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Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 8:53 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 9:49 pm
by bodysnatcher
I’m gonna move to Austin just to rile trag up
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 9:52 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 9:53 pm
by bodysnatcher
I probably have to get a Tesla first and that’s just something I’d never do
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 9:56 pm
by doug rr
bodysnatcher wrote:I probably have to get a Tesla first and that’s just something I’d never do
maybe you can have Richard Linklater follow you around and film your everyday life..
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 10:01 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
doug rr wrote:bodysnatcher wrote:I probably have to get a Tesla first and that’s just something I’d never do
maybe you can have Richard Linklater follow you around and film your everyday life..

Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 10:07 pm
by doug rr
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 10:34 pm
by Monkey_Driven
bodysnatcher wrote:Everywhere sucks that attracts people to visit or move to. It’s a matter of finding the least suck.
Truth.
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 10:44 pm
by BurtReynolds
You have to get there early. Before it's discovered. Then you can ruin it from the inside.
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 10:55 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 10:55 pm
by The Argonaut
Everyone, come to albany
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 10:57 pm
by dad
The Argonaut wrote:Everyone, come to albany
how's the factory?
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 11:06 pm
by Jorge
He works at Burlington Coat Factory
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 11:13 pm
by BurtReynolds
a factory is a factory.
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 11:16 pm
by The Argonaut
The factory sucked last week but the last two days have been ok. I basically did very little the last two days, perhaps I will get fired soon
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Fri February 16, 2024 11:17 pm
by BurtReynolds
The first time I ever went to austin, it was for this artist meetup thing in a brightly painted warehouse, with no AC in summer. It was amazing. So many different things going on. It was on South Congress I think, or maybe South Lamar.
Now the same place looks like a mall. Beige of course.
East Austin is going the same way.
So it goes.
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Sat February 17, 2024 3:01 am
by bodysnatcher
Jorge wrote:He works at Burlington Coat Factory
Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Sat February 17, 2024 5:14 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
The Argonaut wrote:The factory sucked last week but the last two days have been ok. I basically did very little the last two days, perhaps I will get fired soon
Have you made any friends
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Sat February 17, 2024 12:59 pm
by The Argonaut
I was thinking about this. Have I forgotten what people are like? I haven't really met a lot of new people since before 2020. Or maybe this is what younger people are like? The three people I work most closely with are all like late-twenties women. But they're very forthcoming. They've told me about all kinds of drama, personal stories from their lives, conversations they've had with therapists, details about their partners, all kinds of stuff that seems very personal.
And it's not even like I've been around when they're talking about this with each other. They're just telling me. Even about drama between them. It's wild. Do I just seem like a very trustworthy guy? Is this just what people are like now? Did I accidentally meet three people who divulge too much?
Is this just what factory people are like?
Re: The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread
Posted: Sat February 17, 2024 1:13 pm
by Higgs
doug rr wrote:and who wants to pay a $30 cover to go into a bar to watch jimmy Vaughan play?
If I could get in the room with SRV's actual blood I would absolutely do that.
I appreciate that sounds pretty damn creepy.