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What if you could meet face to face with top directors and hear exactly how they acquire and choose music for Film & TV?
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HMMA presents "The Real Deal" - A one day power packed music industry event where top directors, agents and music composers are there to acquire your music and place it into high level projects that would normally takes years of schmoozing to get into. HMMA puts you into the time machine of success so you can have it now. Keynote Presentations, professional one-on-one mentoring, mixer luncheon and unprecedented opportunities to include:
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This is an innovative event where directors will select music for real projects in real time. There will also be one-on-one mentoring sessions, consulting for library inclusion and informative keynotes specifically on how to style your music for Film & TV and how to get your music production on the level using what you already have, a great networking event right after the event to anchor it all in and some special features to be revealed at the event that will secure your success in today's music world and beyond!
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The Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA) recognizes and honors the music of visual mediums (film, TV, movie trailers, video games, commercials, music videos, etc.), the talented individuals responsible for creating, producing and placing it, and the music of artists, both mainstream and independent, from around the globe. HMMA is the first music awards event to recognize and honor excellence in music supervision. Iconic artists are presented with Outstanding Career Achievement honors for their accomplishments and longevity in the entertainment field. The awards event features live music performances, celebrities appearances, award presentations, an exclusive VIP reception, and a dinner banquet. The entire event is shot with multiple HD cameras for digital and cable broadcasts.
The Hollywood Music in Media Association™ is a bold new entity in the music industry and was created to offer the music community knowledge and access to the latest in entertainment technology and wealth building opportunities. Never before has there been an organization in entertainment whose purpose is to bring financial opportunity to the new democratized music industry.
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Corruption and Reform
Countries making the transition to a market economy often experience an increase in corruption along with an increase in growth. This observation is puzzling in the context of current models, which emphasize the destructive nature of corruption. We present a model of corruption and reform which shows that under some circumstances a particular gradualist reform strategy is optimal. This strategy consists of temporarily relaxing control of corruption in order to provide a windfall to existing bureaucrats, thereby gaining their support for a reform effort that will ultimately reduce the distortions stemming from bureaucratic power. Thus, a one-time surge of corruption can be a prelude to a permanently reduced level of corruption in the future, which provides the incentive for high current growth. We illustrate our point with examples from the recent Chinese reform.Download Info
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The Edna was sold last september and plans to re-open it as a live theater. The property next to the theater was just bought to have extra room for restrooms and dressing rooms along with set building for live musicals. The renovation has started with a planned late 2012 early 2013 opening. The same owner purchased the Lynn theater in Gonzales Texas which opens March 2012.
I LOVED the theater, and in the early 1990's worked with a group to raise interest in hope of restoring it; delighted that although I'm no longer in Edna, a dream is coming true. Blessings to my friends there— Lina Hill Hybner
A link on the Ganado Cinema page shows a photo of an old flyer advertising a "Boon Theatre" in Edna. Would that have been the one that burned down during World War II?
Just added a new photo with the neon completed. Look in photo section. Seating will end up about 650 from the original 1000. The renovation is coming along great. The asbestos has been abated and encapsulated and the all clear has been given. The grand opening is still on target for late 2012 or early 2013.
The Edna has a remarkable resemblance to the Alabama Theater in Houston, TX. By chance, does anyone have any interior shots of the Edna or know who the architect was?
I have a few interior shots taken a few years ago.
Judging by the projection booth pictures, they were operating Brenkert model BX-60 projector heads on top of RCA 9030 sound heads.
That is true. The guy that has it now said they were operational after all these years. When I was there, they turned over very smoothly. Would have loved to have seen the place in it's prime.
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Like ii insert an E pill down my throat??
Good call on using a small, non-venemous snake. Lots of pain without the murder charge.
That's a small corn snake, or a stretchy urethra.
thats the best sentence ive ever heard
If your gonna force a snake into a hole that small, it doesnt really matter if he's already mad or not.
that sounds full of all kinds of pain
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Thumbs up to you! I might have to try this one myself on my ex! LOL
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omg. lets meet. please.
Apparently alot of people around here own corn snakes??
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yikes. hell hath no fury :)
Haha you would think the Forcibly part would be redundant.. I can't possibly imagine a snake just sliding on up into this guy's urethra.. Or any urethra for that matter..
well, there was that grey's anatomy with the penis fish...same idea, really...
JESUS!! You need to kill this broad for yourself and the rest of mankind.
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You are banned from both my corn snakes and my urethra.
Well. There're guys that get turned on by having things inserted into their urethra. He might be one of them, and the wiggling might just get him off faster. I'd find a way to stick a hot coal behind his eye instead. ...or hell, shove a hot coal into his dick. That might work.
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The reviews are in. The Society of the Four Arts' Fitz Eugene Dixon Education Building is a stunner. The newly renovated, 20,000-square-foot, two-story headquarters for the burgeoning Campus on the Lake adult education program debuted to the public with an open house Saturday attended by more than 630 guests.
The flawless weather helped show off the former Palm Beach Public School building to best advantage, as sunlight streamed through its generous windows, maximizing the airy quality of the interior decor, with its limestone, brass-finished metalwork and rift-cut white oak furnishings.
Four Arts staff and greeters recruited from Palm Beach Public School alumni were stationed throughout the building to assist guests. Every room was humming with activity.
The Young Singers of the Palm Beaches performed in the auditorium, which was festooned with red and yellow streamers from Thursday's Chinese-themed donor dinner. Cooking teacher Roberta Sabban, who also is food editor of the 'Palm Beach Daily News', was dispensing chocolate chip cookies in the demonstration kitchen and boning up on the state-of-the art equipment.
Computer instructor Bruce Taylor was stationed in the McIntosh Center for Digital Arts answering questions about iPhones, iPads and the center's new all-in-one PCs and Macs. John Klingel was leading a floral-arranging class in the art classroom. Latecomers were turned away from Elizabeth Sharland's talk about British playwrights, as a standing-room-only crowd filled the 75-seat Forum to capacity. A yoga class would follow in the room.
Artist-in-residence Gavin Glakas, forsaking for the day the chic corner apartment provided for visiting artists, lingered in the first-floor hallway, where his portraits and cityscapes were exhibited. In the north courtyard, a buffet brunch was set up, while inside the building hors d'oeuvres were being passed.
Circulating among the crowd, Four Arts President Ervin Duggan surveyed the culmination of the $13 million, 13-month renovation of the landmarked building.
"It brings up lots of feelings," he said. "Of course, the entire team feels a sense of pride, but there's also relief because a thousand little emergencies arise in a project like this. Now it's over."
Opening a building that provides the first dedicated space for Campus on the Lake energizes Molly Charland, director of libraries and education.
"I feel like I'm falling in love with the Four Arts all over again," she said.
The project was designed by architect Harry Elson and landscape architect Morgan Wheelock, with on-site supervision by Keith Spina of Glidden Spina & Partners.
"It's beyond expectations that a monumental structure so restrained in elegance could be conceived and finished in such a short time," Town Councilman Bill Diamond said as he breezed through the kitchen. "I think it will become a model for educational buildings around the country because it's so beautiful and functional."
Palm Beach Public School alumnus Dotsy Letts, who lives across the street from the Dixon Building, was impressed by the transformation of the gym where she used to attend assemblies into an intimate, flex-space theater.
"They did a wonderful, wonderful job," she said. "It's fantastic."
Upstairs, in the artist-in-residence apartment, Parisa Hamzetash pointed out where her locker and desk used to be when she attended school in the building.
"This is remarkable," she said. "I'm so glad they restored it."
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JPMorgan Chase, the first of the big banks to report earnings for the January-March period, easily beat expectations as its earnings rose 57 percent from $2.1 billion a year earlier. The company again added to its reserves for failed loans during the quarter, but its investment banking division and other businesses enabled it to more than overcome the ongoing weakness in lending.
JPMorgan Chase has been one of the strongest banks as it weathered the financial crisis and recession, so its performance shouldn't be taken as a sign of how well other banks did during the quarter. Many financial companies don't have such big investment banking operations, which includes trading of stocks and bonds and allowed JPMorgan, the nation's largest bank by assets, to overcome its loan losses.
Yet JPMorgan's reliance on trading of risky assets is also problematic. The Obama administration and Congress are seeking to revive Depression-era limits on commercial banks' trading activities as part of a broader reform of the financial system after the near-collapse of the banking system in 2008.
The proposed reforms, which President Barack Obama discussed with legislators Wednesday, would restrict commercial banks from trading on their own accounts, what's known as proprietary trading. The rules would also limit banks' ability to trade complex financial products known as derivatives. Derivatives are used to hedge risk or speculate on the future value of assets. They were also widely blamed for helping to trigger the financial meltdown.
During a conference call with analysts, CEO Jamie Dimon said his bank made "very little" from proprietary trading but declined to give specifics. Regarding the proposed crackdown on derivatives, he estimated it could reduce trading revenue anywhere from "several hundred million to a couple billion dollars" depending upon the details.
"It will be a negative," Dimon said of the proposed legislation.
Banking analyst Nancy Bush of NAB Research said JPMorgan's strong results despite ongoing consumer loan losses raise questions about how banks will make money if they're restricted from trading in financial markets.
"What this shows is that Jamie's universal bank model is working at a time when Washington wants to take it apart," Bush said.
Given the uncertainty, other analysts questioned how long JPMorgan's trading winning streak can last.
"We believe the blockbuster trading results could prove unsustainable," CreditSights analyst David Hendler said in a research note, citing the potential for higher interest rates and pending regulatory legislation.
Dimon offered a more upbeat assessment on the future than he has in the past, saying the economy still faces challenges but is showing "clear and broad-based improvements."
"We believe these improvements will continue and are hopeful they will gather momentum, resulting in a strong recovery," he said.
JPMorgan Chase said its nonperforming loans, those that are in default or close to being in default, totaled $2.7 billion, up $946 million from a year earlier but a $763 million improvement from the final three months of 2009.
"We continued to see delinquencies stabilize, and in some cases improve, in our credit portfolios," Dimon said. "Ultimately, the health of these portfolios will track the health of the economy."
JPMorgan earned 74 cents per share, easily topping analysts' expectations of 64 cents. Total revenue rose 5 percent to $28.2 billion for the quarter, surpassing forecasts.
Investors were pleased with the report.


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Colorado Fly Fishing Reports
Friday, December 6, 2013
Pulp Fly (Volume Three)
Contributors include:
Michael Gracie
Erin Block
Alex Landeen
Pete McDonald
Miles Nolte
Tom Reed
Tom Sadler
Bruce Smithhammer
April Vokey
Bob White
Steve Zakur
Jay Zimmerman
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Walking the Dog
Today was far too nice of a day to be inside or do chores...even if they were piling up as fast as the snow drifts were melting. It was hot even up in the canyon. I lay in bed this morning and tied to remember if I still had enough kindling to start a fire, or if I was going to have to trudge out back in my knee boots and pajama bottoms looking like a mountain bumpkin. But it was not even chilly enough to warrant a fire...
Erin and I both tried to get some odds and ends done around the cabin and even sat down around lunchtime to get some writing done. Erin grueled through some more footnotes for a book she is wrapping up and I tried to focus on a project that is in that scary stage of barely being started...but the first half of the advance on royalties has been spent. So my bills are payed, but I am now kinda committed. Enslaved to the keyboard. But we both looked outside, looked at each other...and then at the dog. We should really take him for a walk, we agreed.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Opening Day
When I was a kid "opening day" was as exciting as any good holiday with all the same build up and anticipation ..and staying up late the night before. That ended with the usually and similar over-expectations and let downs. Opening day meant the first day of trout season in western Pennsylvania when I was a kid. Happened about this time of year, too...mid April. The nights and waters were still cold, I remember. And the opening day usually found me and friends standing on the banks of a creek, nursing under-aged hangovers (Busch Lite bought by a friends older brother) and gazing hopefully and dumbfounded out over a a body of trout stream brown and bursting at the seams from run off. Rarely was a fish seen at all.
The idea of an opening day or even the concept of a trout season is so foreign to any fly fishers who have never lived outside Colorado or elsewhere here in the Rocky Mountain West. It seems even a bit silly. And it was... especially because it usually was stocked trout we were looking for. Checking stocking reports, listening to the Weather Channel eavesdropping on bait-store gossip... Yes, it all was a bit silly now compared to the 365-day binge we enjoy out here. And wild trout. But there is still something that gets me pumped up about being told you can't fish...and then, NOW you can! Go! Like a dog obediently drooling and staring cross-eyed at the Milkbone balanced on his nose. Or the first time that cute girl doesn't back away when you lean in for a kiss. The build up makes the reward so memorable.
These memories of the PA trout openers of my youth are the reason I still wake up early and drive down to Denver and fish the Rocky Mountan Arsenal on opening weekend. There are other, less crowded pike spots and a hundred other great (and better) bass lakes on the Front Range, but that ain't the point. The gate opens at 6 o'clock and everything is prepped ahead of time...flies are tied, rods are strung and resting in the bed of the pickup truck. Radio belching some old Chris Ledoux.
Lets drive up get out and get on another one and boy you better win..
.Warm gloves. Hot coffee. Spare wire leaders. Here we go!
Monday, April 8, 2013
Interview With a Potty Mouth
I've only shared time with Jay Zimmerman once--we tipped a few beers in Denver during a gathering of writers and bloggers a few months back. But Jay is one of those guys who's simply hard to miss in this incestuous little community we've chosen. He's outspoken. He can be a little crass. But he's thoughtful and I think he's really smart.
One minute you're thinking, "Dude, do you kiss your mother with that mouth?" and the next you're wishing aloud, "Damn, I'd love to be able to enunciate my thoughts that profoundly ... at least once."
A lot of you may know Jay as the significant other who's attached to
Erin Block
, the fine young writer who's recently penned a book and whose work appears regularly in TROUT Magazine. But Jay's
carved a niche
in the fly fishing world all his own--he's a hell fly tyer, and he's not a bad writer in his own right. He has his own following (and his
own book
on the market), and rightly so.
I feel fortunate that I got to spend some time with Jay and Erin in Denver a few months ago, and I look forward to the opportunity to share a drink with them again sometime soon.
On with the questions:
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Jumping the Gun...?
At our cabin up in the canyon there is still a foot of snow by the wood pile, and we have fires even during the day. It is cold enough at night and the dog doesn't linger...a fast pee and he is back at the door. But it is to be expected. It is late March and we are in Colorado. And we live at 8000 feet. I am reminded of the end of
Jeremiah Johnson...
when he and Bear Claw discuss over a rabbit what month it might be. March? April maybe?
Winter stays long up this high...
But I work down in the flat land and it has been nice down there. Sunny and worm. Hot even. So the urge to get a crack at some early season bass has been brewing for days now... So today was the day we decided to pull the trigger. As we rolled out of the mouth of the canyon I realized that there was still a lot of snow on the ground even down low. I thought it all had melted. Where we way too early for bass yet? Where we totally jumping the gun? Once we got to the water the first thing I did was dip my hand in to gauge just how much gas money we had wasted... But the water wasn't too bad. Cold, but not frigid. A promising sign. So we did what you have to do in the early season if you want to find bass...we fished heavy, dark flies on long leaders. Deep and slow. Erin picked up a couple small crappie right off, so I knew we had a chance! And sure thing...the bass came soon after!
Sunday, March 17, 2013
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Friday, March 15, 2013
South Boulder Creek
My home water, South Boulder Creek, is very low...hardly a trickle, but the last few days have been so warm and beautiful it has been impossible to stay indoors and labor away at tying or writing projects. Nothing seems more important than being outside with a rod in hand. So Erin and I saddled up and hit the creek for a few hours in the afternoon. In the truck and past Carl's Corner and the canyon liquor store...down the bumpy red-dirt road and on to to the creek. There were a few others down on the water, but is did not deter us as it sometimes has in the past. We were just "glad to be out" as people say. (People we usually make fun of.) Midges were hatching and there were a few trout rising to them...but we took all of our fish below the surface, on small stuff like beadhead Juju's and a fly Erin calls the "Queen E". It was a good day.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Cold Blue Nights (Fly Fishing Film)
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Top Ten Guide to Fly Fishing (Lyons Press)
One of the most accessible guide books on the market, this guide not only provides all the information beginning and intermediate anglers need in order to start catching trout, the information is also presented in a quick and easy, highly-browsable format of top-ten lists.
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A fun conversation starter and a set of streamside tips rolled into one, this lighthearted look at a serious sport will give beginners the value of solid instruction while more seasoned fly-fishers will enjoy quibbling with the author's rankings and choices.
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Dumb Shit Asked At The Fly Shop (2012)
He who said "There is no such thing as a dumb question" has very obviously never worked in a fly shop. I love talking to those who love to fish...it is my job and I look forward to it every day. The things I enjoy the most are the questions. I never know what I am about to get. I take it as a
to have the answer. Like playing "Stump the Band". Often I am clueless, and I will admit defeat (instead of lying or making something up) but more often than not I am able to help, or redirect the fisherman and that gives me great satisfaction. But sometimes I am left speechless... This past year was an
good one. I collected (
) all of my
! Enjoy!
"I heard animals act weird when there is a lot of smoke in the air. Do you think the trout in the Big Thompson are being bothered by the smoke from the High Park fire?"
"Do you guys sell salmon fly midges?"
"I want to stick a couple flies in my hat. Are there special flies for that?"
"I'm constantly loosing flies. Do you have flies that don't keep coming off?"
"This leader
new! I've only been fishing with it for a month or two!"
"When you say this bead-head fly will sink...what does that mean?"
"Is this Colorado fishing license good for other states?"
"Hey, will you guys honor a $100 Cabelas gift card?"
"I need a new leader. My last one was junk...it had one end that was really thick and the other end was really skinny."
"If my dry fly is dragging on the surface, does that mean I have on too much floatant?"
"So...the dry fly hooks you sold me. I tested them at home and they all sink."
Woman pointing to photo of a tigerfish hanging on fly shop wall:
"Is that a snapping turtle?"
Favorites from past years:
"Why do you guys sell a snowshoe rabbits foot...for good luck?"
"I'm fixing my septic system. Do you guys rent waders?"
"What fly should I put the floatant on? The dry fly or the leech?"
"Why is it so important that waders be waterproof?"
Best of all time!
"Excuse me, this may be a dumb question..."
"Aw hell, dude...I guarantee it won't even make top three of the week! Shoot!"
"Is this the Frying Pan River and am I in Basalt?"
"Uh...no. That is Boulder Creek and you are in Boulder."
"Oh shit. I was supposed to be at my buddies wedding in Basalt ten minutes ago."
"I take back my previous statement."
"But...I was in Aurora, typed it into my phone and Google sent me here."
Friday, December 14, 2012
Carp Pro Online Magazine!
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
Sunday Morning Movie
Saturday, December 1, 2012
The View From Coal Creek (Reflections on Fly Rods, Canyons and Bamboo)
Noted blogger and fly fishing writer Erin Block just
to make a bamboo fly rod from scratch. As she writes:
Although I couldn't put my finger on just why, exactly. This, unlike most emotions regarding fly rods, wasn't a want, it was a need. To find out for myself why people fish bamboo, and why when they do, it verges on a religious experience. And also, to discover why, in a society that measures worth from profit and efficiency, do people still build bamboo rods. Bamboo rod makers appeared to take the long way around -- putting more miles on the odometer, so to speak...But as I came to find out, they also happen to have very rich eyes, and very full hearts. And as George Black writes.."Once they've put down roots, they tend to become trees."
What resulted is a personal, passionate, and unique journal of not just how a bamboo fly rod is made, from culm to varnish, but the motives of the people who make such works of art.
The View from Coal Creek
is a reflection on fly rods, fishing, and life seen from the vantage of a canyon in Colorado, but these are props in a larger story about life, love, and tradition. Erin Block is a young, powerful voice carrying the torch and passing on lessons, values, and history of this great, literary and vibrant sport.
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Saturday, November 17, 2012
Big Thompson Mid-November
Erin Block, David Goodrich and I fished the Big Thompson River yesterday. David came up from Colorado Springs the day before and spent a half day fishing the Thompson directly below the dam at Estes Park. He had a good day, so we went into our day with a fresh and reliable fishing report. Small stuff below the surface. Water way low…17 cfs. David had stayed up high, so I figured we would mix it up a bit and drift farther down the canyon (along highway 34). It would prevent a boring repeater day for David and possibly avoid other fishermen.
We spent the majority of the day on the water, and it was low and cold and the trout wanted the smaller stuff sunk down to them. For the brief period during the day when the sun was reaching the water a nice cloud of midges appeared over the pools, but I only saw two trout rise. Two different fish, neither one came up a second time, which would have possibly tempted me to discard my nymph rig. The water was a tad off-color, due—according to rumor—some construction going on in or around Estes Lake, so a midge pupa with a bit of flash seemed to work better.
Monday, November 12, 2012
Demons and Promises
Not long ago I was asked if I believed someone could be possessed by a demon. I shrugged and wondered where exactly the conversation was going and if there was enough wine left for me to get drunk or if I was going to have to move along. There
enough wine so I stayed for the story that followed the question. A spooky, first-hand account of a young man suddenly jumping to his feet and yelling during a Sunday school lesson. I guess the lesson was being conducted in an old, remodeled trailer and the room had gotten suddenly chilled before the outbreak...all poltergeist like...and the man's voice was deep and sinister and not his. It was a chilling story and I think I said something dumb to ruin a perfectly great ghost story, like most atheists do...
did he have tourette's or something?
I then promptly forgot about the story.
As most drunks do...
I forgot because I had to move on. I had a promise to keep. To take a friend out to catch her first carp on a fly rod. We had made vague plans earlier in the summer but, because her and her husband were busy running a well-known
in town, we just danced around the idea for so long that summer turned into November before we locked down a date. Friday morning. The day before a whopper snow storm was scheduled to slam into Colorado, so it was then or never...or, at least next spring, that may as well be forever away. But I had already hung up my carp gear for the year, at the end of October before the
bout of cold weather hit us. And I waited a bit too late the night before to go down into the basement to resurrect my carp rod and find my box of carp flies. I couldn't find it and I was tired and impatient and in a hurry and got tangled up in a pile of loosely-tied bags for recycling and next thing I know I'm curled up in the fetal position with my right leg sticking out at an odd angle.
My right knee
haunted my entire adult life. As I squirmed around on the cold, concrete basement floor trying my best not to pass out/scream like a dying rabbit/chew my own leg off...I had one of those movie montage flashbacks. My last year in an Army airborne unit, when I successfully convinced everyone around me that I was healthy, when I had only one knee. The right one had no ACL or meniscus left. I stayed drunk as much as I could and when I couldn't be drunk I would act so crazy no one noticed when I sprawled out under a log obstacle or on a darkened drop zone writhing around and making horrifying animal noises. It was just "Zee"
and that fucker's crazy!
Neither I nor the Army new any better and they let me back out to try to make a go of it in the civilian world as...basically a one-legged, violent drunk. My temper wrecked any relationships I made. My drinking destroyed my pickup truck
and an innocent ash tree.
And my intolerance for idiocy caused all of my G.I. Bill to get wasted on classes that meant nothing to employers. I did manage to survive, make enough money to eat, ending up in strange places with odd jobs. A carpentry gig for a log home company... hoisting 20-foot logs, hoping my legs would hold.
Sometimes they wouldn't
. Kodiak Island on a fishing boat, where I would have to tie myself to the gutting table to keep from being thrown from the fish-slimed deck into the Gulf of Alaska and a sure death. And remote villages along the Yukon with one-armed native postmasters and dark-eyed meat thieves... guiding moose hunters.
Standing beside the Kateel—
rod in hand, wool hat on head
and chilled through to the core.
Crunchy tundra underfoot.
Snow dressed domes of beaver huts.
Frozen chunks of river foam.
The meat pole is standing bare.
The canned beans have long been had.
And the grayling won't bite anymore.
Stuck alone with a wall tent
somewhere north of Galena—
closer to Russia than home.
It was at the end of the last moose hunt that my right knee finally ended my run. The freeze had come earlier than expected and we had to pack up camp into a couple boats and journey down a remote Alaskan river in search of a straight enough and deep enough piece of river to safely call in a float plane. In a day or two we did, but when hauling the boats up into the tree line above the high water line, to chain them to trees for the season, with the sound of our ride out getting louder and louder...my knee gave out. That demon reared its horrid head and shook me until I swore my leg had been torn completely off. As the float plane could only handle half our gear, the pilot and one passenger, I was forced to be on the first flight out, limping into the swift, frigid river with nothing but a two-piece fly rod tube for support. I was drenched, hypothermic and in total agony. But the pilot still had to taxi down river a ways, turn around and blast off back up the straight-away. It was when he tried to turn around that the floats got caught on a shallow gravel bar. He did his best to erratically gun the engine, rocking us back and forth to free us. But to no avail. The pilot turned to me and did his best to clearly explain what the situation was. It was simple; I get out of the airplane, unload gear on my own until we were light enough to rev off the sand bar…and then reload all the gear. Accomplishing this by crawling from the float plane to shore with loads of gear because I could not walk. Or I could real quick learn how to drive a float plane. He was serious. He was prepared to teach me to operate his cab. Right then and there. I considered it, but seeing as I had larger balls than a brain and that the effects of hypothermia had already begun to effect my hearing and other acute functions (and, the last time I drove I wrapped the vehicle around an ash tree) I elected to face the ice-cold river on my wounded knee. My memory of the event becomes blotched at best from this point forward. I remember being dropped off at a dock somewhere and low crawling down a dusty gravel road. And I remember attempting to bathe myself in a sink before catching a ride in the bed of a truck to the village tarmac. And being hit on by a native girl at the Anchorage airport. She was tending bar, but apparently was willing to do anything for a box of moose meat.
I had no moose meat
and doubt I could even understand English or Athabaskan at that point.
I, again, did learn to survive. With help. The VA hospital in Cleveland spent seven hours on my knee and sent me back out into the world with crutches and a bottle of pills. But they had exorcised at least the one demon.
That was nearly a decade ago.
I remembered all of these things lying on the cold basement floor…once again not able to stand. And it terrified me. But I had a promise to keep. A girl and a carp. And some lost box of flies somewhere on some shelf to find. Because, through agonizing trials comes perseverance. And endless tribulations comes stubbornness. And the best way to deal with promises is to keep them. And the best way to deal with demons is to, well…deal with them.
Madoka Myers with her first carp on the fly!
(Helped only slightly by her gimpy guide on crutches.)
Sunday, November 11, 2012
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The author of this poem was a hermit of Syria, equally celebrated for his talents and piety. He was son to a prince of Khorasan, and born about the ninety-seventh year of the Hegira. This poem was addressed to the Caliph upon his undertaking a pilgrimage to Mecca. |
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