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Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sat July 06, 2024 3:43 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: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sat July 06, 2024 3:46 am
by Bammer
tragabigzanda wrote:Non-sequitur postings by bammer
I’m not here to read everyone else’s posts. You’re here to read mine.
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sat July 06, 2024 3:51 am
by dad
just tell us what to do with the load of gf bread.
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sat July 06, 2024 1:33 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
tragabigzanda wrote:
wtf am I gonna do with a loaf of GF bread?
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sat July 06, 2024 7:52 pm
by bodysnatcher
Just drive up to an intersection and hand it to a homeless dude
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sat July 06, 2024 8:02 pm
by Jorge
E.H. Ruddock wrote:When shark attacks are news stories. The reporting is always like people are surprised.
They're pretty rare aren't they?
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sat July 06, 2024 11:08 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
I feel like there are a dozen or so each summer around here
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sun July 07, 2024 12:24 pm
by Bammer
Perhaps not quite the right thread here but a little bit of a rant on youth travel sports.
My kids are not officially on a team (which costs thousands and takes up every single weekend with all day driving and multiple games per day or I guess you can stay in a shit motel overnight) but have been invited to play a few times and caught rides with other team parents (which is great for me & Mrs. Bam’s sex life).
Anyway, it includes outdoor baseball here in Seattle in like Novemer. LOL.
Well, the team/program my kids have subbed in for has, like most programs, a team for each age group. 9U, 10U, 11U, etc. They all practice together and usually it’s at a field in Bellevue, fairly central to where all the kids live.
Today is Sunday (my kids aren’t playing today). They got home about 9:30 last night from yesterday’s two games. This morning at 8:30 is their next game. It’s in Puyallup. If you know the area, that’s a bit of a drive. My kids have been subbing for the 9U team. Their opponent this morning for the game that requires 6:30am commute to a field an hour away? The 10U team from the same team/program that they practice with in Bellevue all the time.
What is the fucking point?
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sun July 07, 2024 4:17 pm
by doug rr
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sun July 07, 2024 4:36 pm
by bodysnatcher
My nephew is on a traveling team and I can’t imagine letting that rule my family’s existence.
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sun July 07, 2024 4:39 pm
by doug rr
when I was 17 in 1984 I was on a team that went to Australia and new Zealand to play..that was a long bus ride
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sun July 07, 2024 4:43 pm
by 96583UP
youth sports should be about fun unless your child looks like lebron james in which case it makes sense to invest in professional coaching
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sun July 07, 2024 4:46 pm
by doug rr
Lebron can't hit a slider though
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sun July 07, 2024 4:46 pm
by bodysnatcher
96583UP wrote:youth sports should be about fun unless your child looks like lebron james in which case it makes sense to invest in professional coaching
Try telling that to a bunch of dads who peaked in high school
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sun July 07, 2024 4:47 pm
by 96583UP
doug rr wrote:Lebron can't hit a slider though
he could have with professional coaching
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sun July 07, 2024 4:48 pm
by doug rr
96583UP wrote:doug rr wrote:Lebron can't hit a slider though
he could have with professional coaching
nobody can..unless its bad and hangs
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sun July 07, 2024 4:50 pm
by 96583UP
bodysnatcher wrote:96583UP wrote:youth sports should be about fun unless your child looks like lebron james in which case it makes sense to invest in professional coaching
Try telling that to a bunch of dads who peaked in high school
saw an espn article about how volunteers for youth sports refereeing is plummeting
the parents are insufferable
i completely understand
throw 'em in the oven
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sun July 07, 2024 4:51 pm
by 96583UP
doug rr wrote:96583UP wrote:doug rr wrote:Lebron can't hit a slider though
he could have with professional coaching
nobody can..unless its bad and hangs
lebron is pretty special tho
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sun July 07, 2024 4:53 pm
by doug rr
96583UP wrote:doug rr wrote:96583UP wrote:doug rr wrote:Lebron can't hit a slider though
he could have with professional coaching
nobody can..unless its bad and hangs
lebron is pretty special tho
ken Griffey Jr. was more special as a teenager
Re: Things you have an irrational hatred of
Posted: Sun July 07, 2024 4:53 pm
by 96583UP
doug rr wrote:96583UP wrote:doug rr wrote:96583UP wrote:doug rr wrote:Lebron can't hit a slider though
he could have with professional coaching
nobody can..unless its bad and hangs
lebron is pretty special tho
ken Griffey Jr. was more special as a teenager
he had great skin
