Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Here it is: My proposal for a new American flag
Morning everyone.
Another enemy of Freedom gets whats coming to him - 50 police officers smashed up Brian Haw’s peace vigil in Parliament Square in the early hours. If we allow our leaders to be discomforted by protests, the terrorists will have won.Posted by mew on from great street of portland stone 05/24 at 06:23 AM“Instead of putting stars and stripes on our flags, we should put pictures of our parents fucking. Gather people around that flag and see your dad hunched over your mom’s big four-by-four butt. See if any boot rally mentality can circle round that little fucking image.’Dude, isn’t that your mom?’ ‘Shut up!’”
- Bill HicksPosted by owen on from still in the trees 05/24 at 06:37 AMThe guys at B3ta rebrand america (warning, many of these are crap) http://tinyurl.com/rgbwx
From Blum’s latest Anti-Empire Report:-
“In the past,” wrote the magazine (Forbes) “we have relied on a percentage of Cuba’s gross domestic product to estimate Fidel Castro’s fortune. This year, we have used more traditional valuation methods, comparing state-owned assets Castro is assumed to control with comparable publicly traded companies.” The magazine gave as examples state-owned companies such as retail and pharmaceutical businesses and a convention center.To carry on the Bill Hicksage: “Well how fucking scientific. Didn’t realise you’d gone to so much trouble.”
Posted by mew on from great street of portland stone 05/24 at 06:46 AMThe REAL Murrican flag:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:5cDGsXiTdLEsUM:lagunisol.com/for%
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 05/24 at 07:19 AMhaha. the European national anthem is by Beethoven, good ol invade-Poland music.
I’m going back to the city today, i think I can stand the idea again.Posted by owen on from still in the trees 05/24 at 08:05 AMLove the suggestions and the unexpected dose of Hicks. That’s a cool link, Mew. Dead on, Mudge.
I’m off to the dentist now. At least I got a war sunny day to walk.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/24 at 11:09 AMLove the rumba’ing Osama, folks. MZ, I went to the dentist today to have my rotten choppers mangled some more. No idea if what they say about UK dentistry is true, but I didn’t expect the anaesthetic to be a hammer. Ho ho! Hey, post dental work, humour is beyond me.
Owen, that’s not nice. Beethoven was a funky guy with many great tunes, not ALL about invading Poland (some of them are about invading France, heh heh). Ah me, my funny ass self. I need a life.
Who’s having all the fun these days? I haven’t done anything I’m ashamed of since December.
Posted by Chris Wood on from Manchester, odd wet lovely Manchester 05/24 at 02:18 PMAlso, reading update. With the few remaining brain cells I have that still function this late in the school year, I’ve tried out Dennis Cooper (God, Jnr & The Sluts) & Bukowski’s Tales of Ordinary Madness.
Hadn’t read Buk for about 8 years, loved it more now than I did then. The Cooper stuff I really like but it’s certainly a mood thing! So cheers to Mudge & MZ for the suggestions. If anyone has heard of a book called “1599: A year in the life of Shakespeare” (no idea if it’s been published outside of the UK) then I suggest you read it, superb book.
Also “Freakonomics,” but I can’t really recommend that. The best parts are in the first two chapters, so don’t buy it. Luckily I borrowed it, but still, there it is.
Posted by Chris Wood on from Manchester, odd wet lovely Manchester 05/24 at 02:22 PMThat’s a funny idea, Mickey!
Am back from Melbourne where I had the most pleasant experience meeting Edmund White in the course of a literary event. A pleasure to meet - one has to be grateful that he made a detour to Melbourne before going to Sydney for their writers’ festival.
Didn’t get much sleep last night, so am a bit dopey. ‘Hi’, Mew, Owen, Mudge and Chris Wood.
Have a good afternoon,
HelgaPosted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 05/24 at 02:49 PMWelcome back. Helga. You were missed.
Hey Chris, I’m post-dentist numb right now. How about you?
I just got an e-mail from Ken Coughlin (see yesterday’s post for more about him). He wrote:
As I’m sure you know, Bob Dylan turns 65 today. Yes, the voice of his generation is eligible for full Social Security benefits. How is the Cool Observer observing this milestone? Actually, since Bob was born in 1941, he can’t start collecting full retirement benefits until he’s 65 and 8 months. I hope he can make his savings stretch that long.
Happy B’day, Mr. Zimmerman…
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/24 at 03:17 PMi like this quote by Arundhati Roy “Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent- thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the “Nation,” it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry.”
The Dentist song from Little Shop of Horrors
[ORIN]
When I was younger, just a bad little kid,
My mama noticed funny things I did,
Like shootin’ puppies with a B B gun
I’d poison guppies, and when I was done
I’d find a pussycat and bash in its head
That’s when my mama said[CRYSTAL, RONETTE, CHIFFON]
What did she say?[ORIN]
She said, “My boy, I think someday
You’ll find a way
To make your natural tendencies pay
You’ll be a dentist
You have a talent for causin’ things pain
Son, be a dentist
People will pay you to be inhumane
Your temperament’s wrong for the priesthood
And teaching would suit you still less
Son, be a dentist
You’ll be a success[CRYSTAL, RONETTE, CHIFFON]
Here he is, folks the leader of the plaque!
Watch him suck up that gas!
Oh, my god!
He’s a dentist and he’ll never ever be any good
Who wants their teeth done by the Marquis de Sade?[PATIENT]
Oh that hurts! I’m not numb![ORIN]
Oh, shut up. Open wide. here I come!
I am your dentist[PATIENT]
Goodness gracious![ORIN]
And I enjoy the career that I picked[CRYSTAL, RONETTE, CHIFFON]
Really love it[ORIN]
I am your dentist[PATIENT]
Fitting braces[ORIN]
And I get off on the pain I inflict[CRYSTAL, RONETTE, CHIFFON]
Really love it[ORIN]
I thrill when I drill a bicuspid[CRYSTAL, RONETTE, CHIFFON]
Bicuspid[ORIN]
It’s swell though they tell me I’m maladjusted
And though it may cause my patients distress,
Somewhere, somewhere in heaven above me
I know, I know, that my mama’s proud of me
Oh, mama
‘Cause I’m a dentist and a success
Say ah![PATIENT]
Ah![ORIN]
Say ah![PATIENT]
Ah![ORIN]
Say ah![PATIENT]
Ah![ORIN]
Now spit!Posted by tm on from 05/24 at 03:36 PMTM!
Welcome back. I’ve been wondering what happened to you. Great to have you “here” again.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/24 at 03:40 PMAs weird as it sounds...Cate Blanchett will be playing the part of a young Bob Dylan in a new movie that is just beginning to be made. Guess what, Dylan has given the choice his approval.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 05/24 at 03:49 PMMake your own flag right over here.
PS: If RMJ pops in today she might appreciate thing thing over here.
Posted by Keir on from The Hague 05/24 at 05:59 PMYeah, when I see Cate, I think: Dylan.
Keir, that first link leads to a dead page.
Here’s a flag for sheep:
http://www.thesheepmarket.comPosted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/24 at 07:15 PMI hate people. Especially drunk people who order pizza. No, no, scratch that...teachers who order a pizza delivered to their classroom and want the bulk-order price because they’re teachers. Wait, wait, no...call-center phone monkeys who know squat about basic phone etiquette.
No, really, I just hate people.
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 05/24 at 08:26 PMHey, if you like everyone you dealt with at work, it wouldn’t be called work. Regarding cynical blog antics, this Neil Swaab cartoon came to mind:
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 05/24 at 08:51 PM
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