Secrets of the City

God, anthropomorphic spokes-creatures were so helpful in pre-Reagan America. Look at those critters, just helping out a bunch of beer-lovin’ weirdos get the brew they so enjoy.

If those Hamm’s commercials had been today, all those nice picnickers would have been hitting each other over the head with canoe paddles and Coleman lanterns and generally brutalizing the woodland creatures (and each other) for a sip of precious, precious Hamm’s. It would end with a pile of bloodied, violated cartoon bodies and some picnicker standing over to of them with a Hamm’s with a voiceover that said “Hamm’s: you just have to have it by any means necessary.”

I like the wolves howling a lot – very haunting and slightly sad. I would love to hear that live, one day.

I heard loons making a variety of calls last week and was well pleased.

I was already very familiar with some of the sounds they make (that wavering hooting call)because there were at least five quite influential tunes that were all the rage when I was in my late teens/early 20s in the drum and bass, house, and techno genres that all used samples of loons.

So I knew what they sounded like even before I knew what they were.

I’ve heard the wolves howling up in the north woods. It’s some spooky shit. Made me want to get out of the woods as soon as possible.

On one of my trips to the BWCAW, we had a guy making his first trip. He brought a sleeping pad, and a small mosquito net to cover his face. Otherwise, he was sleeping out in the open on a rock. He was talking to my brother for a while after sundown. He kept asking if he’ll be ok sleeping out in the open like he was. My brother assured him he would be fine. They talked a while longer, and the guy asked if my brother was SURE he would be OK. Again my brother reassured him and told him to get some sleep. Five minutes later, the wolves started howling. He didn’t sleep very easily that night! It is a cool sound though.

Funny. I experienced the patio at Stella’s last Saturday night for the first (and last) time. I could have sworn I heard similar sounds from the roving packs of 20-something boys with popped collars….

On the Hamm’s note:

when I was in high school I was playing piano during offering at church. I was doing a little improv of some hymn. I remember thinking I was pretty cheeky when I wove in the Hamm’s “From the Land of Sky Blue Waters” theme song.

My mom didn’t find it that funny…

Nate = Moose
Frat Boys = Wolves
Stellas = Isle Royale

Wait. Do wolves hunt moose? If so, this story just took a very strange turn.

Nate…just saying that there’s only so much room up there, and eventually the pack of wolves chase off the larger moose. If you had told me that same thing happened @ JetSet, then the analogy may need some reassessment.

“If those Hamm’s commercials had been today, all those nice picnickers would have been hitting each other over the head with canoe paddles and Coleman lanterns and generally brutalizing the woodland creatures (and each other) for a sip of precious, precious Hamm’s. It would end with a pile of bloodied, violated cartoon bodies and some picnicker standing over to of them with a Hamm’s with a voiceover that said “Hamm’s: you just have to have it by any means necessary.”“

Big beer fan, eh?

I just love watching McGovern-era barbequers drinking their beer in harmony with the cartoon critters. That’s what my picnics are like. Localish beer, sky blue waters, bitchin’ pantsuits and animated non-sequiters.

We’re not the only ones who like Sascha….

As you may or may not know, to native americans (at least the sioux and chippewa), different animals have different symbolic meanings.

The wolf is the teacher. Which is why, to answer an old question, I have an animation of a howling wolf on my website. You wasichu learn something new every day, don’t you? heh

Consider me enlightened & edified. To think that all this time I thought it was because you’re always howling and have a hairy back.

It would suck if you were hoping your totem animal was something cool like a wolf or an eagle and you end up with the snail or the ladybug.

I saw the peacock in that list of symbolic animals. Surely some mistake?

What does the Hamm’s Beer Bear represent?

Bear – Gentle Strength, Introspection and Dreaming

That’s Hamm’s all right.

my totem animal is the wise ass.

Me, I’d hope for Coyote if I was of the appropriate culture. He has a sense of humor even though his tricks always backfire. I always assumed it wasn’t coincidence that he got picked as the antagonist in the roadrunner cartoons.

my totem animal is the wise ass.

Or like the democrat party’s is the jackass.