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the tassie conspiracy

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

High weathered walls which fend off the tideCradle the windto my island-king crimson
Now we all know that the moon landing on July 20th, 1969 never happened and was actually filmed in a hanger at area 51 in Roswell New Mexico. It has also been rumored that the first all female circumnavigation [...]

head trip

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Remember what the dormouse said,
Feed your head!
-Jefferson airplane

So, last week I got this pretty card from Gail at Living Adventure near Bayfield, Wisconsin. I say Gail, because she’s the one who takes off all winter to suffer the heat of the Yucatan while leaving her poor husband Grant to shovel snow and answer the bi-monthly [...]

tv and shopping malls

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Down in the mallI’ll be your manWe’ll go shopping , babeIt’s something we can standDown in the mallWe will abideUp on the escalatorDarling, we will ride-zevon
One nice thing about TV and shopping malls is that they keep people out of the pool! I have to admit I’ve been shocked to see no more than a [...]

something important

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Some days I have such great plans. I wake up and tear into the day. Others days I wonder why I bother. Some days I just sit and stare at the ground. Occasionally I learn something important.

Lynched

Friday, October 27th, 2006

“I have said quite pointedly that there is no place in modern sea kayaking for those [Greenland paddles]…The Greenlanders were a race of survivors. If and when guns came along, do you think they still used harpoons? And when outboard motors came along did they still use kayaks? And when nails came along, did they stop tying kayaks together? As sure as we are sitting here, if they had carbon fiber paddles, they would have used carbon fiber paddles…”

and you will be punished

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Come here mama….and dig this crazy sceneHe’s not too fancy….but his line is pretty cleanHe ain’t no drag.Papa’s got a brand new bag- james brown
So this is my tow bag. Certainly NOT brand new, it’s an old pink North Water. (yep it was red once). I used to have a carabineer on it but after [...]

Weihnachtsmann

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

This is your life, this new life has begunIt’s your day – a woman’s dayIt’s your day – a woman’s day- Peter Gabriel
I was told recently KW was like the People Magazine of kayaking. I’m not sure that’s a complement. Steve Martin once referred to “People” as “Screw-Up-Your-Life Magazine”. Oh Well, I better start spreading [...]