Off_White

Sorry if it's unclear, I was addressing Pink, not you.

Your first post? Do you mean this one or this one? It wasn't until reading your indignant complaint here and looking at Pink's first post that I made the connection. Frankly, both avatars come straight out the gate looking to spray, and when things went south with your bit about Beacon you led the way, the first person to get all aggro and testy about it.

Kevbone, word on the street is that one of the site owners is tired of your drivel. Above the Law indeed. I suspect that if you keep up the constant flood of whining you will be euthanized. Were you under the impression that life is fair?

Sounds wild, I trust you'll post up some more pics? Here's a link to a quasi-on topic music video

Not that I'm aware of, but go check it out. Marching around in the woods will at the very least keep you out of trouble. Maybe you'll find a motherlode like Kix found on Tiger Mountain.

Don't forget John Darnielle

No Steve, my sister was a crackhead, not a meth user.

There's always Meth, though you might want to pay close attention to your dentition

Maybe we could not supersize Mr. Phil's avatar picture?

Any chance we could ratchet up the color intensity for the threads with new content? That yellow is a little pale. This'll take a little getting used to, and I'm among those who want my old skool style sheet back, but the function looks pretty good. Thanks for squandering part of your long weekend doing this.

(a digression from the topic at hand) John David Junior- Off White is what my family, my postman, my neighbors, my employees, and many of my friends call me. It's my name. I'm also a moderator in several forums here. My edited comments in Fairweather's first post are prefaced all in italics, and identified as mine. It should be clear what I'm saying. In addition, I consulted with Fairweather to make sure this was agreeable to him. As board policy, we prefer to have discussions of serious topics separate from obituary/tribute threads because due to the wonders of Google et. al., friends and relatives of the deceased often find their way here, as evidenced by the posts from Harvey's daughter and the friends and father of the woman who recently died descending Half Dome. Accidents and other deaths obviously offer ample opportunities for both learning and discussion, but it's a matter of respect to try and put those elsewhere. To that end, I moved Fairweather's interesting question and all it's replies to another forum to modify it, added my preface, and changed the thread title in everyone's post to differentiate this thread from Manning's obit (hence the "edited by off white" notice at the bottom of many posts). When done, I moved it back to the Climbers Board. The admonition to "keep it civil" relates to both the forum this thread is in (Climbers Board is very different from Spray, one is to be more polite here) as well as to address the tendency of several posters to toss barbs and insults at Fairweather because he's of a minority opinion conservative bent here. I'd prefer to see the topic addressed, not the personalities involved. If you feel otherwise, you are welcome to post your own thread in Spray and be as insulting as you wish, or go to another climbing bulletin board. There are a number of them in the Northwest alone, and surely New Jersey must have some regional boards as well.

I heard somewhere that Satriani taught Eddie how to play.

Fenderfour: Influential is not the same thing as copied. Hendrix to a large extent redefined what was possible with the electric guitar, and in some ways broke down the walls of the guitar box. In that sense, he is extremely influential, and it shows up not just in the music of Trey the unlistenable hippy, but in blues folks like Buddy Guy and Poppa Chubby, wierd crossover folks like Vernon Reid and John McLaughlin, jazz players like Kevin Eubanks and Miles Davis (who covered at least one Hendrix tune), and just a ton of folks in the rock world, including the bulk of the guitarists listed above. Just because every wannabe guitar player learns "House of the Rising Sun" doesn't mean that Eric Burdon is the godfather of modern rock.

Has it been three hours yet?

Archenemy, I'm surprised that in your bass list you left off some of the easy picks: James Jamerson Jaco McCartney (much as the guy can be insufferably sappy, he did a lot to establish the bass as a melodic instrument) If you like a wizard with the upright, keep an eye out for Glenn Moore, plays in a local jazz duo King & Moore: you know, just bass & vocals? I saw them play at SAM and he was just stunning. Oooh, and I almost forgot: Sid Vicious, who perhaps singlehandedly started the myth that any no talent dumbfuck can play the bass.

I love rivers, so much more variable and entertaining than lakes or the Sound, but it'd sure be scary to live on one. It's mostly a question of when, not if. Outrageous pics Arch, thanks for posting those. Glad your abode survived this go round. Here's a pic of a friend of a friend's house on (errr, I mean in) the Cowlitz. It's come off the foundation and is on it's way downstream, a testament to the power of plywood sheathing.

My method is subjective and probably overly simplistic, but usually if I find myself spending any energy worrying about the piece of equipment, it's time to replace it.

Couldn't you two just do this via PM? Please?

Aren't Warthogs collectors items now, sought after as ideal pieces for frozen moss and dirt? Snargs were the cutting edge drive in and screw out pro for awhile back there, I don't think there's been anything hammer driven since then.

I remember upgrading from coathangers to Salewas, they were so advanced! And ooh, a short axe and a Chouinard alpine hammer? That was the ticket.

Those shots are just brilliant Kevin, thanks for sharing. You clearly spend a lot of time chasing the right light.

Thanks for the definition Jay, few in the conservative camp use the term in any context aside from the modern redefined pejorative.

That's damn near every route at the quarry in Tenino. "No, hook your thumb under that roof!" "Up and left, hidden hold, no, further!" "NO, don't touch THAT!"

Syntactically abysmal, factually incorrect, but thanks for posting!

That's funny, JayB is the first person I thought of when I heard the news too.