Mickey Z
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006
"Popular anger may be something to behold"
Another hot one coming up. I’m off work today so I can focus on Expendable Writing Month...how ‘bout y’all?
Peace
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 06/13 at 07:56 AMAm writing sporadically, thanks. Nothing political. Had enough political writing in the last few months, need a break. How you?
Posted by Chris Wood on from Manchester, odd wet lovely Manchester 06/13 at 10:37 AMHello Expendables. Lots of visitors here...but only two comments, so let me chime in.
Except for a short lull earlier this year, I feel like every month is a writing month for me. This far in June, I’ve written and submitted two short children’s books, started a personal trainer memoir, sketched out a handful of other non-fiction book ideas, and written a shitload of articles.
It’s a warm 80+ degrees here in Astoria. Lots of sun.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/13 at 11:54 AMI was looking around the internet for things to distract myself from getting writing done (hurray, the clothing issue’s been settled for now, found a bunch of cool stuff at a clothing swap yesterday), and I came across this:
http://www.globalwarming.org/article.php?uid=65
Who are these people? What the hell? Damn it.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 06/13 at 02:36 PMStrange liberators - what a good term, Mickey! I have to read the whole interview - after I have finished commenting.
Hello, Mudge (you are the first on this comment thread!), Chris and James. And it is 80+ degrees in Astoria with lots of sun? Im turning green with envy, Mickey - in Daylesford it won’t be more than about 55 F today, but then there might be some sun.
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 06/13 at 02:53 PMJames: greenwash, greenwash, greenwash. Hogwash.
Much better internet distraction here. Mr. Fish rules!
Posted by Keir on from The Hague 06/13 at 03:08 PMPS: all you writers writing this month...maybe this be interesting.
Posted by Keir on from The Hague 06/13 at 03:13 PMThanks for the reassurance, well put of course… now off to an ASAP law firm job; I won’t even speculate as to the myriad ills these firms are involved with, or how as a temp who must be contacted for ASAP jobs like this, I need my cell phone with all it’s coltan, etc. Gotta go, wish me luck getting some writing done on company time tonight.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 06/13 at 03:54 PMNot too much happenin’ round these here parts...so I post herewith the last bit of a writing exercise in shared storytelling that I whacked into being in about an hour. No set-up needed, I don’t think, except that the humans no longer exist because they’ve nuked themselves out of existence and the remnant populations got eaten by angry orcas.
“The Buddha spoke for humanity at the next Executive Committee meeting.
“Reincarnation was just starting to work, goddammit! You idiots pulled the plug just as results were coming in, and the results were GOOD! Well, trending toward good, anyway…monotheism was about to implode and…”
“Exactly the problem, fool!” The thundering voice of the Christian God caused the many assembled deities to wince.
“Oh stop it,” the Buddha snapped, “we know you’re pissed about the way your team failed so very, very miserably to live up to a single decent ideal. But we gave you 1800 years of ascendancy over as much as 20% of humanity. That’s a fair test. Anyone else would’ve killed for that kind of backup for a failing experiment!”
Shiva nodded and waved a few arms to get the floor in place of a thunderously glowering deity whose temperament was well-known among his colleagues to be choleric and unpleasant in the extreme.
“I should like to express my support for the views of my junior colleague the Buddha, and point out that in India, where I am from….”
Oh no not again thought the Buddha gotta grab the floor back or we’re in for an eon of blather “As I have not relinquished the floor, Shiva, I shall continue my argument, but I thank you most kindly for your expression of support! Now as I was saying, reincarnation was finally paying off just as the goofy errr misguided errr inept well anyway monotheists blew the whole damn lab up, and I really really resent the interruption of the experiment I was running! Three thousand years of patient data gathering and painstaking tweaking of the parameters, and kerflooey some nutjob kills off the samples!”
The Buddha was breathing heavily in his extreme fury at the irresponsibility of the deities whose failure to inculcate proper reverence for life and its joys in their people caused this debacle. “I have already petitioned and received approval from The Source for resource reallocation to recreate the experiment as it stood before the root cause of this nonsense was developed. God, your market share will be set at 10%. Allah, 8%. Yahweh, 8%. Shiva, birth control is mandatory and you’re limited to 12.5%, same as me. The minors will cap out at 3% each `and, everybody, no poaching this time! The Source doesn’t like this whole creepy crawly evangelism thing, and forbids it from recurring this time. My reincarnation experiment will run unhindered across cultural borders this time and each culture will have a myth supporting its reality.”The Executive Committee erupted in furious outbursts of invective as the gods absorbed the enormity of this palace coup. Allah and God were outraged to the point of apoplexy, the Buddha noted wryly, as usual. Yahweh mustered arguments, but was spluttering too badly for them to be comprehended.
‘IT IS SO ENACTED,’ spoke The Source. ‘RETURN TO YOUR POSITIONS AND RESUME YOUR EXPERIMENTS WITHIN THESE PARAMETERS.’”
captcha = “poor” as in “poor ol’ Gaia”
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 06/13 at 04:04 PMHello again, everyone. Here’s the latest method by which American Marines are winning hearts and minds:
http://tinyurl.com/jg7cbPosted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/13 at 05:08 PMHi everyone....Mickey #10, more proof that Ward Churchill has been right all along.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 06/13 at 07:06 PMI think you’re really gonna like the posts I have planned for the rest of the week, RMJ.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/13 at 07:48 PMFunny you should link to Zappa today, Mickey—since this morning I happened to post some 1978 footage of Frank and the Mothers doing Suicide Chump....
Oops—I just realized you’re probably long asleep by now....
Posted by Michael Hawkins on from Boulder, CO 06/13 at 10:52 PMWelcome back, Hawk.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/14 at 04:29 AM
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