...in which our intrepid hero and his older brother find a secret gem...

[mr_jaeger]

So. The Illinois Trip, huh? I imagine a few of you to whom I may have mentioned this little outing are wondering how it went. A few more of you also know that I happen to be a natural weirdness magnet, and may be thinking that there’s no way I could drive nearly 2,000 miles without running over a Jackelope, discovering a lost civilization and

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[mr_jaeger]

Well, yeeeeeeees, that is the perfectly rational explanation. That may well be the reality of the situation. That may well be the absolute Truth of the situation. But that is also the DRY explanation. I could talk about how you could hear the microphone being passed, or the feet stomping on the floor that sounded wooden and hollow, or the essential DIYness of it, just as i could rattle on about it being lower-fi than even the crummiest of AM talk radio i've ever had occasion to bend my ear towards. But this is no place for a debate on something purely subjective which was only heard by one party involved in such a debate.

But the answer that has panache, kick, verve, and above all, MOXY is the idea that there is some strange mutant clan of snake-handling, tongues-speaking Pentecostal DIY broadcasters pirating their way into an established frequency to spread the Word. This is where the point i was making about Perception comes into play. My explanation may not be the truth, but my explanation has joie de vivreHyperbole has far

[mr_jaeger]

I'm sorry...i'm sure there's some tone or inflection or way that can be said that adds some sense of wit, bite or sarcastic weight to your statement, but i'm afraid it's been lost in your line spacing, poor word choice (is that read as in reed or read as in red?), miscapitalization and nearly complete lack of punctuation. For some the comma is a privelage or merely a right to be exercised as they see fit. For others, the comma is a DEMAND! A necessity! And not just the comma, we must remember that other wonderful pieces of punctuation exist, such as the question mark, semicolon and colon. When God created man, he did not just give us (those who speak english, anyway) just ONE colon! God gave us TWO colons! We must not ignore our second colon! We must utilize that second colon! Appreciate and love our colon! Ask not what your colon can do for you, ask what you can do for your colon!

BRUSH UP ON YOUR COLON, BROTHERS AND SISTERS!

Sometimes, it's just fun to be me.

[liebschen]

. . . are you free sometime this next week? Starting now?

[mr_jaeger]

I most certainly am. Do you need me to call out of work? Because i'm here and all...but like...i don't need to be...or want to be...and stuff.

[liebschen]

Well, you can come *after* work too. Right?

[mr_jaeger]

As soon as i can, yes.