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do you ride a bike to the crag whilst shouting down the prius drivers too jake, or do you take a more sensible tauntaun?

i like the no-hands rest at 3:55

did you get any leads? [video:youtube]

it don't matter how sound your anchor is when you piss off the Great Jaboo!

you mean oj was wrong too!?!

Contrary to my post regarding the gun, I'm not saying ice the dude and any innocent people that happen to be there.. that's not what got oj canned - remember this? http://www.newser.com/article/d98i23a00/memorabilia-that-put-oj-simpson-in-prison-returned-to-california-likely-to-be-auctioned.html

can't we all just get along?

wasn't doing this sorta shit the ONE thing that OJ actually got sent to jail for?

i had tortilla chips and salsa meself this morning - figured no hangover could resist that sweet, sweet nectar

how far's the drive from the 'couve? looks worthy of my princely amibitions

thinking of the only way you'll ever be able to break the jovian gravitional pull of cc.com dru?

OK the 5 volume set is on order, if you don't see much of me in the following weeks you only have yourself to blame. What kind of wine pairs well with this reading material Ivan? I've been reading "the Rising Sun" by Toland, and pairing it with Woodbridge by Robert Mondovi. Mostly cause it's good shit but comes in bottles with corks (the wife wants me to limit my drinking, and a box would be in the fridge 24/7 reminding her I'm drinking again so I need to pass on the box unless leaving it on the counter is OK) and the Woodbridge only costs $ 4.70 a bottle at Costco in the 4 pack. I could easily see that the wine might tally higher than the book set ($114.00 no shipping cost) if I only hit a bottle per book. As far as gear requests go, walls tear shit up so I don't loan stuff out for them, but if you only need like a #4 Big Bro for the Hollow Flake or something like that let me know. Benny was intimating around the campfire in Yosemite last month that he would like to borrow my offset Alien set to do Zodiac but I declined. Glad to see it didn't slow him down at all and he sent. lord, that's a lot of pressure to put on humble me, to drop a franklin a shitton of books assumign my taste is any damn good! do yourself a favor and get this http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Words-Third-Companion-Seafaring/dp/0805066152 as unless you're an able seaman who knows the difference between a backstay and a futtock shroud you'll be fucked for comprehension the first 500 pages! was just kidding on the gear thing, btw, though i recall at some point you said you'd given jimbo a hammer i could have to replace my ball-pean ghetto-rig which i need to actually act on dude, shitty boxed red wine can totally hide in the garage! when done w/ the bladder you can reinflate it and give it to a baby to play w/ too

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 )