Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Friday, July 08, 2005
Lisbon, London, and lots more end-of-the-week stuff
Jack Random is right on with his Miller story. I never like seeing people getting put in jail, but there seems to be some small justification to Miller going when she helped set up the invasion and occupation that led to Abu Ghraib.
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 07/08 at 08:17 AM“...to defeat those who would impose their fanaticism and extremism on all of us.”
speak of the devil.... At any rate, my reaction to the London bombing was very much the same as it was to 9/11 and madrid; a great tragedy, yes, but I wasn’t that surprised (in light of US/UK foreign policy). Actually, I predict worse if things do not change.
Anyway, nice job correlating the imagery of powerful men in suits to small-town folks adoring a big, phallus-shaped object like a cannon. Seems that is “the heartland” these days: obedient, fanatical followers of highly concentrated power. The monkey is fitting too, of course, as is Lenny Bruce. I think Freud would have much to say about your correlation as well.
Posted by RT on from Houston 07/08 at 08:33 AMYou gotta love stream of consciousness blogging, huh? I like to call what I do “stand-up tragedy.”
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 07/08 at 08:58 AMHA! re Liz-been
another HA! re the canon in small towns.
My small town doesn’t have one; but we have plenty of massive tree stumps.....just a different kind of reminder of the various types of death and destruction our society worships.Posted by deb on from Seattle-ish 07/08 at 11:33 AMIf Mickey had a contest to see which one of us lived in a town with the most ostentatious phallic symbol, maybe I would win. It always makes me smile when I hear directions being given to tourists, such as “turn left at the big phallic symbol”. I live in site of the Bennington Battle Monument. It may second in height only to the Washington Monument. It has quite an interesting history...especially since the Battle of Bennington was NOT fought in Bennington. The battle was across the border in New York but this was the site of the store of ammunition. Every year during the summer the town has a BIG parade and celebrates Battle Day. Last year there were tanks and all sorts of military vehicles WITH CHILDREN ON THEM. It was very disturbing to see such a celebration of warfare. For years, I have been suggesting a name change for the monument. “The Peace Monument” sounds good to me, but I am in a very small minority.
Posted by rosemarie on from in the shadow of the monument 07/08 at 12:02 PMHmm...an ostentatious phallus contest, huh?
Here’s what Rosemarie is talking about: http://www.vtliving.com/historicsites/benningtonmon/index.shtml
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 07/08 at 12:06 PMIt’s interesting to look at that pic of Bush and Blair, et al… Just people, you know? Just people. They don’t look like monsters - murderous, blood-thirsty bastards, somehow feeding and thriving on terror and misery and wretchedness. But, they are. I guess I’ll never get used to all of this, fortunately. We’re all aghast at “people” like Jeffrey Daumer, yet we enshrine these G8 folks, and give them dominion over the whole of the earth…
Now, about these massive phallic objects. We don’t have any hereabouts, tho the Redwoods are a couple hours away. (They’re cutting them down to make redwood decking materials!)
Is there something we can do about this “lack?” Maybe a pill or a pump or some surgical proceedure? We want to “stand up” with you folks back east! We’ve got “monument envy!” What should we do?
Posted by joe on from Oregon 07/08 at 02:49 PMNice comment, Joe. What you said reminded me of one of my favorite political buttons..."Killing one is murder. Killing 100,000 is Foreign Policy”.---- No need for monument envy out west. You have the Grand Tetons.
Posted by rosemarie on from 07/08 at 03:29 PMJeffrey Dahmer kills all those people and becomes a legendary ghoul. Sammy the Bull kills just as many...but lives free in the witness protection program. It all comes down to dining preferences?
Hey Joe, have you asked your doctor about Cialis?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 07/08 at 03:38 PMThanks, Rosemarie. It’s instructive, eh?, that we’ll teach the little ones to love war but we’re horrified that they’ll learn about and enjoy sex. We willingly prepare them for a tour of Iraq or Afghanistan or maybe Iran or Syria, but God Forbid that they should get a glimpse of Janet Jackson’s breast. In our great national referrendum - Life and Love vs. Death, Death squeaks out a win, with the help of the Supreme Court, of course…
In “not entirely unrelated” news, I read recently that, once the US invaded Iraq, and Sadaam had slipped into “hiding,” some astute Iraqi observers remarked:
“The Pupil has gone; the Master has arrived.”
Mickey, I DID ask my doctor about Cialis but he didn’t answer - he was too busy laughing about “our” diminutive monument…
Posted by joe on from Oregon 07/08 at 04:06 PM
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