Mickey Z
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Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Looking back: The Battle in Seattle, Nov. 1999
i read and agreed with that stuff when i read the book. good shit.
on a personal note i think you just like any excuse to look for photos of Arundhati roy on the web don’t you?
Posted by michael on from scotland 11/08 at 06:39 AMI prefer to think of it as photo-journalism, Michael.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/08 at 06:41 AMI love that it is necessary to pay senators some extra money in order for them to actually read what they are about to vote on.
Posted by JOS on from mi orgullo, Puerto Rico 11/08 at 08:32 AMG’Mornin, Mickey & JOS & Michael -
I just sent chapter 49 of your book off to a friend who lives in Seattle, Mickey. He liked it alot! He’s reading Michael Parenti’s book on the Roman Empire, but I’m hoping 50AR will be his next book…Meanwhile, Bill Clinton remains well-regarded within much of the “mainstream left,” speaking at the funeral of Rosa Parks, and generally thought of as a great guy who was railroaded by the vast right wing conspirators because of a slight sexual indiscretion…
Well, as Bill and his new best friend Bush I, ride off together into the sunset, Hillary dons the mantel and strides toward the throne on behalf of “liberal democracy and the highest aspirations of women, everywhere.”
Pardon me, I’m off to the vomitorium.
Posted by joe on from 7 hours south of Seattle 11/08 at 10:10 AMOh I´m full of new Rome-old Rome parallels. Capitol Hill isn´t named because it´s in the capital but after the sacred place of the Roman secret societies called Capitoline Hill. This is why Madeleine Albright made a pilgrimage there on her first official visit to Europe after her appointment.
Be well all of you, and keep the Arundhati Roy words and pictures coming.Posted by Owen on from back in Barcelona, loud motorbikes smell of urine 11/08 at 11:04 AMHello all. I can’t stay long but I have to ask Owen what it means when he says: “Loud motorbikes smell of urine.”
“Seems” like there might be an interesting story there.
See ya later…
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/08 at 11:47 AMWhew, just got back. I guess I’ve missed some of the conversation. My friends and I go out together every Tuesday morning. We talk and wander about, peeing on motorcycles. It’s a tradition - from Spain, I think. Started here with the arrival of the first great motorcycle herds, back in the early days…
Gotta go. I’m a bit thirsty.
Posted by joe on from Outside 11/08 at 12:11 PMIn “life,” it’s better to be pissed off than pissed on.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/08 at 01:27 PMHello to all who are talking here today and also to all of the Silent Surfers who hopefully will join the conversation soon. Thanks for this today, Mickey. Information about the IMF and WTO is almost totally ignored by the media and the schools. Why do you think that is? Sometimes I think that it is not that they are purposely trying trying to misinform the masses but because they themselves are so lacking in information that they don’t know, what they don’t know.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 11/08 at 02:48 PMHehe there was another part to that sentence, was sposed to be Barcelona: loud motorbikes, smell of urine, great grafitti. There is not a single public toilet here and even though they hose down the streets every night, in twenty years I´m gunna be walking in some farflung town and catch a whiff of piss and think Ah Barcelona. But I prefer Joe´s explanation so it´s really a territorial thing to ward off petrol thieves.
Posted by Owen on from Barcelona 11/08 at 04:06 PMHi michael, JOS, RMJ, joe and owen!
And thanks for reminding us of what happened in Seattle 6 years ago, Mickey! That description of the WTO is spot-on.
Another warm day coming up in Daylesford: about 84F - http://travelvictoria.com.au/daylesford/Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 11/08 at 04:26 PMOne more thing: I LOVE Arundhati Roy - enjoyed her book ‘War Talk’. Some people have got it all: great looks AND brains. Life is so not fair!!
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 11/08 at 04:27 PMAnd one last thing: ‘50 AR’ is definitely going to be my next book - am going to start it as soon as the postman drops it in our letter box. Waiting ...
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 11/08 at 04:29 PMhello everyone
mickey - did u use the following quote at the start of 50AR? i gave a loan of my copy to someone so i can’t check right now(if anyone else could check then thats good too!)
“flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap peoples brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead” - arundhati roy
Posted by michael on from scotland 11/08 at 04:43 PMHello all. Didn’t use that quote, Michael...but I may use it for some upcoming “book” talks.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/08 at 04:49 PMInterview with the guy who wrote Jarhead (the novel):
Hello and goodbye all...I’ve been damn busy lately, and not because I’m writing my book. Hope to get back to that tomorrow night. See y’all later.
Where’s Mudge?
Posted by JOS on from Calle Colón 11/08 at 05:02 PMone more thing, go to http://www.cursor.org and scroll down a little bit to the middle of today’s post. There are numerous links to alleged evidence of chemical weapons used by the US in Fallujah.
“moving?” I’m already gone.
Posted by JOS on from Calle Colón 11/08 at 05:13 PMThanks for the links, JOS. I “shall” make another Jarhead/Gulf War-related post tomorrow.
Like you, I have no time for the novel today. Anyone else doing better? Mudge?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/08 at 09:13 PMThanks, Mickey.
Posted by Jim on from 11/09 at 05:08 AMGreat post Mickey. Gave up on the novel, but seeing the word “vomitorium” kind of makes me want to write a book just as an excuse to use it over and over again.
Here’s something that annoys me: people who equate “anarchy” with black hoods and smashed windows.
Which reminds me: do you plan any writing on what’s going on in France at the moment?
And to chime in on Arundhati Roy: we fell in love with her after reading her novel, well before seeing a picture or hearing her voice.
Posted by KBN on from Krakow (stare miasto) 11/09 at 06:09 AMHI Jim and KBN. Other “than” a brief mention at the end of my next post (for Wednesday), I’m not sure what to add about the situation in France.Do you have a specific suggestion, KBN? If so, I’m all ears.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 11/09 at 06:22 AM
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