Talk about your day thread

[Bi_3]

Took my eldest to VidCon in Baltimore today. Upper middle class white guy cynicism was at level 10 going in, but what i saw after about 30 minutes was very different than my first impression. There is an actual community there bringing real joy to those folks and all the creators were actually very cool about it all.

[Bammer]

Took my eldest to VidCon in Baltimore today. Upper middle class white guy cynicism was at level 10 going in, but what i saw after about 30 minutes was very different than my first impression. There is an actual community there bringing real joy to those folks and all the creators were actually very cool about it all.

For some reason this reminds me that at the last two sporting events I attended in Seattle, there have been men older than me sitting right in front of me playing Pokemon on their phone the whole game.

[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.

[96583UP]

brilliant

plenty of aunts and uncles don’t send gifts

[BurtReynolds]

Had a dream about spiders and wasps, now I'm listening to post rock and reading McCarthy.

[wease]

My wife’s uncle, who is a libertarian / anti-establishment type, just send our daughter a box containing her birthday, Halloween, Xmas, and Easter presents all together, in their respective holiday wrapping. Can’t decide if this is really cold hearted or totally brilliant.

I'm gonna go with brilliant on the assumption you don't really have many opportunities to see him in person.

[doug rr]

the owners came and picked up their chihuahua after 2 weeks and the broncos won..good day so far

[Bammer]

the owners came and picked up their chihuahua after 2 weeks and the broncos won..good day so far

I was gonna make a joke about - who did you play, the bears?

Just looked at scores and yep, lol, bears. Congrats I guess.

[Jorge]

Halloween presents? You guys do Halloween presents?

[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.

[96583UP]

so cold-hearted

[CopperTom]

Got contacted about a job interview at 10:30am. Set up job interview at 11:30am. Told no one. Boss comes into my office at 1:00 and knows about my interview. So uncomfortable.

[spike]

Wtf. Internal or external interview?

[CopperTom]

External. My boss must have been contacted by the interviewer. Not a reference. They must be friends.

[dad]

yikes. not cool.

[Coach]

A very efficient day at work. Got a ton of stuff done. Short week this week as I am headed out of town to Tennessee for a wedding.

[Chris_H_2]

External. My boss must have been contacted by the interviewer. Not a reference. They must be friends.

so how did you leave things? what does that mean for you going forward with (a) your current job, and (b) with your prospects of this new job (i mean, do you want to work with/for someone like that?)?

[doug rr]

A very efficient day at work. Got a ton of stuff done. Short week this week as I am headed out of town to Tennessee for a wedding.

get the chicken fried steak

[E.H. Ruddock]

External. My boss must have been contacted by the interviewer. Not a reference. They must be friends.

Yeah this is kind of fucked up all around.

[wease]

A very efficient day at work. Got a ton of stuff done. Short week this week as I am headed out of town to Tennessee for a wedding.

Where in TN?