Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Christine Hamm passes yours truly the stick
asfo_del (Living On Less) and I are friendly blog neighbors.
Posted by Harry on from 03/22 at 12:23 PMDidn’t know you had a blog, Harry (or you told me and I forgot). I would’ve passed the stick to you.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 03/22 at 12:52 PMI’ve kept one on and off for a while. I deleted the first one in disgust, and migrated from the second to one where I have co-authors, lots of storage for image, video and music files—I do amateur multimedia - and a pretty fancy commenting set up.
Learning how to be relatively tolerant in voicing views, yet retain integrity, takes some practice. But I think I’m doing pretty well now. Every so often I spill over into angry, futile bile. Fortuntately, I’ve got good friends.
http://pierrotsfolly.blogharbor.com/blog
Posted by Harry on from 03/22 at 02:02 PMI’ll have to add it to my growing “links” section.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 03/22 at 04:11 PM1. Which book would I want to be (fahrenheit 451)? Peter Singer’s “Animal Liberation”
2. Crush on fictional characters? Yes, but I have forgotten their names!!
3. Last book I bought? Pema Chodron’s “Coping With Uncertainty”
4. Last book I read?? My friend Dr. Karen Davis, Ph.D.’s “Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs”
5. What am I currently reading? Guides to NYC, to help plan my trip there on the 31st for the GARC conference; and “Making Laws in Massachusetts”, a guide to help understand the legislative process better
6. Five books I’d take to a deserted island? “Hickory Wind”, a biography of Gram Parsons; “The Collected Works of Leo Tolstoy”; “An Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom”; “The Places That Scare You” by Pema Chodron; and “How to get off of a deserted island for dummies”
Posted by Rich G. on from Boston, MA 03/23 at 03:49 PMThanks, Rich...you’re the only one brave enough to answer so far.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 03/23 at 03:59 PMThanks, Rich...you’re the only one brave enough to answer so far.
Okay, I’m brave enough too.
1) “Wasp” by Eric Frank Russell or the Tao of Jeet Kune Do.
2) Innumerable crushes. Catherine Cornelius and Una Perrson arte the most memorable—Cornelius Chronicles
3) I just ordered “Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America” - Bertram Gross
4) The last book I read was a re-read of “The American Political Tradition”—Hofstadter.
5) I’m currently reading software manuals :-( But a friend is sending me, if I recall correctly, a book by Hardt and Negri
6) The books I would take to a desert island? That’s tough. I’d want entertainment more than education so any of Phillip K. Dick’s novels would do.
Posted by Harry on from 03/24 at 01:26 AMWhy Tao of JKD, Harry?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 03/24 at 08:43 AMIt’s the closest thing to a perfect philosphical book I’ve ever read. The first time I read it, I was able to clean a lot of garbage out of my head. Lee came up from nothing and became a truly remarkable person. It’s very inspiring.
Posted by Harry on from 03/24 at 02:05 PMI agree with everything you’ve said, Harry...I was just wondering why you chose it to be burnt, Fahrenheit 451 style.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 03/24 at 02:24 PMThe goal of the oppressor is to destroy something wonderful and immensely valuable, to erase the best humankind has to offer. I was getting in character, the way a player in a troupe would.
Posted by Harry on from 03/24 at 02:39 PMAh...I should’ve asked: What’s your motivation?
Bruce Lee says: “Art lives where absolute freedom is because where it is not, there can be no creativity.”
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 03/24 at 02:43 PMI think that’s where life is art, and the art we have now is our mutual attempt to bend the bars of the cage a little. Going back to the discussion on Henry Miller, the death of illusions leaves us free to pursue that. What art might come after all the chains are broken?
That’s as philsophical as I get
Posted by Harry on from 03/24 at 02:50 PMYeah, I think we may have used up our philosophy quota for the day. Check tomorrow for a Bukowski thought that might inspire further dialogue.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 03/24 at 03:07 PM
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