Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
My first "CPR for Dummies" interview
Hi Mickey...glad you had the interview...it has been verified today...the poorest of the poor WILL NOT receive any economic stimulus check. It does not matter how much someone worked as an Organic Vegetable Farmer, paid self-employment tax, but made so little income did not have to pay the irs penalty for existing!
Let the generals feed their lieutenants for they feel closer to each other, pray to their god for it’s the only one they give you for it’s the only one they have and want. Love is marching in ranks.
Posted by joe of maine on from 06/24 at 12:58 PMHello Expendables (echo, echo, echo...)
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/24 at 08:38 PMMickey...Great interview there. I like your description in your last answer. It shows that any normal person is inferior. None of us can quite come up to your standards, but we continue to try. You are a great role model(and only dangerous to those who are threatened by reality).
joe… your point about the stimulus check is well taken. It really makes me mad, too. It is SOP. They did it when they compensated families of victims of 9/11. The fat cat hedge fund managers got the most. The window washers got the least. It’s just the way we do things in the U$A.
Yesterday morn, I woke to another gigantic hole, too close to the foundation of the house. Everyone here wants me to kill the wood chucks. Instead I have built a “woodchuck protection wall” out of concrete blocks. I doubt that it will work, but I keep trying. I have talked to the State Game Warden. He says, “Good luck”.
Posted by RMJ on from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 06/25 at 02:21 PMI just ate the first of the season - a wild, ripe, blackberry from my yard - organic of course.
Posted by RMJ on from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 06/25 at 04:48 PMSounds delicious, RMJ. As for my interview, I got asked a question and that’s sort of a boilerplate answer for me. Do I wish others in America lived like me? Sure...but I certainly don’t feel superior.
So...where is everyone?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/25 at 04:58 PMI’m here. I was actually born into this world at the stroke of Midnight tonight, 35 years ago. The doctor didn’t know what day to put on my birth certificate and I have had trouble fitting in ever since.
Do birthdays get anyone else philisophical? They do me…
Posted by JOS on from Oak Park 06/25 at 05:28 PMHappy B’day, my friend. I guess I tend to get a little reflective, too.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/25 at 05:29 PMThanks Mick.
Can’t wait to get my copy of CPR. So...how many books have you published once this one comes out?
Posted by JOS on from Oak Park 06/25 at 05:34 PMIt’ll be #6.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/25 at 06:13 PMIt’s a great interview, MZ, and I eagerly await CPR. The cast of characters is a marketer’s nightmare.
Happy Birthday, JOS. Yes, birthdays are cause for thought and reflection, but also making light of what is. Or, as light as possible.
Book Review: a free daily ad-rag had some summer reading ideas, worth a chuckle at 7:15AM:
- Chinua Achebe, “Man Of The People” You’ll finish this book by the the time your train reaches Manchester-By-The-Sea [98.8% white, median family income $93K]...Set in West Africa after the transition from British colonial rule to local power, blatant corruption and politics become hee-larious comic fodder - and a window into how easily man can be bought.
- John Perkins, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” Tote this controversial confessional along for the two-hour ferry trek to Nantucket [no comment required]. Narrated by a U.S. government operative hired to sabotage foreign economies by compromising their leaders, it reveals the shady dealings our government was up to in the 70’s and 80’s. [I’m so glad that period is behind us.]Maybe one or two people will read these books and actually grasp what they have to say.
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 06/25 at 11:36 PMThat really is a great interview, Mickey! Congratulations to you - and I hope ‘CPR for Dummies’ becomes a bestseller. Like JOS, I can’t wait to get my copy.
Hello, Joe of Maine, Rosemarie, JOS (Happy Birthday to you!) and Zen Prole.
Captcha ‘hands’: let’s all put our hands together for the Cool Observer.
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 06/26 at 12:54 AMI want a book Mickey-- but I want an autograph too-- I wish you could come give a talk at City Lights or Modern Times.
I love the interview-- but too short!
Happy Birthday JOS! You fit in well here-- a badge of honor I think.
Tristram Shandy was “begot” between a Sunday and a Monday-- not at exactly sure what time he was born....
Posted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco 06/26 at 01:04 AMThanks, all.
Here’s an article someone sent me:
http://tinyurl.com/3ufa8qAlso, i have a new post up.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/26 at 04:36 AM
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