Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
How to win a fight (part V)
Good morning Mickey,
I couldn’t listen while watching your scene, so I internally played the big fight scene music from the original Star Trek while watching the robot lords force you into gladiatorial wrestling. Is this the same movie during which the horrible shower experience you once told us about took place?
So it seems that throwing a left hook is a lot like hurling insults...better to choose carefully than ramble endlessly lest you dig a hole for yourself. In either case I hope always to be able to recall these lessons should I ever find myself needing to put them to use.
I enjoyed this “series” of articles, MZ.It’s hot as hades here today and I hope all Expendables in similar heat are keeping well. It’s early and already over 40 C with the soup-i-dex factor. Still, it could of course be much worse.
Posted by Amelopsis on from Canadia 08/01 at 08:08 AMHello Empress. Allow me to join you in complaining about the heat. I just saw an older woman—at least 80—coming out of the bank. She looked so frail as she felt the heat. Then she turned to me and said: “Whooooo...the oven is on and momma is cooking. Baby, baby, baby.”
There’s already been a manhole explosion nearby and some blocks in Astoria are without power. We’re expecting triple digits today and tomorrow so it’s hard to imagine enduring this without even a fan blowing.
Btw, yes, Robot Holocaust is the same movie during which the shower incident transpired.
Captcha sez: “mind” (yeah, right)
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/01 at 08:56 AMon Saturday I played a fourhour show in a place with no windows or airconditioning, by the end we were just these pulpy bags of water and the songs dissolved after a minute or two into us blowing raspberries into the microphone.
Posted by owen on from barcelona 08/01 at 10:08 AMOur hydro companies are appealing for restrained use...I doubt many are listening. I certainly would not like to lose power today of all days and hope yours doesn’t succumb to the angry manholes. I so reluctantly use the A/C at all, but even the cats are grateful for it in this weather. (and if it keeps them out of the shower...)
Back to “business”...Israeli apologists keep putting out different reasons why they’re sorry about Qana...it was an accident...it wasn’t us...they were forced to remain there as hostages...it was Hesbollah munitions which exploded…
The least they could do is get their story straight, whatever crapworthy excuse it is to be.I saw an ‘on the street’ interview with a Lebanese man who’s wife and child were still in Lebanon...said he’d give it another week and if things continue he’s probably end up going back there to do what he could to help his people. I think he was referring to armed defense of his people and country. He had such a look of determined hopeful frustration.
Olmert, meanwhile says that there is no ceasefire and there will be no ceasefire; Canadian Jew speaking to an assembled group of supporters of Israel (calm sit down affair) mournfully says he truly sees Israel’s current turmoil as a round of chemotherapy.
No, that’s not racist at all, is it?They practice the eugenics of war. Over and over and over....
Posted by Amelopsis on from Canadia 08/01 at 10:23 AMMonday’s sauna-smog:
Posted by Amelopsis on from Canadia 08/01 at 10:32 AMI’m holding out with just the ceiling fans, Empress. I feel too nervous to crank the AC yet. It’s silly but I don’t want to add to my neighborhood’s energy burden...but I can’t last much longer.
As for the Qana bombing, the New York Post has it all figured out: http://tinyurl.com/oouuy
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/01 at 10:51 AMSorry, Owen...didn’t mean to ignore you. What’s normal temps for Barcelona this time of year? We’ve got 100 degrees here. That’s 16 above “normal.”
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/01 at 11:00 AMNot adding to the energy burden isn’t silly at all! I certainly minimise my use for that reason as well, not just for the savings on the electricity bill; not to mention that the use contributes to the greater reason for needing to use it in the first place! Neighbourhood warming is not a myth ;)
Wow that guy from the NYPost is a piece. (of what, you can decide)
Posted by Amelopsis on from Canadia 08/01 at 11:08 AMAmelopsis, I have a joke around here somewhere about neighborhood warming and the name of my area, but the heat is slowing my wit too much right now. It’s bad today, I take NY1’s word that we’ll be reaching 100 later, but I’m somehow almost okay w/o the a.c.
I’m saving up watching the video til when I really need the excitement a bit later…
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 08/01 at 12:24 PMI suspect that Barcelona is generally as hot as cooking in Hell’s Kitchen.
(somebody had to say it!)
Posted by Amelopsis on from Canadia 08/01 at 03:00 PMHi Amelopsis, Owen, Mickey, and James...it is so hot here right now that my eyeglasses keep steaming up and I can’t see. I went To K-mart on an errand and while I was there they lost their power and all of the lights and cash registers went off. Now we are having Sun-thunder. This is the first time that I have ever seen it. The sun is beating down, no rain, but it is thundering. I have seen thunder-snow before but this is a new thing. Maybe the planet is trying to tell us something.
Is everyone going to sleep in their birthday suits tonight?
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/01 at 03:04 PMMick, I am not sure if you realize what an honor it is to be in a movie featured on MST3000...that is awesome.
Posted by JOS on from Chicago 08/01 at 03:04 PMRMJ: It’s officially 100 degrees at LaGuardia Airport.
JOS: I’m not worthy.
P.S. I caved. The AC is on.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/01 at 03:06 PMAn LA Times article posted by Mr Goff...
Stuff like that makes me feel that anyone really wanting to Make A Difference should just throw themselves off a bridge.Posted by Mew on from sarf lundon 08/01 at 03:19 PMNY1.com says 98 degrees… damn it, if you can’t stand the heat, stay out of Hell’s… RMJ #11, are you suggesting an Expendable slumber party?
Speaking of which, okay I’ll say it-- where the hell is Mudge? Come back, darling.........
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 08/01 at 03:19 PMThanks, Mew. I have an article due on the web soon that addresses your theory, e.g. huamsn ruined everything.
CatLady: I agree. An Expendable Birthday Suit Slumber Soiree would simply not be the same without your hubby.
Captcha sez: “club” (as in: join one and beat myself over the head with it)
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/01 at 03:24 PM32 degrees in Beirut. 46 degrees in Baghdad. 33 in Jerusalem and 36 in Kabul. 40 degrees in Khartoum. 35 in New Orleans. 18 here in The Hague (the heat finally broke) and just by way of comparison 40 in NYC. That’s all celsius, Wednesday morning. Okay?
Amelopsis you may be interested to know that the asshole who wrote that piece for the New York Post (a Murdoch production) is the son of Norman Podhoretz, signatory to the Project for the New American Century. All in the family. Slick and the family prick.
Posted by Keir on from The Hague 08/01 at 05:23 PMJames, a birthday suit slumber party sounds perfect. The liquid refreshments are chillin’ in the fridge and waiting for you and the other Expendables. Mudge might arrive any minute.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/01 at 05:41 PMJust so you know, there’s only one bed at my place… and yikes-- Emergency!
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=61466
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 08/01 at 05:48 PMHello, fighter Mickey - and thanks for another post. Although your blog was my second stop on my Internet surfing tour today, I have whiled the last three or so hours listening to music online and googling various composers. Please accept my apologies.
And a warm ‘hello’ from a not too cold Daylesford to Amelopsis, Owen, James, Rosemarie, JOS, Mew and Keir.Just an example of the skewed ‘coverage’ of the ‘crisis’ in Israel and Lebanon can be seen - just have a look of the line of questioning coming from Mr Jones:
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2006/s1703362.htmPosted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 08/01 at 05:54 PM‘The eugenics of war’ - you have laid your finger on the wound, Amelopsis (#4)! Quite recently, I read a piece by Jacqueline Rose in which she said that if Israel did not mend its ways, it might very well be on the road to self-destruction ..
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 08/01 at 06:08 PMAnd what is it with this heat wave - in Europe and in the US? Do I hear ‘global warming’? My parents in Germany keep mentioning the very high temperatures: a week ago, itwas 86F in the early hours of the morning in Bonn, Germany. I wonder how much that is above “normal”.
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 08/01 at 06:13 PMHello all. It’s 96 degrees at almost 7:20 p.m. We’re expecting worse tomorrow. Sorry to be fixated on the weather but I have a very tough time when it’s like this.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/01 at 06:19 PMDon’t even wanna know what my electric bill’s going to be this month.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 08/01 at 06:25 PMRumor has it in Queens that Con Ed is being asked to give us three free months of electricity to make up for all the bullshit.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 08/01 at 06:30 PM3? Almost wish the blackout extended to over here… almost. Man, it’s rough, you still feel the heat, even with all the fans you have in the Expendables here. Sorry, some triple digit heat humor.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 08/01 at 06:38 PMThe AP is reporting…
“...Three weeks before the official announcement in Havana of Castro’s deteriorating health, a U.S. presidential commission called for an $80 million program to bolster non-governmental groups in Cuba for the purpose of hastening an end to the country’s communist system.The report also proposed assistance in Cuban military forces to adjust to an appropriate role in a democracy. It provided no details on this point.
Cuba’s National Information Agency called the report a “new plan of aggression” that violated the island’s national sovereignty....”
END THE ILLEGAL USA BLOCKADE. LONG LIVE FIDEL !
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/01 at 07:47 PMGood evening! I felt like Alfred Hitchcock typing that, but I certainly don’t look like him!
A photo essay on the continuing effects of Agent Orange http://tinyurl.com/j7xsv
Is this the archetype of government/press relationship? http://tinyurl.com/m22a9
The series on the murder of the oceans in the Los Angeles Times is quite interesting, it shows the connection of every living organism. Humans pollute the oceans causing the death of corals, and marine animals and that pollution eventually comes back to harm us.
finally, a music video! (It’s Dreamworld by Midnight Oil): http://tinyurl.com/fdakj
Posted by TM on from 08/01 at 07:55 PMTM...thanks for the link to the Agent Orange article. It is a good one. I hope everyone reads it. One of the most disturbing recent events came a while back (maybe a year or 2 ago) when the claim for compensation in a usa court was dismissed--no trial, no jury, no justice, just a dismissal. I keep saying the the usa needs to start paying reparations. When the taxpayers are held accountable, things might change. I think that someone here yesterday said something about people working for their own interest. The usa people NEVER pay for the atrocities that they are complicit in. We need a DU tax, an Agent Orange tax, a compensation for torture tax…
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 08/01 at 08:17 PMI see it’s been a busy evening here.
Keir, Slick and the family prick - that PNAC association certainly does explain a lot. (in fact he probably held back in his article)
RMJ, I’ve always felt that the US embargo is the only thing keeping Cuba cuban in this modern age. A romantic indulgence of my not living the daily life of the average Cuban, however I doubt that the island will be recognizable for long after lifting the embargo and I’m not hpeful that all the change will be positive.
Posted by Amelopsis on from Canada 08/01 at 11:19 PMTM, thanks for the Midnight Oil link. Youngfox started singing and dancing before I even clicked.
“results"!
Posted by Amelopsis on from Canada 08/01 at 11:22 PM??? Is he still in politics Down Under, Helga ???
ps: I find it difficult to imagine Germany being quite that hot in the summer, or the UK for that matter.
I hope every Expendable’s coping well with the New World Weather they’re experiencing.Posted by Amelopsis on from Canada 08/01 at 11:28 PMSome articles by a United Statesian who lived in Cuba for many years…
And I just saw this, I’m disturbed, but maybe we shouldn’t be surprised.
Posted by Mew on from horriby humid London 08/02 at 04:58 AM
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