Red Mosquito

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.

spike wrote:i don't think my kid's had the same swim teacher two weeks in row all term. today's instructor clearly thought their little group was more advanced than they are; she had them doing legit laps up and down the pool most of the time. my kid's exhausted and couldn't even handle a quick five minute stop at the post office on the way home without a complete meltdown. first time i've had to forcibly put her into the car, which is no fun. miller time.

VinylGuy wrote:Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

VinylGuy wrote:Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

dad wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

show them your favorite horror film.

never too early to get them started!

VinylGuy wrote:Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

washing machine wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

Corporate Ghost: Sonic Youth Videos: 1990-2002

tragabigzanda wrote:

spike wrote:i don't think my kid's had the same swim teacher two weeks in row all term. today's instructor clearly thought their little group was more advanced than they are; she had them doing legit laps up and down the pool most of the time. my kid's exhausted and couldn't even handle a quick five minute stop at the post office on the way home without a complete meltdown. first time i've had to forcibly put her into the car, which is no fun. miller time.

My kid didn't like her most recent swim teacher so she opted to just move back down a level because she liked that one better.

Bammer wrote:We are about to embark upon Disneyworld 3 out of the next 4 days.

Pray for me.

VinylGuy wrote:Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

Bammer wrote:We are about to embark upon Disneyworld 3 out of the next 4 days.

Pray for me.

knee tunes wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

Sounds like there's going to be diapers

Simple Torture wrote:

Bammer wrote:We are about to embark upon Disneyworld 3 out of the next 4 days.

Pray for me.

We’re arriving at Disney World on Monday. Twins set to meet???

VinylGuy wrote:Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.