Mark D'Arcy

Loyal Son of Notre Dame, Seattle resident, Proud Montanan

[Mark D'Arcy @mark_darcy]

@HouseGOP Sesame Street is brought to you today by the letters F and U.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Notre Dame Alumni @NDAlumni]

Thanks for the memories, Dad. 💙

Happy Father's Day to all the dads and father figures in our Notre Dame family! ☘️

[Mark D'Arcy @mark_darcy]

@Softykjr Thank you, Dave. This is my first one without mine. Headed to the ballpark with the kids but he will be missed.

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@ScottJonesy @ChrisVannini Cool story, bro

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@WhosYourMomo @MattMaasdam It must suck to be in a cult

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You’re the only one with negative headlines, chief.

[MyNorthwest @Mynorthwest]

As Seattle battles negative headlines and a struggling downtown, one local developer isn’t retreating. He’s going all in.

https://t.co/Eirztbnqau

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@AprilLhb @thehoffather It must really suck to be in a cult, Leslie.

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@mentallyillMs

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@KevinHondl91520 @Mynorthwest Your friends are lying to you, Kevin

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@AprilLhb @thehoffather Well, Leslie, maybe try leaving your trailer park in Auburn. You should get out more!

[Mark D'Arcy @mark_darcy]

@jasonrantz That’s all ya got? That’s just sad.

[The Roanoke @Roanokeseattle]

It’s an insanely rough week for the “Seattle is dying” narrative.

Best city on the fucking planet. #206

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@ScottJonesy @ChrisVannini Tell us you have never been to Seattle, without telling us you have never been to Seattle.

On second thought, stay away, it sucks here.

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@TimbersFC That’s funny little bro.

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

The Aussies are doing shoeys at the ballpark.

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@KyleBraun @AlaskaAir is a treasure. When it starts to rain, we head south for the winter. It’s not catfishing. It’s realizing how great it is here.

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@NotHoodlum

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@AlexMit47812339 @deuceohsixx It must suck to be scared of your own shadow.

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@PeteSampson_ Don’t say it, Peter. It’s the thing that shall have no name!