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    MLB Playoff Thread

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    so...someone who, within the culture of the yankees organization, is a fan favorite, a team favorite and a management favorite? Is that the gist of it?

     

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    :rotfl Thank you. That takes some of the sting out of being down 0-2. I'm not gonna pretend that doesn't hurt.

    Into the Wild

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    I hope I can make this post at least seem coherent.

     

     

    I really liked the book too but I had such a hard time with Alex's hubris. You get to know him just enough to start caring about him and then watch him make a seemingly endless series of tragic but completely avoidable mistakes. Mistakes he wouldn't have made if he just could have admitted he wasn't born with wilderness survival knowledge as part of his DNA. Reading about him years before seeing Grizzly Man prepared me to accept the fact that there are some people like him and Timothy Treadwell that need to be rescued from themselves. Can we come up with a term for people like this? Some name for their condition?

     

    I'm sort of embarassed to admit I got really angry at the both of them, especially Treadwell. By the time I was halfway through it, I was looking forward to him being attacked. I know, I'm a horrible human being. I got mad at Alex too. What a waste. I think it's one thing to arm yourself with acquired knowledge and skill and pit yourself against nature and another thing entirely to think that you're Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett or Grand Poobah of Grizzlies reincarnate. Fools.

     

     

    If there's one thing I hate in other people, it's seeing myself in them.

    Madison Residents?

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    I have heard that the pizza places often deliver to the wrong houses in Madison. And then getting your pizza back is nigh on impossible.

     

    :rotfl

    Skyflynn is really the master of Madison knowledge...

    Girl, are you smoking at work? Again?

     

    This is a great place. Winter is the only thing besides size that would make me hesitate to recommend it to anybody. If you can do winter and don't need a big city, I think this is the best place I know. Of course, the world is full of things I know nothing about so take that for what it's worth.

     

    We'd love to have you. Good luck!

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