Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
Best threadstarters on RM
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Re: Best threadstarters on RM
You started a thread about Andrew Yang
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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This is my best thread. I shouldn't be nominated for this, I'm not a very good thread starter. But this is a good thread.
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 59&t=17697
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/viewtop ... 59&t=17697
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Re: Best threadstarters on RM
Nominees so far:
96583UP
Balki
BurtReynolds
Dev
E.H. Ruddock
Jorge
JuanHamm
PunkDavid
tragabigzanda
tree_
washing machine
The poster 2ndacct2vote4corduroy and actress Drew Barrymore both received nominations, but neither qualifies as they've started no threads
96583UP
Balki
BurtReynolds
Dev
E.H. Ruddock
Jorge
JuanHamm
PunkDavid
tragabigzanda
tree_
washing machine
The poster 2ndacct2vote4corduroy and actress Drew Barrymore both received nominations, but neither qualifies as they've started no threads
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Re: Best threadstarters on RM
the connections trilogy alone makes mr. jcurley/withoutrings a serious contender. I appreciate the nod, jorge, but many of my most intentionally absurd threads take so many cues from the reclusive artiste now known as "malloy".
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probably MickeyChris_H_2 wrote:Who’s the board’s biggest narcissist?Ello Sailor wrote:Just a bunch of dorks patting themselves on the back in here. How unfortunate.
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I said DON'T nominate me for this you swineherd.spike wrote:probably MickeyChris_H_2 wrote:Who’s the board’s biggest narcissist?Ello Sailor wrote:Just a bunch of dorks patting themselves on the back in here. How unfortunate.
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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Re: Best threadstarters on RM
Who started the thread Songs Where Eddie Sounds Like a Cat?
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whore has my vote
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define bigChris_H_2 wrote:Who’s the board’s biggest narcissist?Ello Sailor wrote:Just a bunch of dorks patting themselves on the back in here. How unfortunate.
Vitalogist wrote:As a hotel manager, you can imagine the amount of beige I’ve seen in my career.
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Easy answer and it’s not Mickspike wrote:probably MickeyChris_H_2 wrote:Who’s the board’s biggest narcissist?Ello Sailor wrote:Just a bunch of dorks patting themselves on the back in here. How unfortunate.
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How long will nominations remain open?
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I don't know. Until it feels right
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Re: Best threadstarters on RM
Looks like I forgot to trademark a lot of my threads. I wouldn't want tree to steal them too.
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The only thing IP stands for around here is Internet Protocol address.
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Good answerJorge wrote:I don't know. Until it feels right
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I just noticed that I missed a connection in those links. Sorry curley.washing machine wrote:the connections trilogy alone makes mr. jcurley/withoutrings a serious contender. I appreciate the nod, jorge, but many of my most intentionally absurd threads take so many cues from the reclusive artiste now known as "malloy".
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I’m good at starting threads about films n stuff. And then never reading them again.
Calibrate your enthusiasm
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Is this a self-nomination? Please clarifydimejinky99 wrote:I’m good at starting threads about films n stuff. And then never reading them again.
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
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Jorge wrote:Is this a self-nomination? Please clarifydimejinky99 wrote:I’m good at starting threads about films n stuff. And then never reading them again.
God no. Nominations make not one great.
Calibrate your enthusiasm