Argonautical Birthing Day

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35 years ago from this day.

[BurtReynolds]

Merry birthday

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always gotta go against the grain.. i hope you don't think this is a legitimate source of creativity. It's no better than, like, Rian Johnson's SW choices

[dad]

¡Feliz cumpleaños, Argo!

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argo is not asian

[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.

[BurtReynolds]

always gotta go against the grain.. i hope you don't think this is a legitimate source of creativity. It's no better than, like, Rian Johnson's SW choices

I'm subverting expectations.

[JuanHamm]

always gotta go against the grain.. i hope you don't think this is a legitimate source of creativity. It's no better than, like, Rian Johnson's SW choices

I'm subverting expectations.

Subvert this

*points at crotch*

[JuanHamm]

Also happy birthday Argo

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always gotta go against the grain.. i hope you don't think this is a legitimate source of creativity. It's no better than, like, Rian Johnson's SW choices

I'm subverting expectations.

that's the phrase i was trying to think of.. thank you.. but yeah, it's a shitty trick of no creative value so stop it

[BurtReynolds]

always gotta go against the grain.. i hope you don't think this is a legitimate source of creativity. It's no better than, like, Rian Johnson's SW choices

I'm subverting expectations.

that's the phrase i was trying to think of.. thank you.. but yeah, it's a shitty trick of no creative value so stop it

This is Argo's day. Stop making it about our beef.

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this beef is bigger than us and it's worthy of argo's birthday thread

[The Argonaut]

Resolve the beef. Honor me by resolving the beef in my birthday thread. My birth shall finally have a purpose

[The Argonaut]

Happy birthday Argo. How are you celebrating ?

I have traveled 250 miles by train and I am spending the day looking at ancient Mediterranean artifacts. woot

[doug rr]

HB

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oh to be 3hirty-5ive again

[doug rr]

I got my vasectomy at age 35...something to think about argo..

[The Argonaut]

I got my vasectomy at age 35...something to think about argo..

Not an issue for me, Doug, but thanks

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I got my vasectomy at age 35...something to think about argo..

Not an issue for me, Doug, but thanks

your boys can't swim?

[dad]

oh to be 3hirty-5ive again

i wish i could remember what i was doing at 35.