is big

12/31/2007 6:42:27 PM

knowing that might get you through the first grade

12/31/2007 6:43:53 PM

12/31/2007 6:49:17 PM

12/31/2007 6:53:06 PM

1/1/2008 2:14:33 AM

1/1/2008 2:16:43 AM

very pretty state

1/1/2008 5:04:13 AM

going back in 9 months and some change

1/1/2008 6:25:02 AM

1/1/2008 10:51:45 AM

1/1/2008 10:52:56 AM

i wonder what you'd have to pay kodiak for a night with furshia...

1/1/2008 10:58:11 AM

he could just email me pics and save me a lot of money lol j/k

1/1/2008 10:59:31 AM

aww, come on furshia--how could you not bite at that?!

that hurts

1/1/2008 12:15:10 PM

ive got something for her to bite at

1/1/2008 12:20:13 PM

the one thing i noticed when i was in alaska was that everyone there looks the same, about 6'1, 285 lbs, full on beard, with jeans & a flanel shirt

and by everyone, yes i mean men, women, & children

1/1/2008 12:47:37 PM

sweet, I would be "skinny" there

1/20/2008 10:59:10 PM

1/20/2008 11:37:09 PM

bttt for StillFuchsia

2/8/2008 11:44:13 AM

thxu

2/8/2008 11:44:58 AM

2/8/2008 11:46:23 AM

2/8/2008 11:48:46 AM

i'm going there in 2 years

2/8/2008 11:51:11 AM

Alaska: America's global warming insurance policy.

2/8/2008 11:52:34 AM

Chicken, Alaska
http://www.chickenalaska.com/chicken/index.html

2/8/2008 12:03:02 PM

2/8/2008 12:12:36 PM

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2/8/2008 12:18:21 PM

Alaska sucks I'm in Fairbanks right now and it is currenlty -42 degrees. OH ALASKA IS SO PRETTY. fuck this cold hellish place.

2/8/2008 12:31:05 PM

^^ he shouldn't be allowed to molest the seals

2/8/2008 12:31:49 PM

he's giving it a snuggle, B

2/8/2008 2:34:53 PM

haha

3/10/2008 3:00:26 PM

thank god we bought alaska back in the day

3/10/2008 3:04:38 PM

A cruise from Vancouver to Anchorage in late summer is awesome as fuck

seeing the the glacier melt and flake off like KERCHUNG! is badass

only downside is that the topless deck on the ship was barren

3/10/2008 3:07:42 PM

^ We're leaving from Vancouver on Sept 20th. Up through Sitka, Hubbard Glacier, Skagway, then back down through Juneau, Icy Straight Point, Ketchikan, Seattle, San Francisco and ending in Los Angeles. 13 nights, aft balcony on the 7th floor, can't wait.

3/10/2008 3:32:06 PM

Best fucking time of my life was up there....i can't wait to go back..



the last frontier

3/10/2008 3:35:27 PM

The Cremation of Sam McGee

There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.

Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows.
Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows.
He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell;
Though he'd often say in his homely way that "he'd sooner live in hell."

On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail.
Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail.
If our eyes we'd close, then the lashes froze till sometimes we couldn't see;
It wasn't much fun, but the only one to whimper was Sam McGee.

And that very night, as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow,
And the dogs were fed, and the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe,
He turned to me, and "Cap," says he, "I'll cash in this trip, I guess;
And if I do, I'm asking that you won't refuse my last request."

Well, he seemed so low that I couldn't say no; then he says with a sort of moan:
"It's the cursèd cold, and it's got right hold, till I'm chilled clean through to the bone.
Yet 'tain't being dead — it's my awful dread of the icy grave that pains;
So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains."

A pal's last need is a thing to heed, so I swore I would not fail;
And we started on at the streak of dawn; but God! he looked ghastly pale.
He crouched on the sleigh, and he raved all day of his home in Tennessee;
And before nightfall a corpse was all that was left of Sam McGee.

There wasn't a breath in that land of death, and I hurried, horror-driven,
With a corpse half hid that I couldn't get rid, because of a promise given;
It was lashed to the sleigh, and it seemed to say: "You may tax your brawn and brains,
But you promised true, and it's up to you, to cremate those last remains."

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load.
In the long, long night, by the lone firelight, while the huskies, round in a ring,
Howled out their woes to the homeless snows — Oh God! how I loathed the thing.

And every day that quiet clay seemed to heavy and heavier grow;
And on I went, though the dogs were spent and the grub was getting low;
The trail was bad, and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in;
And I'd often sing to the hateful thing, and it hearkened with a grin.

Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay;
It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May."
And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum;
Then "Here," said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."

Some planks I tore from the cabin floor, and I lit the boiler fire;
Some coal I found that was lying around, and I heaped the fuel higher;
The flames just soared, and the furnace roared — such a blaze you seldom see;
And I burrowed a hole in the glowing coal, and I stuffed in Sam McGee.

Then I made a hike, for I didn't like to hear him sizzle so;
And the heavens scowled, and the huskies howled, and the wind began to blow.
It was icy cold, but the hot sweat rolled down my cheeks, and I don't know why;
And the greasy smoke in an inky cloak went streaking down the sky.

I do not know how long in the snow I wrestled with grisly fear;
But the stars came out and they danced about ere again I ventured near;
I was sick with dread, but I bravely said: "I'll just take a peep inside.
I guess he's cooked, and it's time I looked"; ... then the door I opened wide.

And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar;
And he wore a smile you could see a mile, and said: "Please close that door.
It's fine in here, but I greatly fear, you'll let in the cold and storm —
Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time I've been warm."

There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.

3/10/2008 3:35:46 PM

I mushed from Point Barrow thru a bizzard of snow
Been out prospectin' for two years or so
Pulled into Fairbanks the city was a boom
So I took a little stroll to the Reddog Saloon.

As I walked in the door the music was clear
The purtiest voice I had heard in two years
The song she was singin' made a man's blood run cold
When It's Springtime In Alaska, it's forty below.

(When It's Springtime In Alaska, it's forty below.)

It was Red-headed Lil who was singin' so sweet
I reached down and took the snowpacks off my feet
I reached for the gal who was singin' the tune
We did the Eskimo Hop all around the saloon.

With a Caribou Crawl and the Grizzly Bear Hug
We did our dance on a Kodiak rug
The song she kept singin' made a man's blood run cold
When It's Springtime In Alaska, it's forty below.

I was as innocent as I could be
I didn't know Lil was big Ed's wife to be
He took out his knife and he gave it a throw
When It's Springtime In Alaska, I'll be six feet below.

3/10/2008 3:38:30 PM

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