prices.
A Patient Tolerance for the Ignorant and Stoopid.
A Sunburn or some Exotic Disease, like hantavirus.
(I realize it's not an exotic, but a domestic--don't harsh my mood or I'm liable to come un-glued and you don't want that.)
A Ticket to See The Judge, compliments of that nice young man in the Campaign Hat.
("Five over the speed limit?" "That's a Federal Offense, sir. License and registration, please.")
See How Easy It Is To Forget Your Troubles--try getting the new names right in Yosemite, for instance.
All in
YOUR NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM!
Ranger Harsh Mellow
He's a super-happy fellow,
a super-duper marshmallow,
until he stops you with a gun,
thereby spoiling all your fun.
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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 - 02:23pm PT
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This morning I talked myself into going out to the VA for my blood draw and a doctor's visit.
They provided me with a visual tour of some of the national parks and I thought to share them with you.
I'm very glad that I went to see the Dear Doctor.
He told me that mainly due to my weight gain that I am in Heart Failure Mode and just a skosh away from being in a hospital so let's get you some more Metolazone blah blah medical blah-blah and no, forget about any hernia surgery for at least three months IF "we" have your CHF under control.
There is more to this medical merry-go-round but I'm living it and it sucks and don't wish to bore you with old man's medical woe stories.
As I began typing, I had to answer the phone...Will from the Thinner Blood Lab to discuss Warfarin dosage. Shut the front door on that, too.
I simply wish I had the werewithal, the ability, the means to get to the Valley to shoot some waterfalls and climber falls and rescue calls and whatever crosses my path.
Reminds me...GENE, buddy, can you call me? Please?
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Slym
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Merced, CA
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May 23, 2016 - 02:56pm PT
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mouse,
looks like we gotta get that beer, and maybe a drive out to the ditch.
cure all things.
i'll call you tomorrow.
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