I don't understand and I'm too new in the neighborhood. There are so many interesting critters, possums, and otters I've just getting to figure?
Mystiques.
That's great.
... "open a can of worms" [?].
Open a can of tuna? Amazing.
How did Nature make a tuna?
A tuna fish is perfectly round.
Silly. Tuna swims in a tin can?
Silly. Let tuna free. Eat tin can.
No cage humans, birds, be free.
Leo Da' Vinchi bough caged birds.
He buy a feather foul and let it soar.
He really felt a payment was returned.
Imagine. Save money, let everyone free.
Da`Vinci really felt compensated within.
So, let all jailed inmates free. Close Gitmo.
Maybe we can refer to politicians:`Bad Foe?
Label gibber-politico's:`O Feared foreigner.
Then function up on a bean-hell as a terrier.
Terriers are good Friends who represent Ya.
Politicians are scared of Light, Truth, and Ya,
they shake, and rattle their knees as `Ya baby?
Ya. IMHO. Incredible scared cats. 'Um in a zoo.
Unbelievable. Wrecked Lives. I drive a rust PU.
The pickup truck is a rattle trap. But, it still purrs.
Those cats on Capital Hill, or any EGO power trip?
Gads. I almost weep when I see the chattering teeth.
Why NOT be true? Look into their eyes? Ya cry? Yes.
I'd not worry if a squirrel just chatters music in a tree.
I was watching a grey squirrel yesterday. Oh, and happy.
I don't yet know who plays tic-tack-toe or who to itch yet.
No itch Ya toe at the Open Salon dinner party. A Bad habit.

I forgot why I began to comment. Sorry to have entered into a innocent fever ramble. Vent. This is not a crazy nut house. huh.
A bunch of fallen tree acorn?
A corn on the cob is yummy.
I was gonna mention, Nixon.
You and poor dead Mr. Nixon?
You share thee same birth day?
Trivia.
Jan 11th.
Happy day.
Ya were born.

Hey, squirrel is a regular contributor who writes great stuff and gets tons of readers and has been around for awhile. David Sirota is a good writer who was advertising for his (pre-Salon) column on his posts. The can of worms? Money for an OS writer. Opened by Salon, not I.

I for one would love to see the squirrel as a regular Salon contributor. He is funny and wry and I just love him. More people should have the gift of his talent. I am heading east in April or May and am trying to schedule an extended Chicago layover just to meet him in person.

Great thought, go squirrel (better than moose)!

oh. I loves me some squirrel.

squirrel tastes just like chicken only all dark meat

Well, only if they simulcast his stuff here. But yeah, definitely, he needs some remuneration.

I love that man. Period.

I love that man. Period.

i feel guilty rating and commenting, but then again ... how could i not.

pay the squirrel!
pay the squirrel!
pay the squirrel!

(norma rae moment holding up a sign on the virtual lunchtable)

oh. wait. i meant to say this before: i am in no way bribing chris to post this. nor am i putting him up to it. he's just really good at recognizing genius. that's all.

I agree!
It's time to take the best of us Salon StepChildren and pull him into the ranks of the Official Paid BigSalon Writers.
It won't happen to me because I make up words and flagrantly Propertize Nouns.

Vive la Squirrel!

(thumbified for rampant squirrelification)

squirrel if they don't pay you there is a book in your work -- honest. Try compiling say your 20 best and sending them to a publisher. There has to be someone on here who knows how to do this right -- perhaps Bob.

You do have genius.

The Squirrel always has my vote for more money and readership. I always assumed, however, that Sirota was doing a simulcast thing on OS and Salon because he'd established himself as a talking head beforehand. I didn't think he got his start on OS? Did he?
Also Sirota's the kind of writer who most readers can access immediately. He writes for an audience, not a community. The Squirrell is more of a cultivated taste. Some people get him right away. Others take longer. But I'm sure if Salon gave him a regular column it would be a huge draw to OS over time.

My husband and I were saying this just the other day as I was reading one of squirrel's posts out loud. It's time for him to stop being "that guy who gets the editor's pick every time" and become a staff writer.

I heard the squirrel gets paid in buckets o'nuts.

(If the editors haven't figured it out by now, I would pay extry for a regular dose of the squirrel, Freaky Troll, and Monsieur Chariot.) (Just not all at the same time, because, well, you know that wouldn't be pretty.)

No doubt about it - the squirrel is something everyone should experience!

Juliet--No, Sirota didn't get his start on OS, but he was posting on here before he was on Salon, and then wound up over on Salon. My point was not that he got his start here, but that his work appeared here before it wound up on Salon.

Everyone else, I knew you'd agree.

And, as for you Squirrel, you're just an example, buddy. So don't get too full of yourself.

I didn't know the rest of you weren't being paid...I have to go the bank now...

I'm on a commenting hiatus...but had to chime in here. One of my personal goals in life is to see The Squirrel published and on Oprah. Salon would be lucky to have him.

Mary, I'm glad you broke your hiatus for this.