Mickey Z

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Posted by Mickey Z on 04/30 at 08:19 AM

Enjoy the nice weather - good idea. I might just get to a mystery link or two tomorrow. Hope all’s well in the Expendable Nation - sorry I missed the boat on the Camus discussion.

Captcha “party”...hope it was a good one yesterday ;)

Posted by Amelopsis on from Canada 04/30 at 09:08 AM

Happy Birthday, Mick!

I am looking forward to some flies being shaken off during tomorrow’s work stoppage/protest.

Posted by JOS on from Oak Park 04/30 at 09:15 AM

Have a wonderful BDay. I am a birthday avoider myself, and make it as small a happening as possible. But I understand and admire those who do make a thing out of it.

Posted by Peter (the other) on from California 04/30 at 09:38 AM

I thought of your recent article on media exposure, toward the end of this ballon d’essai by Bob Jensen, who literally wrote the book on
[url="http://tinyurl.com/q5gn4" rel="nofollow"]’Taking Radical Ideas from the
Margins to the Mainstream’[/url]. Interesting points…

Posted by sk on from 04/30 at 10:53 AM

felicidades, geburtstag boy.

Posted by owen on from barcelona 04/30 at 11:02 AM

Happy Birthday fella!

Posted by Chris Wood on from Manchester, odd wet lovely Manchester 04/30 at 11:24 AM

Mickey, I hope that you are out soaking up the rays right now. Have a wonderful birthday and make some memories that will make you smile many years from now.

Thinking about birthdays - tomorrow is the 99th birthday of my father. He was a first generation American. His parents came from Poland and his Mother never learned to speak English. His father worked in the anthracite mines at a time when the coal companies would just toss the dead bodies out of the wagon in front of the house after mining accidents. My father had to quit school in the second grade to go to work on a farm. During the Depression, he shoveled coal for 50 cents a ton. Over the years he became self educated. He has several inventions to his name. Whenever the car companies in Detroit were faced with an engineering problem that they could not solve, they called on my Dad. He was one of the most intelligent people I have ever known. Both he and Mickey are perfect examples of the value of self-education. My Dad died of Parkinsons Disease 25 years ago but I still miss him.

Posted by RMJ on from 04/30 at 11:40 AM

Given the fires of xenophobia and anti-immigrant fears being fanned daily by the likes of Lou Dobbs, it helps to remember that not only was Detroit built to a substantial extent by immigrants (two of the four designers of Model T were Hungarian born), but what is little known outside Detroit is that even today a large percentage of engineering staff in such a “mature” industry is made up of immigrants (by contrast reliance of newer industries, e.g. telecom, computers, etc. on foreign talent is much more widely acknowledged).

Posted by sk on from 04/30 at 12:24 PM

ok. i tried to upload it but it decided it wasn’t goin to work. mmm doesn’t that just make it so much more interesting. download it at the following link.... trust me...u won’t do anything better for a long time…

http://tinyurl.com/a8pyv

Posted by michael on from exile 04/30 at 01:38 PM

i am not bullshitting u. watch it.

Posted by michael on from exile 04/30 at 01:50 PM

and eh.... if u do watch it...in the uk it is called the foreign office and in the US i THINK but i might b wrong u might call it the state dept

Posted by michael on from exile 04/30 at 01:53 PM

it finally uploaded and is no longer a download…

http://thumpingthetub.blogspot.com

Posted by michael on from exile 04/30 at 02:43 PM

Thanks, everyone. It was an amazing day here and we were able to spend most of it outdoors. Thanks for the kind wishes, the links, etc. Michael: I’ll check out that video ASAP. No later than Tuesday.

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/30 at 04:28 PM