Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Love in an elevator
As a matter of coincidence I was reading an article in the current edition of Reader’s Digest last night about an elevator free fall in Toronto.
This is how they advise surviving an elevator free fall:
“Some people think that if you’re in a plummeting elevator, the best way to survive is to jump just before it hits bottom. But jumping won’t help much, even if you time your jump perfectly, and that’s tough to do unless you can see outside the elevator. Instead, some experts recommend lying down in the centre of the elevator, as flat as posssible against the floor, and protecting your head from impact. This will distribute the force of the impact rather than concentrating it in one part of your body.”
Of course, this advice is totally useless in a packed elevator.
Saturday morning greetings to one and all from ‘feeling like winter’ Montreal.Posted by Canadian Observer on from 01/20 at 09:56 AMHello CO and all other Expendables...from windy, cold Astoria.
Another likely option, CO, would be to cling to each other and scream in terror:
http://tinyurl.com/yp44xePosted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 01/20 at 12:58 PMHi CO and Mickey… It is cold here. Snow has drifted and closed me in. I moved some of it to pile against the garage door to act as extra insulation so the pipes don’t freeze. It is too cold and windy to work outside for very long today. How many days till Spring?
About elevators...here there are only a few in the whole town. The hospital has a few and the State office building has one. The tallest building is only 3 or 4 stories high. The State Office building, which is a very nice looking relatively new building is the center of controversy these days. Seems that a large number of State employees who work there have come down with sarcoidosis, a serious illness. For months the officials have been scrambling to find alternative space for the workers so that they can get out of the toxic building. That is the building that also houses the court. It is where my Trial was held and where I might be re-tried. It seems to me that buildings should be built so that the windows were not sealed shut. Maybe that is part of the problem. The experts have not been able to figure out exactly what the source of the Toxic Building Syndrome is. Many of us do know what the source of the Toxic Court System is.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 01/20 at 03:14 PMHere’s one way to make sure your elevators aren’t toxic:
http://tinyurl.com/2969bbPosted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 01/20 at 03:22 PMWhat’s up? Hillary announces and this place goes quiet?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 01/20 at 06:53 PMWe’re scared shitless that she might win…
Posted by JOS on from Oak Park 01/20 at 07:59 PMMy question: Would most of the planet even notice the change from Dubya to Hillary?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 01/20 at 08:03 PMNY Times headline sez it all:
Clinton Enters Field, Fueling Race for Money
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 01/20 at 08:38 PMHi everyone. Freezing here in spitting distance from the pentagon.
I’d be one of the impatient people, I have to admit. See, from the time I wake up, I feel like The Job runs my life. So I rush through the morning stuff, get to work as quick as possible, because even though it is a crap job that I don’t enjoy...well, I’m trying to get it to start as quick as possible so my 8 hours end as soon as possible, and I can then start the few hours of my real life. It doesn’t have much logic to it, I admit, but that’s how I feel in the mornings.
I followed a link here to someone else’s blog, and though I can’t remember which blog it was right now, I remember they had a quote from howard zinn, about how he starts with the assumption that the wrong people are in prison and the wrong people out of prison. I recently heard back from a prisoner I started writing to, and one of the things he said really supported that. He was talking about art, and how he liked to create things and to give them to people to make them smile. “I guess I’m selfish like that,” he said.
And I *really* wish everyone was selfish like that. Or, at least, since that is a naive wish, I can easily say that if I had to chose who I had to meet in a dark alley, and I had to chose between this person sentanced to 6 years in prison and any of the leaders of this country, well...it is this prisoner for sure.
captcha says “need”, and I agree. we need more people like jesse, the prisoner-artist, my new friend.
Posted by Deb on from NoVa 01/20 at 08:49 PMOh, and hillary bush, did you say?
Posted by Deb on from NoVa 01/20 at 08:52 PMThanks for the great comment/story, Deb. Perhaps there’s a way others here can write to Jesse...or other prisoners.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 01/20 at 08:54 PMOops...we were simultyping. But for the record, I said nothing about anyone’s Bush.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 01/20 at 08:55 PMNever been in a runaway elevator before but I would bet I’d need a change of pants if I ever was. I didn’t take you to be the elevator type. I just pictured you running up the stairs to get the exercise.
I can’t imagine Hillary in the “House”. The thought makes me shiver. I’m not what you would call anti-war. I think sometimes war is inevitable. I don’t think all the diplomacy in the world would’ve stopped Hitler. Those who gave him what he wanted still were trampled by him. I know most of you disagree with me about that.
I do think that this engagement in Iraq was and is a flawed war. We were lied into this war. No one in charge of it is serious about making the place inhabitable for it’s citizens. We broke the place and we owe something to these people who have died in numbers more numerous than our soldiers. I would love for it to be over but what would happen if we just withdrew from there? I think it would be a huge blood bath where more innocents would perish. What’s the better choice?
I hope everyone has a nice evening.
Posted by David on from Louisville KY 01/20 at 09:16 PMSorry they ARE interested in making the place inhabitable. The word I was looking for was habitable.
Posted by David on from Louisville KY 01/20 at 09:18 PMHillary winning in 2008...Obama as veep...crap. The illusionists will have a great time waving their arms and misdirecting our (collective Murrican, not Expendable please understand) attention from the status which will most certainly be quo.
Change, ladies and whatever y’all call y’all’s selves, is not nigh.
Hmmmm. Maybe I have SAAD. It never so much as peeped a glint of sunlight today, and was 40F, drizzly, and guckelly shploopy.
I have only one elevator story that doesn’t involve inappropriate sexual conduct, and it’s not really very amusing. An hour trapped between floors at 50 West 34th Street when I worked there, on the 8th floor of the old McAlpin Hotel building...coincidentally, the very hotel my maternal grandparents spent their honeymooon in, think it was 1915 or 1916.
See? Damn good thing I didn’t post this earlier, who knows what brickbats I’d be getting by now. I’m goin’ back to my Cat Stevens album-listening.
xoxo
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 01/20 at 09:52 PMMickey, there are so many prisoners who could use letters. I have been thinking about it more than usual lately, and it is scary how disconnected these people end up feeling, isolated and discouraged. I almost feel we have an obligation to connect, to give them a thread to the outside world so that when their time is done, they are hopfully that little bit less likely to end up right back in the system. there is no rehabilitation in the system, after all. they make money off the prisoners, so they encourage repeat stays.
I’m not explaining this very well...it has been a long day. But I can help anyone get in touch with prisoners if they are interested. I gravitate towards the animal rights and eco prisoners, but there are political prisoners of all types out there. and so many of them.
mudge, you make me want to get some cat stevens into my music library…
mickey, i have a pin someone gave me...something like “my bush would make a better president.” it is a little crude, but i find it funny!
Posted by Deb on from NoVa 01/20 at 10:10 PMMudge, doesn’t Cat Stevens’ name bother you too much? I know how you feel though; I thought I might be coming down with SIDS today, but then decided I was too old for that.
Hillary… ech. I’m going out for crappy Indian food across the street.
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 01/20 at 10:36 PM
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