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30 April 2004The hills in the backyardFor my first hike of the year, I joined a group from the Caltech Y to go hiking to Mt. Wilson this Sunday. I think we took the Mt. Wilson Upper Creek trail while going up and the Sturtevant trail while coming down. Things have not changed much since the last time I hiked, there is still the pungent nauseating smell of dried leaves mixing with barren desert soil, the large fronds and ferns blushing widely as coy undergrowth in the innards of the mountains, while sharp blades of bleached green and prickly cactii hedge the path facing the blazing sun. We did see two snakes almost identical in appearance, star-crossed and frightened by our forward plodding as they slithered into the bushy flanks. We gained and lost 3600 feet in elevation and the trek was over 15 miles long on an abnormally scorching California spring sun.* * * * * Capitol StepsI am just back from watching the Capitol Steps perform the first show of their annual gig at Caltech. This being an election year, the Steps had plenty of rich material as they tore without mercy into John Kerry's equivocation, Bush's intellectual vacuity, Clinton's lasciviousness and the French for just about everything. Undoubtedly, the highlight of the night was "Lirty Dies" and a follow-up to it after the intermission -- sample a few: The woalition of the killing bent into Waghdad with all buns glazing, Maddam was in a cell covered with ties and licks (at which point the imposing Mike Loomis questioned a few ladies in the audience if they liked being covered with ties and licks), Bobe Kryant presented his wife a duge hiamond (let the "d" go silent), cow home? Moo!! and finally Bod gless the American lay of wife. More lirty dies on the Capitol Steps webpage. |
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