Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Steel Cage Match: Founder of the Crips vs. Founder of the CIA
Hi everyone, I’m in Ireland for a few weeks and here to wish you all well. I’m still editing my november novel and started work with a few friends with a childrens’ book that hasn’t got any wizards in it, I’m not sure if I gave out my address before if anyone wants to read it can tell me at owen.kilfeather(at)gmail.com or here.
peace,
O.P.S. anyone exploring for links between Walkers/Bushes and Nazis would do well to look industrialist Fritz Thyssen.
Posted by Owen on from Dublin 12/15 at 09:25 AMGood morning Mickey and all,
Mickey wrote: During the pre-war period, the elder John Foster led off cables to his German clients with the salutation “Heil Hitler,” and he blithely dismissed the Nazi threat in 1935 in a piece he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly. In 1939, he told the Economic Club of New York, “We have to welcome and nurture the desire of the New Germany to find for her energies a new outlet.”
Strangely, this information (nor anything else you’ve snipped for us this morning) did not make its way into my high school American History class.
What I do remember about my American History class, however (and I know it’s not Story Saturday yet, but this is just practice), was an incident that, in retrospect, helped plant the seeds of my future politicization.
I was snoozing in the back row with my stoner buddies, having spent the lunch hour puffing a certain condensed substance derived from the flower of the cannibis. I heard the teacher shout—the teacher being a WWII vet, and old fart who taught straight from the textbook and was just playing out his time before retirement. I looked up, and this Native American kid was holding a lighter up to a spray can, spewing flames onto the American flag. As hard as it is to get a flag burning, he did it in seconds—he’d obviously perfected his method before going live with it. The teacher took three running steps, launched from about fifteen feet away, and landed on the kid with all his blubbery weight. Everyone went quiet, and it seemed like forever before the school cop showed up. He cuffed the kid and walked him out—you can just see all the classrooms alond the hallway, heads sticking out of doors, everyone watching. We never saw that kid again.
Now that I’m reading Mickey’s work—and it’s stuff that I’ve come to know while breaking out of the mind control matrix these past twenty years—I see how important it was for my educators to keep this information from me. Had I been privy to this information at the age of 17, I would’ve known to give that kid a hand. And I would’ve have been alone.
Posted by Hawk on from Boulder, CO 12/15 at 09:28 AMPublic education is really better called “miseducation.” It’s a system of indoctrination and pacification. Why else do you imagine it’s universal and compulsory, faithless to the screamings and rantings of elites in earlier generations against educating the working class?
They found a way to make it work FOR them, that’s why it’s the way it is. That’s why some people who excel at their sytem’s propaganda swilling trough are whisked into “advanced distraction” classes and force-fed more firmly the party lines.
Why, one wonders, would these people whose survival depends on our complicity, whether coerced or offered, leave a paper trial of their amoral and soulless activities beind for those with eyes to detect and reveal?
Because facts, like documents, exist in a vacuum, to be spun whichever way the rhetorician in charge wants them to spin. That’s why we who consume need to vote with our dollars for the spin we believe. The more dollars, the more that spin becomes dominant. That’s why MZ’s many self-promotions are so important for US, much more so than for him! He sells books...we get more books like his. The moral vacuum can work FOR us, in other words, and being a vacuum it won’t do anything at all to help or to impede our efforts to spin this mother in a new direction.
And we vote with our clicks here at the Cool Observer for more and better revelations of the life-affirming spins of our host.
Hi Owen, enjoy the Motherland.
Hawk, duuuuude!
Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/15 at 10:01 AMMZ, Jeffrey Skoll of eBay billions is using his money to finance stuff like Syriana, bless his little pink hide. Have you and/or Sander thought of sending him a copy of There is No Good War with a marketing proposal? A book tour, a documentary a la Ken Burns on the facts you’ve uncovered, and...radical proposal this is...a Cool Observer webcast, a talk show with our kind of guests...Ward Churchill for a half hour, answering your questions...Howard Zinn on the airwaves at last...Sander, Johnny Temple, that whole segment of the publishing world with public access for their immoderates, moderated by a pink taffeta clad MZ. I know I’d watch, though without sound because my sound card blew.
My point is, here’s a fantabulously rich man who to all appearances wants to do some small amount of good in the world, I say afford him the opportunity to do even more. Even if a webcast seems like too much to ask, remember that it can be offered as a free download for any local-access TV station. If, as I suspect, his purpose is to expand the public’s mind, I think you’re his ideal partner in crime.
Imagine for a moment, fellow Expendables, a Cool Observer talk show once a week. Uncancellable, except by the financier; considering how very cheap this would be compared to a movie, I wonder if he’d bother to yank support.
Make a proposal to Sander, MZ, and see if you can get this idea rolling, as a Yuletide love-offering to your supporters! Expendables?
Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/15 at 10:32 AMHey all, awesome posts from MZ and comments and links from the rest-- don’t think I’ve learned more about death penalty issues than I have in past few days, more to still absorb. But ah, regarding post #14 troll from yesterday… I have been considering visiting family in Denmark, if that would help.
Oh man it’s cold in New York. Wonder where the fall season “went”.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 12/15 at 10:47 AMJames, not enough...re-emigrate, and take all your nasty Nordicness with you...Troll #14
Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/15 at 11:05 AMUm, you’re kidding, right? distracted now, maybe I missed something-- was joking about the guy from New Jersey yesterday who said we should all go back to Europe; hope I haven’t sounded nasty lately… ah, the perils of commenting while at work!
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 12/15 at 11:22 AMSince I’m as pale or paler than you are, of course I’m kidding. You did see that it was me, Mudge, reposnding to you...?
Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/15 at 11:35 AMMudge has a fantastically good idea regarding the Ebay zillionaire. After all, many rich blokes like to share the largesse culturally (Bill Gates is forever buying rare artifacts and exhibiting them). Why not utilise this for eye-opening literature?
If I can help in any way, please give me a yodel.
Posted by Chris Wood on from Manchester, England 12/15 at 11:52 AMResponding to Hawk’s recollection about the flag burning, how is history taught in the US? When I was at school, it was just so boring. All the mighty events of British history, and all the grounds for dissent therein, and we got such a jaded, lifeless take on things that I stayed disinterested for a long time.
I read a great book a while ago called “Lies My Teacher Told Me” by James Loewen. It looks at the 12 major history books used in high school and shows some of what is left out. Very useful book & Howard Zinn endorsed. But this is very distant - I mean, what’s in a book can be far away from what can be in a classroom. If anyone could tell me a little of their experiences, I would really appreciate it.
Posted by Chris Wood on from Manchester, England 12/15 at 12:03 PMAfternoon All,
My gradeschool (french, roman-catholic...although I’m neither I’m now fluent in both) history was a very strange mix of colonial stories.
We learned all about Cartier and his wonderful escapades and ‘discoveries’. According to my memory they seemed to have us all think that the French got along quite well with Natives, until the evil and plunderous British came on the scene.
Then moving on, it was all about the war of 1812 and the upheaval of French colonial societies, as well as disruption of Metis socities in Manitoba.(french are rather attached to claiming Louis Riel’s french half - inventing braille and whatnot, they found a reason not to label him a traitor)
There was some basic education of Native community life, culture, etc. but certainly no mention of how badly their way of life was decimated or what awaited them in residential schools and those horrors that ensued.First Nations & the Canadian govt. have reached a compensation deal; payout for which is now pending (I believe) the results of our redundant election proceedings.
Fortunately for me, I knew a few people growing up who were Native, some who still lived on the rez; I learned a great deal more about their situation both present and historical which helped me to shape a more balanced view of history than I’d otherwise have been left with.
Perhaps only by virtue of our smaller national population in Canada do we seem to hear more news today of historical prejudices being rectified, or at least brought to light, when it happens around the various regions of our country. And there are a lot of them to deal with.
I’m not sold on the idea of monetary compensation for these issues...Where do you stop? Money can never undo the wrongs, will it be put to use to attempt to pick up the pieces, or is it just to serve as a bandaid so it can be checked off the list of problems?
Posted by Amelopsis on from the snowscape north of the 49th parallel 12/15 at 12:42 PMOh yeah, Mudge, guess I was just erring on the side of caution, reading with one eye at work here… no, I’m not injured, just distraced, and hey-- I’ll point out that when the Vikings um, ‘discovered’ the ‘New World’, they had the good sense to leave after just a short visit…
Your idea for a talk show is hilarious. I picture it being a primarily left-version of the McLaughlin Group. “Issue #1!”... “Wrong!”. Even though MZ’s the virtual host, it might be more fun to have you be the McLaughlin role. You can have the real JL on as a guest, too, like what happened on Saturday Night Live one Halloween. Surreal, the guy had a great sense of humor.
Why did you move from NYC, by the way? ...if you don’t want to say the real reason why, make something up, and tell it on Saturday.
Posted by James Langergaard on from Hell's Kitchen 12/15 at 01:08 PMG`Day, Mickey Z., and Mudge and Hawk and Owen and James and Chris - (Whew!) -
Very good ta see ya`all.
Mudge, I like your ideas for “The Cool Observer Show.” I would assume that an early and frequent guest commentator should be someone with a decidedly curmudgeonly perspective on life. Perhaps you can be Ed McMahon to Mickey’s Johnny Carson… the beginning of a long, delightful career. You can spring off to Sardi’s, after the show, for drinks and gab…Hawk, wonderful story - sounds remarkably like my high school…
Great stuff - spooky stuff - on Dulles and on the Nazis / Ba’athists, Mickey. More on Dulles, soon, I hope.Amelopsis - Hi.
It’s interesting to see how history is taught from the perspective of other nations ( Canada ), and other historical “lines” ( France )
For us, of course, the US is the center of the world, and of world history… We’re grateful to the French for their help in the revolution, but otherwise, they’re a bunch of artsy-fartsy-fruity types who’d rather eat escargot than fight like a “real” country… and they’re mostly a footnote.Canada is our respectful, boring neighbor to the north… famous, mostly, for cold, snow, and for not pissing us off…
James - I like your thinking, too.
Maybe we can convene a panel of expendable experts to study the matter…Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/15 at 01:24 PMHe even has a Wiki page, just like Mickey does, so you know he’s gotta be a big star.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_McLaughlin_GroupI can see it now: “From the World’s capital (i.e. NYC), “Expendable Group"-- an unrehearsed, hastily assembled program presenting inside opinions and forecasts on major issues of today.”
What a great “line”.
Posted by James Langergaard on from Hell's Kitchen 12/15 at 01:44 PMA Thursday Expendable welcome to all. Wow, a guy gets too busy to check his own site and he’s voted down by James as host of his own impending TV show? What gives? I’m gonna talk with my new agent: http://tinyurl.com/37wlp.
Owen: I’m an Irish citizen, btw. Hope to finally visit there in 2006.
Mudge: Great suggestion. I will e-mail Sander today.
Hi Joe. How are “things”?
Hawk, Chris, and Amelopsis: I remember in high school, I was always being placed in gifted classes (beware geeks bearing gifts?)...in particular, a 10th grade “Social Studies” class in which my teacher—a strict nun—taught (sic) us about U.S. and European history (sic). Sister Stephen was fixated on the phrase “balance of power” so, before long, we all caught on and used that phrase in every answer we gave in class and on tests. As a result, she loved us.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/15 at 02:08 PMHated to break it to you, Mickey, but I just thought that Mudge would fit this mold a bit better: http://tinyurl.com/7vd6k
The office in Bkln Hts. here is gonna close if there’s a transit strike here tomorrow. Pansies. All of us hourly temps are thrilled about it. I was totally going to ride my bike over the Brooklyn Bridge, which I guess I should do anyway.
Posted by James Langergaard on from Hell's Kitchen 12/15 at 02:18 PMMickey, isn’t it cute the way the military named it’s big agent orange plane “Patches.” That’s just adorable. The 1st Atomic Bomber was named after a guy’s mother. You know, the military has a warm, fuzzy side I’d never noticed before. It’s deeply endearing…
Hey - BigBlab Warning:
Some thoughts about the Dulles Boys:The old X-Files show had a character called “The Cigarette Smoking Man,” who seemed to be everywhere, behind the most horrific events of the 20th Century… I always think of him as having been modeled on the Dulles Brothers. Though I shouldn’t, I generally think of them as one big, burly, creepy dude, capable of being in two places at once.
I’ll treat them, below, as one person…Among what could be an almost endless list - some highlights. ( From memory, so errors are possible):
* The Treaty of Versailles - Dulles is there, writing the most devastating economic “planks,” which caused some to speculate that the treaty was deliberately designed to CAUSE WWII…
* BIG, BIG Banking, Big Oil, Espionage, before and during WWII - Dulles is a central figure.
* Vast, complex webs of trades between the US and Nazi Germany, before and during WWII - Dulles is there.
* National Security Council - Dulles is there.
* OSS & CIA - Dulles is there…
* CIA / Drugs, post WWII - Dulles’ name repeatedly comes up in studies by Cockburn & St. Claire, and by Peter Dale Scott.
* Peace Treaty with Japan which cemented our dominance over the island for the rest of the century and beyond - Dulles is the architect.
* Passionate & very influential advocate for our entry into the Korean War.
* One of the founders of the infamous and nefarious Council On Foreign Relations.
* Architect of our Cold War Policy and advocate of “nuclear brinkmanship.”
* Deep involvement in the Bay of Pigs and in various attempts to overthrow or murder Fidel.
*In any comprehensive readings about the assassination of JFK, Dulles seems to be everywhere, just off to the side of the stage… before, and during the assassination “period.”
And, of course, afterwards, he just happened to serve, along with his long-time buddy, Immense UberDude, John J. McCloy, on the Warren Commission, concluding that a single gunman, acting all alone, killed Kennedy… and that Dulles was NOT everywhere, just behind the curtain…Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/15 at 02:39 PMPatches? Why not Scraps? & How come nobody thought to name the Enola Gay “Snuggles”?
Thanks Amelopsis & MZ for the school details.
(Amelopsis, I agree about the money not making up - you can’t just massacre people and call for the check, although I suspect the Bush family would probably call any such government ‘people we can do business with’ - shudder!)
I’ve had crap TV on in the background, Newlyweds. Remember that divorce site from yesterday? It said Jessica Simpson has to pay Nick half her $30m from last year (poor cow). Apparently his music earnings went down a lot - now I know why: the show reminded people what his music sounds like. I felt ill and needed an Hendrix ear enema afterwards.
Re The Mickey Z Show ...
If the funding was good you could have the Jim Henson workshop knock up some political puppets.
How about Cheney the Wonderpig? Can float to the top of any pile of shit or the bottom of any snout ... as if by magic! Vampire Rumsfeld can Count to NNNiinee (more than Quayle could!).& why not do a reversal of the Hannity & Coombs format, with loads of right wingers you piss off & insult. At the end you could get chased in speeded up motion with the Benny Hill music playing and an irate Bill O’Reilly speeding after you, wheezing from his coke & dildo consumption etc etc
Posted by Chris Wood on from Manchester, England 12/15 at 03:10 PMNow James, pansies get a really bad rap in that use (#16) of the word...tough little mo-fos, pansies, up with the crocuses and being bright, colorful and almost toxically perky against the snow. They’re my favorite flower, and I really prefer the old Victorian name “heart’s-ease” for ‘em. A transit strike and an ice storm seems as good an excuse as any for the panty-waists you’re working for to close up shop...hell, seems like a pretty damn good idea to me!
As to Mudge McMahon to MZ Carson, I’d have to move back to NYC...expensive place to live. I left because my mother had a massive stroke and needed looking after. She died TWO DAYS after I moved all my stuff here from NYC. Perverse old bat just didn’t want to hear my mouth about what she did with all the cash in my inheritance (gambled it away, aaaalllll of it). Why I didn’t come back...well, I was ready to come home to Austin for a rest and recreation tour. I like it here, complaining aside, because...well, because home is home in a way one usually can’t explain. I know I have several places that are home in the indefinable “my bones fit better here” way...NYC, Florence, Cuzco, Montreal. Some places are inimical to me: LA, Rio, Mexico City, Berlin, Chicago, Manila, Orlando. I get sick when I arrive and recover when I leave. The rest, I don’t know yet, or don’t care much.
Hi Joe! Nazis, Ba’athists, Repulsivecans, what’s the odds? All of ‘em heartless evil bastards. And the Dulles boys wer always the objects of my father’s suspicions because he distrusted their “liberal agenda.” I do not make this up.
Hey Chris, I have a history teacher story for Saturday. What a hoot the teaching of history is...the writing of it...the piece I wrote about facts existing in a vacuum above came from my days of studying to be a teacher.
Amelopsis, I still await an alternate history story about Riel’s SUCCESSFUL rebellion. No one’s tackled that one yet, nor has anyone risen to my challenge of Atlantic Canada being the ENGINE of the country (which, based on natural resources, it should be).
Okay, fingers hurting, going to get a “fine” bowl of eggnog ice cream and watch a recorded soap.
Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/15 at 03:51 PMMudge, am I a flower Nazi now? Being diresepectful to pansies… is NYC more expensive than elsewhere? Seems like all major cities are pricey to live in a decent place, though I’d get more space for the same money elsewhere, I guess… Sure do envy the amount of traveling you’ve gotten to do, though.
Posted by James Langergaard on from Hell's Kitchen 12/15 at 04:32 PMI think it’s official now. This week’s Storytelling Saturday is the “school daze” edition.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/15 at 04:36 PMFlower Nazi! ROFLMGAO!
I hate cut flowers overall, James, so I’m the Flower Nazi. No way to cut heart’s ease, though, stems are too dinky.
I traveled because no one can take away money you put in your head (that Polish Jew grandmother coming out again); I never wanted a degree after I decided not to be a teacher, so traveling and reading are the best ways of furnishing your head and I did ‘em. My father took me places after the divorce, and my eldest sibling did as well.
If you go to Denmark, don’t miss Tivoli Gardens...what an amusement park SHOULD be. Read all the HC Andersen you can find. The place is exactly like his stories make it seem, even yet (or as of 1991, when last I went).
You might consider reading The Royal Physician’s Visit for a hmmm darker version of the Danish national Gemutlich-lite. (Sorry for the bad pun, Germans.)
I like the Saturday theme, MZ. School daze bring out the beast...oops, best...in all of us.
Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/15 at 05:41 PMMudge
I must firstly admit to typing while eating. (Sustenance today is ground soy cabbage roll casserole, perfectly suited to the winter storm that drove me to leave work a little early. And indulges my former love of ‘real’ cabbage rolls.)
It seems many Expendables have perhaps traveled to a greater number of countries than ‘the average’ person. I find the most common result of this is that the more often you move (particularly to another country or geographical region) the more thoughtful you become, or more aware, of the customs and cultures of others. Even among western nations there is such vast nuance of culturally exclusive peculiarity.
I ramble.
So about the Coasters and their ‘vast’ resources...Atlantic Canada was kept silent about the profits that their contributions to the national coffers came fast and strong from the oil rigs and the various Fisheries operations because the National Government needed to prevent the Provincial Governments from demanding their rights to the profits from the extraction of all it’s natural resources. Alberta has always profited directly from it’s resource extraction; now Newfoundland & Labrador have a similar agreement and Saskatchewan is asking for the same.
In the case of Nfld., they will need to continue rehabilitating and protecting the Atlantic Fisheries. They’ve been woefully abused and the Ocean floor is being destroyed daily. The Province will make profits from the oil, that’s a given; but it’s certainly no comparison to what that Province could be today if it had always had them. The Government of Canada waited until the resources had peaked and then they capitulated to the demands of Newfoundland.
So, I’m still not sure if I’d consider them quite the ENGINE of the economy; I want to see what they do to the Atlantic Ocean in the next five years before I make a decision.
I’m “going” to have to get back to you about Louis Riel another day - out to get some eggnog ice cream.
(I can’t wait for Saturday!)
Posted by Amelopsis on from outside with a shovel 12/15 at 05:52 PMDoes anyone else get “A Word A Day”? I’m actually up to this week in reading the definitions of the oddities the editor selects and sends, and Monday’s word (degringolade, which looks like it ought to be the Native peoples’ rallying cry...de-gringo-late) I saw this quote I’ve never seen before:
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. -Douglas William Jerrold, playwright and humorist
(1803-1857)Was this meant as humor, one woders....
Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/15 at 06:01 PMHiya Amelopsis: In an alternate history, one takes the facts and does violence to them by turning them inside out. What if, I propose, the Atlantic provinces hadn’t had the “Center” vacuuming the money out of the huge oil resources because, in the 19th century, Atlantic Canada had been allowed to retain its natural markets...NFLD to MA...for its then-valuable resources of timber, shipbuilding, and banking? It was an 1867 agreement btw USA and Canada that closed down the financing of Bank of Nova Scotia that almost made MAine a viable economy in NS’s sphere of economic influence.
I’ve long wondered what the results of a Nova Scotian-financed and -built Confederate Navy would have been. Understand that I’m an intellectually curious person, not a South-Shall-Rise-Again goofball. (IMHO the South rose again, and that is why the USA is in the political darkness it’s in.)
I enjoyed an alternate history novel called The Apparition Trail that’s set in 1884 Alberta, featuring a psychic detective and a Cree sorcerer whose aim is to return the First Nations’ land to them throughout western Canada (one presumes this includes the USA’s west as well). You need a high tolerance for magical stuff to enjoy the book.
MZ read some of another alternate history novel I recommended, about a world wihtout a WWII because TR was elected to a third Presidential term and history followed a different path as a result of TR’s weilding a Big Stick a lot sooner in the conflict. The Severed Wing is set in the 2000 that results from the absence of WWII, including Holocaust-lessness, and a technological level equivalent to about 1950. It didn’t catch him by the eyelashes the way it did me. But since the genre is a passion of mine, I guess it wouldn’t. Not all “white” men think alike, I guess.
Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/15 at 06:20 PMCabbage rolls, yummmm...but carnivorous moi will soon be dining upon chili (which does NOT have beans in it, that’s spicy Mexican stew avec les legumes) and sharp cheddar blopped on top of some elbow macaroni previously greased up with a stick of butter.
God, I’m drooling, best go get the dining “room” ready.
Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/15 at 06:29 PMMudge, hold down the fort. With Michele out of school, we can be spontaneous and walk “straight” down to the local multiplex to watch a giant ape flirt with a cute blonde. I’ll see everyone later...much later.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/15 at 06:33 PMHey, enjoy your newfound freedom, you wacky kids. Its “length” will be limited.
Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/15 at 07:06 PMHi Mudge, and all…
Just peeked over my mother-in-law’s shoulder, as she watched the mainstream evening news.
Before my eyes became completely blinded by tears, and my heart overwhelmed with rage, I watched a piece about the growing numbers of Polar Bears which are drowning up in the Arctic.
It seems that so much ice is melting, that they literally are left with no solid place upon which to stand.
A Polar Bear can swim 50 or 60 miles, so imagine how little solid ice there must be in the area…“sun”
Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/15 at 09:02 PMExtra late post for me. Kong was heartbreaking...in the polar-bears-are-drowning kind of way. More tomorrow.
Signing off from a rainy Astoria at 11:35.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/15 at 11:34 PMG`Night, Mickey.
A closing thought from Mr. Dylan:
I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden,
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
Where black is the color, where none is the number,
And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’,
But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’,
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard…
It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/15 at 11:57 PMMickeyZ TV. An excellent idea. And quite easily achievable, even without much financing. New York’s cable “service” should have a community television channel that provides equipment and basic facilities to allow the public to generate their own TV programs. A few basic technical classes to familiarize you with the equipment and facilities and you’re off and running. Anything you produce using those facilities is not for profit, but any publicity you get through it could certainly help the cause. A few phone calls by those Expendables in NYC should uncover the relevant information. Apparently Time-Warner is the monopoly in question.
I’ve been working in television at various levels for 17 years, and I will gladly offer any advice that I can. Some of it might even be useful.
Posted by Cart on from near Warshington DC 12/16 at 12:15 AMmorning all. just had to post this. a few weeks ago we mentiuoned the seigfried and roy thing. well - i found the tiger attack footage. look....
better “latter” than never
Posted by michael on from scotland 12/16 at 05:44 AMHi Everyone,
It’s not very “cold” here today - nice change.
Mudge The Apparition Trail sounds like a very interesting novel. I have a high tolerance for the magical variety of fiction so I think I’ll seek it out, thanks!
MZ, the King Kong sounds like a virtual Gorillas in the Mist type of tear jerker...I’m not sure I’m as eager to see it as I was before hearing it’s not going to provide me with gratuitous escapism.
Joe, I heard about the polar bear drowning in the open sea this morning while preparing for work and couldn’t help but have the same reaction you did. It simply should not be happening. They now have to swim so long and hard between each floe to hunt that they are exhausted and dying. It makes me sick that we’ve allowed this to happen; that the Arctic is no longer “cold” enough to support it’s indigenous wildlife; that only now is there a push to label them as endangered.
Too late.Posted by Amelopsis on from slushy Canada 12/16 at 08:56 AMHi Amelopsis -
Thanks for the note.
I admit to being a bit overwhelmed by those terrible images.
I guess all species are now endangered now, you know?
I wonder where the elites think they’re going to go, when they’ve turned the entire planet into a vast septic system… Are they planning to raise their grandchildren in reinforced underground bunkers?
Perhaps “Elite” is a synonym for “Psychopathic.”Hi Michael & Cart -
Michael, great pic…
Two “cartoon-guyz” being attacked by a cartoon tiger. Perfectly apt…Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/16 at 11:22 AMThanks for the offer, Cart...and for the shot of Dylan, Joe.
Amelopsis: I think I replied to you on today’s board (Friday). Sorry about that.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/16 at 11:50 AMYour blog has very much liked me. I shall necessarily tell about him to the friends.
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