Man — definitely another bear/not bear day. For example, less than 5 minutes from after this shit (I mean, COME ON!) CheerUupCompetitor sends us this amazing Manshake synopsis and reminds us of what’s really important. Pleeez enjoy thoreauly:

"What are you doing out there?" asked Henry David Thoreau, to which the most enriching answer of which I am privileged to divulge to whom it may connote (by which I mean those for whom the manly virtues by which a man may be measured are, relative to which, underappreciated): the answerers of whom I speak are a devoutly paternalistic splinter sect of the Shakers, the Manshakers, who cultivated the most supreme synergy between two seemingly-countervailing virtues — masculinity and maternalism.  This video recreates the Manshakers’  greatest challenge: to breed some sensitivity into the seemingly-intractable Bavarian Cnidarian Boy, a child who spent the first 28 tragic  years of his life raised by Sea Pansies, and who as a result of which had developed numerous craniofacial inversions and a debilitating addiction to equinatoxin.  The Manshakers use their most sensitive sensitivity-training techniques:

1) If you must shoot the bird, do so with one arm slung to your torso.  Afterwards, draw its corpse.  IN PENCIL!
2) Don’t paint the painting.  Don’t look at the painting.  You must feel the painting.  With your face!  All the important feelings are in the lil man face!
3) WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF!  Grrrrrrrrr
4) Mr. Holland’s Opus glasses make you look and feel sensitive. 
5) Hugs

Hugs right back, Matt!
L +W

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