Saturday, August 11, 2007

Mickey Z., Inc.

Posted by Mickey Z on 08/11 at 05:31 AM
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  1. MZ, buying the mayor and/or city council is a *must* if you’re going to be a local robber baron.  Privatizing the school system and building some casinos would also improve your bottom line. (Captcha sez ‘theory.’)

    Posted by Zen Prole from Urth  on  08/11  at  09:08 AM

  2. Good Morning Mickey and Zen...I think you have a great plan Mickey. Don’t forget people like me...a nice cigar shop, a friendly brothel, local bicycle shop could be coverup for drug running.

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  08/11  at  09:39 AM

  3. Hi Mickey...I would put this sign in your business lobby…

    The American constitution is a disaster for everything that is not human. It may be wonderful for humans to have all these rights, including rights of property without restriction on the part of government as to what they own or what they do with it, but if there are no rights and no protections for anything that is not human, then we establish a predator relationship. And so humans in this country are just devouring everything—because that’s what this constitution stands for—for humans to devour, to manipulate, to use. So the whole idea of humans being human is gone. We’ve been caught up in a mechanistic world, because what we make, makes us. We make the automobile, the automobile makes us. We make an industrial economy, the industrial economy makes us. We are now in a weird dream world of industrial technological imagination. Who would be so destructive to the very basis out of which we exist, that we spoil our water and our air? For what? To invent an industrial economy. We are so brilliant scientifically and so absurd in any other way. We are into a deep cultural pathology—in ordinary language, we are crazy. To think that we can have a viable human economy by destroying the Earth economy is absurd...from a interview with Thomas Berry at the age of 84

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  08/11  at  09:47 AM

  4. Hello Expendables. It feels like June here today.

    Zen: I’ll invite the politicians to the photo op, I mean, grand opening of the “green house” and they can bask in the glow.

    Joe: You’ll have to condense that message into a word or two so my customers can relate. How about “just do it” or is that already taken?

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  08/11  at  09:50 AM

  5. Mickey 4...okay...how about…

    Cigars-Women-Bicyles-Drugs

    Now that will be much easier to read.

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  08/11  at  10:11 AM

  6. Hi, all. Looks like JOS might have been encouraging you back into publishing yesterday, Mickey. I wonder if JOS is a pen name for an old publisher who misses you? If amazon reviewers can have pen names, so might old publishers!

    Posted by Bob from New York  on  08/11  at  04:11 PM

  7. hey Bob...yes, I am definitely encouraging Mickey to get back to publishing stuff, but no, I am not a old publisher...just an old Expendable.

    Mickey has published a couple of kick-ass short stories and another one is coming soon.

    Posted by JOS from Oak Park  on  08/11  at  06:10 PM

  8. Hi Jos. What name do you write under, and where do you and Mickey publish your short stories? I’d love to read them. I write short stories too. Maybe I could submit something where you guys submit to. Or any other publishers I could try? I’d love to read both your short stories. One day I’ll explain the amazon review thing, there are more surprises. Your eyes will be amazed!

    Posted by Bob from New York  on  08/11  at  07:27 PM

  9. Here’s a late night story, another detail about america decaying.

    http://tinyurl.com/2h6ahz

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  08/11  at  08:15 PM

  10. Bob...JOS are the initials of my name, James O’Shea...I began using JOS because we had too many James’ here and it go confusing.

    Mickey has two stories published here:

    http://www.cerebralcatalyst.com/archives.htm#Z

    They really are damn good…

    I’ve got a poem published there as well.

    Posted by JOS from Oak Park  on  08/11  at  10:17 PM

  11. oh and why don’t you explain the whole amazon reviewer thing now?  you like to keep us all in suspense, huh?

    Posted by JOS from Oak Park  on  08/11  at  10:19 PM

  12. Hi JOS. Thanks for your reply. I’m midway thru the film Adaptation. I’ve been reading too many amazon review sites and need a break from the film. Have a drink and all. I have been trying to update myself on films missed over the past several years. Re suspense re amazon revelations, well the story is so long and complicated. Part thriller, part love story, part anger, part a bit of everything. It’ll take all year to tell. Just hold tight to your ...whatever and wait the ride. Back to the movie. I’ll look up the story when I’m finished with the film. Stay safe, Bob.

    Posted by Bob from New York  on  08/11  at  10:59 PM

  13. Mickey you say:
    Meanwhile, the general public will continue to enthusiastically buy my overpriced, made-in-a-sweatshop products...while remaining distracted as they passionately argue Democrat vs. Republican and loudly blame immigrants, gays, and feminists for that gnawing feeling of alienation and isolation.

    I think we are all dreaming. Half asleep. For some, its a fucking nightmare.

    Posted by frances from bc  on  08/12  at  10:44 AM

  14. Thomas Berry also sez:  “We have all grown up with the indoctrination of industrial processes and we don’t know anything else; we are captured by this pathology. We present our whole industrial process as benign, as a benefit, as the only way to go, when it is obviously so inhuman. It distorts education, political life, economics and all aspects of the community’s existence.”

    Posted by joe of maine from   on  08/12  at  04:36 PM

  15. its really fulfilling to know that my consumer power can keep some 14 year olds calloued fingers busy in industry in creating your products in whatever underdeveloped country that you altrustically choose to operate out of. suffice to say that i’ll sleep easy in the knowledge of my magnanaimnity (sic) in my calvin briefs and my oh so soft sheets, the gay acting trouble maker that i am he he

    regards

    why does the elephant drink?


    to forget hehe

    Posted by declandeclanmacg@gmail.com from the norh country fair (the winds hit heavy)  on  08/12  at  06:13 PM

  16. vote republicat x x

    Posted by declan from perdido  on  08/12  at  06:16 PM

  17. pps… sympathy for the devil...say no more

    Posted by declan from   on  08/12  at  06:27 PM

  18. Thanks for the short story links. Always good to have something to read and nice to read your stories and poems as well as essays. The Hiroshima theme of Mickey’s reminded me of an Aussie radio program on the net or article I once read. I think it was on the Australian ABC radio links. The guy was called Collins and he worked for the Australian government cleaning up after Hiroshima, on site, and suffered cancers etc/ illnesses. I did a search and I think this must be the info. He wrote a book. I think he was campaigning for care for the men who were very ill after that. So people suffered on all sides. I think this guy had a really hard time campaigning for compensation from the Australian government. (This theme ties in with Mickey’s other story re illness and work...). “Collins, J. G. (John George Francis), 1928-;
    Title:  The war of the veterans / by J.G. Collins..
    Date:  2001.”

    Posted by Bob from New York  on  08/12  at  11:52 PM

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