Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Saturday, May 17, 2008
"The cavernous greed..."
I just pre-ordered CPR...I am excited to read it.
Greed. Outside my window is a billboard announcing the coming of moonvertising. This is when they go ahead post advertising on the moon (by using some sort of laser light mechanism, I think).
I wonder what our extra-terrestrial neighbors will think of us that night.
Posted by JOS on from Oak Park 05/17 at 08:33 AMI’m picturing the same kind of feeling in the new Yankee Stadium. If you want to sit right behind the Yankee dugout, it’s going to cost $850 a seat. Last season was $150. This season is $250 (being the last season and all). Front seats behind the plate will cost $2500. So much for my plan to ever watch a Yankee game from that location one day. At least the hedge fund managers of the world will be happy.
At least the bleachers will remain $12, but with 4,000 fewer seats, the chances of securing a spot don’t look too promising.
Completely unrelated, but since I was discussing the Yanks, I thought I’d share:
http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/the-windup/2008/05/16/Yankees-Jason-Giambi-Struggles
Posted by Charles on from Jersey City 05/17 at 09:18 AMHello Expendables...finally, some sun in Astoria today.
Thanks for ordering my book, JOS. I could use about 10,000 more just like you.
Charles: I’m gong to a Yankee game next Friday. My uncle (my Mom’s brother) is coming to NYC and bought two tickets. It’s sort of an official goodbye to the Stadium for us...and my mother. We all spent plenty of time there many years ago (when tickets were somewhat affordable).
Great article on Giambi, too. I’ll be happy when he’s gone.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/17 at 10:12 AMwow, Charles...that article was very different from the typical sports related stuff. I will be happy when Giambi is gone...one of the worst signings in my Yankee lifetime.
So the bleachers have only tripled in price since I used to go as a teenager.
Greed and sports...they go together like peanuts and crackerjacks.
Posted by JOS on from Oak Park 05/17 at 10:16 AMWay back when, I used to sit in the bleachers thanks to something called the “Fresh Air Fund.” Non-privileged city kids like me got seats for something like 75 cents. I’d go with my entire Little League team. This was when Bobby Murcer as the Yanks’ biggest star.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/17 at 10:18 AMsimultyping..."glad when he’s gone.” I guess we think alike.
10,000? You never know. CPR might turn into a cult classic.
Posted by JOS on from Oak Park 05/17 at 10:21 AMI liked when the Yanks had a guy like Tony Clark at first base. Of course, I yearn for the days of Tino and Donnie Baseball.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/17 at 10:23 AMMy brother and I used to get free box seats from my father’s business associates...sell them for a hefty profit outside of the stadium, buy our bleacher tix for $4.50 and eat and drink all we wanted for free all game long. Oh, the good old days!
Posted by JOS on from Oak Park 05/17 at 10:25 AMThose days are gone forever, JOS. I’d hate to be a kid today.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/17 at 10:26 AMMick and Fam—RED SOX NATION—INDEED—THE TWINS TAGGED EM’ for 3 out of 4 last week-end—dropped 3-3 to the JAYS .. and beat THE ROCKIES last nite ... CORPORATE 101—for 30 $bucks at an upcoming TWINS-O-RAMA—u can DOWN all the DOMEDOGS, soda, water ?!?, NACHOS, peanuts/popcorn U CAN HANDLE --- gluTony ... at OUR VERSION OF THE ROMAN CIRCUS --- SEVEN DEADLY SPINS—SEVEN DEADLY SINS—http://tinyurl.com/5ngbxh—GRAND THEFT AUTO—II/III—LET’S anyone—in a household—w/ the GAMECOCK/reg*—eliminate—good guys/badguys w/ equal fervor!!—THE UNITED (because the lower 48 are contiguous) STATES OF ROMANY --- 1532 YEARS LATER—http://tinyurl.com/65gf6g—DEAR CHARLTON’S HANDS ARE NOT ONLY COLD—BUT DEAD AS WELL ..........ALL******************* “..CPR FOR DUMMIES IS A MUST READ—I’M IN MY SECOND PASS—IN THIS CORNUCOPIA OF CHARCTER DE-LITES—.. a PLAYVELLA—of WIT—WIZDOM—INSIGHT—GRIT—CHALLENGED FAITH—MISDIRECTION—SWEAT—GRIME—PASSIONFLOWERS—UNFORGIVEN TERROR—AND LOADS OF HUMOR—drawn from the dark ANNALS OF THE CHRONICLER’S GARDEN VARIETY/VEGAN MIND!!..”—200+ pp’s of WONDERMENT—OWEN WILSON IS MY NOMINEE FOR FATHER WATCHAMACALLIT!&?&!—http://tinyurl.com/ydvote—(Mick’s stage/screen basketball playin’ - SKATER alter-ego COMPLETE W/A CA VERSION of a ROMAN COLLAR—in the HOLLYWOOD HILLS --)—peaceout!!
Posted by Richie on from st james city/ nft MYERS FL/st cloud 05/17 at 11:06 AMMICK ==== OWEN WILSON IS TODAY’S VERSION OF JACK KEROUWAC—http://tinyurl.com/4v9fhs—// on the road to NOWHERE—WHACKJOB—but loveable!! nonetheless!!
Posted by Richie on from UP THE VOLCANO/LOWRENT shanty 05/17 at 11:20 AMThanks, Richie. All kidding aside, with help from the Expendables, I could try to make this into a cult favorite. MySpace, Facebook, etc. We could go viral...as they say.
Anyone have any ideas?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/17 at 11:37 AMPost reminds me of when I went to see Arundhati Roy a few weeks back.
The Shanghai Lit Festival is an ex-pat thing and it’s held in the ‘Glamour Bar’ a wing of the glitziest restraunt in town.
There was like, 5 or so ppl like ourselves and 300 investment bankers. Q&A was embarrasing.
For example: “Ms. Roy, what about the economic miracle here in China, surely the fact we are all here in this bar shows that the system works.”
errr, yes, what about the 9 who go down for every 1 that goes up. And that’s a conservative figure.
Posted by Andy on from Shanghai 05/17 at 11:50 AMWell, Andy...for those 300 investment bankers, I guess the system is working (for now, at least).
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/17 at 12:00 PMWorking Class Comedy: on Monday I saw Patton Oswalt at a club in Providence. It was likely the best comedy show I’ll ever see: tickets $25, free parking, exceptional talent (including opener), a great crowd (mostly young & vibrant, and no investment bankers), and some cool Lovecraft-themed posters (not many on hand, but free for the asking) that are destined to become rare collectors items. We laughed so hard it was like an athletic event.
Baseball News: yeah, the Red Sox and Yankees are having their troubles. What thrills me is seeing Tampa Bay clean house: swept the Sox, 3 of 4 from NYY. Talk about laboring in the vineyards for years...it’s great to see them winning. They have two of the fastest outfielders ever to play the game in Crawford (3 years of 15+ triples) and Upton (great skills/still developing). The manager is also highly articulate and often witty. It’s a long season, but they look quite good - an affront to MLB economics.
Blasphemy always puts the hook in me. I’m ordering CPR.
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 05/17 at 12:51 PMThanks, Zen.
As for the Rays, let’s not forget that the Brewers were in first place last year at this time. It’s a loooooong season.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/17 at 02:06 PMHow can we get an autographed copy of CPR?
I heard Dizzie Gillespie twice-- once near his home town, Cheraw, SC. It was a free outdoor concert with almost infinite encores that went on and on into the night. Locals turned out to see their hero-- lot’s of spontaneous dancing and joy.
2nd time-- in Enterprise, AL-- home of the world’s only monument to a bug: the boll weevil which “saved” the farmers by forcing them to replace cotton with peanuts… a lie. (George Washington Carver taught them to plant peanuts.)
I got to meet Dizzy after the show-- backstage; he was by himself.
We recalled the previous concert and the one that evening, where he had played a few abbreviated favorites-- including a Bebop version of “Dixie”. I don’t think the concert lasted hardly an hour.
The first was for the People-- the second, for a town’s well-heeled who mostly yawned; people who simply wanted to be able to say that they had heard the legendary Gillespie-- part of a tour in an area where most people hardly could afford the ticket prices.
I still choke up when I think of Gillespie and his passing-- and the real joy he brought to so many people.
Posted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco 05/17 at 02:14 PMGreat story, Robert. I love Dizzy’s music and as a kid I remember thinking he was one of the coolest guys I ever saw because of the way he played his trumpet.
Posted by JOS on from Oak Park 05/17 at 02:20 PMI never saw Dizzy in concert but was fortunate enough to see Miles at Avery Fisher Hall about 17 years ago.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/17 at 02:25 PMJOS, Giambi had his moments, although I too will be happy to see him go. Still, his first few seasons in pinstripes weren’t awful. Surely a much worse signing would have to be Carl Pavano, I think. Five wins in four seasons? He’s made $8 million per victory. Can you even remember the last time you saw him pitch? Honestly, I can’t think of a more horrendous signing in any sport.
Posted by Charles on from Jersey City 05/17 at 08:15 PMagreed on Pavano...but I’ll be more apt to give Giambi a little of his due if he breaks out this year with a big rest of the season.
I look forward to hearing ideas about making CPR a cult classic.
Posted by JOS on from Oak Park 05/17 at 09:32 PMI look forward to hearing ideas about making CPR a cult classic.
That makes two of us, JOS.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/17 at 09:34 PMMickey, maybe if you started up one of those email chain letters urging people to read CPR and that they’ll get ass herpes if they don’t forward the email to 10 other people?
Or you could just start up a Mickey Z group on Facebook. I’ve never started my own group on there, but most of Facebook is user-friendly, so it shouldn’t be too difficult. I’d certainly add you to my profile. You could do MySpace too. Hell, Nader has his own MySpace page.
Just keep the ass herpes idea in mind. That’s all I’m sayin’.
Posted by Charles on from Jersey City 05/18 at 12:10 AMI tried to sign up for a Facebook page but it wouldn’t let me use “Mickey Z.” as a name (without a last name). Perhaps I should tell them they are risking ass herpes?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/18 at 05:59 AMMZ, it might be time for a career-enhancing name change, a la Lawrence Fishburne or deMI Moore. May I suggest ‘Michael Updike’? When people ask ‘Are you related?’ you can say, ‘Yes, to the man who cured ass herpes.’
I can’t wait to read CPR. I was certified in that for many years and remember the ABC: anarchy, breathing, circulation. Or something like that.
My hero on DN! http://tinyurl.com/4gwkfh Haven’t listened yet...thanks to RMJ for the heads-up.
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 05/18 at 10:22 AMThe Blogger Formerly Known as Z
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/18 at 10:58 AMHi Mickey...years ago, I thought of writing, making a book...it would be 2 very nice covers with 100 completely blank pages. It would have saved me the time and effort of writing. The title would be ‘Vous’, since people have more in common than differences beyond the brain/habit stuff...well I lost interest and then
Posted by joe of maine on from 05/18 at 01:34 PMWelcome back, Joe. You’ve been missed.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/18 at 02:14 PMIt is curious to me to hear how Vidal bristles when he hears about “Islamofascists”. And then to say the coup began with 9/11!
What a wierd history!
I am rather fed up with all the distractions-- “Let’s hear about Baldwin… Eleanor… and Auster.”
There is something morbid about it.
I have never believed in Blowback, despite all the the early righteous arguments for it.
Were there even Muslim hijackers on 9/11?
Watch this;
Posted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco 05/18 at 03:53 PMMore forgotten history:
http://tinyurl.com/5zh7faPosted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco 05/18 at 03:59 PMBoo to rain. Didn’t get to see my veggie parade.
Posted by Charles on from Jersey City 05/18 at 09:12 PMI fully understand your feelings at the concert, Mickey! Enough to make not only Mickey and Michelle cry but this woman as well, that’s for sure ..
Re ‘CPR for Dummies’: do you still send out your books? I’d very much like an autographed copy - of course, I’d send you an international draft which would include the cost of postage.
Hello, JOS, Charles, Richie, Andy, Zen Prole, Robert B. Livingston and Joe of Maine - from a cold but dry Daylesford. I’ll be off shortly to do some shopping, so take care, expendables.
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e-mail me and i’ll fix u up ... no one had that space as of this posting ... HOWEVER THERE ARE SEVERAL CODENAME MICKEY Z’S w/ various myspace web addresses—check mine out .. I am unclerichiedeadhead (code/ changeablenickname)-- at—http://myspace.com/richiedeadhead— (unique non-changeable web address) .. I also own the domain name richiedeadhead.com ... we can do yours too for a few bucks ... thru GODADDY ...
LET ME KNOW ... MY PRESS KIT OF ANARCHY IS ALMOST READY TO RUMBLE!! .... smile
Posted by Richie on from st james city / n ft myers, FL - st cloud 05/18 at 10:28 PMYou should create a MZCPR site in the Murdochverse and look up every name you ever found interesting and friend them.
MySpace is an insidious internalized aggregating disease.
Within the morass of rotting narcissists and spam many an interesting entity
(Or their people) has bothered.I made a music aggregator out of an old remnant from more ambitious highs wasted doodling on the internets.
http://www.myspace.com/youngfoxcanadaits e-z and Yu should doo it.
Killer Kiwi is e-z templatin’it will do something...ride the snake~
Posted by Youngfox on from Adanac 05/18 at 11:23 PMThanks, all (and welcome back, Youngfox). I have a MySpace page under the name “Mickey Z.” Two (younger) friends urged me to do it but I never maintain it. Let’s continue this conversation on today’s new post, okay?
Charles: We also missed the parade.
Helga: Once I have copies of the book, I’ll let you know.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/19 at 04:16 AMMickey #35: thanks for letting me know when ‘CPR for Dummies’ will come out - look forward to reading.
And your very latest post: words fail, so I won’t comment yet! ..
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