Mickey Z
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Friday, December 02, 2005
Reading is fundamental...
I just laughed out loud...but how true RMJ’s graphic is...no need to hold back on something like that. I’d recommend Crusader’s Cross by James Lee Burke, but I think it’s best to read the first in the Dave Robicheaux series Neon Rain, and then go from there:
Posted by JOS on from PR 12/02 at 08:36 AM1,000th execution this morning…
“The execution of Kenneth Boyd has not made this a better or safer world,” his attorney Thomas Maher said. “If this 1,000th execution is a milestone, it’s a milestone we should all be ashamed of.”
Posted by JOS on from PR 12/02 at 08:43 AMGood morning Mickey, Joe, and Keir...Just a comment on last night’s discussion. Mickey, I agree with you that distinctions must be made. Buying a pair of socks is not as bad as dropping a load of cluster bombs. I see no problem in arriving at degrees of responsibility. In fact, I think it is important to do that. But if we hold only those on the very top responsible and exonerate everyone else we will never solve the problem. We have to accept the fact that Bush never killed anyone and wars could not be waged without the cooperation of large numbers of us.
Keir, I think that you brought up the point of who it should be who would make the judgement as to who is evil. I know that that is a tricky point. Everyone seems to want to separate the evil act from the person who does that act. In our culture now it is thought to be a violation of courtesy to be judgemental. I understand that uncomfortable feeling when it comes to judging another human but when I look at the Fisk photos it is not so hard. Maybe, in a sense, a person is what he does. If we do not make judgements about right and wrong or good and evil, how else can victims of future wars be protected?Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 12/02 at 08:53 AMMornin JOS. You came in as I was posting. Glad you liked the graphic. I know that it is of questionable taste but I, too, laugh every time I look at it.
About the books Mickey recommends. I will have to check them out. I have followed Joshua Frank’s writings for a long time. He is really a hard worker and produces a lot of good stuff… Got to rush off now. Someone says that I need an EKG. I don’t, but I will satisfy them and go to the medical center now. It will be a waste of time but what can I say. See you all later.Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 12/02 at 09:00 AMBig Country, I had never heard of Burke and he seems like the kind of author I “typically” don’t read. So, for that reason alone, I just ordered Neon Rain. Why not step out of my self-imposed box? Thanks for that...and the execution link.
RMJ: I can agree with you but I must state: only in one sense is a person “what he or she does.” Environmental factors are huge. Here’s something I wrote a few years ago: http://tinyurl.com/9ycq5. Either way, thanks for the exchange on this. It’s a hard topic to wrap one’s mind around and a topic, as you say, we all need to consider more often.
More importantly, good luck dealing the health care system today. Let us know how it goes, okay?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/02 at 09:05 AMWhat about removing 9/11 from the equation? Nobody deserves to be killed, yet we are all guilty in one form or another. To say that 9/11 was predictible and understandable is completely accurate, yet those who died did not deserve their fate.
Ward’s comments served their purpose. He instigated a conversation about culpability. It needed to be introduced and discussed and realized. But at some point one needs to to move on from those biting comments and expand the conversation.
This converation is not about whether or not the people in the WTC towers deserved to be incinerated or crushed or forced to jump to their deaths, because they didn’t deserve that, just as the Iraqi girl didn’t deserve to have her foot torn off by shrapnel.
It is about life and death and the fact that an US citizens we are ultimately responsible for the actions of our government. And it is about what we are going to do about it.
“peace”
Posted by JOS on from PR 12/02 at 09:13 AMExcellent point, JOS. As Chomsky sums up, saying all we trultneed to hear: “You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.”
Gotta run...I’ll check back in here soon.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/02 at 09:15 AMGive him a chance, Mick...like Chomsky says (paraphrased), we can probably learn more about the human condition from novels than any, what was it, scientist? psychologist? our education system? Anyway, I think Burke has a tap into the human psyche...plus he always tells a damn good mystery story.
Posted by JOS on from PR 12/02 at 09:20 AMI ordered it, Big Country. I’m hoping for some long-awaited downtime soon and I’ll read it then. Thanks.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/02 at 10:58 AMHello, Mickey and Rosemarie, and “Big Country!”
( That’s a great name, JOS - I always forget to use it… )Wonderful review of your book, Mickey. It really would be great if “Christmas” sales really took off… I might pick up another copy as a gift for my niece… A superb gift idea!
Mickey, your link in post 5, leads me to “The Official Yanni Website.” Surely, that’s not where your article is posted…
And, while we’re at it - visiting that site, and Big Country’s reference, yesterday, to David Hasselhoff, makes me wonder if the death penalty is really always a bad thing… nudge, nudge, wink wink…I’m not certain I’m always against it, though I’m pleased that I’m not the guy who has to decide.
Boyd’s son says: “He made one mistake and now it’s costing him his life...”
Well, it was a huge mistake, that’s for sure, but the son is right - it was ONE mistake. On many occasions throughout my 55 years, I’ve been so enraged that, if I’d had a loaded gun nearby, I don’t know what I might have done, in the white-heat of the moment. Fortunately, I never had the opportunity… It’s REALLY easy to think of literally dozens of examples of things that can go terribly, terribly wrong - [i]just like that![i/] - and your life is screwed, forever. Killing someone for such an error seems insane to me. Killing someone, almost always, (maybe always) - seems insane to me.Rosemarie - That someone thinks you require an EKG, is disturbing. I hope you’re OK, and not at all in need of cardiac tests… Let us know how it goes, OK?
Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/02 at 12:21 PM(Guess I screwed up the HTML, eh?)
About Books:
I guess I’d nominate Zerzan’s expanded version of “Against Civilization” - May, 2005.
More than 60 essays, by lots of different authors, all of them hammering away at that dark, putrescent, diseased system of ideas and rules and certainties and terrors we call “civilization.”Excerpt:
“Civilization is like a Jetliner” - T. Fulano:“Civilization is like a 747… every part - as Gus Grissom once nervously remarked about space capsules, before he was burned up in one - has been made by the lowest bidder… civilization is like a 747 - the filtered air, the muzak oozing over the earphones, the phony sense of security, the chemical food, the plastic trays...an idiot savant in the cockpit, manipulating computerized controls built by sullen wage workers, and dependent for his directions on sleepy technicians high on amphetamines with their minds wandering to sports and sex… It’s like a DC-10, so incredibly enclosed that you want to break through the tin can walls and escape, make your own way through the clouds, and leave this rattling, screaming fiend…
“Of course, civilization is like many other things, too - always THINGS - ...it is a hydra. There is a multitude of styles, colors, and sizes of Death to choose from.”Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/02 at 12:31 PMDon’t worry about screwing up the HTML, Joe, I just linked to Yanni. Jeez...talk about making one big mistake. Well, it’s fixed now. Ah, these “programs.”
Love the Zerzan excerpt. In fact, by odd coincidence, my stroy tomorrow will touch on the “multitude of styles, colors, and sizes of Death to choose from.”
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/02 at 12:50 PMOn the Churchill thing, the discussion is interesting, I know that after reading Chickens (the article) I thought seriously about my own responsibility for what my country did, whereas previously I could quite comfortably dump it on Blair, or the Tories, whoever.
I think I tend to take the idea of organisations as responsibility-avoidance devices purely as a way to critique the ‘higher ups’, forgetting that I’m part of The Organisation.
That note from the Nano people is (can’t think of a less wanky word) inspiring, for once I have time AND money, its just inertia stopping me right now.
Read 50AR. Its teeny-wee! And it smells nice. Woody.
And thats my review
Posted by mew on from the whitest place in england 12/02 at 02:03 PMReading is indeed fundamental, Mickey - that includes reading your great blog and clicking on at least some of the links.
My recommendation is ‘Hitting Hard’, a collection of pieces by Michelangelo Signorile published by Carroll & Graf. The sub-title: ‘Michelangelo Signorile on George W. Bush, Mary Cheney, Gay Marriage, Tom Cruise, the Christian Right and Sexual Hypocrisy in America’ and the dedication reads: ‘To Mary Cheney, Arthur Finkelstein and the rest of the gang. May they each find a conscience.’ Well worth the price of $15.95 (US).
And hi to all of you MZ’ers/expendables! A wet 3 December has just dawned in Daylesford, Australia ..Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 12/02 at 02:07 PMOh, and I recommend ‘50AR’ of course - a really great book and an ideal size to be carried around in one’s handbag. Thanks, Mickey!
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 12/02 at 02:12 PMMickey, very strong article in Counterpunch (comment #5). And Big Country, I think you got it in #6.
All the book recommendations ought to be conveniently collected at some point. For myself I do most of my book shopping at an outdoor used book market here on Thursdays and rarely get to read anything brand new. That said, I did pick up Philip Roth’s newest, The Plot Against America, a few months ago. One of his best.
But the book that absolutely floored me this year (besides all the Vonnegut I’ve been reading and rereading) was not a new one: In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul---first published in 1971. Incredible, just incredible.
Posted by Keir on from The Hague 12/02 at 02:30 PMHi Mew & Helga & Keir -
Mickey, I’m going to learn to love Yanni - and David Hasselhoff, too - but it’s going to be a long haul - one tiny step at a time…
Thanks for that link, Mickey. I’ve read that piece, before, and it’s powerful.
You know, in the Zerzan book, a guy writes about the holocaust, and how such a thing was NOT the result of our still being untamed and primitive and “animal-like,” at our core -
it was NOT because we’re still not civilized enough. Rather, the holocaust was only made possible by the vast, dehumanizing, “civilizing” processes which have shaped our world. It would be impossible in a wild, untamed place, in which human beings could never operate as some sort of vast, soulless machine, calmly and rationally performing incredibly cruel and irrational acts, all day, every day, week in, week out… ( With lunch breaks, of course, and periodic leaves, to visit with the wife & kids… )We see much the same phenomenon in Iraq, and in the criminal justice system, and in the schools and workplaces. We see it in our creation and treatment of domesticated animals, and in our reckless, relentless destruction of the environment…
We’re expected to completely set aside our hearts and minds and our deepest understandings, and turn our attention to the service of the State - to a complete submission to the vast, inhuman machinery of civilization…
When a dull, dry, insipid, barely conscious, lifeless obedience is exalted and even worshipped as an ideal - perhaps THE ideal - any and every sort of barbarity and perversion is likely to arise. And, sure enough, the State - that strange, unnatural disease which has infected each of us, in its way - places the blame on our fundamentally flawed, animalistic “human nature,”
holds us “personally responsible” ( though, officially we are all un-persons ), and criminalizes our “poor choices.”Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/02 at 03:04 PMHi Everyone, I just got home. Things turned out the way I knew they would. BP 120/60 and a cardiovascular system as healthy as most lucky 20 year olds. Thanks for making me feel loved and nurtured. When the Doc asked how I manage to keep perfect blood pressure I told her it is because Mudge said that he had dedicated his novel to me. I wonder if Mudge was serious when he said that.
Joe, I like the reference to the Zerzan book. The idea that the “civilizing” process has really caused great harm is something that I have always believed.
Hi also Mew and Helga. JOS, I like your comment #6. Mickey, I will check your link in #5 now.Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 12/02 at 03:31 PMMickey your article linked in # 5 is very thought provoking. It reminded me that I never was able to settle in my mind which side of the “Free will vs Determinism” debate I agree with. At the moment I am leaning toward the Determinism side but then that would mean that no one was ever responsible for what he did. Maybe the world works better if we “pretend” that we all have free will even if that position cannot be supported logically.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 12/02 at 03:51 PMI think he was serious, RMJ. Great news on the BP 120 over 60…
Posted by JOS on from PR 12/02 at 03:53 PMBest news of the day: Rosemarie’s clean bill of health.
Captcha sez: Peace
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/02 at 03:59 PMVery, very good news, Rosemarie Jackowski.
Congrats… and many, many more such test results!With regard to free will -
You know, one can not “will” a thought.
That is to say - follow any particular thought “backwards,” far enough, and you come to silence.
First there’s the silence, then - Pop! - a thought… as if from nowhere. No, not “as if,” but actually from nowhere.In response, people say: “Bullshit, I can think about whatever I want to think about.”
Very true.
Now, where did THAT thought come from? Or… the one before it, or the one before that one...?All thinking eventually traces back to -
nothing.What we do, however, is construct a reasonable “rationale” for our actions, in retrospect. We accept the rationale as obvious, and go on with our business.
Frequently, there’s not even a “first” thought - just an act of some sort -
A punch.
A verbal attack.
A kind word.
A cutting remark.
A slamming of the door.
A pulling of the trigger.
A “pedal to the metal.”And then, we construct our “reasons.”
Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/02 at 04:23 PMI recommend New Yorker Sam Lipsyte´s Home Land. Has anyone noticed this new literary trend started September 11 2001? all of a sudden hordes of writers are diving into historical fiction, just pick little bit of the past and go grubbing around that for a career. I call it the Anything But Now movement. Well it´s their loss because these are pretty rich picklings for satirical writers these days. Lipsyte has a short story collection called Venus Drive and a novel, Subject Steve are worth a look too.
P.S. Congrats Rosemarie, I´m delighted for you.
Posted by Owen on from Barcelona 12/02 at 04:41 PMAnd congrats on your clean bill of health from me as well, Rosemarie!
And a great weekend to all of you: JOS, RMJ, joe, mew, Keir, Owen and last but not least Mickey!Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 12/02 at 05:46 PMHi Owen -
Hey, after Mickey introduced us to Preston Peet, I was wandering about at Drugwar.com, and came upon a great essay about Absinthe. I’ve always been intrigued by the stuff, but never had the opportunity to sample it. ( The closest I’ve come, I suspect, is Mescal, while I lived in Mexico City. It seemed as much a drug-like experience as an alcohol experience… )Anyway, the article mentions various types of Absinthe, and says that, besides a French variety - illegal in France, but legal for export - called La Fee, the best stuff generally available is called Deva Absenta, and it’s made in Barcelona…
Have you ever had any D.A., or any Absinthe, at all, Owen? If so, what do you think? Any comments or babblings would be appreciated…
Thanx…Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/02 at 05:47 PMHappy Weekend to you, too, Helga from Down Under… and to Mrs. Helga, too…
It’s raining and ~ 38 degrees F., here… Yech!
Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/02 at 05:49 PMJoe, I don´t drink alcohol anymore, used to have long periods unaccounted for and I´d wake up in strange places and sometimes in different clothes but what I do know about absinthe is it has wormwood which eats cancer cells for their iron content. The nearest absinthe bar to me is run by an expat with zero sense of humour about me playing guitar at the table.
Posted by Owen on from Barcelona 12/02 at 06:32 PMThanks for the good thoughts Helga and Owen.
Joe, I have always been intrigued by Absinthe too. Wasn’t Van Gogh drinking it when he cut off his ear?
Joe, sounds like you are coming down on the side of Determinism...in which case, that lets Bush off the hook but also it means that the wonderful writers of novels amongst us are not responsible for their literary creations????Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 12/02 at 06:59 PMThanks, Owen.
Mescal & Tequila never seemed much like “get drunk” liquids, to me - there was a sort of hallucinogenic quality to them, which I found interesting, now and again. I thought that, perhaps, Absinthe might be similar…I had many experiences with acid and mescaline, in the 70’s, and they were generally fascinating. I began to realize that the way I saw the world was pretty “arbitrary,” and they really altered my general view of life / perceiving.
The only so called ‘addictives’ I’ve had a long-term relationship with, are coffee and cigarettes. I guess I should be grateful.
Had some friends, a long time ago, who’d shoot & smoke heroin. One of them said I should shoot some - “chip it,” sometime, because “it’s like having an orgasm in every single cell of your body.”
Well, I figured if I tried it once, I’d be shooting as much as I could get my hands on, so I stayed pretty far away, while they were “chipping.”Helga - sorry, I meant “Mr. Helga.”
Please wish Mr. Helga well for me…Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/02 at 07:04 PMThe thing I remember about drinking Absinthe was the ritual: heating sugar in a spoon with a flame (junkie-like), then pouring Absinthe from a bottle over the sugar. Everything was collected in a glass of orange juice. The flavor of the finished drink was nothing but tangy. The effect was the same as that of alcohol, but maybe I didn’t have enough. This was in Berlin in 2001. Is Absinthe illegal in the U.S.? I guess so.
Thad Rutkowski, author of Tetched
Posted by thad rutkowski on from new york 12/02 at 07:13 PMHi Rosemarie -
I guess, philosophically, you’re right - I’m a “determinist.” I see no real reason to put any faith in free-will… despite the fact that it makes for very uncomfortable “conclusions.”Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/02 at 07:22 PMHi Thad - thanks for stopping by!
From what I’ve been reading, it’s illegal to “re-sell” Absinthe, in the US, but not illegal to purchase it for private use. Thus, there’s a site in the UK which sells Sebor Absinthe, to Americans, and will ship it through the mail.
Apparently, the interesting qualities in Absinthe, are a result of the wormwood, which contains “thujone” - a “THC - like” chemical. It differs from pot, according to drugwars.com, in that “ - thujone has stimulative characteristics, while THC is more of a soporific.”
Anyway, many brands of Absinthe have a high alcohol content but a very low wormwood content, and so the results are predictably alcohol-like. However, some brands contain only a moderate amount of alcohol, with a fairly high concentration of wormwood, and those brands are supposed to produce fairly interesting results.
I’m not sure my summation is very good, Thad. Here’s a link to the article. The entire site is quite interesting, by the way.
And, hey - thanks much for your remarks.
Mickey and the gang say nothing but very good things about your work. I’m hoping to join the readership, myself, one day soon…
Rosemarie - the article mentions Van Gogh as one of those famous folks who sipped the stuff. It seems like most of the group from Hemingway’s “Moveable Feast” days enjoyed it as well.Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/02 at 07:49 PMRimbaud always come to my mind when ‘Absumpthe’ is mentioned...that was his name was for it, a play on how it makes one feel and speak.
Posted by JOS on from Calle Colón 12/02 at 08:10 PMHello eveyrone. Hey Thad. Good to see you here.
Well, knock me over with Von Gogh’s ear. I never knew a damn thing about Absinthe till now. Thanks, gang.
Trying to catch up a bit: I’m not sure what the academic terms for this might be but I believe the mess we’re in is the result of decisions made by humans “that” exercised their free will...but were influenced by a variety of external factors (both real and imagined). Reminds me of the Rush song, “Free Will”:
There are those who think that life
Has nothing left to chance
With a host of holy horrors
To direct our aimless danceA planet of playthings
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
The stars aren’t aligned ---
Or the gods are malign
Blame is better to give than receiveYou can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choiceYou can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that’s clear
I will choose free willThere are those who think that they’ve been dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them ---
They weren’t born in lotus-landAll preordained
A prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face
You can’t pray for a place
In heaven’s unearthly estateEach of us
A cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends
With uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt
That’s far too fleet...Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/02 at 08:22 PMSome Americans I meet here send absinthe home in bottles of mouthwash. Interesting article Joe, I live just beside the plaza he´s talking about and hang around there with my ukulele now and then, the fountain contains equal parts regurgitated alcohol to water and Calle Ferran he mentions was where I got picked up for the painting I posted a Saturday story about a month ago or so. As far as perception alteration goes I find it as much fun to work on it off my own bat. I may get myself a theta metronome for Exmas.
Thad, I was working in Kreuzberg in 2001, were you around Berlin for long?
Posted by Owen on from Barcelona 12/02 at 08:33 PMHey all,
“Myself” and a friend have polished off a bottle of La Fee between us. We didn’t get hung up on ceremony, and drank it neat - no life altering experiences to report, just a near-as-dammit instant hangover. It was really remarkably unremarkable, I guess the high-alcohol, low fun-stuff sort Joe was talking about.
The bottle did have a scary ‘Illuminati’ eye though.Posted by Mew on from England 12/02 at 08:38 PMLike this town with eyes all over it in England? http://tinyurl.com/b2p96
Song by Frank Black just remembered:
“So let’s go to Barcelona
We will be noted for our absence
deep in ocean blues of absinthe
making love in our coronas.”Posted by Owen on from Barcelona 12/02 at 08:46 PMTerrifying! That is exactly the same all-seer as on the bottle (you understand of course, my memory isn’t entirely reliable here). The Knights Templar just changed their name tooooo (duh duh duuuuh) The Neighbourhood Watch. And they’re drunk!
Boring, meaningless aside - St Albans is on my weekly commute. Can’t see any signs of nascent facism from the train platform though.
Posted by Mew on from England 12/02 at 08:57 PMNot sure if I did this already, but thanks, Mew, for the review (nice rhyme there). I will use it soon.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/02 at 09:05 PMRMJ: “Maybe, in a sense, a person is what he does. If we do not make judgements about right and wrong or good and evil, how else can victims of future wars be protected?” This was once called “character” and has vanished from our public discourse. I regret this.
Of course I dedicated my novel to you! In fact there are two versions of the dedication, one in case appeal not so good, one in case appeal good:
“For Rosemarie M. Jackowski
Basely used, falsely accused, unjustly imprisoned
------------OR------------
Activist, example, spirit of grace
And to the memory of
The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people freely to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
--Entire text, adopted December 15, 1791; vitiated by the USA PATRIOT Act on...”
I have to find the date the $)(&!(^$%_ thing passed. I have to confess that I wasn’t able to write an ending I liked for my book, the one in place now involves a Confederate sharpshooter at Little Round Top and a wormhole to kill someone I need to have dead...oof! Should it seem to you desirable to read the book, he offered tremblingly, I will send you the pre-ending version and await your verdict.
Anyone else want a file of it?
Determinism’s really easy, Joe, but is it anything but utilitarianism in a scientist’s white lab coat? John Stuart Mill’s ideas are, like syphilis, the gift that keeps on giving. And thanks for the info in your email...I need some digesting time before I comment on an item or two.
Hi Thad! Tetched has made it onto my nightstand four years ahead of time on MZ’s recommendation. I look forward to reading it.
Greetings to all, not to mention sundry...where’s Michael? There’s tubs need thumpin’. How about James? (Not you, Big Country, Hell’s Kitchen James.)
Tomorrow is Storytelling Saturday, wheee! I have one from NaNo to relate. BTW...Austin, popultion 700,000 in the city and about 1.3 million in the MSA, came in THIRD IN THE WORLD in NaNoWriMo word count: 6.5 million words from 227 participants who posted word counts, and 83 winners (50,000 words-plus). In case I didn’t mention it, I am one of those winners. Just in case. Lots of “paper” to print even a few copies of those novels.
Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/02 at 09:30 PM>I will use it soon.
Please be kidding.
My REAL review would probably mention the fact that I was actually interested in the segments on baseball - a pretty astonishing fact.I’ll knock one off now for Amazon, even though I didn’t get it from them.
Posted by Mew on from England 12/02 at 09:47 PMI´d like to read it too please Mudge.
Posted by Owen on from Barcelona 12/02 at 09:53 PMThis is such a great place -
When I get here, I often feel like I’ve walked into my favorite cafe, and find a bunch of good friends gabbing over at the big corner table.
It’s a good feeling…
one I’ve not “felt” for a long time.Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/02 at 10:05 PMBoy, I have a lot to catch up on. Here’s the best I can do:
Hello, Owen.
Mew: I was kidding but still may use your line if the situation is right. Thanks, in advance, for the Amazon review.
Mudge: I can’t read your whole novel right now...at least not until after my big Barnes & Noble talk next week. Btw, I’m editing my Nano novel this weekend. It’s been fun.
Joe: Thanks. You are one of the many reasons why this place is what it is. Whenever I get down on myself (only about 50 times a day), I think: “I must be something right to have attracted such an amazing group of humans to my blog.”
Thanks, all. Signing off from a cold and windy Astoria at 10:48.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/02 at 10:50 PM
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