Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:You posted in the wrong thread about joe’s publishing desires then tried to pivot to a RE-adjacent topic? Or what’s going on here, Burt?

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:Make it happen doug

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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.

doug rr wrote:calling a guy today about renting out our California house...our friends that have been staying there are going to travel and or move while we keep their place...I think we want to rent it furnished but would drive down to pick some stuff up..clothes, stereo, records, cd's, guitars, etc...once it back to a sellers market I think we'll sell it and stay up here..

wease wrote:

doug rr wrote:calling a guy today about renting out our California house...our friends that have been staying there are going to travel and or move while we keep their place...I think we want to rent it furnished but would drive down to pick some stuff up..clothes, stereo, records, cd's, guitars, etc...once it back to a sellers market I think we'll sell it and stay up here..

You gonna buy the house you’re staying in?

The Argonaut wrote:I'll open with a bid of $75 a month

doug rr wrote:

wease wrote:

doug rr wrote:calling a guy today about renting out our California house...our friends that have been staying there are going to travel and or move while we keep their place...I think we want to rent it furnished but would drive down to pick some stuff up..clothes, stereo, records, cd's, guitars, etc...once it back to a sellers market I think we'll sell it and stay up here..

You gonna buy the house you’re staying in?

we're thinking about it..we have an agreement until this May or so..I think they want to sell this place but we'd probably rent it starting this summer until we decide...we're looking in Bellingham to as well as an opportunity in Vancouver...we'll see

bodysnatcher wrote:

doug rr wrote:

wease wrote:

doug rr wrote:calling a guy today about renting out our California house...our friends that have been staying there are going to travel and or move while we keep their place...I think we want to rent it furnished but would drive down to pick some stuff up..clothes, stereo, records, cd's, guitars, etc...once it back to a sellers market I think we'll sell it and stay up here..

You gonna buy the house you’re staying in?

we're thinking about it..we have an agreement until this May or so..I think they want to sell this place but we'd probably rent it starting this summer until we decide...we're looking in Bellingham to as well as an opportunity in Vancouver...we'll see

I’m jealous. Interested in adopting a 43 year old son?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:

doug rr wrote:

wease wrote:

doug rr wrote:calling a guy today about renting out our California house...our friends that have been staying there are going to travel and or move while we keep their place...I think we want to rent it furnished but would drive down to pick some stuff up..clothes, stereo, records, cd's, guitars, etc...once it back to a sellers market I think we'll sell it and stay up here..

You gonna buy the house you’re staying in?

we're thinking about it..we have an agreement until this May or so..I think they want to sell this place but we'd probably rent it starting this summer until we decide...we're looking in Bellingham to as well as an opportunity in Vancouver...we'll see

I’m jealous. Interested in adopting a 43 year old son?

And his 39 year old best friend.

bodysnatcher wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:

doug rr wrote:

wease wrote:

doug rr wrote:calling a guy today about renting out our California house...our friends that have been staying there are going to travel and or move while we keep their place...I think we want to rent it furnished but would drive down to pick some stuff up..clothes, stereo, records, cd's, guitars, etc...once it back to a sellers market I think we'll sell it and stay up here..

You gonna buy the house you’re staying in?

we're thinking about it..we have an agreement until this May or so..I think they want to sell this place but we'd probably rent it starting this summer until we decide...we're looking in Bellingham to as well as an opportunity in Vancouver...we'll see

I’m jealous. Interested in adopting a 43 year old son?

And his 39 year old best friend.

tragabigzanda wrote:

doug rr wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:It really is an awful part of town and the commute to/from anywhere would suck so hard…But on the plus side you’d be within walking distance to The Comedy Store and you could pay your respects to River Phoenix on your morning coffee trip

been there, done that...its more fun to grab a drink at the rainbow

Have you ever partied at the Viper Room?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I'm going to have the ol' townhouse paid off in May. I will probably never move because i'm a bum, but it will be nice to have more flexibility going forward.

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I'm going to have the ol' townhouse paid off in May. I will probably never move because i'm a bum, but it will be nice to have more flexibility going forward.

Bums are the ones who move. You're the opposite of a bum.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I'm going to have the ol' townhouse paid off in May. I will probably never move because i'm a bum, but it will be nice to have more flexibility going forward.

bodysnatcher wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I'm going to have the ol' townhouse paid off in May. I will probably never move because i'm a bum, but it will be nice to have more flexibility going forward.

Was that a 30 year mortgage? Did you buy it when you were 10?