Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Godzilla vs. The Condoleezard

Posted by Mickey Z on 10/24 at 04:16 AM

Mickey...that is another good article. Halloween is my least favorite holiday. I think that all holidays should be cancelled until the U$A brings all military home, closes all bases on foreign soil, and apologizes to the world for the war crimes.

Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 10/24 at 08:11 AM

Lyrics to one of my favorite Dead Kennedys songs...I outgrew much of what I listened to in high school, but never outgrew the DKs.

“Halloween”

So it’s Halloween
And you feel like dancin’
And you feel like shinin’
And you feel like letting loose

Whatcha gonna be
Babe, you better know
And you better plan
Better plan all day

Better plan all week
Better plan all month
Better plan all year

You’re dressed up like a clown
Putting on your act
It’s the only time all year
You’ll ever admit that

I can see your eyes
I can see your brain
Baby, nothing’s changed
[repeat]

You’re still hiding in a mask
You take your fun seriously
No, don’t blow this year’s chance
Tomorrow your mold goes back on

After Halloween

You go to work today
You’ll go to work tomorrow
Shitfaced tonight
You’ll brag about it for months

Remember what I did
Remember what I was
Back on Halloween

But what’s in between
Where are your ideas
You sit around and dream
For next Halloween

Why not everyday
Are you so afraid
What will people say
[repeat]

After Halloween

Because your role is planned for you
There’s nothing you can do
But stop and think it through
But what will the boss say to you

And what will your girlfriend say to you
And the people out on the street they might glare at you
And whadya know you’re pretty self-conscious too

So you run back and stuff yourselves in rigid business costumes
Only at night to score is your leather uniform exhumed

Why don’t you take your social regulations
And shove ‘em up your ass
[repeat]
[repeat]
[repeat]

Posted by Brian on from Belly of the Beast 10/24 at 08:37 AM

Dude, that dancing Rice is just frightening. Yet I find myself strangely mesmorized by it.

“I will never apologize for the United States of America. I don’t care what the facts are.” That’s one of my all time favorite quotes. One would think a “sorry” would be appropriate after the Vincennes shot down an Iranian commercial airliner in Iranian airspace killing all 286 passengers. But never mind the facts.

That does look a bit like Rummy.

Posted by Jeremy on from Taipei 10/24 at 08:38 AM

Hello Expendables. We had a tiny taste of winter chill here this morning but it’s warmed up a bit now.

Nice mix of comments above. Hello RMJ, Brian, and Jeremy: There’s a site of “found” photos just begging for captions here: http://tinyurl.com/y83gt7

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/24 at 11:17 AM

Hi Mickey, Jeremy, and Brian. I just checked my e-mail. I received a nice “Thanks” from Gerry Spence for my comment here on Sunday.

Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 10/24 at 11:45 AM

Howdy all. Another beautful fall day...72F for the high, breezy, cloudy...actually, that’s what winter’s like here in El Nino years such as this one.

I’m listening to the album Chant as I prepare my National Novel Writing Month plans. I really look forward to this year! I’m tackling a subject...family sectrets...that’s been waiting in the wings on my writing pile for about 20 years.

MZ, I enjoyed a book called Death Makes a Holiday which traces the history of Halloween. I think it singularly appropriate that Condoleezard’s dancy-dancy-shakeshake thang gets associated with Death’s holiday.

RMJ, I don’t participate in Halloween-based stuff because I worked too hard to find the real me to want to dress up funny and pretend to be someone else. Like you, I just think the whole wasteful stupid thing’s wrong when there’s so much stuff that we need to make right in this world. And that’s very nice about Spence sending you an email! It’s people like you recommending stuff that gets word of good books around and about to the right folks.

Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 10/24 at 12:35 PM

Only recently declassified, a cientific study half a century ago sponsored by the Department of Defense had found that watching too much TV “zombifies” children.

Posted by Jeremy on from Taipei 10/24 at 12:46 PM

RMJ: Do you know how Spence found out about my post?

Hey Mudge, how are ya? It’s great to see you so pumped for the novel month. I’m wondering if we can get a roll call here. Who is going to give it a whirl this year?

Jeremy: Nice one. That kid looks to be wearing a Catholic school uniform. So that may have contributed to the zombification.

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/24 at 01:26 PM

OK so if Mr Spence is looking I would just like to clarify that I am not always an asshole, just took issue with one paragraph out of context and if it’s any consolation I emailed the book link to about 2,000 people today (true).

Nice article Mickey. I loved Halloween as a kid but then besides the high fructose side of it there was the creative aspect: I remember many years of homemade costumes . . . in my last year of trick-or-treating ‘round about 1988 I was a twelve-year-old white Jimi Hendrix.

Of little foil wrappers filled with anything but nutrition: I had my first kit-kat in quite some time this weekend. Man did I feel wrong in every way after that.

I’ve got to agree with RMJ . . . the what and how of big holiday celebrations in the States amount to nothing less than dancing on graves.

Posted by Keir on from The Hague (Jackowski election hdqts) 10/24 at 01:40 PM

Mudge...I have to work hard NOT to look funny all year so Halloween seems like such a waste. In my little town this year, they are challenging the world record for carved pumpkins. Going to have big goings-on here over the week-end. Closing down the Main Street and everything. HUmmm, I just don’t get it....

Mickey # 8...I told him.

Jeremy...The little boy is cute. I would adopt him in a minute.

Keir...You are never an AH. I don’t agree with Spence on everything. I think that he should be harder on the system than he is, BUT compared to other lawyers, he’s one of the rare ones.

Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 10/24 at 04:01 PM

Breaking news...just heard it...they are considering making textbooks out of Kevlar so that school kids can use them as shields when they get shot at in school. NO joke. Just heard it on Albany ch 13 NBC. Our whole country has become “Halloween” year round. It’s like we are all living in a Stephen King novel...only worse, because his novels usually have a moral.

Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 10/24 at 04:31 PM

Absolutely sensational post, Mickey - thanks so much. LOVE the photos of Condi and Rumsfeld but then the rest is not half bad either.

And as always - a warm ‘hello’ to all my fellow expendables. In Daylesford it will only be 65F or so today after we had 86F today. Crazy weather ..

Bye,
Helga

Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 10/24 at 05:34 PM

I’ve been having that Stephen King feeling now for some time, RMJ. Don’t know if it is the weird times we are living in or what, but it seems everything has been turned upside down. Wonder if those living down under have the opposite feeling, you know, everything right side up.

Posted by Canadian Observer on from 10/24 at 05:35 PM

Hello again, Expendables. I’m just stopping by to repeat Keir’s line of the day: “The what and how of big holiday celebrations in the States amount to nothing less than dancing on graves.”

P.S. Bring yer poems tomorrow.

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/24 at 07:52 PM