Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Fun with homonyms, Spinwatch reviews 50AR, commies, Disney, and tell-a-friend Thursday
Four movies. Four. He’s sweet, he’s hot, and he’s only 23...I cannot keep up with this lad. Peacefully sleeping his four hours before going to school while I can’t even wind my brain down to normal speed.
“Outfoxed” is a documentary on Murdoch’s war on journalism that scared me to leakin’ it’s so persuasive. Please please please rent it and tell me it’s all a lie! PLEASE! “Super-Size Me” needs no introduction here, I feel sure. I slid ever-so-slightly veggie-ward, his avowed purpose in bringing it over. “9 Dead Gay Guys” is the queer version of “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels” and I learned a new name for my “type”: UFO..."Ugly Fat Oldie!” Hustler slang for their clients, apparently. I am still chortling over that one. There was a fourth one, but I don’t remember much about it, and it wasn’t worth the effort of turning it off.
And I am STILL not sleepy. Argh.
Posted by Mudge the UFO on from movie-induced insomnia 09/15 at 06:45 AMJames, I thought Birdcage was fun! I liked the original French movie, too, but unlike some very puckered-up cineastes, I like Murrican movies as well as le cinema francaise or italiano or deutsch. Film snobbery seems so pointless to me.
Be well and comfortable today...when I crash (soon please Mr. Morpeus sir) I imagine it’ll be Friday before I’m back.
Posted by Mudge the UFO on from wide-awake-world 09/15 at 06:54 AMRosemarie...do you imagine we could all withstand as much fun as we’d have on that tour together?! Until, of course, person X said something vegan to bacon-cheeseburger-eating person Y and the ensuing brawl would be...short, I believe in fighting dirty and I come from gun culture, connect the dots.
Seriously, what a left-wing thought-provoking comedy act this room would be..."We’re here in your little town to take the ‘er’ out of Liberal, the ‘ocia’ out of ‘Socialist’ and ‘zits’ out of ‘resistance’! Laugh more, your acne will clear up faster and you’ll think better thoughts!”
The Lenny Bruce Memorial Revue and Cabaret. Up for it?
Posted by Mudge the UFO on from on The Bus 09/15 at 07:02 AMJoe’s jottings of aujourd’hui:
>>>I know a personal injury lawyer in Schenectady, New York, who would surely qualify. He’s drives around town in a small “Winnebago.” On the side he has his name and number, which is something like: 1 - 800 - AutoAccident…
He’d fit right into the court, and he could help accident victims nationwide.<<<Can’t be a lot worse than the Pepsi lawyer they got in line for SCOTUS position 2, Larry Thompson or something similar...product liability cases suddenly go SCOTUS-ward at a great rate of speed for favorable-to-bidness decisions in record time.
>>>Anyway, thanks for the post, Mudge, and one last Happy Birthday.<<<
Thanks, Joe, it was a fun one and I can’t believe I am still conscious with a whopping two hours of sleep in the last 24.
Posted by Mudge the UFO on from Texas 09/15 at 07:11 AMGood morning Mickey and Mudge (or should I say good night?). Mudge, I need to watch the whole French version at some point, I caught some of it on TV a while back. Birdcage IS fun, especially the whole dinner scene, basically the last half of the movie. Nathan Lane is hilarious.
Mickey, I think I had something to do with getting Fiona from California to visit you or did you find this place on your own Fiona?
I’ll try to guide some new people towards expendability.
Talking about Residents...you know who is pissing me off more than ever? Slick Willy. What a BS artist he is. I saw a part of the press conference he and Bush I did a while back and he was basically acting as Bush II’s PR guy. This is no surprise, of course, but I am sick of hearing the media theories on both Clinton’s motives for working with Republicans and how Bush I is like a father figure to Bill...they all have the same motives, same goals, etc.
I am looking forward to reading 50AR and passing it along to others.
Have a good day, everyone.
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/15 at 07:56 AMI printed out yesterday’s ‘Run, Humans, Run’ for my environmental science teacher. I told her to check out the website too.
Posted by Kaitlin on from Massachusetts 09/15 at 09:16 AMi would regard not being admitted by disneyland as an absolute bonus.
you even hear people talking about how they have a mock-up of paris and venice etc (dunno if its true.) if it is true then i have a simple plan which is better......go to f*cking paris or venice. the foods better, its real and you won’t have to confront a 6 foot duck or mouse when you have a hangover.
actually, there was a really funny story that came out over here about disnelyand paris. due to working conditions or somehting the staff when they emailed each other referred to it as mousechwitz (auschwitz). the bosses got a hold of this and told them that if they didn’t stop doing it they would be sacked. apparently within two minutes they had changed it to ‘duckhau’.
Posted by michael on from scotland 09/15 at 10:37 AMI’m assuming Mudge is fast asleep but to everyone else: Hello.
Kaitlin: Please let us know what your teacher says.
James: Clinton is a bullshitter’s bullshitter. A virtuoso.
Michael: I’m waiting for the new Disney version of New Orleans.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/15 at 02:02 PMHello all, Hey Mickey…
Yeah, I think you saw this post already, but those in the local governments of NO and Mississippi are happy that “God” cleaned up the area for them:
http://wdthu.blogspot.com/2005/09/capitalism-at-its-best.html
They make me wish there really was an Old Testament type god to get all Sodom and Gomorrah on their ass.
The mayor, Nagin or whatever, seems to be a real go-getter...opening the French Quarter already and giving that “open for business” speech we always here in disaster zones.
I hear the air has an intensely foul smell there still, but the EPA says toxic levels are NOT above what is safe for humans and we know how accurate and honest they are.
You know we have it bad in PR when 79% of the water supplied here for human consumption does NOT meet EPA standards.
As one of the pharmaceutical manufacturing capitals of the world it’s a wonder the run off from the local Pfizer plant hasn’t caused half the male population to pay a visit to the emergency room because of 24 hour erections!
I’ve been complaining so much lately my fingers are turning raw. Any positive vibes out there someone can send my way?
James
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/15 at 02:38 PMJames, I was saving this till tomorrow...but you sound like you need it now:
http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/26951(I’ll post it tomorrow anyway.)
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/15 at 02:46 PMThanks, Mickey...I did need that! Oh yeah, and I took another look at the storm trooper...it doesn’t take much to get me in a better mood.
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/15 at 03:10 PMWhy do I feel like a drug dealer right now?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/15 at 03:20 PMlol, you’re right, I read like I just got some sort of fix...oh well, whatever works.
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/15 at 03:38 PMJames wrote “As one of the pharmaceutical manufacturing capitals of the world it’s a wonder the run off from the local Pfizer plant hasn’t caused half the male population to pay a visit to the emergency room because of 24 hour erections!”
Hello! Have I entered (bad dirty pun optional) porn fantasy land? And what’cha wanna bet there’s a porno out there that uses this as its plot device....
Posted by Mudge the UFO on from NOT in jail, thank goodness 09/15 at 04:36 PMGreat Video, Mickey: It’s great to see Mr. T. (You might want to alert Mudge about those “short-shorts” he’s wearing.)
One thing that tends to put things into perspective, for me, James is this: They say the universe is ~ 12-14 Billion years old. So, I imagine a “timeline.” I start with a dot, which is the moment of joe’s birth. Then, I draw a line leftward, from the dot… It’s got to be a long line, as 12-14 Billion Years is a lot of time. Then, of course, it occurs to me that “time” didn’t really begin when the universe began. There had to be a “moment” before the Big Bang. Therefore, there was a minute, and an hour, etc., before the Big Bang. So, I have to extend the line further to the left - say, well, forever. Then, I move back, to the right, along this infinite line, till I return to the “dot” of my birth. I give myself a huge break and imagine a line from the dot, rightward, which lasts one hundred years. ( I pretend I’ll live to be one hundred years old.) After one hundred years, I put down another dot. That’s when joe dies. (It’s a pretty f****ing short line.) Then, I start to draw the line off to the right, again, which is “time” after joe dies. It goes on, say, 100 Billion years, till the Universe ends. It’s a pretty long line. One hundred Billion years is big ju-ju, in most books. So, then, I’ve reached the end of the existence of the Universe. However, I figure that there must be at least a moment of “time,” after the universt is gone. Thus, there’s a minute after it’s gone, and an hour, and so on. So, I continue the line for - uh - forever.
Then, I move back to the left, again, until I return to the line between the dots -the “Joe’s Incredibly Important & Obviously Cool Existence” line -and I can’t help but “snicker” for a bit…
Posted by joe on from Oregon 09/15 at 04:42 PMJames said “I need to watch the whole French version at some point, I caught some of it on TV a while back. Birdcage IS fun, especially the whole dinner scene, basically the last half of the movie. Nathan Lane is hilarious.”
I so hope you will watch La Cage aux Folles because if you think Nathan Lane’s a riot, wait ‘til you see Albin! It’s a huge mood-booster for the unpuckered set. Sounds like you need it..."They make me wish there really was an Old Testament type god to get all Sodom and Gomorrah on their ass.” Careful what you wish for, there...problem with Supreme Beings is that once we create them they tend not to stay in their appointed boxes, get all feisty about shit got nothin’ to do with ‘em.
As to Nagin “opening the French Quarter already” it goes along with what I’ve said since this happened...the yahoos running the place give some speeches about bidness as usual, but the city if it comes back will be FrenchQuarterLand as run by Disney’s Black Lace and Panties Division. How they hide their corporate ownership of the Suck De Heads and Squeeze De Tips [actual Cajun phrase for how to eat crawdads for them as don’t know] Crawdad festival will be very entertaining.
Not much else will be.
Posted by Mudge the UFO on from Duckhau, Texas 09/15 at 04:48 PMFrom Michael “you even hear people talking about how they have a mock-up of paris and venice etc (dunno if its true.) if it is true then i have a simple plan which is better......go to f*cking paris or venice. the foods better...” Not so much for New Orleans, it’s a great food town. Been to Paris, don’t see the fuss about the food...Venice has some wonderful eateries, but everything there is flat for me.
“...you won’t have to confront a 6 foot duck or mouse when you have a hangover.” The final and most important nail in the theme park coffin for me. Those genderless faceless exemplars of man’s inhumanity to man that are the costumes those poor folks have to wear...and the faux jollity with which the headwearers gambol and prance around...nauseating, and lethal to a hungover “guest.”
The French Quarter’s Disney-fied headwearwers merit some thought....
Posted by Richard the Curmudgeon on from Texas 09/15 at 04:58 PM“Then, I move back to the left, again, until I return to the line between the dots -the “Joe’s Incredibly Important & Obviously Cool Existence” line -
and I can’t help but “snicker” for a bit…”
Gawd. I’m goin’ back to bed.
Posted by Mudge the UFO on from 09/15 at 05:01 PMAnd to think...this whole thread started with those three little words: “fun with homonyms.”
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/15 at 05:05 PMAt one point in time James wrote:
Mickey Z. described his feelings on the subject as follows:“My goal is to provoke my readers toward independent thought…to see past the propaganda and spin. On a more personal level, I try to live my life in such a manner as to leave as light a footprint as possible, i.e. being a vegan, buying used goods, avoiding products laden with chemicals, etc. I’ve often said, if everyone in America started to live as I do, the corporate commodity culture would be doomed. That’s not a boast…it’s an illustration of how easy it is to take the small steps.”
And there you have it....a specific strategy for change. So yes, thanks to James I learn something new each time I visit this site.
Posted by Fiona on from San Diego 09/15 at 05:05 PMI look forward to watching Albin, Mudge. I wish I had retained some of my 4 years or so of French ... I lived in Canada for a while (they think learning other languages should be mandatory).
Did I read this joke here or was it somewhere else among the waves while surfing the Internet?:
What do you call some who knows three languages?: trilingual.
What do you call some who knows two languages?: bilingual.
What do you call some who knows one language?:
American.
Joe, your timeline theory: pure genius and funny as hell. Permission to reprint ?
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/15 at 05:15 PMAre we Expendable Yet?
Hi guyz -
James - thanks, Sir. Please do reprint.
One day, parents will use me as an example: “Listen, Billy. You can work hard and study and get ahead. Or, you can leave little droppings behind you, like an incontinent puppy; you can putz & stumble around and become the “joe from Oregon” of the neighborhood. What’s it going to be?”Mudge, I don’t recall much about the food in Paris, but it was wonderful to encounter enormous numbers of people - just sitting over meals and coffee and a few glasses of wine, talking and wondering and delighting in each other for hours each evening. I understand there are similar customs in Italy.
In America, of course, real conversation - meaningful communication leading to deeper understanding between people, is discouraged, as it lends little to the accumulation of wealth and power. ( “And one should love wealth and power and property, with one’s whole mind, one’s whole heart, one’s whole soule! Amen” )
I much enjoyed the book review, Mickey. I’m looking forward to receiving the book.
I also like being reminded of that line from Orwell:
“In times of universal deceit telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”I believe there are lots of revolutionary acts here, Mickey. Thanks.
Posted by joe on from Oregon 09/15 at 05:58 PMFiona, it’s great to have you join us here...and I send a “thanks” to James for turning you on to the site. The words you quote mean a lot to me, but as Joe from Oregon (a.k.a. “Our Own Private Vonnegut") and Mr. Mudge demonstrate, you have to be able to laugh at yourself and recognize the value of celebration...even in the darkest times.
Joe, re: your revolutionary quotes: Che said every true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/15 at 06:25 PMI love that guy.
Posted by joe on from Oregon 09/15 at 07:06 PMMy teacher enjoyed the article, she thought it was very interesting and might visit the site herself. We just finished Native American’s views of the environment vs. the “White Man’s” view and have just started to cover overpopulation and how America is a great example of conspicuous consumers. Thanks for the great article!
Posted by Kaitlin on from Massachusetts 09/15 at 08:59 PMThanks, Kaitlin. What year of school are you currently in?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/15 at 09:07 PMinteresting and slightly disappointing thing happened this evening...my blog was listed on the Who’s Blogging about this article link list for an article at the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/14/AR2005091402655_Technorati.html
and I got a ton of visitors, but it was one time when I just got lazy and just copied and pasted some excerpts of the article instead of my own writing...I just got online now to see this happening.
I’ve tried to make up for the lost opportunity by posting some links at the top of the post (including to here and my rosemarie jackowski post):
http://wdthu.blogspot.com/2005/09/and-now-back-to-our-regularly.html
Cano hit a grand slam to tie the game? beautiful.
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 09/15 at 10:01 PMThanks for the plug, James...and A-Rod also homered to help bring the Yanks to within a game and a half of the Sawx.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/15 at 10:10 PMThis year I’m a senior in highschool. I’ve been visiting your site since my junior year though after being recommended by the mother of one of my best friends.
Posted by Kaitlin on from Mass. 09/16 at 09:22 AMHi Kaitlin. I’d love to know more about how the mother of one of your best friends came to find this site and saw fit to tell you about it.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/16 at 10:52 AMI’ll have to get back to you on that. I’m still in school at the moment and regrettably unable to find that out. I have a feeling that she either was looking up something on the ‘net and stumbled across it or maybe it was referenced somewhere. Actually, she mentioned it at the weirdest of times-we were out prom dress shopping...unless you had taken out an ad in the changing rooms at Filene’s? lol, I’ll let you know.
Posted by Kaitlin on from Mass. 09/16 at 11:55 AMFrom what I hear, all the best folks hang out in the changing rooms at Filene’s.
Thanks, K.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/16 at 11:57 AMShe said she found you on CSPAN2. I believe she mentioned some kind of book club or something…
Posted by Kaitlin on from Mass. 09/16 at 05:10 PMAh yes...I did a talk in the DC area last October that was filmed by Book TV.
Thanks, K.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 09/16 at 05:35 PM
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