Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Britney Spears lives out the American Dream
*crickets*
I think you’ve damaged our psyches with that one, Mickey!
Morning all.
frances, I’ve been thinking about the link you provided last night to the video work that was done about the impact of drugs on that communty. Disturbing. I’m going to be thinking about that one a while longer.
RMJ, hope you’re dug out or getting help with it.
captcha tells me “six”. should i be worried?
Posted by Deb on from NoVa 03/21 at 08:56 AM-
Hello Expendables...from a slowly warming Astoria.
Deb: Do you think I finally went too far with this one?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 03/21 at 09:01 AM does anyone know the name for a snake that eats its own tail?
My search led me here:morning all.
Posted by frances on from british columbia 03/21 at 09:48 AMFor some reason, Frances, I felt compelled to post this:
http://www.vhemt.orgPosted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 03/21 at 09:56 AMlol, mickey, I don’t think you went too far, I think that ad for b.s. is so over the top that we’re left speechless!
and for the vhemt, I find the irony of the double meaning brings a smile to my face: “Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.”
frances: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
Posted by Deb on from NoVa 03/21 at 10:12 AMHey Expendables.
Today’s post reminded me immediately of this.
I followed frances’ link, weeded through the crazy stuff, and got to this. A reminder of something I had already been aware of.
Then Mickey’s vhemt link got me looking around, and I found this.
So much stuff in one little computer!
Posted by Keir on from the hague 03/21 at 10:27 AMKeir, love the beginning of the second comment on the first link you posted:
Woodstock said…
I am a gay male radical feminist who loves Britney’s music.Posted by JOS on from Chicago 03/21 at 10:33 AMInteresting article in the Washington Post:
BAGHDAD, March 19—Dozens of insurgents wielding machine guns surrounded the police station before dawn Monday in Duluiyah, a majority Sunni town about 45 miles north of Baghdad. The five officers on duty walked out, hands to the dark sky, and waited to be executed.
But instead of firing, the insurgents’ leader spoke: Repent, he commanded, or die.
“So we swore to quit the police and support the Islamic State of Iraq,” recalled Mohammad Hashmawi, one of the police officers, referring to a militant Sunni organization active in many parts of the country.
Apparently content, the insurgents stole the officers’ decrepit weapons and the station’s communications equipment, blew up the building and released the officers. A similar scene played out simultaneously at another police station in the town, said police Capt. Hussein al-Jaburi. It was the fifth police station in the town to be destroyed by Sunni extremists in two weeks, he said, leaving just three standing.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 03/21 at 10:52 AMI have no idea how this relates...but it brought a laugh to my day and I will share it here.
a short tale as told by Idries Shah.
A Mulla who had not lived a good life - he was a hypocrite who always dressed as an ascetic - died and found himself in the nether regions.A demon came up to him, looked briefly at a list, and then said, “you are 90% sinner, not a 100% one. That means that you get a choice of torments.”
“What does that mean?” asked the Mulla.
“It means,” said the demon, “that you follow me and we inspect the various tortures and you take your pick.”
So saying, he led the Mulla down a long corridor, with doors on both sides. In the first room, whose door was opened, people were being fed red-hot coals; in the second, they were being torn limb from limb, and so on. “There is bound to be a better one, somewhere,” thought the Mulla, and so he declined each and every one of the torments.
Then the demon opened another door. Inside that room the Mulla saw a man dressed as an ascetic, sitting at a table, gobbling down delicious-looking strawberries.
“Yes! That’s the one. That’s the torment I want!” shouted the Mulla.
The demon took out his list and consulted it. “Room 599...No, I’m sorry, there has been a mistake. That’s the room reserved for eternally torturing the strawberries!”
and now I am off to work for the day. Enjoy the conversing.
Posted by frances on from british columbia 03/21 at 10:53 AMWhy did Rudy have to be a Yankee fan?:
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 03/21 at 11:16 AMSpeaking of Rudy:
Posted by James on from work 03/21 at 11:24 AMHey Keir, JOS, and James. Since we seem to be on a Britney-inspired random link posting frenzy, I’ll join in with this link about Snow Donuts.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 03/21 at 11:41 AMoh i do like random links days…
another species of denial…
http://tinyurl.com/23br9gPosted by michael on from scotland 03/21 at 12:05 PMSomebody posted this crazy link on my blog the other day:
http://www.angelfire.com/crazy/spaceman/
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 03/21 at 12:21 PMJOS: I don’t know what’s crazier: that link or the fact that I was visitor #27,563?
Hey Michael…
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 03/21 at 12:59 PMWhile that ad might seem over the top, should we really be all that surprised? This is Amerika today.
And here we are…Posted by The CultureGhost on from Concord CA 03/21 at 01:24 PMAh, but you forget one thing, Ghost: If I didn’t make the occasional Britney Spears or Paris Hilton post, I’d have practically no traffic at all.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 03/21 at 01:27 PMMick, 27,562 people can’t be wrong, so the Alien Spaceman Jesus, must be right.
You want wierd, you got it:
http://cloningforpeace.blogspot.com/
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 03/21 at 02:07 PMHere’s an entire town of clones:
http://www.clones.ieEven captcha sez: “fact”
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 03/21 at 02:12 PMI tried “Laura Bush Nekkid” for a while to boost traffic, but even the reactionary NeoCons asked me, politely, to cease and desist as the thought was even too gruesome for them.
Posted by The CultureGhost on from Concord CA 03/21 at 02:31 PMghost, i was browsing your site yesterday, thanks to mickey, and good stuff! I’ll have to remember to become a regular browser.
As long as we’re talking religion, here’s the one I find easiest to believe in: http://www.venganza.org/
Posted by Deb on from NoVa 03/21 at 02:59 PMYeah, I really like your site, CultureGhost.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 03/21 at 03:16 PMThank you very much. Coming from Mickey’s commentors, that is quite the compliment. I’m a regular reader since Michael at Spontaneous Arising urged us to visit here. Not always a regular commentor as I sometimes get intimidated (it’s a me thing)by the level of discourse. I come here to have my sense of activism (and it is at a rather low point right now) re-activated. And to have my “good intentions” justifiably questioned as good intentions ain’t gonna git us outta dis mess.
Posted by The CultureGhost on from Concord CA 03/21 at 03:33 PMAlien Spaceman Jesus reminds me of a crazy anti-semitic book I read once, I think it was called - hang on, have I posted this story before? Oh, nevermind. Hello everyone.
Posted by mew on from LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH 03/21 at 03:35 PM-
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 03/21 at 04:13 PM
i do like this
Posted by michael on from scotland 03/21 at 04:38 PMI almost used that title for my most recent novel...but I opted for this: CPR for Dummies.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 03/21 at 04:50 PMits nice to be the bearer of glad tidings… well, its a start anyway…
Posted by michael on from scotland 03/21 at 05:04 PMThanks for the link Deb.
what I see in that ad is that it is the product of human logical thought. It just goes no where except back inside of itself. Like that serpent, and the snow donut. Cloning for peace is another brilliant example of logic.
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster ranks as my personal fav today. Thanks for the giggle.Posted by frances on from watching the dandelions grow 03/21 at 06:37 PMBBC presentation of an audio dramatization of Riverbends Baghdad Burning blog. If you havent already heard it.
Posted by frances on from watching the dandelions grow 03/21 at 06:59 PM
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