Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Thursday, October 27, 2005
It's hard to top yesterday's post...but, hey, only a mediocre blogger is always at his best
the anti-blogging stuff is just another attempt to scare people off using the internet. i mean, think of what would happen if ordinary people actually managed to get to talk to each other rather than having to go thru the filters (e.g. tv)
“Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people ‘over the Internet.’ They don’t bother to mention when criminals use the telephone or the M4 [a freeway - we actually call them ‘motorways’... but anyway], or discuss their dastardly plans ‘over a cup of tea,’ though each of these was new and controversial in their day.”
http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html
apologies to all but tinyurl will not work in these computer labs (i am not at home)
i learned more about the law from a couple of bertolt brecht lines than i did from a whole load of textbooks. its from ‘the threepenny opera’ which is itslef an update of John Gay’s ‘the beggars opera’ - both highly recommended.....
Peachum - “the law was made forr one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. And anyone who wants a crumb of this exploitation for himslef must obey the law strictly”
Brown - “I see, then you believe our judges are corruptible”
Peachum - “not at all, sir, not at all. our judges are absolutely incorruptible: its more than money can do to make them give a fair verdict”
enough said. long post, sorry.
captcha “direct” as in be more…
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 05:57 AMI have a secret to tell...I talk a good game about torture, but I’d love to get a hold of Dick Cheney in a dark alley.
Cptch:changes
Posted by JOS on from La Isla Del Encanta 10/27 at 07:56 AMwell thats where him and his friends have been leading the world to for a long time
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 07:59 AMaaaarrgghh
ok dudes - sorry if you have all been receiving follow-up comments from a post from months ago - i was trying to figure out how to do the image thing and i did…
here is why..
we were all talking about something and for whatever reason (something related to the conversation) i looked up ‘george bush our leader’ on google because i had seen this photo which all seems abit saddam-ish to me....
anyway - that picture came up, but under ‘george bush our leader’ so did a picture of a hairy nipple but the uploading site for the images won’t let me upload it because they say its pornographic so you will just have to use your imaginations.
question - why would a search on ‘george bush - our leader’ bring up a pic of a hairy nipple?
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 08:30 AMThat’s for sure. I forgot to say good morning, a mortal sin here in PR. Good morning Michale and all. I’ve been enjoying your blog a great deal, Michael.
Here’s a surprise:
Posted by JOS on from La Isla Del Encanta 10/27 at 08:30 AMwow...we posted at excatly the same time.
I’d rather see a picture of a hairy nipple anyday…
Posted by JOS on from La Isla Del Encanta 10/27 at 08:40 AMthis is probably a concession to the right-wingers who didn’t want her rather than the left. you think?
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 08:44 AMI think that they know they are about to enter a shite storm tomorrow and they wanted to get this out of the way beforehand.
Posted by JOS on from La Isla Del Encanta 10/27 at 08:51 AMand there goes little bushie, running away again:
I thought he was a stand-up guy. He’s giving cowboys a bad name.
Posted by JOS on from La Isla Del Encanta 10/27 at 08:57 AMjust me and you today JOS.
a new tub has been thumped....
captcha: pool (as in resources)
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 09:46 AMWe’re running this place this morning…
Captcha: Future
Posted by JOS on from La Isla Del Encanta 10/27 at 09:56 AMwhen everyone else turns up we’ll pretend to be angry, say we’ve been doing all the work and thats our excuse to go out for a beer
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 10:20 AMI see this joint’s been in reliable hands...stretching from Scotland to PR.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/27 at 10:41 AMyeah, we even cleaned BEHIND the cupboards.
anyway,
got this photo thing figured out and its like having a new toy. yippee. but in a week the novelty will wear off and i’ll just go back to my favorites. going to use it this week tho.
don’t know if anyone posted this before but look....its a shocker! tv news actually reports the truth!
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 11:00 AMMichael: While I’m impressed that you can post images (I haven’t even tried yet), I did use that image last month: http://tinyurl.com/d3r42
Anyway, the cupboards are spotless.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/27 at 11:09 AMGood GOD what happened here?! I go away to mourn the AL winning the Series in a sweep and, when I come back, a couple of straight men are discussing wanting to look at a hairy nipple and whether or not the housekeeping’s up to par.
Is this Opposite Thursday or something? I just fell deeply in love with a woman. What is UP here?!
“cause”
[Instead of typing “captcha” every time, let’s just make a convention that any stand-alone word in quotes is our quirky/funny/eerie captcha-word, ‘kay?]Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 10/27 at 11:22 AMyou’ve just confiscated my new toy!
this is all getting dangerously domestic today!
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 11:22 AMsorry mudge was typing as you posted. i think it is opposite thursday because its above 20 degrees in scotland and its nearly november. this is not normal according to my
research
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 11:24 AMSorry for not speaking up more when I visit. Old Chinese proverb: read more, speak less.
Anyway I hope I hope I hope I’m the first to present y’all with this fine little piece of internet creativity:
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1ldyn/id2.html
Please all, keep doin’ what you’re doin’.
And aw ####: captcha=george, as in: not even mildy curious!
Posted by KBN on from The Hague 10/27 at 11:25 AMI’m sure I’m typing at the same time as somebody, but I’m headed out again and have to make this quick.
First: Hello Keir. Good to hear your voice.
Mudge: Some folks here want to make it a collective novel-writing month. I told them it was up to you. I’m fine either way.
See you in a few “minutes”
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/27 at 11:30 AMPowderworks by Midnight Oil
There’s a shit storm a’coming
I feel it coming soon
There’s a time and a place
And a moment in space
When the fat boys call the tune
There’s a bubble a bouncing
And it’s bouncing my way
There’s two sticks in the powderworks
I think it’s gonna blow todayThere’s a shit storm a’coming
Somebody’s claiming some i.o.u.’s
Because the animal’s back
With the man intact
They had a gun at my head
And a knife at my back
Don’t wind me up too tight
I’ve been had by the balls all my life
I’m in no mood now
To stop dead and talk it overI don’t need no fire and brimstone warning
I’ve been a long time punching bag
I won’t run no race where there ain’t no prize
Take a look at my face
Can’t you see this ain’t no liesThere’s a shit storm a coming
They’re getting in for one free bite
I was taken by surprise
By the glint in the eyes of a sweet campaign
Smelling strongly of lies
You’re the original mr. clean
But the closeups make you look awful mean
You’re just a con man raving saying nothing newPosted by tm on from four walls 10/27 at 11:36 AMA LIMERICK FOR MUDGE
There once was a man named Mudge
Who was much better informed than Drudge
He came to Mickey’s one day
And with great charm did say
I am here to give The Expendables a nudgePosted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 10/27 at 11:55 AMYes, Mudge, it is Bizarro Thursday, and you and Rosemarie are now in love.
tm, awesome lyrics. Midnight Oil? Isn’t that that (there I go with that again) band with the crazy-looking bald Australian guy? I love that band.
Michael and I cleaned house.
Mudge, what’s your answer on the novel? “asked” JOS.
Posted by JOS on from La Isla Del Encanta 10/27 at 12:29 PMWe Don’t Need al-Qaida:
Interesting what would happen in Iraq if the US Military were to leave. Most likely, these foreign al-Qaida fighters would soon be removed by the Iraqis themselves. Many Sunni’s believe that there are political solutions to fair sharing of power if only the US military would withdraw. The U.S. government (today and throughout history, Democrat or Republican)is so fucking stupid and violent, it amazes me.
“WHEN?”
Posted by JOS on from La Isla Del Encanta 10/27 at 12:52 PMme too jos love that band but that bald guy, peter garrett left the band and guess what? he’s now an australian labor party mp or labour party mp i should say.
http://tinyurl.com/b354qPosted by tm on from four walls 10/27 at 12:58 PMhoward zinn…
So while no one can predict what will happen—I think this is important to say—when the United States withdraws its troops from Iraq, the point is that we’re choosing between the certainty of an ongoing disaster, the chaos and violence that are taking place in Iraq today, and an eventuality we can’t predict which may be bad. But what may be bad is uncertain; what’s bad with our occupation right now is certain. It seems to me that, choosing between the two, you have to take a chance on what might happen if you end the occupation. At the same time, of course, you do whatever you can to mitigate the worst possibilities of your leaving.
full thing
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=20715
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 01:00 PMI see in his first speech he thanked the people who originally inhabited the land his district is located on:
“I rise in the House to speak for the first time as the new member for Kingsford Smith, humbled by the honour that the people of this electorate have granted me. I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners, the Ngunnawal people, who have lived in the region around Canberra for over 20,000 years.”
Something no elected official would ever dream of doing here in the US of A.
Looks like the Democrats are finally getting a little bit of sense:
My captcha word started me dreaming of a time long “ago,” when the indiginous stepped lightly upon the land…
Posted by JOS on from La Isla Del Encanta 10/27 at 01:07 PM“I see in his first speech he thanked the people who originally inhabited the land his district is located on:”
I was talking about the crazy bald guy from Midnight Oil, not Howard Zinn, with whom I agree whole-heartedly.
“past”
Posted by JOS on from La Isla Del Encanta 10/27 at 01:09 PMgoing out for an hour or two.
beforehand i have to post one more photo. sorry mickey. will stop after this one but just had to share it....
posting things like this its no surprise i have a very low ‘income’
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 01:18 PMNB - was apologising beacuse you were a bit tetchy about the previous photo. not because its about you!
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 01:19 PMnot sure if this will post correctly:
Name Novel Title Location Joined Date Number of posts
Mudge the Expendable My True Adventures in the Porn Trade Austin, Texas 2005/10/22 0
Mick the Expendable Dear Vito
[link*] Astoria, NY 2005/10/25 0
JOS the Expendable The Betrayal
[link*] Puerto Rico 2005/10/26 0
owen expendable Clear Out Your Desk Barcelona 2005/10/26 0Posted by JOS on from La Isla Del Encanta 10/27 at 01:46 PMBut I wanted to point out Mudge’s novel title:
My True Adventures in the Porn Trade
by Mudge the Expendable
Posted by JOS on from La Isla Del Encanta 10/27 at 01:48 PMYeah, all, I changed gears on the novel thing ebcause I was rewriting a sitcom pitch that got lost in the Great Crash of 9/24, about the hijinks that ensue when a clueless rich kid takes over his suddenly and unexpectedly late dad’s wacky horror-only publishing house.
Got to thinking about agenting and how that would work as a sitcom base and, well, how the idea of a client who’s an ex-call boy writing his memoirs, who is forced by something HUGE to return to call-boy status, and his agent acts as his booking service and gets to like the money and...would play out in a book.
I think collaborating on anything is HUGELY difficult, and collaborating on fiction has torn up many a friendship in my observation. How about that as a separate challenge after we who choose to participate (Keir? Up for a challenge?) complete NaNoWriMo? Best for all to see if they love doing this as much in practice as in thoery. That’s my suggestion.
RMJ...>sigh batbatbat< I get another poem, just ‘cause? You are indeed a goddess of beneficence in happier hours, and a stern voice of conscience in those no-nonsense times. Divine!
Good LORD my puppy Alfred’s better informed than Drudge! What a crap site his is. Crap!
All: off to pursue knowledge, ciao for now
Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 10/27 at 02:54 PMYour daily posts always make my day, Mickey! LOVE the Chomsky quote - could not agree more with the Professor. And did Teddy Roosevelt really make that statement? Seeing I read it on the ‘cool observer’s’ blog, the answer would have to be ‘Yes’.
Thanks for another enlightening/funny/informative entry!
And hello to all of you MZ’ers - I won’t name names because I always forget someone ..
A beautiful spring day coming up in Daylesford in the State of Victoria in Australia ..Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 10/27 at 05:43 PMAnd thanks for the link to the Douglas Adams piece michael! How come the good always die young??
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 10/27 at 05:47 PMbecause just like me they all smoked!
adams died of a heart attack in the gym. there are two ways to look at this.
1. his 30 years of smoking caught up with him
2. exercise is bad for youi am going with two.
the latest at thumping the tub is about adams
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 05:50 PMmichael,
I am going with two as well.
And that ‘Jesus loves you’ poster is priceless! I remember seeing it before somewhere but now one can copy and paste ..Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 10/27 at 06:09 PMKBN - that site is fantastic - is it going to be kept going?
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 06:18 PMJim Fixx, the original jogging guru of the 70s, died of a heart attack at 51...while jogging.
FDR’s boss during WWI, when he was the Navy’s executive echelons, was a heavy smoker and drinker. FDR was a fitness nut. FDR died in 1944, after being crippled by polio contracted while doing something stupid and strenuous (how often the two go together). His old boss died in 1960, at over 80. WHo the hell cares what he died of, he died happy!
Fie on fitness, fie I say.
Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 10/27 at 06:35 PMi don’t think mickey will take this position somehow. he’s BIG on fitness
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/27 at 06:46 PMSo true, Michael, but he can hardly impose his lunatic fringe views on fitness and what constitutes food on others without volating his principles, and that is a thing Mr. Z would not do ever. So he leads by example and even exhortation down the primrose path of flavorless foodstuffs and Savonarola-style anti-voluptuary stances.
Bet I get yelled at now, oh sigh.
Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 10/27 at 07:04 PMI’m here to “report” that fitness or veganism or meditation...or anything like that is not necessarily designed to add years to our life. It’s about adding life to your years.
Who the hell wants to live too long anyway?
Hi Helga…
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/27 at 07:04 PMFlavorless?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/27 at 07:06 PMSavonarola-style anti-voluptuary stances? Don’t know any vegans myself that are into either of those things.
Damn it I have to go out to an overnight proofreading job now with limited web access, save me from the vending machine there, so in the meantime would all of you please write glowing reviews of 50 AR on amazon? Do it now before next month’s novel writing takes up all your time. It’s only fair for MZ letting us hang in his living room rent free like this.
“truth”. Seriously. That captch oracle is amazing.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 10/27 at 07:18 PMBtw, did anyone else find out how much their blog is worth?
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maybe I should end my blog-free vacation. I haven’t seen that kind of dough in years.
Posted by JOS on from http://www.wdthu.blogspot.com 10/27 at 11:13 PMoops...didn’t work. I’ll try tomorrow.
Posted by JOS on from http://www.wdthu.blogspot.com 10/27 at 11:14 PMYeah (Mudge), I’d love to write a novel in 30 days. Sure. Not like there’s not enough pressure in my life. I’ll give you an update on December 1st. I don’t know about signing up on that website though. Gimme a good reason and I’m sold.
Mickey I checked and my blog--according to that site--is worth absolutely nothing, $0.00. Which raises the question: do I add more over there or forget the whole thing? There’s a similar, more me-friendly site called blogshares.com. So.
Michael, I don’t know anything about that FOX News in history site. Just something somebody gave me a link to. But in addition to being funny and on point, I think it represents a very effective method of communicating our grievances. In a post on my blog (speaking of it) a while ago I wrote this...
...which I received some very positive feedback on. Here like in that FOX News thing there is a simple deconstruction of what is actually being said. No commentary--I suppose most often people are intelligent enough to draw appropriate conclusions (e.g. FOX or Blair=full of shit)--just the same raw data in a sugar-free variety.I haven’t seen any acknowledgement of the fact, and it is a fact, that Menezes was murdered. Meanwhile, here’s what Tony Blair had to say, according to the BBC: “We are all desperately sorry for the death of an innocent person. I understand entirely the feelings of the young man’s family. But we also have to understand the police are doing their job in very, very difficult circumstances and it is important that we give them every support.”
Yeah. Try saying this out loud: “An innocent man was murdered by over-zealous police. We must support them in this difficult work."
Put yet another way: “If you piss on my face I’m not gonna call it rain. I’ll call it piss!” (Rev. Al Sharpton)
Work, people, work.
Posted by KBN on from The Hague 10/28 at 04:43 AMcheers
my blog is worth 0 as well. what is the address for yours KBN?
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/28 at 04:51 AMhttp://keirneuringer.blogspot.com
Yours?
Posted by KBN on from The Hague 10/28 at 04:56 AMhttp://thumpingthetub.blogspot.com
Posted by michael on from scotland 10/28 at 05:00 AMBill: “We live in such a weird culture, man. Does anyone remember this, when Yul Bryner died, and came out with that commercial after he was dead? ´I’m Yul Bryner and I’m dead now.´ What the ####’s this guy selling? I’m all ears. ´I’m Yul Bryner and I’m dead now, because I smoked cigarettes.´ Okay, pretty scary. But they coulda done that with anyone. They coulda done it with that Jim Fixx guy, too, remember that guy, that health nut who died while jogging? I don’t remember seeing his commercial! ´I’m Jim Fixx and I’m dead now. And I don’t know what the #### happened. I jogged every day, ate nothing but tofu, swam five hundred laps every morning, and I’m dead. Yul Bryner drank, smoke, and got laid every night of his life. He’s dead. Shit. Yul Bryner’s smokin’, drinkin’, girls are sitting on his cueball noggin every night of his life. I’m running around a dewy track at dawn. And we’re both fucking dead. Yul used to pass me on his way home in the morning, big long limousine, two girls blowing him, cigarette in one hand, drink in the other. “One day that life is going to get to you, Yul.” They’re both dead. Yeah, but what a healthy looking corpse you were, Jim. Look at the hamstrings on that corpse! Look at the sloppy grin on Yul’s corpse! Yul Bryner lived his life.”
Posted by Owen on from Barcelona 10/28 at 06:38 AMtry http://www.thumping... instead of http… same thing happened to me. 0 on http, 11,000 on www.
Posted by JOS on from http://www.wdthu.blogspot.com 10/28 at 06:50 AMI think Ward Churchill is rediculous and your John Zerzan lacks. Chomsky… what babble.
Peace!
Click my URLPosted by WesleyWes on from Eugene Oregon 10/31 at 04:54 PMhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/Liberty411
Posted by WesleyWes on from Eugene Oregon 10/31 at 04:55 PMHow are things at the University of Oregon, Mr. Stout?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/31 at 05:05 PM
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