Dr_Flash_Amazing

Sweet! Excellent guess, Doctor! Looks like a cool line, though.

1. "Who cares" is right! 2. Trask actually posted that list while you were gone 3. The thing about Al Gore inventing the internet is not true; he didn't actually say he invented the internet. Some moron reporter heard from someone else that that's what he said. It was on 'On The Media' a while back.

Doesn't look familiar, wiseguy. Penitente Canyon, perhaps? Some obscure crag at Red Rox? ???

Right area, almost the right crag, wrong route.

Go!

Judging by the fact that it's from http://www.ggallin.com, the Doctor would have to guess it's Axl Rose.

Yes. No.

Damn, you're a picky lot! Both Climbing and R&I arrive in the Amazing househould mailbox, and both are, to varying degrees, enjoyed. R&I's new format IS a bit heavy on topos, accident reports, etc., but hopefully it's just a stumble while they get their shit in gear. Obviously neither mag has good content all of the time, but most of it is entertaining reading, and the news is nice, too. Yep, some people are actually interested in who sent what recently. Imagine that! Outside isn't bad either (and also comes to the household). Yeah, they definitely overdo the travel features every month, but the other articles are good reads a lot of the time. They cover a pretty diverse amount of stuff, much of it quirky and thus interesting. The SUV and Polo ads are wack, but the world is full of Polo-clad doofuses rallying around in Excursiopeditioncruizers, so it's nothing new.

Keeping it simple or obfuscating the facts is definitely the way to go most of the time. No one who doesn't climb understands what it means to blow an onsight, skip the crux clip, lead a gear route, send, get pumped, etc. And for those casual office interactions wherein no one actually cares? Why waste the time explaining that we don't actually have bolt guns or climb ice bare-handed? It's like any pursuit or hobby or whatever that most of society can't relate to. Punk rock, hi-fi home audio, actual good food or beer or wine or whatever, climbing, movies that don't suck shit ... if it ain't on the mainstream radar, it's likely to get a blank stare in return.

You're very close! Nice work!

Trask, you smell like lemming. Go jump off a cliff.

Greg, why are you so mean? I was just told that I have lots of fire in my starsigns, so chalk it up to that. Otherwise, I'm sick of whiny, uppity liberals. But Greg, you fucking idiot, Trask was the one who was being uppity and whining about Dems not applauding the president, and then you started whining along with him. What's up with that? Or are whiny, uppity conservatives somehow different?

Greg, why are you so mean?

Identify the mystery route! Oh, so difficult!

No, Greg, applauding every time the president pauses for applause is not respect, it's stupid. Respect was shown by not booing or throwing mooshy turnips. Speaking of the applause, what is up with that? It was like a jazz gig, only with a starched Texan in a suit talking for an hour instead of music. "Brilliant solo, Mr. Bush!" "Nice riffs; just incredible improv, and man can that cat swing!" Buncha kooks.

Trask, what do you expect the Dems to do? Stand up and applaud with stuff they don't believe in just 'cause their constituents are? Come on, dude!

You're dysdexterous!

Is she gay? Not that there is anything wrong with that. Dude, if she was gay she'd be into KD Lang or Ani DiFranco or some shit. Trask says that it's the gay men who are into broadway musicals. Go figure, huh?

Outer Space?

You duped the Doctor into correcting you, and you know it. Was the Proboscis route the one where they had to bivy at the top but there was no place for an anchor so they just hung a portaledge off either side of the knife-edge summit ridge thingy, counterbalance-style?

Bah! It's whoever wrote that article in the new R&I about that Andy Kirkpatrick character.

Ron Kauk did that in one of those Masters of Stone videos. Yep, in the original MOS. And it was Yosemite, not Smith. Come on, Dru, pull your head out!

Morris, how'd you edit that with no evidence of editing? Too slick ...

The Doctor got some Lowa something-or-other low-top approach shoes, and they are suuuuuper comfortable. Loving them, thankyouverymuch. And while they haven't seen too much extended trail time, they were kind to DFA's feet right outta the box for the nine-mile hike from Phantom Ranch to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, which was nice, and they continue to be cush and solid.

Who the balls is ellen feiss?