Red Mosquito

BurtReynolds wrote:bought an ultrasonic cleaner and it seems pretty useless.

bart wrote:Bought an e-scooter, ready to become a man-about-town

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:New temper pedic pillow

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Does anyone have any recommendations for a really great electric razor? I've been using the one I have for a very long time and I'm wondering if the technology has improved in the interim. It gets the job done but I have to run it over my face so many times to get everything, I feel like there's gotta be a better option by now.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I bought something from Temu today. I’m sure things will start looking up soon for me

daft twat wrote:Washing machine. Ours kept going back and repeating cycles. Went basic. I told my wife, “This one doesn’t have a timer.” She replied, “Who cares? The last one was a fucking liar anyway.”

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

daft twat wrote:Washing machine. Ours kept going back and repeating cycles. Went basic. I told my wife, “This one doesn’t have a timer.” She replied, “Who cares? The last one was a fucking liar anyway.”

We're due for a new one soon, and I think these front loaders are a pain in the ass. I'm hoping to convince my wife of the same and get a larger-bin top loader.

wease wrote:You guys used cloth diapers? Wow. Bold move.