ivan

I'll second this recommendation. Come to think of it, Ivan sort of reminds me of Half Cocked Jack Shaftoe... now this sounds cool! but according to wikipedia, i must be a bizarro-world jack shaftoe as i imagine i'm pretty much the exact opposite of an "illiterate adventurer of great resourcefulness and charisma."

like retards humping a doorknob!

essentially next friday - the wife n' kids fly out for 5 weeks the friday after that, so i'm thinking i won't be doing so much reading then! i might need something light for long aid-belays in the valley - perhaps i should take a pamphlet on famous jewish sports stars?

haven't chief executives been quasi-gods since before hammurabi? what exactly about this is shocking or new? "i don't believe in beatles, i just believe in me"

hey, i'll always take free books, but i'm afraid you'd likely throw your back out trying to cart so much crap down here hadn't heard of that series so googled it - i liked this quote: “Moslems seem to have been better gentlemen than their Christian peers; they kept their word more frequently, showed more mercy to the defeated, and were seldom guilty of the brutality as marked the Christian capture of Jerusalem in 1099.” (p.341) i think what really made me like obrian's books was the historical fiction aspect - a ton of real historical content that i was generally familiar with, but specifically ignorant of, combined with a tide of foreign terms and lingo that demanded a conscious effort to learn (i had to buy a specialized naval dictionary) took the sting out of the fact that it was, in the end, mere fiction. i've usually been a non-fiction guy, but i felt like i was learning most of the time w/ obrian. it's also great for stuffing vittles down your face to as well, since the author has a near autistic fetish in continously describing the eating and drinking that underscores every ritual of naval life (and who wouldn't want to eat a drowned baby, soused hog's face, plum duff, or a spotted dick!?!)

"sorry for the inconvenience" - god's final message to creation, after being killed by the babel fish

some people really need a hobby, eh? do you think the religion of alpinism could save this lost soul? she appears tauntaun-ready, fo'shizzle!

i can't think of anything in life i'd be willing to set meself on fire for (having already accidentally done so in the scouts while vandalizing the troop flags pretty well scratched that itch - the smell of one's own flesh almsot ruins you for the 4th of july!)

i stole my dad's collection, as he enjoys spending money so much and i'm a flagrant hobo - it's a beautiful collection - 5 giant hardbound volumns w/ phatty built-in bookmarks - continous page #'ing so you get the sick thrill of being on page 4793 (and realing you have a couple k to go ) the 21st book 8-ball died only 1/4 of the way into the story, and as he wrote everything long-hand and had only had half of it transcribed, the final bit is a facsimile (whihc reminds me how much i never learned to read or write cursive properly in 3rd grade ) i'm planning on hanging onto them long term as its the kind of series where you can pick them up and reread any portion and it all still works (got totally wasted w/ corvallisclimber one night and found meself too befuddled to process new material, but rereading old stuff was twice the fun!) anyhow, i'll trade ya for a bit bill - you know, take a big wall rack wortha gear till you're done?

why do canadians do it doogie-style? so they can both watch the hockey game, eh?

don't know 'bout kev, joe, but i indeed was just flipping you shit w/ no malice at all (if you were a peregrine though, i'd have to do battle w/ you )

i prefer aiding pipeline, if only to pull off the monster panel above it and chap joe's ass

did redoubt last summer via depot creek and likely will be back at the end of this month so look for a tr (check out my tr from last summer for something like details mixed in w/ a large measure of insanity) - the trail is there but requires faith to stay on at times - the first part of road-walking is a giant pain in the ass if you're above 6 foot as you spend practically all of your time hiking bent over to stay under the saplings - once on the trail by the river, under no circumstances CROSS the river (ha!) no worries about rangers enforcing shit up depot - i think i've gotten a permit for the park on maybe 1 occasion? when in doubt, only speak in russian or whateverother heathen tongue you can manage. that said, its usually b/c i'm not making decisions until the last minute or wildly inebriated and going to the ranger station is an inconvenience, you can probably get one via the phone/interwubs well in advance (kelly the ranger hangs out on this board a bit i believe) enjoy the final bit of road to the trailhead - bring your dramine or any other anti-nasuea formula - it's wicked rough! look out for wild-eyed serbians brandishing molotov cocktails as well (or at least bring cigs to dissuade them with )

similiar? sure. the same? hardly. quang duc sacrificied his life, this kid at most his liberty for a few weeks. the cause of pot legalization, though near n' dear to my heart, is hardly as august and respectable as quang's either. okay - maybe i can read hornblower - the youtube episode i just watched ain't bad

sweet jesus. and don't i wish he was around more - water is, afterall, far cheaper god bless the 5 liter box! and in hindsight, 9 lt/week might be a low-ball estimate - seem to recall 3 boxes in a week on occasions at least i learned some groovy lingo...

after 6 months and 6 1/2 thousand pages i just finished the forever to be unfinished aubrey-maturin series - what in the fuck am i going to do for brain-food for the rest of my life? after a few thousand pages you just kinda start relying on it to be there 'till the end of days... hella'sweet reads, if'n you're ever in the mood - the creme de creme was "desolation island" i think, a badass read even if you don't want to trouble w/ the whole series on the plus side, my consumption of wine, which skyrocketed from practically nil to an average of near 9 liters a week for the past half year, oughta revert to something like normal reckon i could always take on the horation hornblower books, but somehow that title seems too ghey even for me i shall now meself to sleep

if kevbone did not exist, it would be necessary to create him?

watcha do geoff?

"jesus came onto them"

looking forward to renovating "flight time" this summer

it rules b/c there are no rules and performance enhancing drugs are encouraged

exactly! as a side note, took my kids to panther creek falls y-day after camping w/ them the night before - decided i'm never ever taking my kids climbing - scares the unholy shit out of me seeing them on broken ground above a gaint precipice - sure hope they like basketweaving!

geoff killed jesus too

you always gotta start the season with a solo lap on the corner dude

thanks for the update