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it's far easier for me to shriek at you to stop carrying a handgun then for me to lay off the hohos though

nice - tempting - hoping to get out saturday as well as the weather looks like tiiiiiities for a long time to come

hardly - mostly just hiking these days, though i suspect thursday will have some honest-to-dog fun on the n side - temps in 80s n' sunny that side after 4 - sweeeeeet!

equal enigma - why we enthusiastically do business w/ china but not cuba?

all the more reason not to play the part of the village elders in "footloose"

4/30 - beacon day 6 for the year - only 2 days at the baconwand this month, but spring seems to be here fo'shiz, even if today it was right blustery and overcast - scrambly, scrambly on the n side for a while, then a satisfying hike to the summit - the 70th anniversary of an intelligence coup - "mincemeat has been swallowed" - peregrines apparent from the uprising exit, swooping and screeching and having a ball it looked - kenny in the lot, horrifyingly still set in his hate-tobacco way, but w/ rainier-beer as always

meh. better than nothing sure, and certainly they work better in theory when the oppressors actually have a conscience to trouble, but progress still seems glacial. for all their greatness, gandhi's hunger strikes couldn't turn the tide of muslim/hindu hatred. ira hunger strikes in the 80s didn't do much more than make more martyrs. as always, i hope for a legal and civil resolution, and am fine w/ the trails being held in my hometown, seeing as how everyone else seems to get hysterical when that question comes up...

i saw that headline today - if he couldnt' close the thing 5 years, why hope that he can do it now?

whatzit?

also, i question the basic premise of the OP last year i seem to recall a hundred people leaving a dude to die rather than fuck up their summit bid - ain't that more fucked than the local gentry (perhaps wrongly) defending their rice-bowl?

it doesn't matter what color your swedish girl is, they all smell like fish on the inside

reckon we can agree though, that on the Big List of Fucked Up Shit Going Down Right Now, this incident occupies a pretty lowly position think the good people at the nepalese tourism board have a pretty clear grasp on the Golden Goose as well when i win the lottery though, i'll be goddamn if these buddhites get my dinero though - i'll jet off to argentina instead, where nothing bad's ever happened - ever.

well, that doesn't explain Italian, doesn't it! eye-talians? fuck me, the swiss times 10! maybe they were just very historically mindful sherpas then? it was the 68th anniversary of mussolini n' company getting lynched this weekend n' all... anyhow, thought i saw steck was a swiss-tard?

in fairness, doesn't everybody hate the swiss?

they can move mountains now?

"base is the slave who pays"

cold, beautiful, uncaring, distant and dangerous? nope, nothing at all like a woman

doesn't "grand tetons" mean "big old titties?"

even if you're fucking a prostitute though, you still get to say "i got laid last night" right?

gawdamn skee'n'foolz!

they need to make a bomb out of unicorn shit - can you imagine?

4/25 - day 5 - holy shee-it muslims, it's been 2 months - lovely spring day - many olde boyes humping the o-zone on the way out - on the north side, the sun peaking over, one hand washes the other, i fear nothing - 3 peregrines screeching n' flopping about - green grass - crisp n' crunchy moss - had time to stop by and yack-yack w/ jim n' sal n' steve n' wes n' a whole motley crew of misfits n' misogynistic fucks on the way back - did a couple solo laps on the jacobs ladder and drank some beers, then boogied on back home for "house of cards" w/ the wifey jesus-h-christ, why are they doing more construction on the 14?!?

like gay sex, spray is quite cool, so long as you close yer eyes and DO NOT fucking look!

yup, definetly would be a lot more meat-popsicles running around if only we didn't produce so much goddamn food and...uh...medicine.

holy shit, you built this dicked-up libary and DIDN'T put a copy of "my pet goat" in it?!?