Red Mosquito

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.

96583UP wrote:we need to create a travel sub-forum so that there can be multiple location-oriented conversations AT THE SAME TIME without people going brazy and braining each other with fireplace irons

i would love to discuss spike's gay erotic journey through germany, and advise him against attempting to travel to sicily with a small child, but i don't plan to do both of those things in the same thread, for the sake of his child

but RM mods want to FORCE those conversations to happen at the same time

which is absolutely inappropriate, if not illegal in certain states

i am appalled at the management of this forum and the lack of a travel subforum

fick you mods!

spike wrote:

96583UP wrote:we need to create a travel sub-forum so that there can be multiple location-oriented conversations AT THE SAME TIME without people going brazy and braining each other with fireplace irons

i would love to discuss spike's gay erotic journey through germany, and advise him against attempting to travel to sicily with a small child, but i don't plan to do both of those things in the same thread, for the sake of his child

but RM mods want to FORCE those conversations to happen at the same time

which is absolutely inappropriate, if not illegal in certain states

i am appalled at the management of this forum and the lack of a travel subforum

fick you mods!

Let's just turn GD into a travel forum. Why contain ourselves to this one thread?

I'll start a Germany thread and an Italy thread. Maybe a France thread for dad... and since now I may meet the wife in Paris, and we're thinking of seeing if her mum wants to fly in to look after the kid some of the time so we can galivant around like a couple of bohemians.

spike wrote:And I'll start a Detroit thread for Bammer, or whatever terrible place he's planning to temporarily escape from his marriage to indulge in homoerotic exploration with his frat brothers.

Bammer wrote:

spike wrote:And I'll start a Detroit thread for Bammer, or whatever terrible place he's planning to temporarily escape from his marriage to indulge in homoerotic exploration with his frat brothers.

You are correct it’s Detroit

tragabigzanda wrote:Paris no question

spike wrote:And I'll start a Detroit thread for Bammer, or whatever terrible place he's planning to temporarily escape from his marriage to indulge in homoerotic exploration with his frat brothers.

dad wrote:

spike wrote:

96583UP wrote:we need to create a travel sub-forum so that there can be multiple location-oriented conversations AT THE SAME TIME without people going brazy and braining each other with fireplace irons

i would love to discuss spike's gay erotic journey through germany, and advise him against attempting to travel to sicily with a small child, but i don't plan to do both of those things in the same thread, for the sake of his child

but RM mods want to FORCE those conversations to happen at the same time

which is absolutely inappropriate, if not illegal in certain states

i am appalled at the management of this forum and the lack of a travel subforum

fick you mods!

Let's just turn GD into a travel forum. Why contain ourselves to this one thread?

I'll start a Germany thread and an Italy thread. Maybe a France thread for dad... and since now I may meet the wife in Paris, and we're thinking of seeing if her mum wants to fly in to look after the kid some of the time so we can galivant around like a couple of bohemians.

I support this proposal.

tragabigzanda wrote:Paris no question

spike wrote:Also, anyone done to Sicily, I assume via Rome, and would that journey suck with a kid?

Strat wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Paris no question

Been to Rome a couple times and don't love it - compared to what else Italy has to offer.

Never been to Paris but I vote Paris

Chris_H_2 wrote:

spike wrote:Also, anyone done to Sicily, I assume via Rome, and would that journey suck with a kid?

I’m doing it right now if you would just read my g-damn posts Spike.

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:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Spending 2.5 days in London next month (with no kids!). What should we do (both of us have been been there)?

Go to wherever Ted Lasso lived, that looks like a nice neighborhood

tragabigzanda wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Spending 2.5 days in London next month (with no kids!). What should we do (both of us have been been there)?

Go to wherever Ted Lasso lived, that looks like a nice neighborhood

spike wrote:

96583UP wrote:we need to create a travel sub-forum so that there can be multiple location-oriented conversations AT THE SAME TIME without people going brazy and braining each other with fireplace irons

i would love to discuss spike's gay erotic journey through germany, and advise him against attempting to travel to sicily with a small child, but i don't plan to do both of those things in the same thread, for the sake of his child

but RM mods want to FORCE those conversations to happen at the same time

which is absolutely inappropriate, if not illegal in certain states

i am appalled at the management of this forum and the lack of a travel subforum

fick you mods!

Let's just turn GD into a travel forum. Why contain ourselves to this one thread?

I'll start a Germany thread and an Italy thread. Maybe a France thread for dad... and since now I may meet the wife in Paris, and we're thinking of seeing if her mum wants to fly in to look after the kid some of the time so we can galivant around like a couple of bohemians.

spike wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Spending 2.5 days in London next month (with no kids!). What should we do (both of us have been been there)?

Go to wherever Ted Lasso lived, that looks like a nice neighborhood

Richmond?