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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Apr 25, 2019 - 08:43pm PT
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He liked The New Riders of The Purple Sage.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Apr 25, 2019 - 09:31pm PT
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For a long time I thought Toker and Rong were the same guy
I no longer do
Not because of this, but it is one thing tVillain said
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 31, 2018 - 11:55am PT
Veterans deserve it.
While I support major cutbacks in hardware purchases, the troops should get our support.
My favorite organization to support is Paralyzed Veterans of America. I can't think of any more deserving.
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Jim Clipper
climber
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Apr 25, 2019 - 10:37pm PT
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With the taco inquisition in full swing, I can see why the knights of the castrati targeted the toker.
I admire his work to help folks, even if I didn't get his "#of people who have died on my climbs" rating scale.
Seems odd, reconciling the two.
Off to the desert, where the powder stays dry...
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
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Apr 26, 2019 - 01:54am PT
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Love him or hate him, he was the real deal. I think that losing him, and people like him, actually really is a great loss for SuperTopo. People like him, DMT, and Tarbuster is what kept a lot of us coming back here. Well, of these three, Tarbuster is still here, but for how long?
And make no mistake, Toker Villain wasn't kicked out, he left. It was a calculated act.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Apr 26, 2019 - 03:14am PT
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i came here, didn't know shemagh from keffiyeh or ghutrah. the guy broke my spell-checker over his knee, and i'm a better man for it
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Apr 26, 2019 - 06:42am PT
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Buh-Bye
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Apr 26, 2019 - 07:15am PT
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Does anyone else remember the rumor from back in the 80's that Ron Olevsky had died? I can't recall where I'd heard that, I think the suggestion was that it had been suicide. It was a few years before I learned that it was all some malicious prank, and in the pre-internet world it was both a difficult thing to pull off and slow to refute. Ron was already a known quantity in those days of print and evidently controversial enough to draw heat back then. Presumably for his HAFWEN constructive pin scarring program in desert sandstone, though who knows, it may have been purely personal. I doubt this Supertopo little death is all that big a deal.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Apr 26, 2019 - 07:17am PT
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OLevsky has probably always inspired a mixed bag of responses from people, and long before the Internet. He's been a key figure in our community forever, or for most of forever.
At my medical benefit auction in 2009, he got right out front during the bidding and was a major force in pushing up values.
Thank you, Granite Climber. While I probably won't be generating much in the way of content here, I'll continue to interact with all of the goodhearted, intelligent, and interesting people who make this community what it is, until the lights go out.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2019 - 07:18am PT
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Well, of these three, Tarbuster is still here
Still here, but most of his contributions are gone.
His photo heavy threads were always a blast.
Scrambles by Tarbuster - always a hoot.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Apr 26, 2019 - 07:20am PT
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You can view all of my stuff (except for the photos which I posted to Supertopo server over the last year, which I stripped out as a matter of expediency to keep the rest alive) and that of everyone else who used off-site hosting for photographs.
Hacking your browser to see photographs on Supertopo
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Lemurian
climber
Bend
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Apr 26, 2019 - 07:46am PT
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Banned because of a potato photo. I suppose there's some cosmic symmetry in that, but I can't discern how, exactly. The consequence doesn't seem to match the action.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 26, 2019 - 08:09am PT
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I love that SuperTopo is claiming its own reprise of Firenze’s 1497 Bonfire Of The Vanities.
Who’s gonna play Savonarola?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 26, 2019 - 09:35am PT
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You mean first being banned, burned and then made a saint...
Saint Mouse of Merced might qualify. Too bad The Flames thread was burned... It was very much the heart and soul of Yos ST...
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Apr 26, 2019 - 09:46am PT
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Is anyone else having any luck with JLP's browser javascript hack? It does not seem to work for me.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Apr 26, 2019 - 09:55am PT
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I had a programmer do it for me and it definitely works.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Apr 26, 2019 - 09:57am PT
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Bonfire of the Vanities was also a good book by Tom Wolfe.
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LAhiker
Social climber
Los Angeles
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Apr 26, 2019 - 10:08am PT
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Did they ban him because the photo of a dick tater was too political? Or because he couldn't definitively prove that he owned the photo? Am I even allowed to ask these questions???
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Apr 26, 2019 - 10:11am PT
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A classic New York City guy who chose to run from the mob scene and into his own paradise (at times) in UT. Well played, Ron O!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Apr 26, 2019 - 11:53am PT
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It may be that some setting in Java is interfering with that browser hack.
The guy (Supertopo champion Nut Again!) that set my browser hack had to go into Java and look around for some interference.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Apr 26, 2019 - 02:31pm PT
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He liked The New Riders of The Purple Sage.
The New Riders of the Purple Sage recorded "Henry," whose chorus was our theme song when driving to and from Yosemite Valley in my Berkeley days:
"Now he's rollin' down the mountain goin' fast, fast fast.
And if he blows it, this one's gonna be his last.
Goin' to Acapulco, turn the golden key.
Henry keep your brakes on for this corner if you please!"
John
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