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Monday, August 29, 2005

CAVEDIVING
That's right, the newest x-treme sport to sweep the nation is cavediving. It is essentially a hybrid of hangliding with spelunking. It has been practiced in a few select caves around the nation so far but exponents of the sport say that municipalities and governmental caretakers of available caves have been very receptive to the idea.
"Let them kill themselves, I say." said a Morganbury, West Virginia forest ranger on condition of anonymity. The ranger is in charge of a state park containing over fifty different known caverns. Participants in cavediving are popping up all over the nation.
Participants in the sport pronounce the rush of adrenaline is like no other as cavedivers, as they are called, essentially have little to no room to maneuver in the murky subterranean depths.
"When you are totally in the zone. At one with your kite and waiting for that necessary updraft that will keep you aloft and it just never comes. 'Cause, you know we are underground, right? And it just never comes. There is nothing like that feeling." Says Butch Kandowski. Kandowski was one of the pioneers in this sport and one of the longest lasting as many of his peers have not survived this new pastime. Average life expectancy of a cavediver is about one to two weeks say experts. Cavedivers themselves admit to this being roughly correct. "But what a ride!" says Kandowski referring to floating for the briefest of moments through a gallery bristling with an army of stalactites. Bracing yourself against the overpowering stench of limestone, still water and guano.
Cavedivers turn up missing all the time. Several ongoing searches for missing cavedivers are actually being conducted as of this report. In several different spots of the country. One set of identical twins are missing in two different caverns in the state of Utah.
But cavedivers say that they are here for the long haul and are not going anywhere. "We are going to be what rock climbers were a few years ago." Said Kandowski who turned up missing during one of his dives shortly after giving this quote.

Pictured above is unlucky cavediver thirteen year old Stanly Schelmeer, missing after being separated from his cavediving parents. They were cavediving somewhere in Oklahoma.

posted by zailo  @ 4:41 PM

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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

AND NOW...
For no good reason at all my top twelve list of 60's spies.

#12 Secret Agent Man. Only saw a few episodes but apparently the precursor to the Prisoner so I have included it here.


#11 Harry Palmer. Michael Caine played this British spy guy in several 60's movies. Palmer was a conniving sort who actually loved his country. My favorite scene in the Ipcress File is where Palmer has been recalled from his post in East Germany because MI-5 has found out about his swindling East German officers out of copious sums of money. All the while being upbraided by his superior Caine has this sort of 'an older boy put me up to it, sir,' thing going.


#10 Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Everyone raves about this but I dunno, I just don't see it. Thusly a low rating on the list.


#9 I Spy
Another cute show. That had a markedly low amount of violence. Fighting the cold war without actually killing. Hmm, interesting.


#8 Mission: Impossible
This was definitely a super spy show but with a team. And they spent a great deal of time fighting domestic foes as opposed to international spies.


#7 Our Man Flint
Remind me to tell you why everbody says "in like Flint" instead of "Flynn" sometime.


#6 Avengers
Truly goofy, and everything from the second season forward was done for the American audience. But it should be included.


#5 Wild Wild West
This counts. It has all the trapping of the 60's spies stories. The advanced technology, the villains, the femme fatales. And what burns my hide is that it was cancelled for being too violent. Oy.


#4 James Bond
Nobody ever seems to include Casino Royale in the canon though.


#3 Get Smart
Only at number three? Missed it by that much. Any show that has both the Kraw and the Sacred Cows is all right in my book.


#2 Nick Fury from S.H.I.E.L.D.
And not the Bendis stuff either. We are talking vintage Steranko all the way true believer.


And the #1 character?...
Why Matt Helm of course. Because Bond never sang his own theme song, baby.

posted by zailo  @ 5:33 PM

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Thursday, August 18, 2005

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Thursday, August 11, 2005

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

WATCH ME GET SOPHISICATED UP AT IT
Ah yes, fancy rednecks. And proud of it, too. Nothing finer.
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posted by zailo  @ 9:05 PM

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Monday, August 01, 2005

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