Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Giving flowers to cops
HA! I got firsts!! And I even beat MZ here, see post from previous entry!!
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 06/18 at 07:31 AMLike the Burroughs quote, MZ, it’s a doozy.
And happy Father’s Day to Mr. Zezima the elder, without whom each Expendable’s life would be the poorer.
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 06/18 at 07:54 AMA Very Good Morning to you Mudge. How’s this for the title of another chapter in the book, “Just Call Me Dad”. Today is Fathers’ Day. I had a fantastic father but not all are so lucky. On fathers’ day I always remember the mothers of the more than 37 million kids in this country who have fathers who have have abandoned them...no hugs, no birthday cards, no help fixin’ the bike, no support, no nothing. I know that this is a sensitive subject that always gets me in trouble but the facts are as they are. This topic is especially close to home for me because I am the mother of one of those 37 million abandoned kids.
Now on a lighter note...I saw that Colbert interview. It was great. Colbert is at the top of my laugh list. I don’t think any of the others even come close.
The first time I ever heard this was in the Henry Fonda dialog in the Grapes of Wrath. It is one of my favorites.
“As long as there is a lower class, I am in it.
“As long as there is a criminal element, I am of it.
“As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
Thanks Mickey.Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 06/18 at 08:00 AMRMJ, the facts are as they are, and since they’re facts, they’re open to interpretation. Like your daughter, I too had a dad who paid nothing to my mother for support...but I had a sick, weird, twisted mother who isolated me from my father and made sure I was never able to hear positive things about him, his family, or anyone in his life. She was a pedophile, in the clinical sense of incapable of arousal by anyone post-pubescent. I don’t subscribe to the Cult of the Mother as you might imagine. Mine was not the only sick, twisted mother, and I can’t help thinking that at least some of those 37 million kids whose fathers abandoned them has a mother like mine, at least to some degree. I suspect the number is higher than would be comfortable for Mother-Cultists.
To be explicit: Not all fathers abandon their children who pay no support. Some, and I suspect the number is quite large, are driven away by the insane or evil mothers of these children. Mothers are not victims of abuse/abandonment until evidence stacks up saying they are.
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 06/18 at 08:18 AMMudge...I am sorry that you had such horrendous circumstances. I believe that every child has the right to the love and support of both parents. I agree, many mothers are not good parents. That is the reason why it is important for fathers to fulfill their role. I see no problem with fathers leaving their wives but they should never leave their children. There’s a big difference there. Back in the 70’s I founded one of the first organizations for the advocacy of the legal rights of children. Many times in the middle of the night I would get calls from desperate mothers. Often the father had taken off with some younger, prettier woman only to leave the family homeless. I am not defending women. I am just saying that the needs of children should be met. This should not be a battle of the sexes. Everyone should be a children’s advocate.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 06/18 at 08:53 AMGood morning, Mudge, RMJ, and other Expendables. It’s gonna be a scorcher here today. I just sat and read on my fire escape for a little while to enjoy the sun before it skyrockets into the 90s.
Reading Mudge’s words reminded how lucky I am to have had—and still have—such great parents.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/18 at 08:58 AMYeah, Happy Father’s Day.. won’t even go on about it, have done so before here. Not crabby about that, but about the perpetual temp situation that moves me to take a Sunday shift at a law firm now. Which is just sooo helpful toward me getting writing done.
Thanks for fun comments and links, hope to view them on company time at some point…
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 06/18 at 09:16 AMHi all. It’s confession time.
It’s been over 5 years since I talked to my father. Regretably, I told him I never wanted to talk to him again… He was a drunk, living in a homeless shelter at the time. And I guess I saw too much of myself in him (like father like son, as they say)...
So for today, this Orange Blossom is for Dad!
“I believe if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant, and the warm-blooded, to fall into this vice. The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.”
-- Abraham Lincoln, Address to the Washingtonian Temperance Society, February 22, 1842Posted by RT on from The Drunk Before Noon Saloon 06/18 at 11:53 AMi loved the vonnegut and the colbert.
if you want another example of the sort of thing that makes you desperate about the insanity of it all check this out…
Posted by michael on from exile 06/18 at 02:30 PMLooking for Chris Wood
Hi, folks, excuse my intrusion, I’m trying to get in touch with Chris Wood, who has posted a lot here. I am a translator for the French publishing company Payot-Rivages (http://www.payot-rivages.fr),
and I am putting together a collection of Sherlock Holmes pastiches and parodies, to be published in the first half of 2007.
I would love to read “The Underpants of Death”, which might fit in
nicely with the 12 short stories I have already selected.
Could any of you guys give me Chris Wood’s email address?
Or, if you are reading this, Chris, could you contact me directly?
mailto:
Thanks, everyone.Posted by Jean-Paul Gratias on from Paris, France 06/18 at 03:22 PMRT...The scars made by family relationships are the most difficult to heal. I am sorry. I sense a sadness in your day today. I like the quote from Lincoln. Most drunks that I have known were brilliant and sensitive...maybe too sensitive to survive without a little deadening of the pain.
Michael...thanks for the link. I have heard about similar evil deeds by pharmaceutical companies. I am especially attuned to vision problems these days because I have been helping a friend, a young very healthy man, who is having a major problem with detached retinas. I know that that is different from macular degeneration but any threat to sight is a major problem. It’s all about capitalistic greed.
James...good luck at the law firm. If you make any mistakes, which I am sure you never do, please make them in favor of the client.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 06/18 at 03:32 PMRMJ… you mean Pfizer? Why, are you particularly sympathetic to them? I know what you meant, but in this case…
Yikes, don’t want to get in trouble here.
Posted by James on from work 06/18 at 03:41 PMHello again, everyone. It’s about 200 degrees here today.
Thanks for sharing, RT. It seems we humans have done an excellent job of creating a society in which self-medication often appears as the most rational choice.
Jean-Paul: I forwarded your message to Chris. How did you know he’s a regular here?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/18 at 03:48 PMMe again...with this from the Guardian, re: Chomsky:
http://tinyurl.com/fde2lPosted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/18 at 06:02 PMEaaarrrrggghhh!!! Trying to work at a mind-numbingly boring job, edit two books, prepare one nervous writer for a pitch meeting with an agent, prepare another for the inevitable rewrite when her book sells, and write a book of my own on this, the 27th anniversary of my dead son’s birth, plus cope with a hideous emotional revelation from my past has me a wee tidge distressed just now.
RMJ, I think all parents should BE parents. Unfortunately, most aren’t good at the job. We agree...a child’s needs are paramount.
RT, I am so sorry for the pain I know that decision to cut communication cost you. This is my experience, too: “The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.”
MZ, good parents! You rotten horrible man! I hate you with all the passion that envy engenders!!
CatLady: “...the perpetual temp situation that moves me to take a Sunday shift at a law firm...” Suckage. Permanent gig >whammy<
Off to do more with the nervous meeting-havin’ writer. Auf wiedermailen
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 06/18 at 07:23 PMColbert, Vonnegut and now Carlin on the 10 Commandments:
http://www.geocities.com/bobmelzer/gc10cx.htmlPosted by Tim on from Temple City, California 06/19 at 03:20 AM
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