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perhaps you lack imagination? do you even remember how fucked-10-ways-2-sunday that joint was in 2005-6? fucking car bombs 3 times a day, endless fuckign corpses being fished out of the river, found in schools, fake cops setting up road-blocks and killing everyone who stopped, playgrounds shot up, etc., etc. horror beyond the average sane man's thinking. today ain't great, like i said, and the situation seems such that it could be back to those bad days in 10 minutes, but it is NOT as bad as it used to be. as to whether or not today is really any better than saddam's day, fuckit, i'd have to have a buncha iraqis take on that, and i've never met one...

the pioneer route ain't really an aid route and everyone should leave there etriers at home for it - french freeing w/ a fifi hook is best - if you want to aid at smith, bubba's in bondage is better, or if you want the monkey, then the west face route, which is mostly a bolt-ladder anyhow...

iraq in 2003 was So Big Retarded, but even a pessimist, in 2012, can't describe the current situation there as a total disaster yet, right? though a return to all out civil war could very well be just in the offing, so far the place hasn't burned down since we left - the notion of creating a monticello on the euphrates might not have come to fruition, but there's now at least one less nation-state in the middle east with a government keen on making our lives unpleasant. i'm scoring the decision to go to war an "F," the conduct of the war a "C-" and the results after a decade "D/D-"

see...if we'd just sent HAL 9000 up all by his lonesome? course, then, how'd we have gotten Da StarChild?

i'm at wolf rock all weekend but if you don't get any offers, try pm'ing billcoe and see if you can't tap into his Deep Pool of personable clamberers...

is it possible to stay safe in a place where the very people you're purporting to help are raining metal down upon you on a regular basis? i'm all for sobo getting some gobmint patronage slung his way, but couldn't we at least employ him someplace better? happy to see you're well, sir

it's not gay if you don't look

thanks for the idea - holy shit that was fun! the walk down the trail w/o light was the true crux, especially just before the parking lot 13 trips to beacon this month

the only way i've found i can lay off the sauce is to climb el cap - no booze in the bag and too goddamn busy the whole time to even think about it

looks about right - the twilight zone - it's in olson's oregon rock book, page 130

9/29 - wife problems: full-moon free-solo sans-head-lamp! geoff n' arlo as helpful alarm clocks

all of yer hi-school friends might have been jew-dogs, glassie (lord knows i had my fill), but said school also contained the simple lesson that the first step in persecuting a people is defining them as separate from the rest, no? i will warrant you, if you wish, that (in my limited experience) i have never known a half-wit jew (and thus all the more esteem-able race!)

I don't think so, there is a huge difference between producing something and designing something. Machines don't design cars, people do. which is better to explore the depths of far europa's oceans though? if the difference in price is a factor of 10? of 100? if queen isabella could have sent a probe instead of columbus, what would she have done? would the outcome have been any different, regardless?

aliens are of course great, but there are places where only a tcu can work, and few places where aliens go that tcu's can't too - so...it's nice to have one of each!

long, long experience leading to a blinding realization that no amount of clever-banter could change the mind of even the loftiest of cc.retard intellects?

9/28 - 21st day at beacon since the opening - full moon and fucking mad rager up the rock in the rude-light - bob n' me had a run on jill's thrill after school, then crawled up the corner w/ the better part of a 6-pack - dusk by tree ledge - to little people by braille - high times n' hollering at the dusky moon - crazy smoke-cloud glitter off the river - clambered off sans headlamps - how much longer shall this indian summer insist?

metollius tcus and aliens or their equivalents

duh, portland hipsters don't drive cars!

dunno, kinda sounds like them fellars been accused of having one of them collective hive-mind kinda thangs...

don't go neglecting honey boo-boo now, here?

that poor dog...

thought is was because ya'll have more hotties and dickheads?

fuck hip, at least portlands traffic system wasn't designed by a syphillitic retarded unicorn

X2 - most especially on overhanging & extremely traversing shit (where you can lower out on one daisy as you reel in on the other) and generally pieces that feel super scary (where you just gradually tighten up the diasy then give it a big old sit down)

pretty certain that old boy would be up at the trail in 5 minutes flat