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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

i also find mention of Ohio Caverns and Olentangy Indian Caverns, and w/ such a prestigious word as "cavern" being applied, they gotta be good

shit, sounds like you're living in the home of the biggest geode in the world! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Cave_(Ohio)

have you tried caving? pretty much that whole half of the country is riddled w/ limestone caves - i only did a few but found it pretty damn adventerous - don't know of any in ohio but there's gotta be some.

Yea, and look how well that worked out. The biggest advantage now being home to the Piggly Wiggly chain and inventor of po' boys. Hopefully we'll stave off that fate. hey now, don't fuck w/ piggly wiggly - that guy's a national treasure!

Very interesting Frontline piece. Surprise Oakland! Justice department says it's illegal even with a state medical mojo law! My guess is that if, and a big if, it passes here in WA it will unravel in a sad, short , and similar fashion once the state receives the Justice Dept letter. as a proud southerner, i've amble historical faith in the power of a fuckload of states refusing to obey at any rate, prohibition has not been an insurmountable obstacle in the past, and its only for the best that the movement now move away from the charade of medicinal use (which was also, believe or not, a big part of the resistance to alcohol's prohibition, and throughout that period a lucrative yet silly way around the barrier - as was "religious exceptions," as jews were permitted an annual legal amount, which apparently caused a bloom in the population of rabbis such that, for a while, they outnumbered the actual national population of jews! )

next friday would be the cat's motherfucking meow

figured i'd use the occasion of i502 to do a debate w/ my seniors on the subject over the next 2 weeks - just saw the frontline "pot republic" piece and will use that, but wanna come preach to the choir anyhow?

n' newt's got enough hot air to keep the whole place nice n' toasty