Mickey Z

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Monday, July 17, 2006

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Posted by Mickey Z on 07/17 at 04:10 AM

What the ####?

http://tinyurl.com/s88xp

And the news is all downhill from there…

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/17 at 07:22 AM

The overnight gigs are gettin’ to ya, aren’t they my tasty buñuelo? Do you need a little whammy for good luck from your husband?

Good emplyment luck
WHAMMY
Good emplyment luck
WHAMMY
Good emplyment luck
WHAMMY
Good emplyment luck
WHAMMY
Good emplyment luck
WHAMMY
Good emplyment luck
WHAMMY

That should do it.

MZ, the haiku stuff’s gettin’ to be a habit, eh> Why that form, I wonder. Discipline? Conciseness? What’s the draw, creatively, for you to this art form?

Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 07/17 at 07:49 AM

Thanks a lot, dear-- in the middle of phone calls and emails and a possible meeting and testing today to find an alternative. But I’m still not clear-- I thought I was the husband-- is there a wife in this relationship?

So do you like to eat at Popeye’s? I was telling MZ that when my dad was an air conditioner, etc. mechanic in a different era, he’d work there a lot, fixing there climate control systems and stuff. Man, that was some good chicken and gumbo. Times sure have changed…

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/17 at 07:57 AM

Mickey I think I’ve seen that article before. Still, I think it’s some of your best, most impassioned writing.

We know how we feel. Why allow Hollywood, Madison Avenue, the government, or Corporate America define our desires? Sometimes, all it takes is thoughtful introspection to liberate oneself from the seductive, profit-motivated web and break away from the primitive corporate message of “work, consume, and obey authority without question.”

Indeed. Would that more people would avail themselves a moment for thoughtful introspection. And then act on what they discover.

On temperature: we’re guiltily enjoying the beach, aware that this is the hottest and driest it’s been since I’ve lived here.

This made me sick, but I thought I’d pass it on…

Posted by Keir on from The Hague 07/17 at 08:15 AM

exceptional haiku
Namaste, Tina x

Posted by tina louise on from england 07/17 at 09:15 AM

Hello Expendables. We are threatening triple digits in Astoria. I may melt before I finish this comment.

Mudge: Haiku is a like a puzzle to me...but here’s a story you’ll like: I sent some recent haiku to a website that specializes in the form. They were rejected, of course, but the reason was priceless: I was told that “serious contemporary haiku” no longer follows the 5-7-5 syllable form. I replied, thanks her, but also told her that as far as I knew I was writing “serious contemporary haiku.”

And hey, Tina Louise likes ‘em. Thanks, T.

Keir: Yes, today’s linked article contains a fair amount of recycled material. 100% post-consumer, I believe.

Cat Lady: How hot is Hell’s Kitchen?

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 07/17 at 09:57 AM

G’day all.

Mudge and Cat Lady… would the two of you just get a room already?

I really enjoyed the article today, MZ (recycled material and all).

I wonder how many people die each year while watching TV. I believe that it’s quite often the cause of death.

Speaking of tofu sandwiches: there’s a market/eatery here in Chinatown that simply has the best, with slices of onion, carrots, cucumber, cilantro, and tasty sauce. And sub-style bread of your choice, baked fresh to perfection. mmmmmmm....

Posted by RT on from The Buyou City 07/17 at 10:34 AM

Morning’ yall

“serious contemporary haiku” no longer follows the 5-7-5 syllable form??? Are they serious? Isn’t that a bit like saying “Serious contemporary origami no longer uses paper?” lmao

What the hell is shrub carving in that pic? It looks like some sort of pleseosaur. Bad enough he’s responsable for endangering countless animals, does he have to eat the exctint ones too?

;)

Posted by Luna_C on from The Delta 07/17 at 10:44 AM

Well I’m not doing any cooking today, I’ll tell you that… yech.

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/17 at 12:28 PM

interesting link about the temperatures. Here in England we could hit 100F this week for only the second time ever. It only happened 3 years ago.

Posted by Uncle Joe on from just plain england now 07/17 at 12:46 PM

Ninety-damnn seven…

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/Weather/index.jsp

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/17 at 12:49 PM

93 here in Chicago…

Here was an interesting guy:

http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2006/07/13/coverstory.html

Posted by JOS on from Chicago 07/17 at 01:38 PM

To all you lightweights up North: we have 90 degree weather at least through September (and even October) down here. Gets old after a while…

Here’s our four seasons: tolerable, hot and humid, really hot and humid, and “are you fucking serious?”

Down here, hot water comes out of both taps, and cooking can be done on any standard porch, driveway or sidewalk—without a grill.

Add to that all the SUV’s and monster trucks blaring down the highways and you have one giant oven four times the size of NYC (in terms of area).

Yeah… so there. I don’t want to hear any more complaints about the damn heat. H-town will melt off the face of the earth before all those chilly northern cities will…

@ JOS: that was a touching story about the old man; thanks for sharing.

Anyway, please excuse my weather-related ranting. And warm wishes to everyone. ;)

Posted by RT on from The Buyou City 07/17 at 03:35 PM

I just received an e-mail correcting my joke about Popeye’s Chicken. It seems it has nothing to do our spinach-eating friend. Sadly, the person who sent me this info decided my mistake was a purposeful lie from a “typical liberal” who happens to be a “scumbag vegan” and has no interest in the truth because it wouldn’t fit my “political agenda.” (Insert sigh here)

I’ve added this to the main post, btw.

RT: Don’t you just love when someone asks: “Hot enough for ya?”

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 07/17 at 03:41 PM

From JOS’s link…

“Love is eternal. Guns, they just rust.”
-Charles Gray

Posted by Keir on from The Hague 07/17 at 03:46 PM

From the Popeye’s site: “...Copeland had already been experimenting with the flavorful Cajun recipes he’d been enjoying all his life and soon reopened his restaurant as ‘Popeyes,’ named after the character Popeye Doyle in the movie ‘The French Connection.’”

Sorry, but when I hear the name Popeye, I’m sure as hell not thinking of that movie, but rather the infamous spinach-eating cartoon character. I think that would be true for most of the population as well, if one were to conduct a poll…

Ahhh… the power of advertising and marketing.

Perhaps suggest to your critic that s/he read ‘No Logo’ by Naomi Klein (in order to understand how names, branding, and product associations work together in our corporate-dominated culture)...

And yes, I love when people ask me that question about the heat (given that I work outdoors)... And yes, I have a vast array of responses to the question.

captcha = firm (as in representative democracy in the U.S.: “replace the management, but not the ______")

Posted by RT on from The Buyou City 07/17 at 04:23 PM

In case there’s any doubt that they market to kids… http://www.popeyes.com/cookinkids.asp

Yuck, etc.

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/17 at 05:20 PM

Yep, meet your “buddies” here:
http://www.popeyes.com/buddies.asp

...and then kill them and eat them.

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 07/17 at 05:22 PM

And lo and behold: they’re cartoon characters…

captcha = medical (as in “go see the doctor if you eat at Popeye’s more than twice/wk")...

Posted by RT on from The Buyou City 07/17 at 05:33 PM

Notice only one of the buddies is a chicken. Damn, there’s a Popeye’s a few blocks away from me, somewhere on Broadway. Maybe they’ve begun serving up some gator…

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/17 at 05:39 PM

Hello All!

Everyone’s probably seen this, Fox Reporters Shot at by Israeli Forces in Gaza: http://tinyurl.com/gjxwm

some cartoons: http://tinyurl.com/fskjj

did they explain what the new syllabic structure is for serious contemporary haiku is it 3-5-3 or 2-3-2? (I just read about the 3-5-3 and 2-3-2 on this site http://tinyurl.com/ldelx I never knew it existed. I was only familiar with the 5-7-5. What was the name of the publication?)

p.s. got any sonnets up your sleeve

Posted by TM on from 07/17 at 05:47 PM

TM: I wouldn’t know a sonnet if it came up to me and smacked me in the face.

Here’s the exactly wording from my rejection: We publish imagistic haiku that show instead of telling and that usually depend upon the juxtaposition of disparate images to convey resonance to readers. We sometimes select haiku that follow a 5-7-5 syllable pattern, but serious contemporary haiku in English are usually shorter than that.

Captcha sez: “evidence” (see above)

Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 07/17 at 06:54 PM

haiku
whatever
i don’t

Posted by Keir on from The Hague 07/17 at 07:10 PM

>>>We publish imagistic haiku that show instead of telling and that usually depend upon the juxtaposition of disparate images to convey resonance to readers. We sometimes select haiku that follow a 5-7-5 syllable pattern, but serious contemporary haiku in English are usually shorter than that.<<<

Oooooo, we found a use for our Poetics degree from Antioch, did we now? Crap all over that. Haiku=5/7/5. Anything else you can name for your damn self, but haiku it ain’t...nor are there vodka “martinis” or whatnot. Martini=gin, vermouth, olives or lemon peel; onions=Gibson.

CatLady, snoogie-poogles: unless you have anomalous plumbing, you fail the wifely physical; I do as well. Besides, the root of “wife” is simply an old word for “woman” and “husband,” I will trouble you to remember, is a verb meaning to care for, maintain, preserve. So why wouldn’t everyone want a husband?

About chicken: Not big on fried chicken. I like Claudia’s version: pan-fried in olive oil, breaded with herbed sourdough crumbs, chicken thighs and drumsticks only. >faints<

RT, so sorry to blare our love-that-dare-not-speak-its-name here in public. The boy has no discretion. I apologize for him, and shall discipline him accordingly.

NOT! (Well, except for the discipline part.)

Keir, TM, tina, JOS, Uncle Joe, Luna: Hey y’all. How’s it hangin’?

Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 07/17 at 07:21 PM

All that makes a lot of sense. It sure has been hot around here lately, hasn’t it? And so I see you’re not a breast mean…

Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 07/17 at 07:43 PM