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Saturday, December 23, 2006

You saw Mommy doing WHAT with Santa?

Posted by Mickey Z on 12/23 at 07:06 AM

  1. Good travels to you and Michele and most importantly - good wishes to Mrs. Z. 

    Enjoy - it’s what all this holiday crap is really all about!

    PS: I think a childhood friend did see her Mommy kissing Santa Claus...I believe her Dad had a costume.  Go figure.

    Posted by Amelopsis  on  from Canada 12/23  at  08:48 AM

  2. Morning Amelopsis...hey Mick.

    I’ve got a story...it’s a bad one (quoted from here - http://tinyurl.com/yljuvu
    ):

    The World Trade Center was a city with its own zipcode. When it fell, hundreds of tons of asbestos were pulverized to particles of an unusually small size - which some scientists believe are especially dangerous to human health - and carried to Brooklyn and beyond. The towers also contained 50,000 computers each made with approximately four pounds of lead and that doesn’t include the five other buildings that were destroyed. Tens of thousands of fluorescent lightbulbs each contained 41 mg. mercury per four foot bulb. Dioxin reached record levels. The smoke detectors contained radioactive americium 241. PCBs in the water attained 75,000 times their previous record. The alkalinity of the dust reached the level of draincleaner. A month after the disaster, Dr. Thomas Cahill of U.C. Davis found very- and ultrafine particles that were the highest he’d recorded of 7000 samples taken around the world, including at the burning Kuwaiti oil fields.

    Yet a week later, EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman told the people of New York, “Good news. The air is safe to breathe.”

    Posted by JOS  on  from Oak Park 12/23  at  09:35 AM

  3. Yes, JOS, but the NYSE re-opened lickety-splitski.

    Later, C.T. Whitman proceeded to resign over differences with her superiors over enviro policy. This is mind-bending on several levels

    Everyone have an enjoyably iconoclastic holiday.

    Posted by Zenprole  on  from Urth 12/23  at  11:04 AM

  4. Hello Expendables. It’s stopped raining and now it’s awfully warm and humid for Xmas weekend. Thanks for the comments, stories, anfd good wishes.

    Btw, we’re stilll getting lots of traffic thanks to Counterpunch. I hope you’re all using coasters.

    Posted by Mickey Z.  on  from Astoria 12/23  at  11:56 AM

  5. I like the useage of the word ‘expendables’...the calendar says it is december 25...go spend money, lie to the young children fore we must acclimate our youth to the culture of lies. Son, if you are a good boy santa will bring you a nice shining hacksaw with assorted blades. Daughter, if you are polite, santa will bring you a noisy electric hair dryer, with attachments that will fullfill any kinky ideas you get as a young teenager. We will go to church before we gather to openour gifts and have our daily family argument, since we enjoy our freedom in this fine land. After all, mommy and daddy are dysfunctional so we expect the same of our children who we love but didn’t want. You see, I was drunk and mommy was desperate...so we got naked and here we share our wretched lives together as good americans who are free to do these kinds of things. As soon as christmas is over, 11am, I’m going over to Bob’s to watch football and flirt with his wife while mommy stays home and deals with her depression as a result of marrying me and having you. Even with all my faults I consider myself a good father and okay husband. I vote, I screw people at work since I am part of an inherently corrupt hierarchy. I drive a gray suv with a trendy ski rack. I spit on people who smoke cigarettes. I hate cats...so you see, I feel I’m a decent, okay, I guess I’m better than many, well at least I’m trying....type of, well...I’m still your legal guardian whether I...er..you like it or not!
    So damn it...have fun, that’s a direct order!

    Posted by Joe of Maine  on  from 12/23  at  01:07 PM

  6. As usual, Joe...you’ve said it all.

    Joe has long been e-mailing in response to my articles and blog posts and I think I’ve finally convinced him to share here.

    Almost time to leave for the airport.

    Posted by Mickey Z.  on  from Astoria 12/23  at  01:20 PM

  7. Hi Every Expendable!

    The only story I got is that I’m making this post from our new video game system. Kinda gives new meaning to the phrase couch surfing. lol

    Funny thing Mz, Wife and I were just talking about that horrible song just the other day.
    Have a great visit with your family!

    P&l!

    Luna

    Posted by Luna_c  on  from My Wii 12/23  at  01:21 PM

  8. Wow, Joe from Maine kicks ass, seriously. Welcome here. Though of course I still miss some Expendables of days past… ah well, no one’s forgotten. Mickey’s right about one of many things lately-- we can walk to the gym in shorts here, it’s amazing. We almost don’t notice the crappy air both literally and figuratively here, and I myself anyway find a new reason to love the city all the time… well, happy holidays one and all!

    Posted by James  on  from Hell's Kitchen 12/23  at  01:49 PM

  9. as it happens…

    my mother was a poet but she died from breast cancer when i was 4 years old.

    however, a wonderful true story is that she is the only woman in the world to have turned down james bond.

    roger moore, before he was james bond went into the bank where my mother worked (in london) and saw her. he wasn’t james bond yet but he was tremendously famous at the time because he was ‘the saint’ (british tv show)

    he went in the day before and saw her and obviously liked what he had seen so he came back the next day with a limo and a few flowers and she told him to #### off because she had met my dad three weeks earlier

    i feel this story would have more punch if my dad wasn’t an asshole but u can’t have everything and it is true

    Posted by michael  on  from exile 12/23  at  03:18 PM

  10. Joe of Maine...Good comment. You really have a good grip on reality. Maybe it’s something about Maine that does it. Your story reminded me of Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King.  I was thinking earlier, even before I read your comment Joe, that I am wishing for a Norman Rockwell holiday, but it feels a lot more like Stephen King.

    On C-span right now is the author of Torture Taxi, a book about usa rendition and torture. Looks like good holiday reading, just in case anyone out there thinks that there is something to celebrate. Headline in today’s paper, “4000 in Vermont are Homeless”.

    Posted by RMJ  on  from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 12/23  at  04:33 PM

  11. Oh wow, it doesn’t get much better than this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxv2lLzHMm0

    Just think of what a difference Bob Geldoff, Bono et all have made in the world since then! Hurray, and now I’m off to buy myself a hemp fabric wallet to store all the money I’ll go spend on recycled cat litter.

    Posted by James  on  from Hell's Kitchen 12/23  at  06:22 PM

  12. The best part of Christmas to me is spending time with family and friends. The worst part is all the damn money I’ll be spending on gifts that nobody will remember in a month. I could put that money to some good use like paying down some debt.

    May 2007 be a year of progress!

    Peace!

    Posted by David  on  from Louisville KY 12/23  at  11:00 PM

  13. Interesting story, Mickey - and I hope you and Michele have a good trip.  Best wished to you Mum from me as well.

    Here in Daylesford the temperatures have come down so much that we put the heating on yesterday.  Today we have 68F and it won’t warm up before 28 December.

    Hello to all my fellow expendables - have a Very Merry Christmas!

    Posted by Helga Fremlin  on  from Daylesford, Australia 12/23  at  11:38 PM

  14. Come on dude, it was daddy dressed up as santa,and if were’nt, then i don’tn begrudge momma. joe, you write it so bending. i read recently a comment that affirmed my belief in truth, positivity over negativity, as i live in a world so mired in desperation and overpowering desp[air and discomfort beyond my comprehension, and yet the poit is… and it’s this… that yes surely there has always been suffering, but remember too, that also there has always been the overcoming of suffering… my regards to michelle this holiday sason… love and regards dex,

    i was , i’m afraid to relate a victim of oral contraception tonight, having asked a beautiful girl to go to bed with me, she disisted from the encrazing desire and said no!!

    won’t even start upon the berkowitsis, as my names not woodford.

    hi everybody!! ain’t it fine to be here.... despite…

    Posted by dexster  on  from loveland 12/24  at  01:58 AM

  15. jos, i meant jos, ... funny, i was talkin qite abit to aguy tonight who was close to the rumbling, and i knew and know it’s a pinnacle moment in my life yet i’ve never had a close relationship with nyc but that jarred my conscoiuss and perspective and well there you go, and what more… at least we can sell nukes to the indians with out provoking arma.. flipping geddon, the best to all, and, if youm
    can make even te slightest attempt tell me, please tell us in your way a moment of your beauteaous experience.. oh dear, absinth maketh me vociferous.. and i said unto him quiet dowm and so silemce rained for much illusoury time and then a great sound came down… (go n’eiri an mzx x)

    Posted by deckllllan  on  from oh mannnn 12/24  at  02:17 AM

  16. decklllan..in case this is what you were asking:

    http://wdthu.blogspot.com/2006/09/september-11th-2001-repost.html

    Posted by JOS  on  from Oak Park 12/24  at  03:42 AM

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