Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Monday, October 01, 2007
Running up a flight of steps at breakneck speed
Good Morning Everyone...Very well said Mickey…
The ladies wearing high heels, the men wearing their armor...if everyone tries to be who they think others want them to be...the multiple personalities can evoke the same from others who are also image driven....insanity! As a society...we are dis-ease, we are war! It especially saddens me when I know young mothers must return to work one month after giving birth $
Posted by joe maine on from 10/01 at 06:47 AM“Run, rabbit, run.” - Pink Floyd
Stretches are a quick and simple way to get your blood moving, but I do them to keep back pain at bay. Aside from the physical health problems Overweight America (tm) has, we should keep in mind warming up for mental exercise, too; picture media-addled minds sprinting to catch the Fox News train, again.
“You’ll never catch us, ya flabby bastard.” - Begbie, who is in line with GYSGT Hartman for legendary screen psycho honors (can’t find the right scene...this bit will have to do) http://tinyurl.com/2omang
Hey, the After Dark flying toaster. Haven’t seen that in a while.
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 10/01 at 10:45 AMMickey and Joe—
The march of time has it’s oddities, indeed. Think of a inner-city Brooklyn family at the turn of the last decade (1905). Let’s place the family of 7 in a 3 story 2-1/2 bdr tenement in Flatbush. Papa had a job in the garmet district uptown. Several of the 5 kids, ranging in age from 15 - 2, were in Public School. Mama took in sewing and ironing to provide grocery money and nickels for papa’s daily commute. Shoes were the key to mobility. Papa’s schedule put him on the new subway train at 5:30am. He took the same train back home every night at 6:15pm, Saturdays - included. Papa’s life expectancy in “modern America” was 49.9 years. The technophysio phenomenon impacting rev-evolution was just beginning to bear fruits—but papa would not benefit. He was already 37 years old and continuous work plus lack of basic nutrition as a youth in Ireland had already taken it’s toll. Drinking to curb his cough and fatigue didn’t help! Mama was a large woman of Italian/Scot descent. She lost 2 children in childbirth and nearly her own life with the last pregnancy. Did they consider themselves fortunate? Was their quality of life average or below standard for typical New Yorkers of their day? Who knew? Who cared? They were missed if they didn’t show up in total at St Patrick’s Church—Willoughby and Kent—for the 8am Mass on Sunday morning. Father O’Casey cared about the kids and worried about mama’s health and hard work. Papa was a hard-scrabble kind, who wasn’t convinced that Jesus was really on his side. The factory owners where he worked didn’t believe in Jesus and they seemed to fare a whole lot better than his motley lot. Pleasure? Poential? Realization of self-fulfillment? The older children and mama could read. Papa could not. SO MOVE THE CLOCK AHEAD—102 YEARS........... BROOKLYN TODAY .......... WHO LIVES THERE????? ARE THEY SELF- FULFILLED? ----- DO THEY CARE ABOUT THE METS MELT-DOWN—OR JOE TORRIE’S RETURN TO MANAGER SUPREMACY?????? Did papa really care about VP Roosevelt - THE ROUGH-RIDER—any more than today’s FLATBUSHERS CARE ABOUT RUFF N’ TUMBLE—QUAIL SHOOTIN’ DICK CHENEY??? ........ POINT BEING ------- THE MORE THINGS CHANGE THE MORE HUMAN NATURE REMAINS THE SAME—OPPS OFFERED—OPPS SQUANDERED—BUT HEY --- WE AS AMERICANS HAVE MORE TIME NOW—THAN POOR PAPA TO CONTENPLATE/LIVE THE HUMAN CONDITION—LIFE EXPECTANCY IN THE US IS NOW 77.9 YRS .. THANKS TO THE FRUITS OF THE TECHNOPHYSIO EVOLUTIONARY PHENOMENON—go figure—http://tinyurl.com/2d2m8z ... PAPA’S YOUNGEST SON’S FATE --- 1932 ******** THE FATE OF ANGELS W/ DIRTY FACES 2007 ** http://tinyurl.com/2hmv9g ........SUGABABES OF FLATBUSH .......hey—the same thing was happenin’ over in ASTORIA—smile .. ASK PAPA!! HE ALWAYS KNOWS BEST !!! capcha says *******ANSWER******* beats me!!!! .. smile
Posted by Richie on from N FT MYERS FL 10/01 at 11:37 AMI guess I wont go into the details of my grand canyon hike...suffice it to say it was a spontaneous decision that was made 3 weeks into a 6 week car ride/vacation. Who knew muscles could get so soft after such a short time?
Thank goodness for homeopathic arnica granules!Posted by Frances on from bc 10/01 at 12:19 PMHello Expendables. Thanks a nice set of comments and observations so far. Frances, details are most certainly welcome.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 10/01 at 12:24 PMTo continue with the maddening rush to get somewhere, no where...it doesn’t matter where you go, it’s how fast you get there...what logic.
I just saw a dead Fox on the road...this beautiful animal killed because we need to get somewhere fast driving insane motorized vehicles, which for many represent what some people feel is their personality, lifestyle, etc., B.S.
I have never seen a need to get anywhere quickly though our sick society has set this condition for most of us...destroying the small self-sufficient communities. The need to drive long distances to reach the work place, the plantation, the place that’s the microcosm of the oppressive central government...where human relations are ususally pretentious and violent, where anything of real usefullness is seldom accomplished.
Kill...we’ve allowed a social decay of both our psyches and our phsycial infrustructures while continuing an economy that seems to accomplish nothing but making everything sick and kills.
Reversing all this on a large, society scale probably won’t happen quickly...it does remind me of the need to make effort to build a small community where these man inventions are not required, airplanes, cars, trucks, which have done nothing but support an economy not healthy even for those who force this way of life that’s difficult to exile from.
The gorgeous colors of a Fox exhibit a life, something so wondrous, to see it victim of such violence is as gut wrenching as the death caused by man-made machines of war...many people are afraid of death...as long as it’s not them. A barbarian mind with inventions that are inappropriate to our ability to reason intelligently, compassionately.
Posted by joe maine on from 10/01 at 12:53 PMWell, ok since you asked.
The view from the rim captivated us so completly we decided to book a nights stay at the canyon top resort and head down to the river early the next morning.
An eight hour hike straight down a very steep narrow winding trail with incredible, breath taking views.(It looked so gentle and sweet from a distance.) About 3 hrs down a string of mules laden with tourists and their packs passed us. By now my leg muscles were burning, and my lower back was getting tired from the strain of leaning back against the gravitional pull. For one flickering moment envy set in....we should have gone for the mule ride. Washing away that envy was the memory of a motorbike ride (10 yrs ago) from Ottawa to Atlanta: 3 days of freeway hell on the back of a honda. I knew I would be just as sore from the saddle as I would be from the hike.
5 hours in. The fire had died out, my legs were feeling more like a quivering mass of jelly that was starting to petrify around the edges. Each rest stop was now an agony, sit for too long and start to seize up. Too far to turn back tho. One gravelly step at a time. Breath. Relax. Go with the flow. Quit thinking about the mules…
A few hours later we did reach the bridge across the Colorado. Level ground at last. The relief was immediate, though fleeting, as my muscles adjusted to a new orientation. Then utter exhaustion set in as I limped, toes having been converted to little penisulas of blisters, to the camp bunk houses.
Part 2 later. Gotta put on my chauffers hat and ferry arround the teens.
It was an absolutely incredible hike and I would do it again… except I would train for it by running up and down stadium bleachers for hours at a time.Posted by Frances on from bc 10/01 at 04:13 PMHey Richie! And Joe and Frances! Just have a minute here, but Zen-- wasn’t that Floyd song a John Updike novel? And wild how Robert Carlisle went from Begbie to the protagonist (villain?) of 28 Weeks Later. Thank you Danny Boyle!
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 10/01 at 04:20 PMPEOPLE == BRAINERD MN --- 1 HRS DRIVE FROM Richie’s MN domicile -------- BUSCEMI—THE EVERYMAN’S BUMBLING VILLAIN --- MY HERO AS AN ACTOR TO EMULATE --- http://tinyurl.com/2y4czs == sopranosuprem--oo ...... THANK U FRANCES FOR SHARING—I HAD A SIMILAR EXP IN COLORADO—OUTSIDE OF MARBLE—smile .. i was 22 yrs younger then .......... and 186 #’s of burnin’ love --... hello james hells-a-poppin ... ZEN .. JOE JOE—MICKEY ...and LURKERS ....
Posted by Richie on from N FT MYERS FL 10/01 at 05:08 PMFARGO------ YES ..... violence is everywhere—we had a report of a woman who kicked her x in the goin—chased him into a garage w/ a hedgetrimmer—locked him in ..... then was about to set the place on fire .. when the fuzz arrived to CHARGE EM’ BOTH w/ domestics ....seems the police had dealt w/ these 2 before --- in a hurry to find their slice of the american pie—we refer to as civilization --.......... and we gladly ????????? .. pay for it all in the name of civility ............ == http://tinyurl.com/3e4pul ------ it taint’ everyday u get to be serenaded by an ELECTRIC PRUNE --- smile ******* capcha says POLICE --- again i cant make this stuff fast enuf—MIK .......
Posted by Richie on from N FT MYERS FL 10/01 at 05:31 PMFrances 7......I think I know what you’re feeling...after I watched Mules...I knew Mules and me could be great friends...I wouldn’t ride on the Mule if he/she objected...I always had a problem with this stuff...I wouldn’t want a Mule on my back...why would I expect to be tolerated sitting on someone and to be transported?
Posted by joe maine on from 10/01 at 06:15 PMGood to hear from all of you today. And you know who you are.
James, the Updike novel is ‘Rabbit, Run’ (and others). Haven’t read any of them, though. Haven’t seen ‘28 Weeks Later’ either, but I liked the first one a lot, aside from the gratuitous smearing of animal rights activists in the pre-credit sequence.
Hey MZ, I got the same captcha word twice today.
Posted by Zen Prole on from Urth 10/01 at 10:10 PMI know, was just teasing you about Updike, and hey, I remember being irritated by the opening of 28 Days Later, too, but the movie was so cook afterward I just let it go. And how about the hero of the movie going on to play the Scarecrow in Batman Begins? 28 Weeks wasn’t great in the same way the first one was, but it was still intense like few things are these days.
Now a Trainspotting film sequel with original cast, that we’re still waiting for.
And these days I have to catch a Long Island Railroad train each day for work, so do indeed know all about the breakneck flights of steps. A leisurely ride to Penn Station, then all subterranean hell breaking loose…
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 10/02 at 12:11 AMmy captcha word is “dead”. And thats pretty much how Im feeling right now, as in braindead.
Cant seem to string more than a few words together at a time. Its really frustrating.
Our bodies are an amazing gift. Most of us, including myself, dont even know the first thing about how they work. We sure know how to stuff em up with food and ideas and beliefs though. And dress em up and parade em around like show horses.
That hike was really humbling for me.
Toward the end of the ten hour trip to the top, after a solid day of rest consisting of mostly continuous physical motion (otherwise I seized up but good), I was absolutely desperate for it to be over.
The closer I got to the top the more people I came in contact with...passing as they headed down. Most were young guys in shorts and flip flops galavanting around, hopping from one set of rocks to another. Grooving on the adrenaline. I thought at the time they were total idiots seemly completely unaware of their surroundings. But now I am thinking I was equally unaware of the surroundings, in that my awareness had narrowed down and was focused at a very basic level...just getting me safely out of that place.
ITs all good. Physical fitness is one cornerstone to a life well lived. to being happy.Posted by frances on from bc 10/02 at 12:16 AMFrances..14..Wonderful statement Frances, inspiring me to regain my flexibility.
Posted by joe mainei on from 10/02 at 06:41 AMFRANCES—JOE—ZEN—(MICKEY AND JAMES) ---*** The poetics of F-J-Z ** are incredible.. Frances—your ability to turn a phrase—capture a moment—very good indeed!!—JOE JOE—insight to living—learning—JIMMY BRESLIN/STUDS TERKEL KIND OF GRIT - GRIST—HUMOR (i could feel the mule—very smart creatures indeed—tellin’ ya’—.."get off!! - MAC..” ... ZEN—HEADY INTELLECT—I’m calling you in for testimony—next time I appear in front of a GRAND JURY ... (MICKEY AND JAMES)—THE PRIDE OF ASTORIA AND HELL’S KITCHEN ----- COOL OBSERVERS ---- IMPECCABLE CREDENTIALS—{ mick—to think your persperation—created gestation—based on imagination—to tell a nation—what’s shakin’ w/ the common man and incredible women—ROSEMARIE—come home soon .....} ........ SPEAKING OF WHICH ...... http://tinyurl.com/3brqjb == F*R*A*N*C*I*S** ............. THE TALKING MULE—w/ DONALD O’CONNOR -------- u see ... MY LATE MOM’S PEACE .. ON SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS ... CAME BY having my sister PATSY—5 yrs older—take RICHIE to the movies .. WE had 2 theaters showing first runs in our town—I SAW STALAG 17—..... in it’s original run .. in 1953 ........ i was 5 --- it was a war picture—(not)—and we were a patriotic family ...... MY DAD WORKED TILL noon SATURDAYS—and it was their rare time as a couple to find peace and amore’ ... (2 more kidz—resulted from these trists… when the kidz were away at the movies !—oh well.. you gots to do what nature calls u 2 do.. ) ----- ENUF ALREADY ........ hope u enjoy the FRANCIS TRAILER ......... capcha says—central........... smile
Posted by Richie on from N FT MYERS FL 10/02 at 09:33 AM.........a rainy day in the northland—I miss the spray of the GULFCOAST.........I’ll be back there soon ..but.. we have 2 more nites of performances ........ OPENING NITE WAS STELLAR ...... tix still available—i’ll pick u up at the airport --- http://tinyurl.com/2wtq6n === AND .... THE great ones don’t have to hurry up 32nd street ANYMORE --- THEY R’ on eazzzzy street now ....... http://tinyurl.com/2bawvb ........ capcha says MODERN—r we not FORTUNATE TO LIVE AND breathe in this moment of eternity ?? smile ..
Posted by Richie on from N FT MYERS FL 10/02 at 10:07 AM
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