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Re: Travel thread

Posted: Thu April 03, 2025 1:25 am
by 96583UP
can pop on over to the blue note when you're through

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Thu April 03, 2025 1:35 am
by doug rr
96583UP wrote:can pop on over to the blue note when you're through
I usually hit generation records a block or two away when there to flip through vinyl..I hope they still have a cat downstairs..

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri April 04, 2025 2:12 pm
by doug rr
minetta tavern was great as always....hitting up Lupa for lunch today for some pasta

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri April 04, 2025 7:22 pm
by Chris_H_2
96583UP wrote:can pop on over to the blue note when you're through
we were in piazza del popolo yesterday. I thought of you the whole time.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Fri April 04, 2025 10:50 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Chris did u see the given to fly statue in Italy? If so what did your wife think about it?

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sat April 05, 2025 1:55 am
by 96583UP
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:can pop on over to the blue note when you're through
we were in piazza del popolo yesterday. I thought of you the whole time.
FUCK YEAH BABAAAYYYYYYYY

did you drink from the fountains?

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Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sat April 05, 2025 6:30 am
by Chris_H_2
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Chris did u see the given to fly statue in Italy? If so what did your wife think about it?
funny you ask. we walked by it, and I did a beeline for it. my daughter asked my wife where I was going, and my wife responded “to take a picture so he can send it to his loser Pearl Jam friends so they can all jerk off to it.” my daughter just shrugged and kept walking.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sat April 05, 2025 6:32 am
by Chris_H_2
96583UP wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
96583UP wrote:can pop on over to the blue note when you're through
we were in piazza del popolo yesterday. I thought of you the whole time.
FUCK YEAH BABAAAYYYYYYYY

did you drink from the fountains?

Image
I climbed in and sat there. the rash should clear up in 2-4 days.

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sat April 05, 2025 6:38 am
by spike
Chris_H_2 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Chris did u see the given to fly statue in Italy? If so what did your wife think about it?
funny you ask. we walked by it, and I did a beeline for it. my daughter asked my wife where I was going, and my wife responded “to take a picture so he can send it to his loser Pearl Jam friends so they can all jerk off to it.” my daughter just shrugged and kept walking.
So where’s our pic?

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sat April 05, 2025 10:52 am
by The Argonaut
Why does your wife hate you (and more importantly, us)?

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sat April 05, 2025 11:55 am
by spike
RM is the only thing that makes him horny anymore

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun April 06, 2025 4:33 am
by BurtReynolds
Chris H 2 running to the statue:


Re: Travel thread

Posted: Tue April 08, 2025 4:02 pm
by doug rr
back up to Vancouver today 3 days earlier than planned...MIL had a stroke this morning...I had great Mariners tickets for tomorrow..

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Tue April 15, 2025 8:30 pm
by epilogue
My wife and I are planning our first trip to Croatia in the fall. Any RMers been? Recommendations?

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun April 20, 2025 1:19 am
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: Travel thread

Posted: Sun April 20, 2025 1:22 am
by 96583UP
dinos on the top floor of the natural history museum

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun April 20, 2025 1:37 am
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: Travel thread

Posted: Sun April 20, 2025 1:44 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
When will you be there?

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun April 20, 2025 2:47 am
by epilogue
Going to Croatia in the late summer/early fall. First time. Can't wait!

Re: Travel thread

Posted: Sun April 20, 2025 11:03 am
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.