ivan

"you know hitler believed in flair too. he made the jews wear it"

a good half-dozen rats learned this hard, hard lesson in my back yard this summer

american provided stingers seemed to make a pretty decisive difference for the mujis though

i'm thinking i'll probably go climbing?

there's always "barely legal"

my persian friend aarash did the route w/ nothing heavier than a fleece jacket, but he's a godless savage...personally, i'd think setting foot on the mountain w/o a long-ass, huge puff-daddy is a lot like walking into a thai whore-house w/o a wallet or a pocketful of rubbers...

my drinking fund currently has 3 dollars and 26 cents left in it for the month

how are they gonna keep folks from skiing up the tj once the snow falls?

doesn't sound like foot traffic will be restricted though? certainly not while snow's still on the ground?

that's the one day this week i can't go - will be out there friday though - you could alwasy try your hand soloing the se corner if you can't find anyone? you might try pm'ing denalidave - he lives out there...

but again, the guns out there aren't checking or balancing a damn thing, like joe said - the 82nd airborne can probably take on every gun-nut in the country together and come out just fine, no?

hmm, never heard of a soul brother being found hugely *lacking*

appears to be looking on the up-n-up though?

I'm not sure I follow this argument. Are you saying the US govt is stable because they monopolize the use of force? It would seem the second part of your sentence undermines the first. Or are you arguing that the our govt is unstable? that's it - no government is going to be stable if it can be overthrown at any moment (revolutionary-era france, for example) - our government is stable though b/c it has restricted gun ownership enough to preclude violent revolution, as mentioned many times above

no doubt - and just look at the all the good they've done in creating stable societies in such exotic places as somalia, afghanistan, the congo, etc. succesful government are that way, in part, because they monopolize the use of force - when any asshole can waste an entire school or shopping mall on a whim, how stable is your society going to be?

suprised no one's thrown this classic in yet? [video:youtube]

closest i ever came to be knocked out was a primus concert - seconds after les flicked me off for screamign "you suck!" for the 1000th time a 14 year mosher rang my bell big time "funny thing about weekends when you're unemployed - they don't mean so much, 'cept you get to hang out w/ your working friends" "suck on this" is their best album, imho

not true! i just likely wouldn't be "free"ing it

oddly, that anchor inspired me plenty - 4 big ass chickenheads, plus i was in a stance where i could hold all the weight on my body pretty easy - plus, geoff never falls! you'll notice, kev, i rarely claim to "free" anything - i like having fun when climbing, and given my strength and technique, that requires resting pretty often it boggles me mind that you find free firsum easier to lead then blownout PP, yeah, riverside's way up there on the edge of grassy ledge and you'll never have to wait in line! the anchor's not too bad currently either and will get replaced soon enough i bet.

yes why the quotation marks, 8-ball?

word - no harder than blownout firsure - you done riverside, cc?

the bluebook value is 10b - never climbed in the valley, but at beacon that's plenty hard - much harder than windsurfer i thought, which is the same rating

Love the pics! (Got more Zod pics underworld?) Hey- Except for Ivan's massive weight, please tell me there was there a solid upwards piece?! no, but w/ 10 feet of 40 degree slab to climb to the top, if he had fallen, we both pretty much would have deserved death

So where do I fit in this mess??? the only good thing about voyager, the show where the chick captain got everybody lost maybe climbing's bad for the brain 'cuz it pisses our wives off, who in turn take to slowly poisoning us w/ lead n' arsenic in our food?

Now now, be careful, you know what often happens right after a person is caught saying something like that.... actually i don't remember i DO remember gary hart challenging the press to catch him cheating and, BLANG, the next day they nailed him though