Travel thread

[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.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Asher you should get a studded leather jacket, those sketchies won’t bother you in that

I beg to differ. I always want to beat up people that shop at Hot Topix

[Jorge]

Asher you should get a studded leather jacket, those sketchies won’t bother you in that

I beg to differ. I always want to beat up people that shop at Hot Topix

Interesting coming from the board's biggest wallet chain enthusiast

[E.H. Ruddock]

Asher you should get a studded leather jacket, those sketchies won’t bother you in that

I beg to differ. I always want to beat up people that shop at Hot Topix

Interesting coming from the board's biggest wallet chain enthusiast

[dad]

my wife just got an email re our flights to Europe next year. we used points and we're flying out of Chicago. we were going to have a 2hr layover before departing to London. That layover has now extended to 7+ hr.

she found a flight out of dallas but the total flight time is longer. i told her let's go with what we've got. it'll be okay.

she is probably going to murder me after 3 hours.

[bart]

Where is the layover

[dad]

my bad, i wasn't clear on that. layover is in Chicago. we fly from there to London.

surely, we can find something to do.

[bart]

hope it’s O’Hare

[spike]

Are you thinking about leaving the airport?

[dad]

hope it’s O’Hare

it is.

Are you thinking about leaving the airport?

the thought crossed my mind.

[bart]

Yeah you could have a good four hours or so to go visit the adventures in babysitting building

[dad]

Yeah you could have a good four hours or so to go visit the adventures in babysitting building

Will Elizabeth Shue be there?

[spike]

I would not recommend trying to go downtown in that time frame.

There’s an outlet mall kinda nearby.

[bart]

I would not recommend trying to go downtown in that time frame.

That’s exactly what they told Elizabeth Shue

[spike]

bart your posting of late has been alarmingly irresponsible at best

[dad]

I would not recommend trying to go downtown in that time frame.

There’s an outlet mall kinda nearby.

What are the odds I’ll run into the Lords of Hell?

[Bammer]

Disneyworld?

Yes

[Anders]

Which is the best part?

[Bammer]

I haven’t been to Disney land or world in like 20 years

[Higgs]

Disneyland in '98. I suspect it might have changed a tad since then.