A Glibertarians Exclusive:Â Mog-ee, Part IV
Early spring
The days were growing longer, but heavy late-winter snows had sealed the pass to the valley where Wolf’s people had their winter camp. For three moons, he had been stranded with the Diggers.
Now the snow was melting. Grasses were starting to sprout around the edges of the muddy, damp settlement. Some days still brought snow. Every day Wolf looked up at the pass to the valley where the People were camped, every day he saw the deep drifts still blocking passage, and every day he grew a little more disconcerted.
Wolf had cohabitated with Mog-ee in her hut long enough now that, despite the frequent and passionate sessions in the bedding, he was beginning to find some of her habits and expressions annoying.
One dreary morning, with pellets of snow spitting from a leaden sky, Wolf went outside to moon once more over the pass. Mog-ee followed, and immediately gave voice to another thing Wolf was growing tired of.
“Wol-ef,” she began.
Wolf cut her off by raising a hand. “Wolf,” he said. “Like the animal. Wolf.”
“Among our people you would be Wol-ef,” Mog-ee complained. “It doesn’t seem right to pronounce it your way.”
Is there nothing of myself she will leave alone? Wolf wondered, but Mog-ee wasn’t finished.
“If my father agrees for us to be joined and says the words over us, I will be Mog-ef. I will be yours and take your name.”
“What?” Wolf tore his eyes away from the ridge and looked at the Digger girl. “You’d change your name? And what words? Why would your father have words to say?”
“Our people take mates for life,” Mog-ee explained. “When we die, our fields then go to our children.”
“What do saying words have to do with it?”
“When a couple joins, the girl’s father asks the gods to bless the union. The couple promises to stay together always. They are bound, by the customs of our people.”
Wolf considered that. Among the People, a man and a woman – or sometimes a man and two women, or two men and one woman, or other, more complicated arrangements – would simply decide to live together, and then do so. When they decided to go their separate ways, then they did that.
While Wolf was pondering this new information, Mog-ee’s mother, Ord-ee, emerged from the large hut she and Mog-ee’s father shared. Looking at her, her squat form, her perpetually dirty hands, and the condescending sneer she always seemed to wear, it seemed impossible that Yeeteep-ee would have chosen to live joined to her.
But then, in Wolf’s estimation, Mog-ee’s father was no prize, either.
The morning’s surprises weren’t over yet. Ord-ee stepped quickly over to Wolf and, reaching up, scattered wood ashes over his head. Wolf sneezed twice, then demanded, “Why did you do that?” He bent and started brushing the ashes from his long black hair.
“It is good luck,” Ord-ee sniggered. “I heard the two of you talking. Yeeteep-ee would say the words over you both. Today if you like. We can always use another strong hand in the fields.”
“No,” Wolf snapped.
Mog-ee looked disappointed. But Ord-ee wasn’t done yet.
“Why do you keep your weapons still?” she asked Wolf.
“Why would I not? Even if I were to stay here among you Diggers, I would still wish to hunt. I don’t want to just eat seeds and leaves.” He had carefully maintained his weapons, even after months of not using them; he had his two spear shafts of smooth, polished yew, several of the detachable, needle-sharp points of reindeer antler that tipped the spears, and his long wooden spear-thrower. All were ready for use – should Wolf find himself in the position to use them.
“I’m told it makes some of our people nervous. They are afraid of you having weapons. We have no weapons here,” she indicated the settlement with a sweep of her arm, “no tools except those we use in raising crops.”
“If they are nervous, that is not my fault,” Wolf said, frowning at the old woman. “My spears and such are for hunting game, not people. I will keep my weapons, and if they should disappear when I’m not looking, be sure I’ll know where to come looking for them.”
“As you wish.” Ord-ee walked off.
“Will you come back inside?” Mog-ee asked, an invitation in her eyes.
“No,” Wolf said, surprising even himself – slightly. “I will walk up the ridge. I want to see how long it will be before the pass opens.” He went back into the hut, retrieved his heavy winter jacket, his spears and thrower. “I will be back before sunset,” he told Mog-ee. Unless I find I can get through the pass, he told himself. Then… I may not be back.
The better part of the morning was spent climbing the approaches to the ridge, but when he reached the steep ground leading up to the pass, Wolf found himself defeated by the deep drifts. Stopping to rest for a moment, he saw a small herd of reindeer far below, less than a half-day’s walk downstream from the Digger settlement. My day would have been better spent reindeer hunting, he realized.
After slowly descending the ridge, Wolf walked downstream, but the reindeer were gone. Frustrated, tired and unhappy, her reversed his steps and returned to the Digger settlement, arriving as night was falling. But when he arrived at Mog-ee’s hut, he found her outside, looking at the bigger hut where her parents slept.
“What have they done?” Wolf asked the Digger girl. “Why have they piled rocks around their hut? And why is Gutak-fu standing in front of their door?”
“Mother spent most of the morning arguing with Father,” Mog-ee explained. “She told him you and your weapons frightened her. So, Father had the villagers help him pile rocks around, and tasked Gutak-fu to guard their door.”
“That’s ridiculous,” Wolf said. “Gutak-fu,” he told the scrawny, short Digger, “go home. Nobody has anything to fear from me.”
“Yeeteep-ee has tasked me to stand guard here. I cannot leave until he says.”
“Some old man tells you what to do, and you just do it? Have you no will of your own?”
“He is the Rain-Bringer,” Gutak-fu said, as if that explained everything.
Wolf shook his head. The ways of the Diggers were strange beyond imagining.
“Come inside, Wol-ef,” Mog-ee said at last. “I have our evening meal ready.”
Wolf followed the Digger girl into her hut. They had scarcely finished their unappetizing meal of stewed seeds and leaves before Mog-ee grabbed Wolf’s hand and pulled him into the bedding.
When Wolf emerged from the hut the next morning, having slept not at all, he felt as though he had been in a prolonged fight with a cave lion. Bitten, scratched, and thoroughly sexually spent, he looked up once more at the ridge. Behind him, he could hear Mog-ee stirring. Around him, the Diggers were emerging, preparing for their morning song, in which Wolf still refused to participate.
I’m not sure how much more of this I can take.
***
I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more
I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more
Well, she puts her cigar out in my face just for kicks
Her bedroom window is made out of bricks
The National Guard stands around her door
I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more
It’s coming along nicely.
Great job making the story work with the lyrics.
Great series, Animal.
+1
Wolf had cohabitated with Mog-ee in her hut long enough now that, despite the frequent and passionate sessions in the bedding, he was beginning to find some of her habits and expressions annoying.
Lol. Welcome to the party, pal!
Good stuff, Animal. Thanks!
Amazing how that works, isn’t it?
I’m just glad nothing I do annoys my wife.
True story: Only this morning, Mrs. Animal approached me about what to prepare for supper. She had set a big pack of pork spareribs in the fridge to thaw overnight, and she had those in her hand. This is how the conversation went:
Mrs Animal: “Would you like to have these ribs for supper tonight,” she said, “or would you rather I get out some chicken?”
Me: (Tapping the ribs) “I’d rather put in the pork.” (Winks)
Mrs. Animal: “You asshole.”
Maybe it annoys here. Maybe it doesn’t. But sometimes I just can’t help myself.
Agreed, our wives have it easy.
Funny, my wife spent most of this weekend telling me how easy I had it.
ha.
And this is why there are no libertarian women. [feral grin]
Legends of the 15 year marriage of Hayeksplosives:
About 10 years ago or more I said to the husband, “You do realize that you are a complete asshole.”
He immediately responded “No, I am an incomplete asshole. That’s why, darling, you complete me.”
All was forgiven.
Dawwww, that’s kinda sweet.
It worked for me. Pretty sure some make-up sex ensued.
??
My husband spoils me.
Two mutual friends told my wife that she was lucky to have caught me. OTOH she has to put up with me.
I can send you some Japanese phrases that you can innocently ask her if you like.
There’s nothing innocent about random internet phrasology.
I do just fine annoying her in English.
I always ask her if she is new here when she acts surprised at something I am doing.
“Yes, I have anterograde Amnesia. Who are you again?”
That would be great, I could start over with all the things I used to annoy her with when we were dating.
On second thought, she would murder me in my sleep in a week.
“I’m sorry, have we not met?” is my version of that.
This is great. I can’t wait to see how it all comes to a head next week.
It could become quite a hairy entanglement
They want common sense spear control?
No one needs an atlatl.
Well, to be fair, an atlatl is sort of a shoulder thing that goes up.
You mean… an arm?
I thought it was a lever. Or was it just a stick?
Yes.
Spears are dangerous.
Nobody has ever been hurt with a digging tool.
-1 Krieger
+1 Oliver Harmon “Spearchucker” Jones
ITBSes (Inter-Tribal Ballistic Spears).
2022: The year of the convoy.
They should expand the protest to include the price of gas. I mean, it’s not like they’re going to be able to afford to leave DC until the price comes down.
This seems oddly timed.
What are the existing mandates that still need removal? I am unaware.
CMS vaccine mandate still stands.
Masks still required on public transit.
Testing requirements to enter the country is I think still in effect.
Vaccination requirement for non-citizens to enter the country.
Might be one or two more.
And those are just Federal.
The first two would be nice to get rid of.
Vaccine mandate for federal contractors is still going through the court systems.
Can confirm testing was required for us to return from Mexico just last week.
The doctor (? he was wearing a whit lab coat) at the resort was very careful to collect as little genetic material as possible. He only swabbed one nostril and he was very careful to make minimal contact with the nose. No one involved wants those tests to come back positive.
No one looked at the link, did they?
I saw ‘twitter’ and passed on by.
As always, Animal, a great story. I should have listened to Wolf’s advice on my first trip around the block. Seems like a level headed kid, except for that one thing that keeps him at the Diggers.
That one thing is the number one seller of mini-vans.
The regulations that killed the station wagon?
Lol.
To be fair, it sold those station wagons as well.
OT – The first good news in this background check fiasco that’s been holding up my promotion – we have positive confirmation that the state police have the paperwork. Whether they’re going to actually get the processing done is another matter. But it does mean none of this delay is my fault (yay?). Rumor has it they’re backlogged in the office that handles these, and the sudden push to have all the folks already employed go through the process hasn’t helped throughput any.
That’s reasonable news. At least it isn’t on your end.
I realized that if this isn’t resolved by April 1, I will lose $3000 due to slipping onto the next schedule for advancement to job rate. State employees start at one pay rate and yearly move towards the job rate either on April 1 or Oct 1, whichever is next after their anniversary date. A six month delay per advance adds up to $3k by the time I hit job rate. I don’t make so much that I can afford to ignore $1k/yr for three years.
I foresee problems between Wolf and his future mother-in-law.
Unless he started thinking with another head.
Though I still think he’s going to figure out animal husbandry – that herd of reindeer.
“I foresee problems between Wolf and his future mother-in-law.”
“What you should do, Wolf, is…” Words never said by a mother-in-law
By the way, ladies, I realize you have a mother-in-law, too
You’re probably thinking that you’re gonna change me
In some ways well, maybe you might
Scrub me down, dress me up
Ah but no matter what
Remember I’m still a guy
I’m sick of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
I’m a man. Spell M-A-N
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaC5ZKRjLUM
Wer
A better (IMHO) version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcAmwCnAChk
Simple Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMmTkKz60W8
My goal (far from achieved).
Your Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HgS_gGfhZM
The Man Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4vLZJhNEk
*wistfully remembers when morning radio shows were funny*
Man-y Man. Spelled tiddies.
OT: I heard from Reopen NH sources that the ivermectin bill received a recommendation of Ought to Pass with Amendment. I don’t know what the amendment is. The bill status page hasn’t been updated. The Reopen NH folks that passed this information on to me sounded happy, so I assume this is good news.
OT: Florida…Child? Florida teacher beaten and hospitalized after attack by 5-year-old student, police say
Age not a typo.
Did the beating also happen after the attack, or did this crazed badger student achieve the hospitalization.
Also, given some five-year-olds I’ve seen, a small and/or frail adult could be at risk if they’re on an all-out offensive.
Apparently the 5-year-old achieved the teacher’s hospitalization, but very few “journalists” actually know how to write these days.
I’m just gonna go ahead and say without evidence that this is what happens when you dehumanize kids by covering their faces and adults’ faces for two of their most formative years.
They don’t understand expressions, they don’t see another Individual as a person. They are feral.
Brace yourself for more.
Children are feral; they need to be civilized through socialization and development. And we already know the lockdowns and masks have interfered with that process.
“ Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.”
—Thomas Sowell
And the “social distancing”. And the training humans to fear each other.
Good (bad) points on the stoking of fear and distance.
Not to mention that striking or subduing a 5-year-old in any way is going to land you in legal problems.
I don’t understand, little Damien is usually so well behaved. -The Parents
Is Klaus Schwab the Most Dangerous Man in the World?
Man, that shit is scary. I’ve been sending it discreetly to a few friends.
They aren’t even covering it up anymore.
I have been sharing all this shit with my kids. I figure they deserve a head-start on identifying the true enemies and start planning accordingly.
I wish I would have started paying attention a lot earlier. I feel like I’ve done them a giant disservice.
This shit is also why the left hates the second amendment and wants to disarm you. They don’t need the peasants fighting back against the reset.
Terrific video. That footage from Klaus’ MiniMe was amazing.
True Believers are way scarier than greedy corporatists.
Probably the smart move.
US trucker convoy leader @brianbrase84: “I am fearful of them trying to do to us what they did to those involved in Jan 6. It is our belief that they WILL try to do that….that means at this time, meaning today, tomorrow, we are not and will not go into DC proper.”
Doesn’t matter, just participating in a demonstration against the establishment is insurrection.
I hope this administration says exactly that.
Well, I gave in to the husband’s griping about getting into and out of the Tesla Model 3. On Wednesday I’m taking delivery of a new Model Y, kind of the taller hatchback version. It’s AWD to make it safer for the mountain passes when it snows.
I confess I’m a bit excited to pick her up. I haven’t decided what to do with the model 3. It’s in excellent shape, and they apparently sell for 40k or more just due to demand, so I might go that way. Or we might sell out ICE car and go pure electric, but that scares me a little. I like options.
With the energy situation, it probably makes sense to spread the risk.
Oh, and consider getting some snow tires for that mountain pass driving. The tires they put on new cars are absolute garbage for bad weather.
I’m a Michelin gal.
Because so much is riding on your tires = true.
Now is the time to drink.
Winter tires are a good idea for snow and ice.
I use Nokian Hakkapellitta tires for winter on my daily driver. They’re expensive but worth it.
Is he the new Goalie for Finland?
Sorry I can’t hear you over the drone.
What would you do with the money if you sold the vehicle? Savings account are worthless. The stock market is volatile. Are you better off owning something of value or holding on to cash?
I’ll just leave this here.
Or this. SSD has a head start on us all.
Why not both?
Let’s just say we can’t have guns in the house at this time.
Oh my.
*fans face with fluttering hand*
That’s a really good deal, if you want to get into the wonderful money pit that is NFA Title 2 weapons.
Right?? That’s why I cashed out of one of my investment accounts last fall and bought a house.
I have no faith that even IRAs and 401k accounts will be safe from the vultures. Exchanging our fiat currency for real land and material seems like a good thing.
I feel like getting a 1967 Chevy truck might be wise for the apocalypse.
Dammit, I’m reading every one of your comments in Pam Poovey’s voice!
Holy shit snacks!
I thought it was just me.
HA!!
~snort~
I do deploy the shitsnacks comment from time to time. I also have seriously contemplated getting THAT tattoo all over my back. But it got it reproduced on a t-shirt instead.
Southbound and down!
Awwww, shit-snacks!
Me too, and it’s a glorious day brightener!
It really is!
Here you go!
I will stop but I will not apologize.
Several years ago I was Pam for Halloween. I had a peach blouse custom made and I made the fake Pearl brooch and necklace, got blonde and did my hair in the French twist up-do.
Only a few people at work knew what it was about but they fell out laughing and never looked at me the same again.
Does your compound have a name yet?
Don’t forget to send directions before everything comes crashing down 🙂
kinnath’s current score card: Houses (2); Vehicles (4); gold and sliver (some, but not enough).
Yeah, I knew I had lost faith in our present civilization when I bought gold last year.
Fortunately I’ll probably die before the shit hits the fan, but I have step-grandkids!!! I want there to be a good future for them.
I knew I had lost faith in our present civilization . . . . .
That was when I bought the M1A and scope. Gold and silver came after that.
Weirdly, after the Big Dump of ’08, I also bought an M1A, and gold and silver.
I still need to get a new scope for that thing. At least I bought a decent pile of ammo for it.
In the big dump of 08, my gross income dropped 20%. It was about surviving at that point. But I did learn my lesson.
The $2k acceleration boost I bought for my AWD Model 3 was the best dumb money I’ve ever spent. My whole family hates it when I mash the gas.
It’s available for the Model 3
https://driveteslacanada.ca/model-y/is-the-tesla-model-y-acceleration-boost-worth-it/
I got the completely pumped out Performance Y with all the trimmings. Can hardly wait!!
“PIMPED” out!
Geez, autocorrect. Try to keep up!
Please tell me no half baked FSD…
And the Performance model comes with summer performance tires. Anything below 40F and they will turn into slippery rocks. We all love you here so be sure to get set of winter tires!
Have already ordered them, since the supply chain is so fucked up these days you have to be a bit proactive on the planning.
Spring Mountain (the pass between Pahrump and Vegas) is not really all that treacherous. It’s the highest point of the drive but it is very well maintained. Nice to have the extra security though.
How do you mash the gas on a Tesla, anyway?
It’s a fart joke.
My whole family hates it when I mash the gas.
Ah. Got it.
The throttle pedal commands the two motors if you want to be that way about it.
(It’s FOMCO drive by wire piece BTW.)
Seems legit.
Pete Buttigieg wants people to simply buy an electric car so they don’t have to worry about rising gas prices.
Because America has an electric grid capable of handling the load of every IC car being replaced with electrics. Fucking idiot.
And electricity rates never go up.
And China will shortly control most of the goodies needed for producing the batteries (and chips, displays, etc).
Fools.
Fucking Afghanistan is one of the best places to mine lithium on the planet.
Did we go in there, crack our knuckles, kick their asses so they’d know who’s boss? Take their lithium as our well-deserved war prize?
Oh, no—we had to win their Hearts and Minds. Share the joy of democracy etc.
Goat fuckers.
Let’s see:
1. Torpedo domestic energy production
2. Drive Russia, China and India into an alliance.
3. ????
4. Profit!
When does that fucking meteor get here?
The metaphoric one is closer than it appears.
Revelation 9:1
And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
Alternatively: Revelation 8:8
The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.
Someone’s getting the shaft, that’s for sure.
Well, we already have the price increases.
Revelation 6:6, NIV: Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, ‘Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!’
There is something more chilling in the verse you posted, Dr Fronk, that I’ve never noticed before the economy became weaponized.
The secretary of energy said the same thing awhile back.
Their sneering disdain for people that actually work is nauseating.
LOL if that’s what he actually said then I just can’t even.
It’s no secret this is exactly what they want. High prices to push people into getting electric cars. And then they can feel all smug while they ignore where those batteries and the electricity come from.
The same way we ignore the environmental costs of manufacturing solar in China.
Personal favorite:
Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills
Good one. Here’s one of mine:
Abandoned Dreams of Wind and Light
Note that it was from 2014.
History is important.
Even in the 90s when I was in college and decided to specialize in electric power people sneered and said “There’s nothing new to be done in power” and “it’s just two holes in the wall!”
Idiots. Power is the only realm of electrical engineering where the fundamental principles of electromagnetic fields and RF and waveguides come in. It’s the best!! Enough current to bend and explode metal.
Two holes in the wall, my arse.
Energy is the most important thing in the world. Cheap energy enables all other advances and changes the trajectory of entire countries.
Or push people into walking in their assigned labor camps.
Midday negativity killer.
Aww. That’s good stuff.
Idiots. Now the Ruskies will have more time for war.
Netflix has reportedly shut down its streaming service in Russia following the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The company seems to have no similar problem with China’s ongoing genocide of the Uyghurs and other horrors.
Reuters reports that megapopular streaming platform Netflix has suspended its service in Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Netflix temporarily stopped all future projects and acquisitions in Russia last week.
That”ll show them!
Make them watch the Meghan and Harry show. They will surrender within minutes.
Or the Obama Channel or whatever that initiative was called.
Are they removing Russian content from the rest of the world next?
I noes, no more “Cuties.”
Russian preverts hardest hit.
I thought SNL was supposed to be comedy.
For the “SNL” cold open this weekend, actors played out a faux telethon hosted at Trump’s Florida-based Mar-a-Lago club resort. The “Ukrainian Invasion Celebration Spectacular,” was headlined by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson (played by Alex Moffat) and Laura Ingraham (Kate McKinnon).
“I’m Tucker Carlson, and I’m like if a pair of boat shoes came to life,” Alex Moffat’s Carlson began the skit, which aired March 5.
“I’m Laura Ingraham. When I watch Harry Potter, I root for Voldemort,” Kate McKinnon’s version of Ingraham said.
“We got into a weird little bit of trouble for all the nice things we said about Russia and the mean things we said about Ukraine,” Moffat continued.
The dude playing Trump is ripping off the impression of that guy that does Trump voice/mannerisms inserting them in to random, hilarious scenarios.
And the clapping seals who watch that stuff and have never seen Faux News in their life eat it up.
Is Chris Farley still on there? Now that guy is funny!
The dude playing Trump is ripping off the impression of that guy that does Trump voice/mannerisms inserting them in to random, hilarious scenarios.
It’s the same guy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Austin_Johnson
This should make some people’s head explode.
Florida to recommend against Covid-19 vaccine for healthy children
TW – CNN
Germany Says It Won’t Stop Buying Russian Energy Despite Moscow’s War in Ukraine
Oil is a global commodity so this is good for the US as well, This means if Sleepy Joe decides to make a statement and not buy Russian oil this means there will be less demand on non-Russian sources.
It also shows just how lost Germany is on its energy policies as well.
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-sells-alaska-back-to-russia-so-we-can-start-drilling-for-oil-there-again