Things you have an irrational hatred of

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[Bammer]

Non-sequitur postings by bammer

I’m not here to read everyone else’s posts. You’re here to read mine.

[dad]

just tell us what to do with the load of gf bread.

[E.H. Ruddock]

wtf am I gonna do with a loaf of GF bread?

[bodysnatcher]

Just drive up to an intersection and hand it to a homeless dude

[Jorge]

When shark attacks are news stories. The reporting is always like people are surprised.

They're pretty rare aren't they?

[E.H. Ruddock]

I feel like there are a dozen or so each summer around here

[Bammer]

Perhaps not quite the right thread here but a little bit of a rant on youth travel sports.

My kids are not officially on a team (which costs thousands and takes up every single weekend with all day driving and multiple games per day or I guess you can stay in a shit motel overnight) but have been invited to play a few times and caught rides with other team parents (which is great for me & Mrs. Bam’s sex life).

Anyway, it includes outdoor baseball here in Seattle in like Novemer. LOL.

Well, the team/program my kids have subbed in for has, like most programs, a team for each age group. 9U, 10U, 11U, etc. They all practice together and usually it’s at a field in Bellevue, fairly central to where all the kids live.

Today is Sunday (my kids aren’t playing today). They got home about 9:30 last night from yesterday’s two games. This morning at 8:30 is their next game. It’s in Puyallup. If you know the area, that’s a bit of a drive. My kids have been subbing for the 9U team. Their opponent this morning for the game that requires 6:30am commute to a field an hour away? The 10U team from the same team/program that they practice with in Bellevue all the time.

What is the fucking point?

[doug rr]

[bodysnatcher]

My nephew is on a traveling team and I can’t imagine letting that rule my family’s existence.

[doug rr]

when I was 17 in 1984 I was on a team that went to Australia and new Zealand to play..that was a long bus ride

[96583UP]

youth sports should be about fun unless your child looks like lebron james in which case it makes sense to invest in professional coaching

[doug rr]

Lebron can't hit a slider though

[bodysnatcher]

youth sports should be about fun unless your child looks like lebron james in which case it makes sense to invest in professional coaching

Try telling that to a bunch of dads who peaked in high school

[96583UP]

Lebron can't hit a slider though

he could have with professional coaching

[doug rr]

Lebron can't hit a slider though

he could have with professional coaching

nobody can..unless its bad and hangs

[96583UP]

youth sports should be about fun unless your child looks like lebron james in which case it makes sense to invest in professional coaching

Try telling that to a bunch of dads who peaked in high school

saw an espn article about how volunteers for youth sports refereeing is plummeting

the parents are insufferable

i completely understand

throw 'em in the oven

[96583UP]

Lebron can't hit a slider though

he could have with professional coaching

nobody can..unless its bad and hangs

lebron is pretty special tho

[doug rr]

Lebron can't hit a slider though

he could have with professional coaching

nobody can..unless its bad and hangs

lebron is pretty special tho

ken Griffey Jr. was more special as a teenager

[96583UP]

Lebron can't hit a slider though

he could have with professional coaching

nobody can..unless its bad and hangs

lebron is pretty special tho

ken Griffey Jr. was more special as a teenager

he had great skin