Monthly Archives: September 2011

A World Cup Scene in the ClimbTalk Studio

In the lobby before the show. It must be noted that I wholly apologize for the photography. Good friend and rad climber Trevor Markel is a much more gifted climber than he is a photographer. But thanks anyway, Trevor. You schmuck!

Tom Cole once said, “Follow up the interview with a phone call.  If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you.”  Well, ClimbTalk Radio is so broke we can’t afford a phone that dials out.  So, in absentia of a telephone machine, we give you this transcription of a fantastic … Read more

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All the Wrong People Remember Vietnam

“All the wrong people remember Vietnam.  I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.”  -   Michael Herr, author of the seminal “Dispatches” You really get to know someone when you help tile his kitchen backsplash.  Not really, but if you pay attention, … Read more

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The Sex Attic in the Sky

This heat fan, in my defunct apartment, sounded like a crashing Piper Cub, threw heat into a space the size of a Dixie cup, and nearly burned down my apartment numerous times after I threw my comforter over it at night, desperate to save my toes and extremities from the deep freeze. Stupid heat fan.

Let me tell you about something so obviously unfair as to be completely sinister.  Here it is.  One must continue to exist as a normal individual a day between quitting one’s job and going on an international vacation.   That space between must be filled.  One must carry on.  One must fill the dead space.  What … Read more

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