Last Updated:
Wed, Jun 22, 2005
Hot Air
Articles, Musings, Rants
Various writings I have accumulated about hang gliding.
Micrometerology and Hang Gliding
...a term paper for my 1982 Meteorology class...
97 Gnats
...my underdog account of the 97 US Nationals...
Hang-ku
...what's on your
flying-friends-fridges?
Why We Fly
...a few essays on why it is worth doing this.
Quotes
| "Some people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths." —Stephen Wright "I get up, And nothing gets me down" —Van Halen "Time flies like an arrow— fruit flies like a banana." —Groucho Marx "Remember— No matter where you go, There you are..." —Buckaroo Banzai "The laws of gravity Are very, very strict— You're just bending them For your own benefit..." —Billy Bragg She said, "Why do you always end up down at Nick's Cafe?" I said, "I don't know— the wind just kinda pushed me that way." —Robbie Robertson "I've been ionized... But I'm okay now." —Buckaroo Banzai "No no—don't tug on that. you don't know what it might be attached to." —Buckaroo Banzai "Glider man Over land Is a-soaring Earth below Could he know? He's flying over my Laurie-Ann. Natural High Makes him sigh To know that he's so free. And he's smiling Down at me..." —Kalapana "Dudes you misuse on the way up— You might meet up— On the way down..." —Little Feat "I look at the sky and ocean - I see painted canvas on a hill. You are my poetry in motion— And I love you..." —Patty Larkin "Falling - falling... Gonna drop like a stone... Falling, through the atmosphere— On a warm afternoon." —David Byrne "That's the way the world goes 'round— You're up one day the next you're down..." —John Prine "Home - sings to me of sweet things Life - there has its own wings Fly - over the mountain Though, I'm standing still." —Bonnie Raitt "Bones Heal. Chicks Dig Scars. Pain is Temporary. Glory is Forever." —MTV Extreme Sports |
“I think of those little planes up there Flying around—you can't even see them They're specks!—and they're full of Tiny people, going places... You know, I bet they could all land On the head of a pin!" —Laurie Anderson "Why this mountain? Why this sky? This road, This empty room." —Laurie Anderson "I spoke about wings... You just flew..." —Jennifer Warnes "You can walk on the water, Drown in the sand— You can fly off a mountaintop, Anybody can." —The Band "And nobody wants to know him They can see that he's just a fool But he never gives an answer 'Cause the fool on the hill Sees the sun going down And the eyes in his head See the world spinning 'round..." —Paul McCartney "As sure as the sun - will shine I'm gonna get my share—what's mine And the harder they come The harder they fall One and all..." —Jimmy Cliff "When you get to the bottom You go back to the top of the slide And you turn and you stop And you go for a ride And you get to the bottom And you see me again..." —John Lennon "Falling down the mountain End up kissing dirt Look a little closer Sometimes it wouldn't hurt." —INXS "Oh, but its not the fall That hurts her at all— It's that sudden Stop." —Lou Ann Barton "They tell us that We lost our tails Evolving up From little snails I say it's all Just wind in sails Are We Not Men? We Are DEVO!" —DEVO "and last night for the first time in a long time I let myself fly..." —Sara Hickman "When you're up, it's a long way down, When you're down, it's a long way up, It's all the same thing— No new tale to tell." —Love & Rockets "When Miss Moon lays down And Sir Sun stands up Me I'm found floating round and round Like a bug in brandy In this big bronze cup Drowning here in Summer's Cauldron" —XTC "Send it up, watch it rise, See it fall, Gravity's Rainbow." —Laurie Anderson |
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