Saturday, February 06, 2010

3 from Planet Green: Seed bombs, Einstein's tailor, and Hepburn's pants

Posted by Mickey Z on 02/06 at 07:25 AM
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  1. It boggles the mind that the US Army uses DU shells openly ... and you can potentially get arrested for seed bombs.

    But that’s the world we live in ... controlled by people so untouchable and crazed that their actions border on the absurd.

    Posted by Andy from Shanghai  on  02/06  at  10:01 AM

  2. There’s no place for parody or satire anymore. It’s now called reality.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/06  at  10:41 AM

  3. Good posts today Mickey. I recall an interview Einstien gave in Princeton at his modest cottage home. When the interviewer, upon seeing his 2 suited closet asked:” how come you only have 2 suits ?” Einstein replied I can only wear one at a time.
    In U.S homes there’s probably enough clothes for everyone on the planet.

    Posted by Bob T. from Archer, FL  on  02/06  at  10:50 AM

  4. Thanks, Bob T. And thanks for all your “likes” on FB, too.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/06  at  11:13 AM

  5. What about kurt cobain’s skirt that he wore in an interview?

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  02/06  at  11:16 AM

  6. Hepburn pre-dated him by about 60 years but I just may do a Cobain post, too.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/06  at  11:18 AM

  7. A song for Saturday ... i like a bit of funk to listen to when i am cleaning the house.. mop mop sweep sweep
    http://bit.ly/anPxLB

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  02/06  at  11:27 AM

  8. Although..there is something strange in the words of the song.

    She sings “reborn again” which just seems a bit odd. This implies she has been reborn before.

    It is like when people say something is “very unique” which doesn’t make sense. Something is unique or it is not. There are no gradations.

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  02/06  at  11:30 AM

  9. As Yogi Berra sez: “It’s like deja vu all over again.”

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/06  at  11:32 AM

  10. he was deep that lad

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  02/06  at  11:45 AM

  11. Not “was,” “is.” He’s gonna be 85 in May.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/06  at  11:48 AM

  12. more of a calvin and hobbes fan myself.

    love this one..
    http://bit.ly/9OGQFZ

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  02/06  at  12:00 PM

  13. Love that one, too.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/06  at  12:02 PM

  14. ok

    clean house. now to clean me and shave off my hair again to annoy my girlfriend’s mother!

    my head, will do what i want with it etc.

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  02/06  at  12:10 PM

  15. What would jesus eat? 

    “Christians are fatter than other Americans.”

    http://is.gd/7P3WG

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  02/06  at  12:21 PM

  16. “Christians are fatter than other Americans.” I like how it is a comparitive ... fattER

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  02/06  at  12:23 PM

  17. Actually, there was a documentary on british TV about morbidly obese people in the US in a special hospital.

    They were all on a special diet and obviously ate that food but the problem was that it is a hospital and obviously not like a prison so after they ate their healthy prescribed diet they all sent out and had pizzas and stuff delivered to the hospital thus exasperating the doctors and defeating the purpose of the whole thing.

    unbelievably… the capthca is “feed”

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  02/06  at  12:30 PM

  18. Maybe Christians get tubby from eating human flesh? Which bit of a human looks like a large white tiddlywink anyway? If a Christian ever tells you you’re “wafer thin”...run!

    Posted by Rick (the Cartoonist) from England  on  02/06  at  12:33 PM

  19. Hi Rick.

    Run, yes. they might eat you!

    i said the haircut is to annoy my girlfriend’s mother but actually i have always done it.

    now i need to do it to hide the grey hairs.

    Not really but i am getting a few now. Is that normal at 32?

    I always liked the joke when people say grey hair is “distinguished”. Does that mean if you have grey pubic hair you have a “distinguished” dick?

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  02/06  at  12:46 PM

  20. Hi all…
    Mickey, I voted.  About fashion - I remember when I was teaching in New Jersey and I was not allowed to wear slacks of any kind ANYWHERE in town - even when not working.  When I went out in the evening, my date would have to quickly get me into the car so that no one would see the local school Marm in jeans. That would have been an unforgivable scandal.  Now, I don’t even own a dress or skirt. Life is much simpler.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  02/06  at  02:38 PM

  21. Hi RMJ and Rick.

    Michael: I had grey hair younger than 32. Shaving my head now is a clever way to disguise it.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/06  at  03:46 PM

  22. Ah, hair ... I remember that smile

    On the fashion thing and thinking about RMJ’s comment ... lit author Geoff Dyer joked in one of his books that Latin America couldn’t find order because it was too hot to wear shirts, ties and suits so no-one knew who was in charge.

    First a laughed at the basic joke, sure.

    Then I thought, well no, ‘order’ is suppressed on purpose, often with thousands of brutal deaths.

    Then I just came back to the idea of uniforms and hierarchies and how entrenched it is. It’s no accident that many social revolutions and movements are accompanied by rejection of certain clothing too. Like Feminism or even the ‘hippys’ of the 60’s and 70’s.

    This extends to Green movements now and vegan clothing.

    Also, I always hear people joke about Hippy’s. But f*ck that. Peace loving and community based - i’ll take hippys over assh*les any day of the week.

    Posted by Andy from Shanghai  on  02/06  at  05:27 PM

  23. Michael, I just turned 30 and have had greys for years. I seem to have inherited my mum’s silver/white hair though, so it looks pretty cool. I look forward to being a Silver Fox, though my hairline might defeat that ambition.

    Re Paine, he’s one of the very few of my compatriots whose names make it into history who I can feel any pride for. Very much of a piece with the levellers, John Lilburne et al.

    Posted by Mew from clophill  on  02/06  at  06:32 PM

  24. I think anyone who sees the state the world is in would have a few grey hairs...by 28 years old. That’s what I’m telling myself. Maybe that’s the one thing I shouldn’t blame Capitalism for.
    Mew, where is clophill? I’m picturing Monty Python’s Holy Grail with coconut shells!

    Posted by Rick (the Cartoonist) from England  on  02/07  at  06:13 AM

  25. Thanks, all.

    Another jam-packed new post is up. See you there.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  02/07  at  08:13 AM

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