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not as of friday

top of takes fist

me climbing on the upper pitch - thanx for the pix kyle! i needed my etriers to get past the roof, but ditched them there for geoff to follow note the tag-line - far-out! geoff at the roof look at all those other goddamn roofs what to fuck-wit!

Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes, Long as I have my plastic Jesus Riding on the dashboard of my car Through all trials and tribulations, We will travel every nation, With my plastic Jesus I'll go far. {Refrain} Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus Riding on the dashboard of my car Through all trials and tribulations, We will travel every nation, With my plastic Jesus I'll go far. I don't care if it rains or freezes As long as I've got my Plastic Jesus Glued to the dashboard of my car, You can buy Him phosphorescent Glows in the dark, He's Pink and Pleasant, Take Him with you when you're travelling far {Refrain} I don't care if it's dark or scary Long as I have magnetic Mary Ridin' on the dashboard of my car I feel I'm protected amply I've got the whole damn Holy Family Riding on the dashboard of my car {Refrain} You can buy a Sweet Madonna Dressed in rhinestones sitting on a Pedestal of abalone shell Goin' ninety, I'm not wary 'Cause I've got my Virgin Mary Guaranteeing I won't go to Hell {Refrain} I don't care if it bumps or jostles Long as I got the Twelve Apostles Bolted to the dashboard of my car Don't I have a pious mess Such a crowd of holiness Strung across the dashboard of my car {Refrain} No, I don't care if it rains or freezes Long as I have my plastic Jesus Riding on the dashboard of my car But I think he'll have to go His magnet ruins my radio And if we have a wreck he'll leave a scar {Refrain} Riding through the thoroughfare With his nose up in the air A wreck may be ahead, but he don't mind Trouble coming, he don't see He just keeps his eyes on me And any other thing that lies behind Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus Riding on the dashboard of my car Though the sun shines on his back Makes him peel, chip, and crack A little patching keeps him up to par When pedestrians try to cross I let them know who's boss I never blow my horn or give them warning I ride all over town Trying to run them down And it's seldom that they live to see the morning Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus Riding on the dashboard of my car His halo fits just right And I use it as a sight And they'll scatter or they'll splatter near and far When I'm in a traffic jam He don't care if I say Damn I can let all sorts of curses roll Plastic Jesus doesn't hear For he has a plastic ear The man who invented plastic saved my soul Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus Riding on the dashboard of my car Once his robe was snowy white Now it isn't quite so bright Stained by the smoke of my cigar God made Christ a Holy Jew God made Him a Christian too Paradoxes populate my car Joseph beams with a feigned elan From the shaggy dash of my furlined van Famous cuckold in the master plan Naughty Mary, smug and smiling Jesus dainty and beguiling Knee-deep in the piling of my van His message clear by night or day My phosphorescent plastic Gay Simpering from the dashboard of my van When I'm goin' fornicatin I got my ceramic Satan Sinnin' on the dashboard of my Winnebago Motor Home The women know I'm on the level Thanks to the wild-eyed stoneware devil Ridin' on the dashboard of my Winnebago Motor Home Sneerin' from the dashboard of my Winnebago Motor Home Leering from the dashboard of my van If I weave around at night And the police think I'm tight They'll never find my bottle, though they ask Plastic Jesus shelters me For His head comes off, you see He's hollow, and I use Him for a flask Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus Riding on the dashboard of my car Ride with me and have a dram Of the blood of the Lamb Plastic Jesus is a holy bar

cool hand luke = best, most depressing, movie - ever. "sometimes i wish you'd stop being so good to me, boss"

ahhhh! so today i got my revenge and finished the climb - definetly impressed you freed all that, nate! the roof was very fun, especially blowing out a nut above the roof and falling way back below it and having to connect etrier to etrier to climb back outta space back onto route that second pitch needs a shit ton of big nuts! went through everything i had on my double set and was still scratching and sketching awesome route - so glad it's been cleaned and i didn't have to do it the first pitch goes much easier the second time around, but even taking a lap on it on toprop after joe led it this evening the last part is wicked hard - 10d there? the roof is definetly harder but it's just a swift kick in the nuts having to do that hard last part after climbing all that way - glad my fifi technique was more efficient than joe's holy-shit-what-did-i-do-to-myself? improve act that last pitch is mega-classic - no mercy! bring plenty of gear! hopefully geoff's bro will get up some of the great shots he got of folks on route? did you do anythign after stepphenwulf nate?

tyler, when you gonna come work somma yer aid magic round here, eh? plenta fun shit here!

Different matter to you? Or to everyone? If I bolt and climb and you dont like it and chop it..then you have started the war not me. Mmmmm pretty hard argument you are purposing. Saying some bolts are better then others. Isnt that up to the person establishing the route? Ah.now we are getting somewhere..so it is about you. Beacon is not just your place to climb. Quite frankly there is a lot of wasted rock out there. There are probably 35 beautiful arêtes that have NO GEAR that just sit idle. I would love to (sometime in the future) look into putting up climbs on them. I do not think it would open it up for sport climbing just because an arête gets bolted. kev, i really don't want to see a ton of bolted aretes at beacon - it's what makes vantage look so fucking stupid - that said, a route w/ a bunch of bolts is cool if it's necessary to get to a cool trad route (like young warriors for example) also your war analogy is a wee-bit daft - by your logic, hitler's invasion of poland wasn't a war until the poles started shooting back

then why is sam elliot grinning at me so slyly on my tube-box?

yup, it was the hangers that made me more nervous then anythign! any clue why he left long blanks spots in the ladder? was he insisting on hooking through them or what?

that's waht i meant dooode - i'll be at beacon 'roudn 8 w/ geoff - we're gonna finish TF first, but then i figured on either doing riverside (interested?) or coming back down and taking a look at second wind

morphine's "rope on fire" goddamn amazing song - eerie n' ethereal [video:youtube]v=GUAQJxKfSfw

Why JH? b/c he's the secretary of state and ambassador to the dark lords, duh you gonna be out there 2morrow nate? i feel obligated to beat you to it since you finished takes fist before me!

"it'd make money more plenty" - andrew jackson's would-be assassin, on why he wanted to kill the president (and would have too, if both his flint-lock pistols hadn't misfired at point-blank range!)

i'm pretty certain my 12 year old russian neighbor would knife me for cutting into his profits! dude, i'm a teacher - i willingly choose a life of poverty in exchange for lotza-playtime - i'm actually starting to look forward to spam-night!

FWIW, i've been hanging out on a bunch of the old, scary bolts out at beacon this season and not had any epics (unlike some of the old pins! ) - course then, i haven't taken any giant whippers on them either - jeebus, the whole bolt ladder on top of s'wolf looks like it could zip out though if a great big phat-ass like me were to take a screamer at the top!

i'm planning on it - though i'm broke as a joke

buy the whole set!

ahhhh - adventure bitches! crack'me'ups - brassies - birdbeaks - loweballs - who cares!?! it all feeeeeels so kewl!

i'm an idiot w/ money, but i didn't screw myself w/ debt, despite being the sole provider for a family of 4 why should i acquiesce to a plan i don't even faintly comprehend engineered to help a heap of fucks w/ more money then me who willingly stuck their nuts in a buzz-saw?

apparantly, he would make a poor buddhist, which is odd, given that...

well....

yeah, but as this would indicate, practically everyone's an asshole way at some level (sprayers perhaps a wee bit closer to the surface then the gen-pop)