Thursday, June 01, 2006

"I am human" (and tons more unrelated crap)

Posted by Mickey Z on 06/01 at 05:33 AM

  1. I’ve always loved that sisyphus graphic, but maybe it’s not the most inspirational one for Writing month…

    It’s okay. Back to it now, along with all this pesky job searching…

    Posted by James from Hell's Kitchen  on  06/01  at  06:15 AM

  2. “Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth.  I believe ... that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.”
    --Joseph Brodsky, writer (1940-1996)

    I respectfully disagree with Mr. Brodsky.  Reading Dickens is a fine emetic, and in quantity a psychotropic drug capable of inducing berserker rage-states.  Neither are non-violent responses, but “creativity saves lives” is so short I felt it was inadequate to kick off International Expendable Writing Month.

    CatLady, I missed something...why are you job-hunting again?  I thought a soulless conglomerate bought you from Satan.  ‘Splain me, please?

    Haven’t gone link-surfing yet, and am working on a client’s book idea now, so it might be a while....

    That’s my “story” and I’m stickin’ to it.

    Posted by Mudge from Austin, Texas  on  06/01  at  08:09 AM

  3. If I were to recount the perpetual cycle of soulless conglomerates who are renting my proofreading and word processing ‘skills’, that tale would take longer to tell than whatever novel I’m ostensibly working on… I’m foggy this morning even for me-- did you mean that you’re a fan of Dickens or not? That wasn’t that point, I know…

    Posted by James from Hell's Kitchen  on  06/01  at  08:27 AM

  4. I loathe Dickens.  Mr. Dickens and Mr. Hemingway share a circle of Hell reserved for Those of Enormous Ego and Very Little Substance Whose Remarks Do Not Constitute Literature.

    Also inhabiting said locus: Miss Gertrude Stein and Miss Henry James.

    Posted by Mudge from Austin, Texas  on  06/01  at  08:39 AM

  5. Oh Bravo Mudge-- I can recall for some reason enjoying the short stories Turn of the Screw and Beast in the Jungle once upon a time, but I can’t understand what masochism drives people to read his novels. So from quotationspage.com:
    Faulkner:
    Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

    Oscar Wilde: 
    Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

    Mrs Henry Adams:
    Henry James chews more than he bites off.

    The only thing more depressing than Henry James might be that Al Gore article. Maybe if he grew his beard back he’d stand a chance of respectability.

    Posted by James from Hell's Kitchen  on  06/01  at  08:54 AM

  6. Why did I just know I’d find Cat Lady and Mudge cavorting together here again? Look, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn have admitted they’re a couple...what are you two waiting for?

    Btw, someone has named Cool Observer their “site of the month.” See the main post for more.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  06/01  at  09:24 AM

  7. MZ, that’s sooo great about Trumpet America!!

    CatLady’s cats and my dogs in his apartment...not to mention the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Proclivities...I think CatLady’d have a conniption.  He still thinks he’s straight, the dear little thing.

    Oh!  James!  You’re still here!  Uhhh, of course I believe you’re completely hetero, of course!!

    >ducks lightning bolt heaved by irritated Thor, sensing lie<

    >weaves away from computer heaved from Hell’s Clinton<

    Posted by Mudge from Austin, Texas  on  06/01  at  12:17 PM

  8. “Hell’s Clinton”

    That’s great Mudge…

    I just saw State of Grace last night on TV...excellent movie.

    Posted by JOS from Chicago  on  06/01  at  01:24 PM

  9. Congratulations on being named by ‘Trumpet America’, Mickey!  And so well-deserved, too.

    And I could not agree more re your literary choices, Mudge, especially when it comes to Hemingway and Gertrude Stein.  Have never read anything by Henry James but hugely enjoyed reading Colm Toibin’s ‘The Master’.  What do you think of Edmund White’s outpourings btw? 

    A very warm welcome to James and JOS - I hope we can meet you in Hell’s Kitchen one day, James.

    Auf Wiederemailen ..

    Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia  on  06/01  at  02:16 PM

  10. Hello JOS and Helga…

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  06/01  at  03:18 PM

  11. Hi to Mudge, James, Helga et al.

    Lots-o-links today MZ… but where in the HELL is The Cool Observer Teflon-Free Frying Pan For Vegans? That would be great. I’m serious. In fact, I’d hang it from a hook on the kitchen wall, right next to the Jesus one…

    Oh, and what are we Expendables supposed to write this month? haiku? lyrics? novels? checks to the Cool Observer? short stories? computer programs? letters to mom? What?

    captcha = speak (!)

    Posted by RT from Houstonium Dioxide  on  06/01  at  04:41 PM

  12. Did someone say “checks to the Cool Observer”?

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  06/01  at  05:04 PM

  13. Yeah. Check. Right! And I also mumbled something about a “Cool Observer Teflon-Free Frying Pan For Vegans”... (j/k)

    Anyway, please don’t take any of the comments above the wrong way - it’s just that I’m in a really good mood today (and perhaps a bit playful and obnoxious)... But I finally got another steady gig (weekdays) after a 3 month span of marginal employment (sic), which means I can afford to stay in this dump after all (raaahhhh!!! and the crowd goes wild!).

    Lucky me.

    But when I get back on my feet again, 50AR is already on my shopping list… and I’d be more than glad to toss some coins your way as well, MZ. Plus, you have an album to buy, don’t forget. (FYI: the project was dumped, but is now back on the table. Release should be ready sometime in the Fall).

    Posted by RT from Not Under A Bridge  on  06/01  at  05:42 PM

  14. Glad to hear you caught a break, RT. I was just funning with you anyway.

    I like your teflon-free idea. Talk about jumping from the frying pan into the Lake o’ Fire…

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  06/01  at  06:03 PM

  15. Thanks MZ, but please stick to today’s topics (and not the pan)...

    Posted by RT from The Buyou City  on  06/01  at  06:17 PM

  16. OK, maybe this shouldn’t be just a flash in the pan. Anyone else remember this?

    Government Moves to Curb Use of Chemical in Teflon:
    Chemical Linked to Cancer, Organ Damage in Lab Animals (ABC News): http://tinyurl.com/p2vc8

    “never mind what’s been sellin’, it’s what you’re buyin’, and receiving undefiled.”
    Blueprint by Fugazi

    Posted by RT from The Buyou City  on  06/01  at  06:49 PM

  17. I guess that Teflon thing didn’t pan out.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  06/01  at  07:00 PM

  18. Mudge, my cats happened to grow up with dogs, so as long as you pay your rent on time, we should be fine. But don’t be silly-- everyone knows there’s not gay people in my part of the city, right?

    Speaking of the city, anyone here knows why it’s a real pain that I just rode home from BBB with my new fan finally. Got absolutely drenched on the way back in this thunderstorm… Mudge, stop picturing that!

    Weren’t we talking about Al Gore? ...might pick up overnight work still, we’ll see.

    Posted by James from Hell's Kitchen  on  06/01  at  07:43 PM

  19. I don’t relish being an apologist for Al Gore.  He is rich and fat in a country where politicians pretend to be serious by discussing a “minimum wage” above 6 dollars. 

    Still-- all you cyber-citizens:  once upon a time life was much simpler:  we learned our history from the Encyclopedia Britannica.  We looked up books in a Card Catalog!  We measured our cleverness by asking the right questions while watching Jeopardy!

    Gore SHOULD be a Green… but he built all his loyalties up in a previous age.  He may have helped invent the internet, and his heart may be in the right place… and I believe he really has a Clue (until someone talks him in to appearing on SNL)! 

    Sadly, though, he doesn’t know what to do with it!

    He should be kicking ass!

    Posted by Robert B. Livingston from San Francisco  on  06/01  at  08:19 PM

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