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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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Nov 13, 2016 - 08:41am PT
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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 - Nov 13, 2016 - 10:42am PT
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Untitled
by Anne Stephenson
Mind led body
to the edge of the precipice.
They stared in desire
at the naked abyss.
If you love me, said mind,
take that step into silence.
If you love me, said body,
turn and exist.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 13, 2016 - 02:36pm PT
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YOU are full of beans, BeachMaster.Maybe you thought he was a dog, a terrier, possibly.
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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 - Nov 13, 2016 - 02:41pm PT
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Respect for longevity and service.Ike may have been his boss. I don't know.
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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 - Nov 13, 2016 - 03:49pm PT
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Bushman, sent you an email.
Fixed pro.
What the roach saw.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Nov 13, 2016 - 05:53pm PT
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Nov 13, 2016 - 09:12pm PT
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HOV dummy steals autonomous vehicle, maintains composure despite hail of police bullets
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Nov 13, 2016 - 09:24pm PT
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Hey Mouse,
Just saw your post about the email. It's not in my inbox or spam filter. Maybe resend it?
I just sent myself a test email from here and didn't get it yet either, maybe I'll get it later?
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 13, 2016 - 09:34pm PT
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All fall down [Click to View YouTube Video] The days of Edgar Winter, too Bur it's cold outside finally
So Warm it up first [Click to View YouTube Video] Talk about the MUSIC OF MY LIFE
! the one that was a soundtrack that ran like a backdrop to climbs and life
Frankenstein [Click to View YouTube Video] OK NO MAS BUT WOW IT SEEMED LIKE HE WAS ALWAYS havin' fun
so one that now will get missed,
( wrecking crew )what to Doo?
Yup he could play & partay [Click to View YouTube Video]that a share to far but there is all the stones stuff and Elton John, with Sheryl Crow .
The list goes on and on
Ring a bell open up the doors of hell A husband's here to hustle with the devil !
Ive not said it before,
the point is
this place
its mass votin' block
still haz me swore off sharing! Who knew !
Want kill off the Gnome ofthe Diabase?
(No ~ come to the campfire vibe )
Elect a pig faced evil fvcker
It is a disgrace!
I don't want to forget that in 1973 John Prine played New Paltz
It means nothing to y'all but the world to me ,
As good as the Steve Goodman / J Prine Dear abbey
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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 - Nov 14, 2016 - 02:26am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Let's see if any big, bad politards have the guts to tell Kid President that he's full of beans.
I have genuine feelings about this thread, though I'm not going to reveal them. However...it is gratifying to see that this core group is so together and clever, productive, somewhat original, etc, thereby promoting whatever it is that we promote here, which includes, apparently, The Great American Milkshake, a thing that was seemingly killed by Mickey D and the Gang years ago just prior to the Burger Wars, the days, even, before the advent of the Super Taco itself; and it pleases me no end.
So, guys and girls, thank you for keeping it up, whatever it is -- garbledy or not, sense or not. In Middle-Muddle Earth there are lots of colors and flavors to choose because we colors mix so freely in the campfire, a spark here, one there, another in a TR.
Take your pick and it's all free, thanks to Wandaful Wandaful sponsors like
CHILO'S CHILE of Mesilla, NM
WES & WANDA'S HOTSY=TOTSY CLUB and DANCING SOCIETY
(2 miles up from the Freight & Salvage and Ashkenazi.)
There could have been a Dylan Thread, but that never happened...no need, really.
There was a short-lived Berkeley thread, but it died from neglect.
There have been threads devoted to our modern forms of highway transport and to motorcycles...so many, really, they deserve their own thread.
And a Poets Thread, not just a poetry thread...well, poets are special, aren't they? Though poets are famous for denigrating their own work, We the People of Planet Mirth and it's lovely companion Serena, love our poets more than our novelists.
Or we tend to place them on higher pedestals, I should say.
Poetizing is a tough racket, though -- mostly thankless and not very useful any longer. It is a lot like climbing -- the poet generally writes for himself and in spite of himself, which is where the muse thing originated, I imagine -- the idea of musing and being inspired is poetic in itself.
I have found in writing poetry that ellipses and dashes have places and it behooves the editing poet to use them sparingly. My words of advice.
Dingus, I'll have one straw and two chocs, PLEASE.
something from nothing
the silent sound of gears moving slowly
the sound of pen scratching or keys tapping
if it's a process I'm not aware of it
when I am processing the words
but here you are
a poem for you
because i'm saying it is a poem
and i have a friend who never lies
and he would probably agree
if he were here
(which he is not)
and i expect that he'd be thrilled to know
that he's in a poem
one more time by me
though in the last one he met death
in the shower not on a climb
and he lived to tell about it
In nomine Chocolati, Strawberre, and Vanill.
AWWWWWW-MENNNNNNN.
And he cannot help that he looks a little like WBraun.
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"The beer milkshakes are on me and Doc, boys. Drink up!"
--from Steinbeck's unknown, unfinished "High Peaks Trail and other Short Stories."
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 14, 2016 - 02:51am PT
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A morning filled with mixed emotions
I've been able to sleep drank them beers
 was in trouble all night ayh?
Over a Few beers the first in months,
Round
short
and so pissed off
I vibrate
Is no way to go through
Life
The Dean to flounder from Animal house!
. . . . .
Goergeuios spelt akimbo on purpose!
Phkx I wah to shaw a bhudda world
Nixon was a great president
Is what trump will mean
And!
We are all the way back, There?! ( pence , like Biden is so much worse!)
I can't believe
I can't see straight
You may say ~ get over it
Study history's?
Then itz impossible!
I'll post the picture of her
In the run up to your leaving last I posted a shot of a comely girl
She sat with fine posture, on belay
She's a kept working women
All of them no longer girls
The one
Called after to dead Vietnam dead Lee & Ron
This girl had to knuckle under
Marie a pig to get along
I loved her like . . .
well not that way
unless your trip, is trump
Till I told her No
She had to go
I married her Aunty. . . .
So
She calls
At first it's
Yah da yah da
The tears flow
We won't go
No point in protest
She and my wife's step sister,
Who's pushin' 80
Is gonna go !
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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 - Nov 14, 2016 - 03:06am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]This is not happening...the worst night of our lives.
"Neidermayer...DEAD!"
"We gotta take these bastards."
"We have to go all out...a really futile and stupid gesture."
And we're just the guys to do it.
So there is a good reason to study history, according to the eminent Blutarsky,
who later tried to climb Entrance Exam and FAILED
due to having carried too many haul bags of beer
and not enough ice, according to legend,
and so had to descend on Gnome's fixed line.
There is/is not a good reason to study poetry, which is boring, frankly.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 14, 2016 - 03:09am PT
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What has happened?
That movie the times
The coke?
All the things
Now turned a joke!
Gutted
The neighbor's kilt a buck in the backyard
I hate killin' things
I'm a tree hugger from 80 on
Seen it hunted some
Always threw up a little in my
Mout!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 14, 2016 - 03:26am PT
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All of the just party favors that I took
Did not scramble my eggs as good
As the fall I took
That laid me low
And brought me here
And that was a great thing
And raised me up
To the Gnome world.
On 11/12/1980 I was in New Haven Conneticut
Toad's Place. ". . .
For one of the best ever
Where not they all?
Robert Hunter !
I've got the agape Tape!
If I could I'd burn a disc for all
I'm gonna check out Snooze Control!
See if I can put it out
zB ! It is Epic!
The his is no wher near as it changes meanings
The line
I see you have your *WRIST OUT* is what is changed among others but
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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 - Nov 14, 2016 - 03:26am PT
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It is far better to keep poetry in your life than to neglect its call.
A Poem a Day Keeps the Mind At Play and the Doctor Away
Sit down, think of your past
or if you prefer, your present or your future.
Don't be timid or coy --
think back to when you were a boy
or if you are not one,
a girl or another sex...
how many are there, anyway?
When did you first enjoy the other sex
or if you prefer, the same gender sex or the other?
Not that it is anyone else's business, of course.
Unless it comes up in the poem you are about to write.
Free verse or legitimate?
ALLCAPS or nocaps?
Spencer, short and brisk and to the point,
or Spenser, flowery and perfumed with grace?
Ironic or straight?
Satire or parody?
Insight or narrative?
You need a good title.
I take a tiny hit and choose one.
You may not choose to indulge,
but the title is the first thing read by readers.
Sometimes I use sativa
and sometimes indica.
I no longer drink.
My mental crutches abound,
just like choice phrases
which are only waiting like figures in stone
for my chisel and mallet
to fashion an idyll
or an epic,
but I don't do epics --
though I have epicked once or twice
when climbing.
I never wrote about them in poetic language.
I should.
But maybe later.
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