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Big "stuff" has to happen on the nights like that . pat's donw this weekend, devushka - the forecast is so good might well ditch the big b for a party up at illumination and something on the w side the day after?

not that anyone should ever be so bored as to research it for the specific details, but a casual glance back over the bitching shows there's not half a baker's dozen of real bitchers on the subject - for several seasons now i've been downright zen in accepting the closure and having plenty of fun elsewhere and on the n side - most of the badnoise has come from folks not doing all that much clibming out there even during the in-season, no?

that is of course irrelevant to the vast majority of folks who want him gone, as they'd have only used his doing just that as election fodder for "cutting n' running, liberal soft-on-defense-and-everything else yadda yadda bullshit" messages, no?

get a kitchen-pass for saturday night n' bring it! party at the moon tower! looks like sunny skies n' a big old moon too

nice enough close to the season, little damp towards dark, more than a few folks scaling slimy stone - never like to see The Man down there - the phuzzy did a stand-up job of policing up all the personal effects i kept trying to leave lying about and wouldn't have seen till july beautiful weather this weekend - who's interested in a n side rager saturday night?

depends on the day of the week n' the time of day - for example, on wendsday night there's only one thing on m'mind - it's business time! [video:youtube]

I'm requesting that the seasonal onset of Bitching About Beacon not occur this year, or I'll be making some deletions. Its not a positive or acceptable use of this forum. strange, i seem to recall the forum was created more or less specifically to contain the bitching and keep it out of all the other honest, god-fearing forums

i still have all my shit in the car i think so if you can promise me you'll be out there...

how damp did it get today? i couldn't be out there earlier than 4 i don't think, but the moon is getting pretty near full, isn't it?

agreed - dude's got plenty of gnarly old ropes already and, though socially retarded by his own admission, far more likely to write a Strongly Worded and Overly Long diatribe online about it then to snigger in private on the positive side, despite feeling undeniably glum that this Tragedy with Undertones of Tradition is once again setting in, i can take comfort in yet another weekend having a fuckton of fun w/ the closest thing i have to friends these days - and more! yesterday i saw for only the 2nd time in a decade the site of sea lions frolicking about the bay below the Land of the Little People and scaring shit out of the whole avian-race down there

strikes n' gutters

sharks, like republicans, are not to be taken personally - sure, they wanna fuck'n kill you, but's it's just business, dig? help a brother out?

filed cliff-hangers - fucking menacing looking n' wicked sharp - would be as uneasy carrying those on my harness while free-climbing as if i had mike's goddamn harpoonesque "ibis hook"

that "holes exist" in any event is one of the most basic tenets of historiography i won't believe the jews actually killed christ until pilate stops washing his hands and releases the fuckign files! i wanna know who else was on that grassy gologotha that day as the shit about the 3 roman peasants w/ the 100$ sandals just don't sit w/ me!

thomas paine - you'd dig him - it's a semi-educated guess on my part, but i'm pretty certain he'd dig on at least some of the elements the ron paul elements favor, certainly on them distancing themselves from the jesus-elements of their party

john wilkes booth lee harvey oswald james earl ray osama bin laden all conspiracies must involve folks w/ 3 name handles - sirhan sirhan was merely the exception that proves the rule

i now suspect feck's unfortunate fall a few years back was no accident, but a deliberate attempt by The Powers that Be to prevent this rash and recent action of his - should he suddenly die in the next day to 10 years, then I Will Believe

the only possible explanation is that the military-industrial complex wants to suppress it

he did have curious notions about spell'n'punctuation

one of america's earliest n' greatest heroes, till the acolytes of the zombie-jeebus had their way w/ his legacy

bastard skiers!

Well, fuq'n up on a volcano can getcha kilt just as dead... sure, but playing w/ a butter knife is different than juggling w/ a kitana

my nana stored the iced animal cookies in a plastic piggly wiggly w/ a detachable head Massive Resistance on the part of the south in opposition to civil rights was of course monstrous, but undoubtedly successful in that it worked for a century before the usa evolved enough to defeat it - i don't plan on living another 100 years, however, and will settle for an opposition to a long-lived and patently ridiculous prohibition scheme along those lines at the moment

agreed on just teaching yourself thing, at least for volcano mountaineering - my buddies and i all didn't know shit, were stupid-young enthusiastic, bought the book, went out and practiced it, then made it all happen, includign going to denali w/ complete confidence that we could get ourselves out of any glacial disaster of reasonable proportions or die in good style the more technical and crazy involved, the better it is to have competent training - volcano stuff, unlike rock/bigwall/alpine climbing, is pretty tame, no?

my serious stoke suggestions get the axe, but the other monkies still get their turds left behind? okay, read the freedom of the hills first, THEN watch "vertical limit" and see if you can point out anything retarded - if you can't, might want to go back to the Big Book