Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Saturday, October 08, 2005
Sundays in Hicksville...plus: hockey, Debord, and Marshall
I only have stories to tell every couple of months, Mickey. Most of the energy I call on for crafting them has gone into money making recently. With that requirement comes dealing with people who have a need to impose their social interaction templates on me. I can understand. I’ve done the same thing at times. I just happen to dislike some of the templates I’ve encountered recently. I also like to think my templates are more sympathetic than the general run of them. Maybe there is a story here after all, eh?
But until I get it sorted out how to tell it, I have an older story my buddies really enjoyed. I wrote it back in February. Here it is.
Posted by Harry on from 10/08 at 09:03 AMHarry, you will find no better friend than a talking cactus who needs an errand boy.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/08 at 09:28 AMIf it’s true that we all must serve someone—and I don’t buy into that for a minute—then it should be a talking cactus. Or at least someone dressed up as a cactus. There are already Traffic Mimes. Why not cactus legislators?
Posted by Harry on from 10/08 at 09:52 AMWhy not cactus legislators?
I think we already have enough pricks in politics.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/08 at 09:58 AMTruth in adverstising? At least they should dress in a way that warns people about what’s coming.
The traffic mime idea was brilliant. If you have a situation that borders on out of control, with many rageful people very reluctantly getting along, comic relief defuses the tension. Here, of course, our politicos seek to maximize it and keep everyone snarling at each other. The only comic relief they offer is as objects of ridicule or as props in gallows humor.
Posted by Harry on from 10/08 at 10:04 AMTom Delay, to 3 young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005:
“Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?”Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/08 at 11:00 AMOne of the finest thinkers I know said:
The wealthy business person whose coffers have been stuffed with tax breaks, sweetheart deals with politicians, and regulatory rollbacks can enjoy the sweet pleasure of considering aid applications, and dividing them into worthy and unworthy, deserving and undeserving, by his own lights, risen to the status of a god who gives and takes away life itself, by granting or denying money needed for necessities, medication, or health care. The poor only exist to serve as the mask of this antagonism, the scapegoat in the play in which order encounters the travesty of its foundational instabilities. For the theory supporting this the wealthy business owner is happy to pay a think tank thinker, or a whole coven of them. To see them dance attendance is part of his pleasure, fine minds dancing attendance on his vices and calling them virtues - transformed by the market into the good of all, more or less, give or take a few pariahs.
Posted by Harry on from 10/08 at 11:45 AMOy, the Canadian company I work for bought a massive flat screen TV and ordered cable to boot just for hockey season, there’s already a betting pool going. Last week I hijacked it to screen a gorgeously pointless 3D movie “Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children” managed to stretch lunch hour out to 90 minutes that day ;)
When I first moved up to Vancouver from the states April 03 on the heels of the Iraq invasion. My Wife and I went from seeing oodles of little US flags stuck on cars everywhere to oodles of little Vancouver Canucks flags stuck on cars everywhere. Honestly I’m not sure which was more disturbing....
http://www.justwide.com/images/canucks
Hey Mickey, seeing your recent penchant to posting animated gifs, got me interested in throwing one down myself. If I may be so bold, If you were gonna have your own animated gif, what would you want it to look like?
Peace,
LunaPosted by Luna_C on from Skull Island 10/08 at 01:39 PMGreat stuff, Harry. It reads like a voice-over for a documentary that will never be made.
Luna: Yes, I am unexplainably drawn to these mini-animations...and now you have me thinking about one of my own. Hmmm...suggestions anyone?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/08 at 02:51 PMHow ‘bout a GIF of you shooting hoops?
Posted by Harry on from 10/08 at 03:30 PMI’d like that, Harry.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/08 at 04:02 PMIf you don’t have the software to make them, there’s a nice little utility called GIF Builder. Black and white frames produce a much smaller animation than colors.
Posted by Harry on from 10/08 at 04:10 PMThanks Harry, I have all the software I need to get about anything done. ;)
What I don’t have are sequential images of Mickey shooting hoops. The Damian Achilles series seems promising. If I remember correctly there’s like 3 images I’ve seen that look like there taken from the same time as your front page shot.
4-5 shots would work, taken from about the same angle. 1)eyeing the basket, 2) taking the shot, 3) swish, 4) Big ol’ MZ grin. or something along those lines.
I was also thinking of maybe an animated logo incorporating the Indispensables slogan.
Pretty much anything is possible with the right reference. So don’t hold back ;)
Peace,
LCPosted by Luna_C on from Skull Island 10/08 at 04:41 PMAre you saying you want me to e-mail you some images, LC?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/08 at 05:15 PMI was hoping for carrier pigeon. ;) hehe
Images would be very helpful, I’ll drop you a ping and you can send me what ever you want animated.
Posted by Luna_C on from Skull Island 10/08 at 05:31 PMSure, make fun of the Luddite. Images on the way.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/08 at 06:04 PMI wasn’t making fun. I would really like to receive something by Carrier Pigeon. Besides they would be really very useful once civilization collapses. ;)
Posted by Luna_C on from Skull Island 10/08 at 10:02 PMI’m betting that civilization’s collapse will be driven by series of climatic disasters, but the change in order itself will only be obvious in retrospect. I’ll also bet that the current era, right now, will be considered well into the collapse by historians.
Posted by Harry on from 10/08 at 11:28 PMI was thinking along the same lines when I read about what might happen if that Asian flu spread.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/09 at 07:10 AMLOVE the Debord quote Mickey!
And do you think Marshall could be confirmed today?Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 10/10 at 04:46 PMI don’t want to over-romanticize Marshall but, Helga, I don’t think he’d even be nominated today.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/10 at 04:53 PM
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