Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Worth 1000 words? I'd settle for at least 10 or 15...
“don’t worry dear, the revolution won’t be televised.”
Posted by Tommy on from I live by the River 11/24 at 08:13 AMWow, I’d say Tommy has set the bar pretty damn high with that opening salvo. Excellent caption.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/24 at 08:21 AM“This new invention is better than opium.”
Posted by Richard on from Buffalo 11/24 at 08:40 AMOh John, let’s have a threesome with the sales man right here in the store…
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/24 at 10:23 AMI can see this just might turn out to be an interesting and revealing exercise. Michele and I are off for an overnight trip so I might not be able to check back in until mid-day tomorrow.
Have fun…
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/24 at 10:51 AM...and the best part it is ONLY 100 easy payments of 29.95 a month....
Posted by usexpatriate on from 11/24 at 11:11 AM“Ward, I think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night.”
Posted by Buddhamonkeydevil on from 11/24 at 11:59 AMWell now. All of you have set the bar so high, I can’t compete. I do like the photo. It must be from the 50s. Maybe none of you will understand this but when I look at photos of people dressed like that, they seem so real to me. For many years through the 70s and 80s when I saw people dressed in the style of the day, it almost seemed like they were in costume.
I remember dressing like the photo. Damn those high heels hurt. Imagine working and walking in them all day. (I even marched in high heels in the military.) I am happy that high heels are not a mandatory part of the work uniform any more. Obviously they were invented by a man. No woman would be that cruel to her fellow ladies. All this goes to show that a person’s sence of aesthetics is determined by the era in which he grows up.Here is a possible submission.
“Dear, I heard that someday the picture will even be in color.”Posted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 11/24 at 04:23 PMRMJ...Good afternoon, good to hear from you...I feel bad that women felt they had to dress to please the immature patriarch, not only be a sex symbol, but a girl friend and mother all in one.
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/24 at 04:31 PMHi joe...as you know, I am not a feminist but I do like the statement by Ginger Rogers. She said that Fred got all of the credit but she had to do everything he did - and she did it backwards in high heels for half the pay.
I guess it is even worse now days for women who do not think for themselves. The amount of plastic surgery going on is amazing - and of questionable ethics when some cannot get real surgery that they need for health reasons.
Posted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 11/24 at 04:44 PMOff topic, but I have been thinking a lot about how so many in the u$a will do anything for money - including work for Raytheon or worse yet, own Raytheon stock. From the famous scene in Wall Street, the ‘Greed is good’ speech.....
Gordon Gekko said, “...The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that: Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right; greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge — has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed, you mark my words — will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.”
Posted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 11/24 at 07:23 PMRMJ...11...The rationalizations for everything, from greed to the oppression of entire societies as we experience here in Guantanamo. It’s amazing how an occasional ‘even keeled’ day can be shot to hell by one person doing what they think, ‘their supposed to do’, and without regard to the effects of their actions on others.
Once I told the owner of the company I work for, If I fell onto the floor with a stroke, I’d be kicked to death by people trying to walk over me or around me...he was speechless.
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/24 at 08:51 PM“It will #### up our kids and destroy democracy, all for one low price!”
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 11/24 at 09:30 PMHello Expendables...I’m ba-a-a-ack. Excellent captions but I’m still partial to Tommy’s opening entry.
Today’s Post Secret:
http://postsecret.blogspot.comPosted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/25 at 12:39 PMMy caption for Mickey’s photo:
“He says it even comes with planned obsolescence, darling!”
Posted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco, California 11/25 at 03:13 PMjoe #12...You are 100% right on that one. As a society we walk around 18,000 dead bodies every year - those who have died from lack of access to medical care.
Posted by RMJ on from Mickey Z 4 Prez Hdqts 11/25 at 03:23 PMAnother caption...Well Claudia, while this man is drawing a nude sketch of you, I’m gonna run across the street to Victoria Secrets and buy your christmas gift.
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/25 at 03:46 PMThanks Mickey.
Props to Gil Scott-Heron though.
Hope he is doing well.“Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.”
-Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network.bout sums it up for me.
now go to your windows and.........
Posted by Tommy on from I live by the River 11/25 at 03:56 PMTommy 18...Finch was GREAT in Network...strange the the number of cast who died shortly after the release of that movie??? Almost too coincidental?
Posted by joe of maine on from 11/25 at 04:08 PMI agree Joe. Finch was amazing in an amazing film. The characterization of Beale was prophecy when looking at television today.
I’ve forgotten about the deaths of some of the actors.Sorry, if this is a bit off topic and a nod to the mainstream, but Lumet is a film master.
One of his lesser known films is Running on Empty from 1988.
Its about a pair of 60’s radicals who live month to month under the radar, while trying to raise two children.
The late River Phoenix is quite good as one of the sons.
Worth a look!Posted by Tommy on from I live by the River 11/25 at 08:56 PM“Don’t you worry your pretty little head darling, the salesman is just demonstrating which of our skills become obsolete by purchasing a television. You won’t have missed anything!”
Posted by John G on from British Columbia 11/27 at 11:40 PMI’m agree with you.
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