Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Generally speaking...(plus: yours truly on the radio again)

Posted by Mickey Z on 04/27 at 04:31 AM

that´s a nice random article. It reminded me of a couple of writers: one fellow called Jaye Beldo wrote he was looking for more solution-based philosophies, mentioning there were enough Quixotes fencing with Pentagons already.
Second one was Burroughs in Naked Lunch wrote in any top-down hierarchy, the top position is easily knocked off and even easier to replace, in effect changing nothing. He proposed simply removing the bottom stones of the pyramid, which is kindof like what Joe wrote in his We Don´t Need Them article on DV (that was also a digital invocation to conjure Joe up on this ere blog).

Posted by owen on from barcelona 04/27 at 06:52 AM

It´s Beckett´s centenary so Dublin has lots of grumpylooking banners everywhere, and this photo is of one beside a wig shop off Dame Street (close to Trinity College where Beckett studied before basically telling Ireland to #### off, as is traditional among good writers there). The shop is actually called Why Go Bald and flicks between a frowning bald man and a smiling hirsute one.

Posted by owen on from barcelona 04/27 at 07:01 AM

Here’s to the “incomparable Mickey Z.” I have to say Mr. Random delivered and excellent response to your question.

Posted by JOS on from Chicago 04/27 at 09:37 AM

sorry to be a couple of days behind but owen...you posted that link about coke. i was looking for this to post and i eventually found it.

1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol
carries two gallons of coke in the truck to remove
blood from the highway after a car accident.

2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.

3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into
the toilet bowl and let the “real thing” sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous China.

4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals:
Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains.

9. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

For Your Info:

1 The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bonesand is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.

2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the
commercial truck must use the Hazardous material
place cards reserved for Highly corrosive materials.

3. The distributors of coke have been using it to
clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years!

Posted by michael on from exile 04/27 at 09:46 AM

When I was a kid going to kindergarten at PS 84 on the Upper West Side we did an experiment with one of my baby teeth. We dropped it in a glass of Coke...I think it disappeared in 2 or 3 days.

Posted by JOS on from Chicago 04/27 at 09:52 AM

“We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in a mirror and get proud and stick out our chests and suck in our bellies and say: ‘Damn, we’re Americans!’”

– General Jay Garner, commenting on the U.S. war of aggression against Iraq

Posted by Jeremy on from Taiwan 04/27 at 10:53 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/412537p-348795c.html

I am sure most buildings in the surrounding area have similar problems.

Posted by JOS on from Chicago 04/27 at 11:14 AM

Greetings, all.

Remember the Bastille? You don’t have to go that far. How about the massive protests against the recent labor laws in France? Many folks find it easy to bash the French, but the know how to say “Non” better than “oui” do.

Posted by Cart on from near Warshington DC 04/27 at 11:15 AM

Hello Expendables from sunny, warm Astoria. Great to see you all here.

Thanks for the comments, links, quotes, images, etc. Owen, as a longtime baldster, I got a kick out of that neon sign. When my hair made it clear it was leaving and not coming back, I pulled a Dubya and got all pre-emptive...with a head shaving that is my style to this day.

What’s up, JOS, Jeremy, Cart...and Michael: Where did you find those Coke stats? Do you have a link?

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/27 at 11:42 AM

it was jsut an email i got ages ago.

oh and thanks to robert for the nice review of the film you did. if anyone wants to see it i have done a new one which i will put out tomorrow

Posted by michael on from exile 04/27 at 11:49 AM

So frustrating-- I’ve been addicted to diet coke for years now, despite knowing how bad it is for us. See this: http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/soda-pop.htm

But he does say that coffee is good for you:

http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/coffee.htm

Nutrition can be so confusing! Great discussion & comments here lately, by the way… no need to worry so about quantity when we have such quality. But what is that Plog site you have linked to now? That guys’s blog is just about incomprehensible!

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 04/27 at 12:06 PM

If you mean Phlog, James, you must know it’s your boy, Chris.

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/27 at 12:34 PM

Oh man… well it’s not like I’m a proofreader or anything, so of course I’d spell his site incorrectly. I’m glad to see you two are in perfect “Blogarmony” as he put it.

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 04/27 at 12:44 PM

Hi all. As you are after newbies (well, a long long time lurker in truth), I thought I would ‘pop’ in (a soda link). Coke is a no go for me (http://www.waronwant.org/?lid=11807) (sorry that was days ago) but I am a bit of a soda (as you guys in the U S of A call it) fan. This post should at least shut up Mr Mew (who is a very good real-life (or at least I think he is) buddy of mine). I’ve done it now, there might be no stopping me from here ))

Posted by Uncle Joe on from 10 miles north of Mew 04/27 at 12:52 PM

off topic...but really...WTF!

Posted by michael on from exile 04/27 at 12:56 PM

James, do you know Diet Coke has aspartame in it? probably you do but just I saw no mention of it in your link. During summer here they give away Coke Light on the street, it´s revolting to see the trashcans obscured and pyramided by empties. Sugarfree sweet products (chewing gum, candies, drinks) containing aspartame are everywhere here, it´s basically a venomous drug that converts to formaldehyde in the body - you imbibe enough of it you won´t need an embalmer.

On food, one thing a friend told me the other day was about garlic, said it used to be just a medicinal herb and while it is wonderful for the circulation, in frequent regular doses it is bad for the brain as its sulphone hydroxyl ion penetrates the blood-brain barrier and is a specific poison for higher life forms and braincells. I used to cook with garlic almost every day but had a feeling something so virulent (even if it smells wonderful frying) wasn´t supposed to be eaten so often.

Posted by owen on from barcelona 04/27 at 01:41 PM

Oh no, it’s 4:50 am on a Friday morning in Daylesford, so your radio interview took place about 40 minutes ago - it’s Helga-come-lately again!

And all those quotes from generals - chilling. They also prove that the more things change, the more the remain the same.

Hello to Owen (love the photo of Dublin), JOS, Michael (the picture of the dog is gorgeous), Jeremy, Cart and Uncle Joe - again the question arises whether I have missed out on anyone. I hope not.

Your blogspot is my first Internet ‘stop’, Mickey!

Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 04/27 at 01:50 PM

And Michael, I should confess: I LOVE Coke!

Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 04/27 at 01:52 PM

my mother´s boyfriend has a friend is a chemist for Coke in Italy, he won´t say what are the ingredients are owing to he´s signed secrecy contracts but if you offer him a glass will say Get the #### away from me with that thing.

Posted by owen on from barcelona 04/27 at 01:59 PM

Welcome Uncle Joe. Any friend of Mew’s…

Hi Helga.

Owen: Don’t mix Diet Coke and Mentos.

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/27 at 02:01 PM

Actually, he links to aspartame in the coffee article, saying how coffee is definitely better than soda, esp. diet soda with aspartame:

http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/aspartame.htm

And I just love garlic… damn it! Soon I’ll have no brain left at all!

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 04/27 at 02:02 PM

que fuerte, as they say here Mickey, kindof like “holy shit”.

Posted by owen on from barcelona 04/27 at 02:16 PM

Here’s some holy shit for you, Owen. I’ll see you all later. Gotta get the Birthday Weekend™ up and running.

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/27 at 02:46 PM

What a blast from the past with that b’day link, all those other names, me there talking about that now-ex-girlfriend… man, I gotta go get me some new women, so I can help you sell some more books.

As much as things change…

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 04/27 at 03:20 PM

Hey Uncle Joe! (guess that makes me Chairman Mew, hohohogod) A year of badgering pays off.

There’s a Futurama episode where (in the year 3000) Atlanta is under the sea, and all the Coke has made the Atlanteans evolve into merpeople…

Posted by Mew on from 10 miles south of Joe 04/27 at 09:33 PM