Red Mosquito

Jorge wrote:That's the longest run of Reid posts I've ever seen

washing machine wrote:Kind of like an airport in that way.

spike wrote:Reid, your job should be taking people’s cars to dealerships for them. Calculate a reasonable hourly rate, and they have to cover your Arby’s bill.

washing machine wrote:Now the joy of the visit is wearing off a bit. I'm ready to leave, get our kid from daycare, get home, and get a shower. I forgot to mention that I went for a run before this, so the aromatic quality of the air immediately around me has been declining rapidly.

washing machine wrote:Oh, I almost forgot. At Arby's, I made a great connection with the cashier. After noticing Mello Yello on the fountain, I figured I'd ask him what he thought about it. I'd never had it before and I trusted his opinion. He did not disappoint. "Well it's kinda like Mountain Dew, but if you also put some Sprite in it. It's real yellow too."

You bet your ass I rang the bell for good service (Arby's actually has one of these) on my way out the door.

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.