Mickey Z

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Sunday, February 26, 2006

What's so civil about war, anyway?

Posted by Mickey Z on 02/26 at 07:47 AM
  1. Good morning MZer’s everywhere....Off topic for a moment....Congressman Gene Taylor of Mississippi is one of the many whose house was blown away by Katrina. Pieces of the tin roof of his house were wrapped around trees “like taco shells”, he says. His insurance company says he cannot prove that it was windy there during the hurricane. Taylor says that the names of child molesters and insurance company executives should be placed on a national registry. The question is, “If a Congressman cannot get justice what hope is there for the rest of us?”. 
    I agree that we need a national registry of shame. On that list I would add Attorneys General who abuse citizens and lawyers who abuse clients. ( I am a little grumpy today. I just received an estimated bill for $50,000 from the lawyer who did nothing to help me and sat on my case for almost 6 years. I dismissed him several weeks ago.)

    Posted by RMJ  on  from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 02/26  at  08:28 AM
  2. Good morning Mickey & Rosemarie,

    On the original mosque bombing, the very first report I read online stated that it was carried out by men wearing black special forces uniforms. Unfortunately it did not specify if there was anything else identifiable about them; nor can I recall the source of that story. 

    Rosemarie - yikes. That’s a large bill for a lot of nothing; I can’t believe he didn’t discuss any of that with you earlier to ensure he was keeping you properly informed.

    Re the recipe yesterday - I usually make it with canned chick peas & lentils(with their liquid) and angel hair - just add more veg broth.

    Posted by Amelopsis  on  from Canada 02/26  at  09:18 AM
  3. Interesting phrase, that, “holy shit”. One wonders why we don’t say “Hallowed Excrement!” or “Blessed Feces!” Not quite the same ring to it, I guess.

    One in five holy? That claim is full of holes. Smells fishy to me. A whale of a tale.

    I wonder, does one if five flush Sacrosanct Droppings down the commode? Does one in five discharge Consecrated Poop into the altar of the porcelain goddess?

    Posted by Jeremy  on  from Taiwan 02/26  at  10:29 AM
  4. Hey! Where IS Joe?

    Posted by Amelopsis  on  from Canada 02/26  at  10:37 AM
  5. Man, Axl Rose… what happened to him? Lesson there, I guess-- perfectionism not always so helpful to the artist’s career…

    Posted by James  on  from Hell's Kitchen 02/26  at  10:54 AM
  6. Amelopsis, This was a contingency case. The lawyer knew I had no money right from the beginning. In the USA lawyers always write the contracts to protect themselves no matter whether they do anything or not. He had assured me that he would get a settlement. In Canada there is a Fee Appeal system. It might work there. Things are different here. The only other option that I had was Pro Se. In the USA justice is for sale to the highest bidder.

    Posted by RMJ  on  from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 02/26  at  11:02 AM
  7. Good morning, O Goddess of My Idolatry!  Empress, Jeremy, CatLady...how y’all doin’?

    It’s 65F already, gorgeously sunshiney, on its way to 70F for a high temp.  Ahhh...winter in Texas.

    Dear RMJ, what could ever make you think you’re on the “cool-down” cycle in the spinning dryer that is my heart?!  It is you who has declined to be among the warm and breezy locales of Central Texas.  I am weighed and found wanting, unworthy of the company of so august and marvelous a presence.  As to Baldur, what can a mere stripling of 26 do to compare to a caryatid of culture and probity such as yourself?

    (Side note...why in the hell can’t I at least get one in his 30s?!  Ideally say, 35-50?  But nooooo, they won’t even look at me, where the 20somethings are all over the place like midges.  Of course CatLady sleeps better at night knowing I’m far away and no theat to his virtue.)

    Jeremy, from last night: My mother took me to Spring Green, Wis., in 1967 to attend the grand reopening of Taliesin (Frank Lloyd Wright’s home, a National Monument).  I was 7, and 5ft tall.  Taliesin had just been declared a National Monument or Historical Site or something, and Lady Bird Johnson was on her “beautify America” trip (God bless ‘er!) so had spearheaded a drive to make over the old Lloy Wright homestead.  Mama had contributed a packet to the restoration, and got an invite to attend the spiffy ceremonies.  The custody battle was in full swing in my parents’ divorce, so I was never more than a few feet from whichever one had me, so I went too.

    Lloyd Wright, in addition to bein’ a cheatin’ ol’ dawg and possibly accessory to murder, was really really short (about 5’6") and touchy about it.  He referred to those over 5’10” as “a waste of materials” and made all of his residences and many of his public buildings on a scale that suited his puny self, not normal, average six-footers.

    During the tour of the place, I gritched and whined and made myself a nuisance because *I* was uncomfortable in this low-ceilinged place.  My mother, who privately agreed with me, made no hissing noises or whatever, just said that she’d be glad to talk to me about it OUTSIDE in hopes I’d subside at the implicit threat.

    Frankly (pun optional) I remmember nothing else about that visit, just the sense of menace that low-ceilinged places have always had for me started there.  I liked House on the Rock a lot better.  http://www.thehouseontherock.com/

    MZ, from last night: The Mudge Boy!  Hilarious!  And there is a place called “the Mudge Gap” right in the middle of the part of Texas I set my NaNovel in!  Here I thought it was an original nickname.  Silly me.

    RMJ, I hate lawyers with ever-increasing passion as I hear of your wendings through the legal system.  And I started out hating lawyers enough to think that a month-long season in which one could, with impunity, bait, torment, abuse, and harm lawyers was a damn fine idea.

    A “common” feeling, I feel certain.

    Posted by Mudge  on  from Austin 02/26  at  12:29 PM
  8. Um, virtue?
    Besides, I’m only 34…

    Baldur, as in the Norse god of light? So much to keep track of here…

    Posted by James  on  from work 02/26  at  12:38 PM
  9. Yep, CatLady, since I am reluctant to use people who don’t hang here’s real names in open fora such as this, I’m calling him “Baldur the Fiery” [masses of red, curly hair, God-like body, highly Nordic (German/Norwegian, I think) ancestry, yodels during...errr, never mind].

    My dog Alfred has appointed himself my personal healer...many trips up and down the stairs here have caused the right knee to push crystals of uric acid through the skin and he has deputized himself the clean-up crew.  He licks my knee until the crystals fall out, makes an hilarious face of disgust every time one falls into his lapping maw, and spits it out.  I usually bandage the knee so he can’t get to it but was too lazy to do that this morning.  What a sweet puppy!

    As to your virtue...I amke the assumption that you are innocent of man-sex.  (If I have erred, please to forgive.) Thus still virtue intacta.  Your idealness in my manhunt is not lessened by the lack of a year, but is whacked in the skull by veganism, cat possession, and living in NYC where I most notably am not.  Absent any two of these three obstacles, I’d be on your stoop with flowers and chocolates at least once a week.  That whole straight thing I’ve hand-waved >leer< away before.

    MZ, I just noticed that this site has no search function!  I wanted to remind myself of Michele’s master’s degree’s subject.  I have an evil plan....

    Posted by Mudge  on  from Austin 02/26  at  01:20 PM
  10. Oh an evil plan - do tell!

    You’re drunk on 26 year old lovin’ Mudge - the site function is way down at the bottom below the left sidebar smile

    Posted by Amelopsis  on  from Canada 02/26  at  01:41 PM
  11. Alfred sounds like a very suitable and thoughtful healer. Gout sounds more painful everytime you describe it.

    Posted by Amelopsis  on  from Canada 02/26  at  01:46 PM
  12. RMJ, I hope you can shove that bill right back down your ex-lawyer’s throat.  That’s horrible.

    Mudge-boy, how are you, brother?  I know I’ve been away for a while but from what I can tell from your comments you seem to be back to your grand old self.

    James, Ax has fallen so far...have you seen what he did to his face?  SHameful.

    Jeremy, love all of the Holy Shit variations.  1 in 5 consider THEMSELVES holy?  Jesus Fucking Christ.

    Mick, I’ve read (perhaps here) that several smaller newspapers have been forced to close up shop in Iraq due to overwhelming security expenses...talking about restricting the press.

    Yeah, Amelopsis, Joe better get his ass back here soon!

    Posted by JOS  on  from Chicago 02/26  at  01:46 PM
  13. Empress #10, I never went down there before (oh the entendres!) and I blush for my inexplicable chariness.

    #11: Gout sucks.  Three surgeries later, I still have many, many times the amount of uric acid that’s considered healthy stored in crytals on knees, toes, heels, ankles, fingers, elbows, wrists.

    Big Country!  How’s it hangin’ m’dear?!  Did I understand you correctly, you’re considering making Chicago your home?!  Cold, ugly, Chicagoan-infested Chicago? Well, you know best, of course.  I just associate the place with CowSlutBitchHell, my evil sister.

    All this change swirling among Expendables.  So many things shifting around, people making involuntary and voluntary life-adjustments, it’s dizzying.

    Posted by Mudge  on  from Austin 02/26  at  02:03 PM
  14. Yes, Sweet Home Chicago.  It’s a great city, despite the fact that your seemingly horrid sister lives here ...what, you’d rather I make the move to dear, dead Austin?  I don’t think I could handle Tex-ass.  NYC is too rich for my blood.  Can’t wait for spring though...I’ve turned into sort of a weather-wimp since my time in PR.  I miss it a whole lot.

    Posted by JOS  on  from Chicago 02/26  at  02:08 PM
  15. No, Big Country, I’d never suggest a left-leaning non-native move to Texas.  Too dispiritng.  Chicago, though...surely there are warmer, more attractive places to live! NYC’s too rich for my bood, too, so I can but yearn.  What of Portland?  Liberal, lovely, very green.

    I’ve been contemplating other options than Austin, since the Texan attitude toward social services is “git up ‘n’ git ta werk” (much like the Nazi “arbeit macht frei").  Portland comes up often.  I just feel a widge squeamish about Pacific coast habitation, as I expect The Big One any day now (I was in Los Gatos, atop a fault line called Loma Prieta, during the 1964 Alaska earthquake, and it was SCARY!!).  Still thinkin’ though....

    Posted by Mudge  on  from Austin 02/26  at  02:25 PM
  16. I’ve never been to Portland, but hear great things.  Doubt I will ever live on the West Coast again though...lived in San Diego for almost three years, loved it, but it was enough.  I like reality and you don’t find much of that on the West COast in my point of view.

    Posted by JOS  on  from Chicago 02/26  at  02:34 PM
  17. “I like reality and you don’t find much of that on the West COast in my point of view.” It’s one reason I don’t leap at the chance to move to Portland, where I have a dear friend who worries about me and wants to watch out for me.  Just don’t like Cali’s unreality, and I fear that’s universal...not a fan of Seattle, either.  I like Prtland well enough, I have to say...my stepmother’s grandmother lived there so we went for visits when I was in Cali as a kid.  I never felt the same sense of loathing for Portland that I did for Cali.

    Personally, I loved Savannah, but there’s even less sense of “do unto others” there than in Texas.  Had I a great deal of money that couldn’t be lost, I’d live summers and falls in Asheville, NC, and winters on St. Simon’s Island, GA.  Spring, who cares?  Both are lovely.

    Posted by Mudge  on  from Austin 02/26  at  02:45 PM
  18. sounds good to me, see you later, my friend.

    Posted by JOS  on  from Chicago 02/26  at  02:59 PM
  19. Hello Expendables...and a good Sunday to all (except Helga and Jim S. down under to whom Sunday is already “yesterday").

    RMJ: $50K, huh? What a farce. Everything is ass-backwards. Today, a friend of ours informed us that her uncle (who has aggressive brain cancer) was precribed a chemo pill that costs thousands and thousands of dollars. There’s no end to the greed and injustice. It’s heartbreaking.

    On a lighter note, I’ll second the Empress’ comments on Alfred, Mudge’s healer (even if that healing will facilitate an evil plan or two).

    JOS: Michele and I have long been drawn toward Portland. We hope to visit soon and who knows? Chicago? Well…

    James: Yeah, Axl sure pulled a Bobby Fischer, huh? What a shame. Personality aside, the man could rock.

    Which brings me to Jeremy. Anyone who can conjure up the term “consecrated poop” is a friend of mine.

    Posted by Mickey Z.  on  from Astoria 02/26  at  03:52 PM
  20. Mudge, I was all set to whip out my credit card and charge you a plane ticket up here to shower me with dark chocolate and clean my apartment and whatever else would be involved with showing me the error or my hetero ways… but then you got your mythology all wrong. It was Thor that had red hair, Baldur was blonde. Oh well. The veganism’s not the problem you might think, it has it benefits that I’ll just leave out now. But the cat-guardianship is a problem-- they often stop and stare during the most awkward moments, which could make you a bit uncomfortable.

    You, and JOS-- sure, it could be expensive to live here if you’re not lucky or careful, but if a corresponding job is also here, couldn’t that be balance enough? Or is the economy/climate of Texas not the problem with finding worthy employment down there?

    What did Axl do to his face? He’s disappeared so thoroughly that I can’t even find a recent image.

    And what’s with that NYT? I thought they were part of the vast left-wing media conspiracy, so how could they be down-playing civil war in Iraq like that?

    Posted by James  on  from Hell's Kitchen 02/26  at  04:20 PM
  21. Try this, James: http://tinyurl.com/sxgqq

    Posted by Mickey Z.  on  from Astoria 02/26  at  04:28 PM
  22. Who the hell is that?
    Mick Jagger’s changed less in 40 years than that guy has in 10.

    Posted by James  on  from Hell's Kitchen 02/26  at  04:55 PM
  23. I’d guess Jagger’s had less work done, too.

    Posted by Mickey Z.  on  from Astoria 02/26  at  05:12 PM
  24. He’s almost as creepy as Michael Jackson now.

    That monsters and critics site had a banner ad for the ‘Defninitive Whitesnake collection’. That was so distracting I couldn’t concentrate on the Iraq media article.

    Posted by James  on  from Hell's Kitchen 02/26  at  05:26 PM
  25. Tawny Kitaen flashback
    http://tinyurl.com/4w3ce

    Posted by Mickey Z.  on  from Astoria 02/26  at  05:30 PM
  26. Looks like she could use some personal training. Are you willing to travel for prospective clients?

    I don’t know what a woman would have to do to me for me to have the nerve to get them arrested for spousal abuse. Wouldn’t the cops just laugh at you the whole time? Well, maybe my ex-fiancee’s cooking would count…

    Posted by James  on  from Hell's Kitchen 02/26  at  05:36 PM
  27. Mickey,Neat essay on the psychological subcurrents revealed by the uproar over the Dubai ports business. Here’s an interesting article over the kerfuffle the concept of “rights” is causing there:

    http://www.dawn.com/2006/02/12/fea.htm

    Interesting comments on the concept of “democracy” as well…

    Posted by sk  on  from 02/26  at  05:47 PM
  28. CatLady #20: Oh dear, I totally got the mythology wrong, how embarrassing, I blush >blush< and give with a self-deprecating moué >moué<.  He failed to correct me, but I suspect he was distracted when I made the comparison.

    So it’s dark choc, oh good!  I make a really, really delicious dark chocolate and fresh raspberry mousse.  All those eggs and that cream might present a problem, but I’m betting a whiff of melting Caillebaut chocolate and a raspberry-and-Framboise coulis would melt your...resistance.

    Why do I suddenly feel so much like Sydney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon?

    I’m not holding out for “worthy employment” at all!  I’m lookin’ for a JOB!  It does have to be a sit-down type of gig, and it’s ideally going to be for real money, but as long as it’s something I can physically DO, I am scruple-free.  Well, that’s not true.  I turned down a Ponzi scheme job with one of those nutritional supplements companies.  I couldn’t sell lingerie either.

    I’m going to be an election clerk again on March 7.  That’ll be a hundred bucks or so.  I can’t even get interviews from Wal-Mart!  How pathetic is that?!  I applied for several jobs at HBO and Warner Books, no responses until I warted them to death.  (It was no or I’d be there, chocolate in hand.)

    So yech.  Things not so delirious job-wise chez Richard.  I confess that I haven’t made even a feint in the direction of Portland job-hunting.  Perhaps I should do that.

    What’s up with recipe day?  I have a lovely recipe for veal roast with foie gras sauce.

    Posted by Mudge  on  from Austin 02/26  at  05:48 PM
  29. Hm, was going to recommend a good Norse myths site, but you could find one as easily as I could, and what you really need anyway is the D’Aulaire’s picture book. Seek it out, it’s the best, seriously.

    Recipes, I don’t know. Can’t list a suggestion, as I just do this jazz improv thing in the kitchen, using templates and going from there.

    Something must be done about this job situation… um, okay-- why not selling lingerie?

    Posted by James  on  from Hell's Kitchen 02/26  at  06:14 PM
  30. Thanks for the link, SK. As for my ZNet article, I’ll be posting it here tomorrow.

    Mudge: We’ll have to have some ground rules for recipe day. If James and I refrain from anything that contains tofu, everyone else must refrain from flesh (meat, fowl, fish). We can agree to disagree on dairy products and eggs. Leaving out flesh and a vegan’s primary flesh analog requires us all to be more creative.

    First, let’s have our Mowat discussion and set a date for the Camus reading.

    Posted by Mickey Z.  on  from Astoria 02/26  at  06:16 PM
  31. I just got home from another legal meeting. I am now told that the lawyer’s bill could go up to $117,000.

    How about this as a solution to everybody’s relocation problems. Everybody should move up here. Except for the weather, the lawyers, the politicians, the lack of municipal water, the unreliability of electricity, the lack of dentists, no jobs, mud season, and a few Superfund sites everything is nice here. Great natural beauty. Common up, it’s only going down to 20 below tonight.

    Posted by RMJ  on  from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 02/26  at  06:20 PM
  32. Hmm...very tempting, RMJ.

    Tuesday is National Pancake Day (http://www.ihop.com/indexnatl.html#). You can eat for free at IHOP (if you consider that “eating").

    Posted by Mickey Z.  on  from Astoria 02/26  at  06:22 PM
  33. MZ, “vegan’s primary flesh analog"-- did you mean tofu? Oh man, mind’s too much in the gutter, better go take a walk or something…

    But yeah, plenty recipes w/o tofu.

    Posted by James  on  from Hell's Kitchen 02/26  at  06:27 PM
  34. I have two words for you, James: Cold shower. (If not, these two might work: Internet porn.)

    Posted by Mickey Z.  on  from Astoria 02/26  at  06:28 PM
  35. Nah, just thinking about the Bayonne Bleeder will take care of it… oh never “mind”.

    Posted by James  on  from Hell's Kitchen 02/26  at  06:31 PM
  36. Oh for crying out loud-- take your pick, I guess:
    http://www.veganporn.com/
    http://www.vegporn.com/

    Hey, at least the latter is a member of Bust magazine’s “Girl Wide Web”.

    Posted by James  on  from Hell's Kitchen 02/26  at  06:34 PM
  37. Sad news.  :(

    http://www.boingboing.net is reporting the death of Sci fi author Octavia Butler from a fatal concussion taken from a fall yesterday.  She was a truly gifted author and one of the very few black female sci fi authors out there. 

    Happy news.  smile

    The first vegetarian horror film is now available for rent.  “Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit” one of the funniest and wackiest films I’ve seen in a long time. Highly Recommended!

    Take care out there.
    Peace and Love
    Luna

    Posted by Luna_C  on  from home 02/26  at  07:21 PM
  38. Checking in late, just to ask if y’all are gonna let Mudge get away with that 5’6” remark. That’s short?

    I haven’t brought this up here before, but I’m pretty opposed to those adsense and related google ads, and try to limit how much I link to sites that do advertise. Many reasons. Anyway I bring it up now because if Rosemarie can’t sort this lawyer bullshit out then I will happily shill for her to pay that off. Rosemarie we need you writing and speaking and protesting and grandmothering and we can’t have you fretting over a couple dozen thousand dollars. Holy shit, indeed. Please keep us posted.

    Posted by Keir  on  from The Hague 02/26  at  07:36 PM
  39. Good catch, Keir. I’m only 5’ 7” or so and don’t “often” feel short...except when I play ball (which not as much as I used to) or when Michele wears heels (which is rarely). As for raising funds, do you have any ideas?

    Posted by Mickey Z.  on  from Astoria 02/26  at  07:45 PM
  40. P.S. Luna, I have never heard of Octavia Butler.

    Posted by Mickey Z.  on  from Astoria 02/26  at  07:46 PM
  41. I have a left of centre idea for RMJ funds.  117 grand is outrageous, especially under the circs. 

    So - anybody know a site that will send cash for ideas?  Can’t say I have any great shakes here, but I know it can be done - others have.  If any wise soul can produce web places where light bulbs over the skull equals money, then I’m sure here we are best placed to be effective. 

    PS I’m short too, next to the two foot necked TV fuckers.  Screw them!  It’s the part from the neck up that matters.

    Posted by Chris Wood  on  from Manchester, England 02/26  at  08:05 PM
  42. Evening All,

    Keir that’s a good idea about the ads, I share your contempt for them (also many reasons) I also have not the faintest clue as to how much $$$ they might actually bring in, but I’d be willing to pitch in that way too.

    Chris I don’t know quite what you have in mind with the sites giving cash for thoughts??

    Mudge you are making me laugh today - thank you. (and cats do often stare inappropriately - very rude)

    I like a recipe day idea (this one was just overflow from Owen’s wot to wok question yesterday) I don’t often use tofu and seldom any fish or butter either (we are our own odd brand of pseudo vegetarian) so these recipe requirements would suit me just fine.

    I have a confession: In a former life I thoroughly enjoyed the guilty tastebud pleasures of foie gras.  Imagine if we didn’t fancy it up with the french? How many people might still want to empty their wallets with abandon to trot out a gourmet treat to their elegantly dressed dinner guests called ‘fatty liver’?

    Speaking of fat>>blubber>>whales>>
    I’m ready for the Expendable Nation’s discussion of Farley’s Whale. J’ai fini le livre, me bye’s!

    Posted by Amelopsis  on  from Canada 02/26  at  08:35 PM
  43. Mudge, I’ve been to the House on the Rock! Very cool. Wasn’t he inspired to build it because Frankl Lloyd Wright had insulted his father? (Or something like that)?

    Posted by Jeremy  on  from Taiwan 02/26  at  08:44 PM
  44. For the uninformed, I’ll elaborate on he Empress’ comment, re: foie gras:

    Upon reaching adulthood, geese are divided by color. Gray geese are destined to become pâté de foie gras. To produce this alleged delicacy, gray geese are force-fed 6 to 7 pounds of grain three times a day with an air-driven feeder tube for 28 days. At that point, their livers, from which the pate is made, will have bloated to 6 to 12 times their normal size. About 10 percent don’t make it to slaughter. They die when their stomachs burst. It is the white geese that undergo the painful plucking process to supply filling for comforters, pillows, and ski parkas. “Typically, ducks and geese are lifted by their necks, their legs tied, and their feathers are ripped out. The struggling birds often sustain injuries during plucking. They are then returned to their cage until they are ready to be plucked again. This process begins when the animals are 8 weeks old and is repeated at eight-week intervals until the birds are slaughtered.

    As many of us read a book filled with outrage about the treatment of whales, let’s spare a thought for all the other animals tortured and slaughtered by humans 365 days a year.

    Okay, I’ll step down off the soap box to wish every a good night (or good day, if that be the case) and I look forward to more Expendable-ness tomorrow.

    Posted by Mickey Z.  on  from Astoria 02/26  at  09:41 PM
  45. Thanks for the elaboration Mickey, I didn’t know that geese were repeatedly plucked for down - I naively thought that once (after death) was enough. 
    These same geese and ducks are of course among those being ‘culled’ across the globe as we attempt to stop the spread of the feared and evil bird flu pandemic. (which likely would never flourish if we didn’t keep them artificially crammed in close quarters, nor would any flu be so resistant if we didn’t cram the crammed birds full of antibiotics that they might survive the ordeal that is their life.)

    G’night all - a demain.

    Posted by Amelopsis  on  from Canada 02/26  at  09:59 PM
  46. Quick dip in before retiring: CatLady, I used to order the reprints for the whole Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire ouevre when I worked for Delacorte Books For Young Readers millennia ago.  I loved them!

    MZ, no flesh = side dish...lotsa room for good contorni.  I’m with Empress, hurry up Friday!!

    RMJ, $117K isn’t a bill, it’s war reparations.  Can a judge force a reduction in this bill when you prevail?

    Luna, sad news indeed re: Ms. Butler.  Parable of the Sower was a favorite of mine.

    Jeremy, yeah it was rivalry with the short, short, short Mr. Lloyd Wright that led to House on the Rock...proving ‘tis an ill wind indeed that blows no man good (I had a boyfriend I called the Ill Wind once upon a time).

    Posted by Mudge  on  from Austin 02/26  at  10:50 PM
  47. 46 comments already - WOW!!  It’s Helga-come-lately today - thanks for this post, Mickey.  Recommended reading:  ‘First Casualty’ by Phillip Knightley who has his own webpage:  http://www.phillipknightley.com/
    And a warm belated welcome to all my fellow expendables.
    I’m off now ..

    Posted by Helga Fremlin  on  from Daylesford, Australia 02/27  at  12:00 AM
  48. Before I REALLY wander off:  so you like neither California nor Chicago, Mudge?  Crime writer Sara Paretsky seems to heart the windy city.

    And best of luck, Rosemarie! 

    Captcha ‘know’ as in ‘what would I know?’

    Ciao!

    Posted by Helga Fremlin  on  from Daylesford, Australia 02/27  at  12:06 AM
  49. Sorry I couldn’t follow up last night, lost my connection.

    She was great. I would recommend picking up anything by her.  I read “Clay’s Ark” and the 3 Xenogenesis books. “Sawn”, “Adulthood Rights” and “Imago”. Working inside the Sci Fi theme she was able to really nail racial and Xenophobic issues.  Keep an eye out for her stuff, I don’t think anyone would be disappointed with her work.


    I haven’t read “Parable of the Sower” Mudge, I’ll have to pick that one up. 


    Have a great week everyone.

    Posted by Luna_C  on  from home 02/27  at  10:51 AM

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