Tuesday, October 27, 2009

A simple "thank you" will do

Posted by Mickey Z on 10/27 at 08:17 AM
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  1. Hi all.

    Sorry mickey, don’t have time to read the article now. Will do it as soon as.

    Thank you for defending me from aliens.

    in relation to previous post thing about the bear.. http://bit.ly/Bjkl6 Keir.. i agree with the Jensen point entirely. the thing for me is that I object to the idea of animals as our cuddly friends as much as i object to the ideas that they are evil and/or malignant or that they are here for the sake of mankind.

    All of those ideas are part of the same banal and stupid disney mentality that currently prevails. I think the solution (and at a bet I think most people here would agree with me) would be to leave these things in peace.

    People should not be surprised if when they have a bear running around inside (or a tiger..do a search on Siegfried and Roy) they suddenly have a pissed off bear or tiger running around.

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  10/27  at  08:33 AM

  2. Phew ... thanks Mickey.

    Posted by Andy from shanghai  on  10/27  at  11:51 AM

  3. Bollocks to intelligent life Out There. Finding some down here would do nicely. That said, a close friend’s bolted-down rational cousin recently had a close encounter up in the Cascades while driving. Three weeks after, when my friend spoke to him, he was still visibly shaken. Like Bill Hicks, I’m very much in favor of UFOs...coming to pick me up. So go easy on them, MZ.

    I’m with michael on anthropomorphizing nature. Nature is what it is, nothing more or less; sometimes you have a nest of goldfinches out back and other times your house gets eaten by termites.

    Birds ‘n’ Pesticides: my friend Kathy at http://www.placeforwildbirds.org said that pelletized lawn treatments are a major problem for birds - sickens or kills them. The photos on her site are neat.

    Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW  on  10/27  at  12:42 PM

  4. Hi Zenprole.

    And Mickey, I read and voted for the article. It was great and really informative and practical. Nice one.

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  10/27  at  12:44 PM

  5. Mick’s joke made me think about how we are obsessed with making and watching movies about aliens coming to our planet and doing to us what we have done to every other living thing on Earth.

    subconscious guilt perhaps?  or every bully’s worst nightmare?

    Posted by JOS from Chicago  on  10/27  at  01:03 PM

  6. My Dad once recorded on his dictaphone his close enclounter. He was on the motorway and a big beam of light was shining down. He was all melodramatic as he described the sight! It turned out to be a lost airship shining its torch on road signs, apparently lots of people thought it was aliens.

    Posted by Rick (the Cartoonist) from England  on  10/27  at  01:16 PM

  7. You guys don’t seem to understand. I saved you from a real alien terrorist freedom-hating evildoer. So please keep taking off your shoes as you go through airport security.

    Even captcha sez “indeed.”

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  10/27  at  01:20 PM

  8. Mickey, it can’t have been a real alien terrorist freedom-hating evildoer, our invasion isn’t due until next Tuesday.

    Next Tuesday at 19:00, wear clean underwear.

    Posted by Rick (the Cartoonist) from England  on  10/27  at  02:03 PM

  9. Advance scout?

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  10/27  at  02:07 PM

  10. Recent annoyances ... mainstream writers and thinkers getting misty eyed about the fall of the Berlin Wall and what a tragedy the whole situation was…

    ... in between frantically churning out hundreds of pieces propping up the nation states/borders system.

    Mainstream liberal logic of the day: a close bordered nation-state creates freedoms.

    Posted by Andy from shanghai  on  10/27  at  02:39 PM

  11. Mickey’s come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and he’s all out of bubblegum.

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  10/27  at  02:44 PM

  12. Organic bubblegum.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  10/27  at  02:48 PM

  13. I chewed blue-tac as a kid a few times, and ate paper sometimes too. I wasn’t the Ralph Wiggum of the class, honest, I’ve always been more of a Lisa. Is blue-tac veggie?

    Posted by Rick (the Cartoonist) from England  on  10/27  at  03:12 PM

  14. Some gums contain milk protein. Lisa Simpson would not approve.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  10/27  at  03:14 PM

  15. I might have been clearer. UFO’s are in the same class as sightings of non-corporate Democrats. People make claims and occasionally one might be true, but I’m not holding my breath.

    OK, now the big stick: http://tinyurl.com/ygurmjh

    Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW  on  10/27  at  03:22 PM

  16. I join Michael:  thanks for defending me from aliens, Mickey aka Cool Observer.  I must say that I visit your site almost every day whereas my visits to Facebook are few and far between.

    And hello, Andy, Zen Prole, JOS, Rich (the Cartoonist) and Charles from Daylesford where things are warming up: around 75F today and 86F on the day after tomorrow.  The beginning of the fire season 2009/10 is only a few weeks away, so keep your fingers crossed that the fires are not going to threaten Daylesford - they did last summer!

    If you want to read the transcript of what Noam Chomsky told an audience at the Commonwealth Club, SF, you can go here:
    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2009/2719769.htm#transcript

    All best for all of you,
    Helga

    Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia  on  10/27  at  03:58 PM

  17. That was a great video, Zen.  I miss Carlin.

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  10/27  at  05:46 PM

  18. Hi Helga

    Hope everything is well.

    Posted by Andy from shanghai  on  10/28  at  12:55 AM

  19. Hello Expendables...from rainy Astoria.

    A new and musical post is now up.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  10/28  at  04:15 AM

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