Mickey Z

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Monday, December 26, 2005

You never know what you'll find while searching the Web...

Posted by Mickey Z on 12/26 at 06:52 AM

Morning MZ,

Seems like everyone must still be sleeping. Quite sensible.

Banksy’s graffiti art is pretty compelling stuff. I actually came across his site a while ago when he was featured on Electronic Intifada after he’d done the wall. Refreshing stuff.

This ongoing debacle with Iran is disconcerting to say the least. I’ve often wondered why the only leader in the region who does not support (either outright or tacitly) the status quo also needs to rant like a wingnut. (how long until we find out about another contra?)

I have no idea who the mug is; but the snl rap was pretty funny.

I’m glad the momo’s went down well; even more glad that Frank the cat seems to be on the mend.

I think the feline tolerance for catnip must be less than 100 lbs....mine both crashed hard after consuming about 2 tbsp. Not before having a show down and demanding treats, though.

Posted by Amelopsis on from Canada 12/26 at 08:05 AM

Hey, I hope you can understand-- it’s just that we all got back late last night from an evening showing of King Kong. Had to get back all the way from this crazy place called Astoria to see it. Liked it much more than expected from beginning to end. So many lessons of varying levels all throughout. Though it was bit hard watching my ‘hood getting roughed up like that at the end (really, it took place just a few blocks from here).

Is that guy above the Narnia image an early shot of Mudge from Dear Dead Austin? Just a thought… great eclectic set of posts today, now off to a hopefully final follow-up visit to the vet, then that should be that!

Thanks again for the attention and support, everyone!

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 12/26 at 09:56 AM

Happy Boxing Day! Where are all the presents? Or, if you prefer, Happy Kwanzaa! It’s Umoja tonight...Unity of family, nation, and race.

I find that even typing the word “race” has a negative effect on me. We’re all one race or we wouldn’t be able to interbreed. Ethnicity’s no better..."ethnic" has been co-opted to me “not like us,” and that’s exactly what I don’t want to hear. I know we’re not like each other, but do we need to focus on that to the exclusion of the ways we’re alike?

I don’t know whose mug-shot that is on the main page, but he looks really really stupid, so he must be a high government official now. Rove?

Momos are Tibetan dumplings...and expensive racing rims for cars...I love that symmetry.

Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/26 at 10:01 AM

As I “looked” at that image at brief glance, he seemed rather dashing, or I wouldn’t have suggested that he looked as I imagine you appear… off now outside, offline-- and glad that the strike is over for now so we can take a bus instead of a cab to the vet.

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 12/26 at 10:07 AM

James, I will have you know I am nowhere NEAR old enough to have a photo that looks like Rove or whoever that is on the main page. Nowhere NEAR.

Note to Self: Never send MZ photos again!

So Amelopsis, the feline world can be assaulted through catnip overdoses? Veeeeeery innnnnnteresting....

Feasted last night on stuffing, my favorite holiday food; avoided sweet potato covered in oozy monster-movie splotches of spoodge (marshmallows, the marsh can have ‘em back for all of me); partook of pork tenderloin and turkey; home-made rolls; crunchy asparagus; spicy sweet pickles; cream cheese pie; Viognier wine, which is so crips it snaps at you on the way to your lips.

I love food! Love love love it! How it’s made, why we make stuffing only on holidays, the difference between stuffing and dressing, why wine is the one perfect food, champagne with a caviar omelet...wonderful!

I got a copy of Madhur Jaffrey’s World Vegetarian cookbook from someone. No one has yet claomed responsibility. It’s so restrictive that I can’t even imagine how orthodox vegans EAT! Dietary laws are such a pain.

Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/26 at 10:21 AM

I like typing the word momo. Momo. There...I did it again.

Amelopsis: Come to think of it, I probably found Banksy’s graffiti art through a link on your site.

Mudge: They are not dietary laws...merely personal choices.

James: Wasn’t it hard to watch them capture Kong with those gigantic hooks? Did you end up eating in Astoria, too?

Momo.

P.S. No one is even close, re: our mystery man.

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/26 at 10:35 AM

Mudge, I never read that book, but I do highly recommend the Vegan with a Vengeance cookbook that Mickey had a post about a few weeks ago. We made the simple stuffed peppers recipe yesterday and my omnivore mom and brother had a great time with it. Fun book, not restrictive at all (well, except for the lack of actual animal products, but besides that, very enjoyable, informative book).

Yeah, that scene with the hooks was one of the roughest. Though easier to take after watching him fling some of those biplanes around for awhile. In vain ultimately, but man he went down fighting. That whole brontosaur stampede sequence was better than anything from Jurassic Park, but best of all, I enjoyed some of the minor personal interactons-- that guy with the glasses who tried to act as Denham’s conscience, the kid reading Conrad the whole time and the black guy (wasn’t sure his exact position on the ship), the ‘action star’’s momentary redemption, and I was pleasantly surprised at Jack Black in a dramatic role.

Had to wonder again-- would a 25-foot gorilla falling down 100 or so stories have maybe landed a bit less intact than that?

Off to the vet for real now-- really wish it were’t raining so much here. Maybe afterwards I’ll treat Frank, or just myself, to some…

Momos.

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 12/26 at 10:57 AM

MZ, I am puzzled by your response...if you’re going to be a vegan, there are things you can eat and things you can’t. If that’s not a dietary law, what is? Choice doesn’t enter into it after the initial choice to be a vegan. ...?

James, the title Vegan with a Vengeance is the most alluring I’ve heard. It makes the whole endeavor sound like it could be fn! i love stuffed pepper with or without animal products, they’re just plain good. My veggie niece made them with pecan rice (a kind of wild rice from Louisiana), sauteed shallots and carrots. Sooooo goooood!

Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/26 at 11:54 AM

One problem is that Vegan With A Vengeance sounds like one of those movies with Bruce Willis in a vest & toting a machine gun.

One thing about holidays & food is the vast variety produced for every meal, not the regular allotment but a whole new world of dietary allure.

Speaking personally, Momo sounds like one of those gangsters who weigh about 400 lbs and have dead fish eyes.

Afraid I have no information about catnip. When in doubt offer whiskey instead.

Posted by Chris Wood on from Jersey 12/26 at 12:43 PM

Mudge, I must confess to a little defensive semantics but after a decade of vegan-ness, one tires of lines like this: “Can you eat this?” or “Are you allowed to eat this?” Of course, I’m allowed, I simply choose not to. And if you ask me again, I’m going have Momo pay you a little visit (thanks, Chris).

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/26 at 12:56 PM

Unfortunately I think the side characters we’re my biggest disappointment with King Kong, but probably not for the reasons you think. ;) I felt the side character development made the movie too long for the theaters. Peter Jackson introduced all these great characters, cultures, and settings that ended up not being followed up on or worse yet dropped entirely. I wish he had tightened up the edit a lot and dropped like a 1/2 hour out of the beginning. It would of made the flick a lot more easier to sit through and more accessible for the mainstream. I really loved the move but by the end I was squirming so much I was wishing they would hurry up and drop the monkey. Not the best way to appreciate the acting. heh With that said he then should turn around and give us a 4 hour long extended cut dvd with the entire story in there. It felt like he had a whole two movies worth of good solid material that got truncated because of a 3 hour cut.
What bothered me the most was Jack Black’s character Carl Denham. In the original the character of Carl Denham was based on a real person the principal producer and creator of King Kong, Merian C Cooper. He’s actually flying the biplane at the end of the film that shoots Kong down. His coproducer Ernest B Shoedsack was the gunner. “We brought him to life, we should be the ones who take him down.” To paraphrase Cooper. He was an amazing man truly a legendary giant of his times along the lines of Howard Hughes and Charles Lindberg. There’s an excellent documentary about him available on the second disk of the new King Kong 1933 dvd.called. “I am King Kong!” Those two disks are truly worth the rental if your an old film buff.
So Seeing Denham acting like a self serving shyster, struggling to stay afloat and just one step ahead of the law was a bit of a disappointment for me. Carl Denham as he was portrayed in the original flick was a man at the top of his game a self made entrepreneur with all the financing he needs and the trust of his backers to take a trip into the unknown to bring back only God knows what.
What kills me is that the perfect theme for that character was staring PJ right in the face. Joseph Conrad’s book “Heart of Darkness”. Going to Skull Island, meeting, capturing and ultimately destroying Kong should of played out as Denham’s “Heart of Darkness”. This giant among men, discovering a fantastical world, meeting one of the old Gods and then taking him down, breaking him and bringing him in chains back to civilization. I imagine it would of made him drunk and little crazy with power until ultimately his actions bring about the destruction of nearly everything and everyone around him. Not only was he responsible for the ending and drastic changes of many peoples lives, but also the destruction of a native people, there culture and the release of untamed savagery onto the streets of New York. I think in the end Denham would be as destroyed as King Kong and his world was.

Hope I didn’t run on too long. ;)

Posted by Luna_C on from not Skull Island 12/26 at 01:10 PM

Check this out - a brilliant cartoon I hadn’t seen before.

http://tinyurl.com/ap79a

Posted by Chris Wood on from Jersey 12/26 at 01:50 PM

I’m back after some sort of Christmas break! Hi, Mickey - thanks for another enlightening/informative post. And when I asked an American whether they had a holiday named ‘Boxing Day’, he replied: ‘What is Boxing Day’? It seems Americans only have Christmas Day.
And hi to all of you MZ’ers/expendables!
Story told by Alan Bennett at the recent Cheltenham Literary Festival:
‘A bus driver gets lost somewhere near Bradford, so he stops his bus and asks a passer-by: ‘Could you tell me where the Bradford turn-off is?’ The passer-by replies: ‘I should know - I am married to her.’
From his latest book ‘Untold Stories’

Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 12/26 at 02:55 PM

And that food sounds delicious, dear Mudge! In Australia it’s a diet of ham, pork, turkey, chicken and various salads - sounds less delicious than what you had. Quite a few Australians have taken to seafood, though, which is a good move seeing it can be very hot at X-mas. Fortunately we had a very pleasant 75 F or so on both 25 and 26 December this year.

Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 12/26 at 03:06 PM

And Luna_C, thanks for the most enlightening post about the character of Denham!
I thought ‘King Kong’ was too long by at least an hour and all in all, I prefer the 1933 version although I liked some of the scenes between Kong and Naomi Watts.

Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 12/26 at 03:25 PM

Folks, haven’t seen the new Kong movie yet, so am avoiding possible spoilers. I love the big movies, though - just turn the brain off for a while & let the spectacle take you away!

BTW, this isn’t trying to be patronising, just the best way of enjoying what will (inevitably) be quite warty movies - ie ones with LCD appeal. Anyone seen the new Narnia one? I thought it was magical until Aslan appeared, & he looked just too close to an 80s poodle rocker I expected him to start singing Livin on a Prayer or Poison to the White Witch ... still thought it was great though.

I expect it’ll be next weekend for me & Kong.

Posted by Chris Wood on from Jersey 12/26 at 03:45 PM

did anyone guess, i’ll guess chris matthews?

maybe it’s really not a suprise that fed ex received almost one billion dollars in defense contracts in 2004 because we only think of fed ex as delivering flowers or whatever but how else are governments and warlords going to get their bullets and guns if not by express delivery.

Posted by tm on from underground 12/26 at 04:44 PM

Shit tm, that’s a good point. Mind you, don’t fancy being a courier! Er, scuse me, any of you guys sign for this, only my bike’s getting shot to ####, plus I have some really important papers to deliver a firm in Atlanta ..

Poor bastards. I’m looking at one of the sites that lists the Iraq dead, showing photos of the US soldiers, often posed in their uniforms, and it tugs my heart to see the look in their eyes - it’s exactly the same as pupils at my school getting photos done to please their parents ... some of these poor souls clearly had no idea of the mortal events they were signing up for. Some of them look so dumb & proud, these newly dead, that I don’t know where to look.

Posted by Chris Wood on from Jersey 12/26 at 05:06 PM

The mug is Bill O’Reilly!

Chris #9: How about a graphic novel in which Momo the Tibetan Buddhist Avenger is out to bring the next avatar of the Dalai Lama a wee tidge earlier than the current avatar is ready for and has to kill his way through Dharamsala (sp?) with hot-oil filled momos...?

MZ #10: That kind of question does get annoying, like strippers and prostitutes getting the question “Do you like men?” so much they want to barf (based on conversations I’ve had with same). I was just puzzled, not irked.

Luna #11: Saw Kong against my will over the hols. What was Peter Jackson thinking? I dislike LOTR in written or filmed form, but I recognize the artistry and the world-shaking uniqueness of these boring, dreary, turgid words. These were movies that needed to be butt-busters; King Kong is a slight story that bends to breaking under the ponderous overthinking Jackson does for it here.

Helga #14: Seafood supper is the thing I miss most about Christmas among my Italian-American friends...a delicious fish and seafood supper on Christmas Eve every year for 12 years will spoil a boy. Italian food with its emphasis on olivoe oil and garlic and simple preparations is sheer heaven.

Chris #16: Warty...what a good description for most movies I’ve ever seen! Books I’ve read too! Warty old A Tale of Two Cities...bathe a toad in rainwater under a full moon after seeing It’s a Wonderful Life to escape the warty-ness of it. Oh boy!

Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/26 at 05:16 PM

Mudge re wartiness - you missed the wart factor in movies like Amadeus & The Godfather, but I digress. What word would you use for the moments of twee, vomit inducing back slapping “hey, ain’t we all great?” joie de vivre that Hollywood throws in most of its blockbusters? Cue Jimmy the apple cheeked 7 year old smiling goofily as he ruffles the hair of Scraps the dog while Mom & Pop reflect gassily on how being American middle class wage slaves is the only sane course.

I suppose A Tale of Two Cities is just about acceptable as being smooth skinned.

BTW after seeing It’s A Wonderful Life you need to smear yourself in sheep droppings to avoid warts ... god, what goes on in people’s heads these days? Like living in the dark ages!

(head scratching moment - when was the last great movie with mass appeal that didn’t have its share of cringe inducing moments? Can’t think of any recently; but I guess some Hollywood classics may just about pass the test)

Momo the Tibetan Buddhist Avenger is copyright of Marvel comics. Momo keeps a deadly vendetta against restaurants where the eaters of dumplings are obliged to sit down ... like many comic characters this pathology is based on infant trauma, after his father saw red in a Tibetan diner and went on the rampage with a shotgun.

Momo was due to appear in the movie Elektra but his scenes were scrapped after Jennifer Garner kept using the actor as a dumb bell and bench pressing him in between takes. >tchoch!< these arty whims.

Posted by Chris Wood on from Jersey 12/26 at 06:07 PM

Hello, Mr. Mudge, & Chris & Amelopsis & TM & Helga & Luna -
and, of course, Mickey Z -

Mudge, I suspect you’re right about the photo, though I kept seeing a young John Cleese… not sure why.

Movies -
Last two excellent films I saw were Turtles Can Fly, and Constant Gardener.
However, a couple nights ago, after a long and dreary day, Suzanne & I sat down and watched some of a rerun of “The Long Kiss Goodnight,” a goofy, fun film with Samuel L. Jackson and Gena Davis…
OK -
Anyway, the plot was, roughly this:
CIA assassin, Davis, gets hurt while on assignment to kill terrorist Mr. X.
She loses her memory and becomes wife and mommy in the suburbs till her old life begins to reassert itself.
As she comes out of her stupor, she finds out that old terrorist target, Mr. X, now works for the CIA, and that their new joint project is to blow up 4,000 innocent Americans in the US, blame it on middle-eastern terrorists, and bathe in the vast oceans of new congressional funding…
Fascinating fantasy film, eh?

This was in 1996…

Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/26 at 06:23 PM

I have been away from my computer for a few daze. Just want to say, “Hello”, to everyone. About the photo, looks a little like Jay Leno to me.

Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 12/26 at 06:29 PM

Hello Expendables. We were out with Michele’s family for a while and I learned that my in-laws occasionally lurk at this site. I became simultaneously flattered and nervous.

Chris, I think you’ve hit on a very marketable concept: Momo the Tibetan Buddhist Avenger. Just ask Mudge if Momo can have a sidekick named Wart Boy.

Luna: I agree about Black’s portrayal of Denham. I don’t like Black to begin with. And Helga, I agree about the scenes with Kong and Naomi. My favorites, too (except maybe when Kong smashed two of the planes together).

TM: You and the others are giving me way too much credit about our mystery man. Just because I write about serious stuff doesn’t mean I’m serious. The high school grad in the photo is not typically mentioned in the same breath as political hacks like Matthews or Rove. Here’s a hint: http://www.mrtvseverything.com.

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/26 at 06:35 PM

Oops...RMJ and Joe snuck in as I was typing. Hello, you two. Arriving together will create rumors and gossips, I hope you know.

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/26 at 06:38 PM

Oh wow! Hi RMJ! did you have a nice holiday season?

Chris #20: A Sale of Two Titties is in no way, shape or form “smooth-skinned.” Sydney Carton’s lousy self-martyrdom was the most revolting piece of claptrap perpetrated in the English language body of literature bar none. Cue the swelling Hollywood music as the guillotine comes down, and pass hankies to all the little girls of both genders who are sobbing from the romance of it all. Vomitous stuff. Wartier than a warthog that lives in sin with a toad.

I’ve never seen a movie that didn’t, somewhere in it, make me cringe that I can call up on demand. Might not be one, or a book either.

Momo was due to appear in what...? Electra, as in “Mourning Becomes Electra” Electra, or great daft Buick Electra?

Joe #21: Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Someone knew something....

Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/26 at 06:44 PM

The Mr. T Webring.

Serious.

The Mr. T Webring.

Holy of Holies. The mug’s Melinda Culea (Amy n first season)! Wow!

Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/26 at 07:01 PM

It’s not Melinda...but this is: http://tinyurl.com/br45e. Maybe my hint was off-base. Let me try this: http://www.sylvesterstallone.com.

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/26 at 07:08 PM

MZ #23: The in-laws lurk?! Oh no. Now I have to clean up my act. Drat! Blast! Pfui!

Momo’s side kick is Miss Yak Butter Tea...she oozes sweet slick goop on enemies and prevents them from gaining traction in their pursuit of the Evil-Doing Karmic Forces.

Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/26 at 07:11 PM

this is like that game Guess Who?

is he a white guy? is he still alive? does he wear a hat? is it mr. drummond? the white CHIPS, is it captain kirk? i don’t know

Posted by tm on from underground 12/26 at 07:12 PM

No need for anyone to behave just ‘cause the in-laws are here. They’ve seen and heard it all before.

TM: He’s white, still alive, no hat but yes, a head covering.

I feel drunk with power. I know the answer and no one else does (insert evil laugh here).

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/26 at 07:16 PM

Chris! You live in England, so this place in London that serves Tibetan food should be just around the corner from you! http://www.tibetanfood.co.uk/#
London, Manchester, what’s the odds? Nothing’s too far from anything else there, unless there’s a rail strike. (I live in a place where it takes 45min to get from the north edge to the south edge at 110kph, or about 65mph, so European or Northeastern scales of distance are risible to me.)

Go have some moms, and give us a second opinion on their general numminess, huh? I’m feelin’ a jones for a momo now.

Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/26 at 07:20 PM

MZ, that’s true mate, but we know which days you can be seen in Central Park worrying animals (& you a vegan, too!)

Mudge, post 25 is crammed with quotable classics and you deserve to go down in legend and song for that. Didn’t Sydney Carton also mangle a performance of ... no, forget that. But he is used as a benchmark for twatty self sacrifice in at least one writer’s output.

Posted by Chris Wood on from Jersey 12/26 at 07:26 PM

Mickey -
great Chris Floyd piece on Iran / Israel. Thanks very much. I guess Iran is desperately trying to prepare...though, of course, it’s too little, to late.

I cheated, but I’m “guessing” it’s a Mr. Hogan.

Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/26 at 07:29 PM

Hey-- just got home, guess who w/o… damn it. He has to be in for observation while vet gives him medication designed to strengthen his bladder after the muscles have been stretched out from being full so often… yech. He’ll be fine, I’m sure, but the hassle and stress of it all, and yeah, the expense…

More to say, but can’t focus-- for now, this site vaguely reminds me of what I saw of that Mr. T site; it’s oddly addictive:
http://amimorganfreemanornot.com/

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 12/26 at 07:32 PM

MZ re 25 - technically it’s Mudge’s idea, so you’ll have to talk to him about a franchise if you fancy donning a natty lycra outfit and avenging wrongs, correcting mistaken orders etc etc. I think, in terms of magic powers, the ability to take Tom Cruise’s spirituality seriously would be the ultimate test of heroic power (I could say Madonna’s, but that would require superhuman endurance that no superhero could be expected to live up to).

Mudge, in terms of distance you are accurate. In fact I remember being told how much of Europe you could fit into Texas, but that conversation went the way of the surreal. Suffice it to say that I regularly commute to London for a takeaway.

Unfortunately, I am not able to alleviate your jones for a momes, being as I am currently in Jersey and it’s too late to swim to Dover ... sorry! I feel such a fool etc etc.

Who the hell is that guy in the fucking photo? It’s not a pre-op Dolly Parton, is it?

Posted by Chris Wood on from Jersey 12/26 at 07:34 PM

tm #29: WHERE did you get that image?! And how did you post it, since I can’t figure out how that’s done to save what’s left of my life?

It’s the Governator.

No. Wait. No political hacks. It’s Benedikt der Schlang, Holy roman Pederast and Nazi!

Umm no too beefy...country music megastar Toby Keith!

No too old...Burgess Meredith! Rocky’s trainer!

Taaa daaaaaaaa My “theory” wins!

Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/26 at 07:38 PM

Momo & Wart Boy - I see it! Now I know how those Hollywood ‘visionaries’ feel when the lightbulb starts doing the old idea thing above their heads. I see it all ... we’ll get Ron Jeremy and Ben Affleck ... no, scratch that ... Ice T and Hayden Christianson ... or maybe Will Smith would make a good Wart Boy ...

Hulk Hogan, eh? Can I get half a point for saying Dolly Parton?

Posted by Chris Wood on from Jersey 12/26 at 07:40 PM

Joe re 21 - I suspect that the idea of a 9/11 type incident had been mooted for a very long while before 2001 ...

Posted by Chris Wood on from Jersey 12/26 at 07:47 PM

James, sorry to hear about Frank...but it sounds like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.

Joe: You got it, brother...Hulkamania rules…

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/26 at 08:01 PM

Go on already, someone click on my Morgan Freeman link, it’s so much fun.

Mudge, I’ll get back to you soon… by he way if you want my cats, I’d be happy to send them to you, but I’ll use USPS, so as to boycott FedEx. I’m starting to have had enough already.

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 12/26 at 08:23 PM

Mickey, I should have gotten it from the Stallone link. Duh! Remember when Rocky met Hulkster in Rocky XXXVVXXIII? Hogan lifted him over his head almost like he was weightless… I sometimes try to forget how tough some of these professional Wrastlers are…

Chris - re: 38 - I think you’re right. They’ve probably been working on such plans since their “efforts” at Pearl Harbor worked so well…

James -
I just spent about 10 minutes with Morgan Freeman. You’re right - it’s addictive.
Oh, by the way, James - sorry, again, to hear about your little guy. Are they “upping the ante” with each of these visits???

One last absurdity:
Speaking of addictive -
My son is always barging in to ask me to go to a video site, at which place he points out another wonderfully imbecilic video… The site is called “StupidVideos.com” and it has more than one thousand very brief videos which can be observed for nothing…

The last one had a college professor looking at his watch, as his kids took an exam. He says: “Time’s Up! Please put your pencils down, and bring your exams to my desk.” Everyone does so, except a kid who, first, pulls out a scratch-off lottery card and messes with it for a bit. When he’s done, he brings his paper to the front of the class. Teacher says: “Nope, too late. You fail.”
Kid replies, somewhat haughtily:
“Sir, do you know who I am?”
Teacher says, with great indifference:
“I have no idea who you are.”
Kid says:
“Good,” tucks his test into the middle of the stacks of exams on the desk, smiles, and walks out of the room…

They have skateboarding smash up videos, ski-crash videos, idiot-song videos, commercials… it’s as addictive as Morgan Freeman, but even more time consuming… Stay Away!!!

http://www.stupidvideos.com/

Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/26 at 08:51 PM

James #40: Ix-nay on the ussy-pay. I could make dog food, I guess, but the whole killing process is simply no fun anymore. I prefer aiming my 3800lb station wagon at the ones whose servants are too stupid to keep them inside.

Chris #32: Aww gee thanks mister! I done good?

Texas is France plus Walloon parts of Belgium. It’s routinely freezing (0C)in Amarillo, in north Texas, and 30C in Brownsville or Laredo, in the Borderland (as far south as you can go without smacking into a Border Patrol vigilante).

Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/26 at 08:52 PM

PS -
It appears that New Video # 1 makes you watch a commercial. Sorry!!!

I don’t think any of the others do, however, and this is the first time I’ve seen one while there…

Posted by joe on from Oregon 12/26 at 08:59 PM

Joe #41: You are the moral equivalent of a crack merchant, evil man. I refuse to visit this silly site! REFUSE!

Posted by Mudge on from Dear, dead Austin 12/26 at 09:02 PM

Stay away, Mudge...it’s already too late for me. I’ve discovered peanut butter and jelly with a baseball bat: http://tinyurl.com/9whjg

James: what am I supposed to do with Morgan?

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/26 at 09:05 PM

Ixnay on the… are you making fun of the stalled dating progress I’m making lately? Yeah, all to ixnay, with the stress I’m under… or maybe I’m spending too much time on cool observer. If not a talk show, maybe it’s time to start up mickey.net/personals, so as combine all these endeavors.

Had some questions about the transit strike; I was appalled by the comments the mayor and others made about the union et al, cowardly, etc., but still don’t know for certain who to trust about it all-- instinct is with union, but does seem a bit murky. But gotta get outta the house again for awhile, in non-cat vet related ways. Enough already.

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 12/26 at 09:37 PM

It’s not complicated, just keep clicking, give it your best guess…

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 12/26 at 09:39 PM

mudge, i can’t recall whether it was yahoo or google images i think it was yahoo images.

so just go to yahoo.com or google.com click on the tab at the top that says images, type the name of image you want like alain delon, you’ll see lots of pictures of delon, and you can narrow it down to what size picture (you want s,m,l) click on the picture you want, this will take you to the site with the chosen picture at the very top click on that image copy the address and paste it where you want to post it.

Posted by tm on from underground 12/26 at 10:36 PM

Not sure I understand, tm-- what if you want to post an image you have saved on your hard drive, like say… cat photos?

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 12/26 at 10:47 PM