Rough House Hockey

[*Maloney]

Jack Kerouac - 1953

Thought aboot Jack today whilst looking at some photos taken by Allen Ginsburg, and felt sort of depressed like I always do when I think of Jack, and it made me melancholic nostalgic thinking about how much I read, read about, and talked about him and his buds in my 20s on three different continents, always with some kind of unsure idealism to live what he was describing. Get that way with Hemingway as well.

I remember sitting at a kitchen table late one night in Sampancisco 23 years ago on personal tragedy business with some geezer I´d just met who was a friend of a friend and we talked for hours about Jack and co and drank loads of beer. We were both very earnest. One of the best conversations I´ve ever had. Makes me sad thinking about it.

The book in Jack´s pocket, by the way, is some kind of electronics manual or something.




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Prague looks much like our capital Zagreb and our football club Hajduk was founded in ale house Flek http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoWZ6vYAtKw

So is beer there still cheap like it used to be?

[Sittler]

Yeah, the Czech beer was as good, and nearly as cheap, as ever. It doesn't really go up in price, since politicians are scared to death of taxing the national drink. In pubs it's cheaper to get half a liter of the best beer in the world than a small Coke or juice.

I drank more beer in my 3 weeks there than I have in the past 3 years in Canada.

[*Maloney]

Mimi Baez and her sister Joan. Mixes of Mexican dad and Scottish mother. 1974.


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[*Maloney]

Woodsy Allen and step daughter-cum-wife at Cannes


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What a crazy old fart.

[*Maloney]

90´s Colombian superstar, Faustino Asprilla . . . and his adventurous cock.


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[*Maloney]

More world cup fever.

A tender moment between Barcelona teammates, Zlatan Imbramovic and Gerard Pique.


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Asprilla played his best football for Parma and if remember good he played in attack with Brolin and Zola. They won European Cup Winners' Cup with those guys.

At first I didn't see adventurous cock

Columbian legend Carlos Valderrama

[*Maloney]

Yeah, that Parma side in the mid 90s was fantastic. Asprilla and Zola were one of the best attacking duos in Europe and the midfield had Brolin and Dino (not Roberto) Baggio and Argentine stalwart Nestor Sensini in the back, and a young Fabio Cannavaro as well, all coached by Nevio Scala. They used to show all Parma games at that time in Colombia so I saw loads of them, and this was when Italy was the top league. Here´s a good highlight reel of some of his Parma goals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp0V7MJMidQ

Check out the goal at the 1:53 mark. One of the best I´ve ever seen. Almost shat meself watching that live.

*A couple of years ago, there lived a youngish geezer in my ex wife´s apartment building who I´m sure had mafioso connections. Well he had made sort of friends with my son, and one day the guy calls up my son and says, "hey, why don´t come on down to the beach, I´m drinking beers with Faustino Asprilla." So my son goes, and just gets plastered with Asprilla all afternoon on the beach. I was fucking pissed my fucking son didn´t call me to meet them there. Fuck!!!

A while later, it came out in the press that Asprilla had connections with the mafia from Cali, so I´m sure my son´s sort-of-friend who lived in my ex wife´s apartment block, who´d invited him to drink with Asprilla, was definately a Mafioso.

Here´s Colombian legend, Carlos "el pibe" Valderrama getting his nuts yanked in Spain.


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[*Maloney]

Armenian/American basketball coaching legend, Jerry Tarkanian.


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[*Maloney]

Some hotness at the World Cup, dudes. Spring me a bonah.


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Mommie

[*Maloney]

So we wuz watchin´ a Nick Cave (sans bed seedz) singing this other legend´z songz late last night . . . on HBO . . . and I asked me Indian concubine what she thought of this Nick Cave geezer . . .



. . . and in record time she retorted: . . . "un simio serio" . . . (a serious simian) . . . I´ve been givin´ her her dues since (one night later . . . ).

Fucking brilliant.
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[*Maloney]

Going to Cabo de la Vela for a week with my sons and daughter and schlump. It´s basically the most northern point of South America, in the La Guajira desert. It´s at the top of the red part on the map, about 8 hours north of Schlump City by bus. A pretty godforsaken place with fantastic desert beaches.

It´s geographical location makes for heavy winds so it´s also become a mecca for kite surfing which my sons are heavily into. Half the adventure is just fucking getting there, and we´ve got to go through some sketchy terrain and Indian country. Can´t wait for the sea food. Huge lobsters for like seven bucks. Also will have a fucked back due to sleeping in hammocks for a week.




The mountainous point you see in the pic is called "el pilon de azucar" (pile of sugar) and is the first recorded geographical sight in South America made by the Spainards in the 1490s. They thought it looked like a massive pile of sugar and thus named it so.




Wayuu Indians. The region is full of coal deposits and they use charcol for sunblock. Not the most friendly people on earth, and the men can be downright dangerous, especially when they been drinkin´ the old fire water. My schlump actually looks like a very beautiful Wayuu woman.





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[*Maloney]

Ansel Adams - Fuck me, do I ever miss this lanscape from home.

*. . . Rick Norsigian made one of the best yard sale deals ever.

Ten years ago, the California painter bought two boxes of (Ansel Adams) photographic plates for $45, after he bargained the owner down from $75. Today, they are worth an estimated $200 million . . .

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2010/07/27/2010-07-27_what_a_deal_photographer_ansel_adams_work_uncovered_at_a_yard_sale.html#ixzz0uue9u0cJ

Yosemite Valley - Half Dome




Grand Tetons, Snake River

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[*Maloney]

In honor of the multimillionaire civil rights leader of the oppressed cracker, Martin Luther Beck . . . we present you the oppressed Cracker Rosa Parks:

Shine my shoes

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[*Maloney]

Again in honor of our lord savior, Glen Beck's rally for the poor oppressed crackers and honoring our military heritage on the anniversary of Dr. King's famous speech. This was quite the common theme in Vietnam the day after Martin was shot. Confederate flags raised all over the place. Maybe Glen thought it was just a coincidence that they raised them all over Vietnam after MLK was assasinated. Those colored soldiers must've been proud of the military and country they were fighting for in their first ever chance to mix with the great white soldiers.

Jesus must've been just as proud of our B52's and their often indiscriminate carpet bombing runs and 100s of thousand of blown to shit innocent Vietnamese and Cambodians civilians as we defended our christian homeland halfway around the world. Funny thing being a "christian" and honoring this. And why didn't god save us from a humiliating surrender monkey defeat from a third world peasant army???

Was god on their side???


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[*Maloney]

Ohhhh Lippy, the dorky kooks (kooky dorks) are gettin' scawy.

Hey Maloney, are you on some kind of Beck schtick?

Fuck off, he's got sneakered feet.


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