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miss ya man - you're just hte kind of guy to savor the sodden jaunt i had today

got my beacon fix in today - holy fuck it was wet

i want to read his complete autobiography that just came out, just can't see forking over the cash just yet

speaking of twain, my favorite literary discovery of the week, twain's "war prayer," found amongst his unpublished 'scripts after his death: "O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen."

Thanks, this made me laugh. Mark Twain said something like there is no reason to live past 55; I'm beginning to believe it. I'm way too serious anymore, comedy and drugs don't work much, climbing seems too narcissistic, and sex seems to be too much hassle, even with myself. I guess I should try volunteering next; although, I have been told they don't need more bodies, just more money. goddammit larry - i'm climbing at beacon tomorrow - come keep me company!

great link - this link might work better? - every right thinking pdx wannabe aid-climber has st peters on the must-do list...

new sig: henry david thoreau on downers, dammit

had a funkness i think, but it was a ghetto-one most likely - i'll take you w/ me next time - the picture doesn't do it justice - there's a wierd angle in there that kept me from yanking on it in the right axis - i'd just about destroyed the swaging at the eye already, so figured why worry? that route is a treat and, if it's futures continues as its past predicts, my 'hawk will still be ready for service in 2030, long after the heathen gods have swept us all away

someplaces though the goddamn tomahawk gets in such that you just can't get at it to get it back out - this motherfucker became a permanent addition to dirty double overhang (though you'll notice i gave the surronding rock plenty of love to make it not so)

they also existed in a state of essentially continous warfare w/ their neighbors

ain't that the truth! ole'gregoire's proposed budget for next year will take 5k$ from me if it goes through if all animals were equal, why can't they all taste like bacon?

if, hypothetically, the cause of the increase was covering the retarded, elderly, unemployed, chronically ill, folks w/ pre-exiting conditions and children, are you saying that you'd just rather have the 65$ than help out?

even more when he looks like the joker

man larry, i don't THINK pink was trying to call you out! it would be nice to hear what the man has to say to your post though, old boy. i know a # of older folks who've been unable to get a job anywhere after months and years of looking...

conservatives generally need more than 10 seconds to jerk off in the shower b/c, let's face it, that mental image of jesus's ma just ain't that good

wtf were blueblockers?

"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!"

fuck, why the tr on an interesting beacon climb i haven't done just days before the closure, when i still have to salvage my shit off the pipeline?!

nice, sounds like there's an even more interesting tr to be had there

read a history of 19th century china the other day - holy shit they got the slap around by us barbarian bitches - really left me rooting for the bastards - jesus, if i was chinese i'd have a huge chip on my shoulder...and a small penis in my pants too i reckon.

"mrs kennedy liked bananas. mrs lincoln went bananas"

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reading relationship books is roughly the same as reading stereo instructions

that would be p2 of the dutchman there bill - the bears in heat crack is plain to the left of that - that p2 of the dutchman is a much faster clean aid pitch, quite long - there's a wee bit that is very small clean aid/birdbeaks, but at that pt its very contrived NOT to go up bears a couple feet and then step back in who's gonna be out there in the slop this weekend?

feel free to enligthen me then - i've heard the term before but don't know much, other than that they're supposed to penetrate body-armor - what is such ammo, how is it different from other types, and why/why not shoudl it be banned?