Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Why wait till 2012?
Mickey, I’m clicking on the link to your PLanet Green post and it says, “Page Not Found”.
Posted by Mike from Cariboo on 11/19 at 10:42 AMI’m not sure why, Mike. It’s working for me. Anyone else?
Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 11/19 at 11:17 AMIt’s working for me now. I am assuming it’s fixed. Good article. Got some great links on there as well. I feel like I could spend an hour just on one of your articles alone. And I’ll never think of Godzilla the same way again.
Posted by Charles from Jersey City on 11/19 at 01:00 PMThanks, Charles. That’s music to my ears. Although I fully realize that 99.9% of readers won’t have the time or focus to click on all the links, I still create these posts for that tiny percentage who will click on everything and spend an hour.
I hope everyone can access the link now. Please let me know if you can’t.
Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 11/19 at 01:10 PMSerious rains out here these days - a river just to the north was barely under flood stage. Impressive to see (call the pun police!). High winds, too.
Haven’t seen 2012, and don’t intend to. However, The Road finally appears next Wednesday...a little light viewing for your collapse season. (captcha sez ‘without’)
Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW on 11/19 at 01:20 PMGood to see you, Zen. It’s raining here, too...but nothing major.
Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 11/19 at 02:25 PMHi Mike, Charles, Zen, Mickey, and all…
Mickey, I voted. I really like the ‘love’ poem - so true!
Today I have been receiving messages from some buddies. A hunger ‘strike’ is planned for Thanksgiving to protest the new drone base near Syracuse. Imagine having coffee with your family, then going to the ‘office’ in bucolic upper New York State. You send the drones to slaughter innocent civilians. When your shift is over you go home to watch TV with the kids. And they call these guys ‘heroes’.
WAR IS NOT GREEN
Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts on 11/19 at 05:10 PMHi all, greetings from a sunny afternoon on the edge of the desert…
I have just been reading Keith Farnish’s “Time’s Up” - a great book urging activism right now, on the off-chance it is still possible to avert utter failure of the biosystem.
If you haven’t come across it, it can be downloaded (as “A Matter Of Scale") or read on books.google. Or bought on amazon.
I urge all to have a look at it.
As I write this I am hearing a plastic surgeon on the radio talking about a proposed new tax on cosmetic surgery....apparently he demands it be stopped as it "unfairly discriminates against women, as they are the recipients of 85% of procedures". Is there any better indication that the end is nigh?
Oh - now there is a report on the battle to keep Monsanto’s GMO sugar beet (a $3 billion industry...) from being planted. Apparently the court has ordered the USDA to do the full environmental assessment - which could take years. The commercial growers (95% of the crop nationwide is now gmo “roundup-ready") are claiming that is “more ecologically sound” as it requires “less applications” of biocides...and arguing that they must be allowed to plant as there is nowhere near enough non-gmo seed available to plant next year. If only they could have stopped at the bit about “full assessment”.
2012? I prefer this
Posted by subgenius from hell-A on 11/19 at 05:21 PMThanks, RMJ. How are you?
subgenius: Thanks...and I love that word “nigh.”Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 11/19 at 08:35 PMI have linked the post and a second one in my own blog just now.
Posted by Andy from shanghai on 11/20 at 01:55 AMin case you havent seen it the acoustic version of “its the end of the wo....” is fantastic…
Posted by michael from not scotland on 11/20 at 04:49 AMGood stuff, Andy...and thanks for including a few of my links.
Michael: I’ve swung back and forth as an REM fan but overall, they do have a pretty impressive collection of songs...especially during their first decade or so.
Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 11/20 at 10:23 AMHey Mickey, it was having the links that inspired me to put up the posts - as there was somewhere to go for people who were newbies to the idea but also could read something hard hitting and with links too.
Posted by Andy from shanghai on 11/20 at 10:28 AMThat is the way i feel about REM too.
Posted by michael from not scotland on 11/20 at 10:40 AMThanks, all.
A new post is now up. See you there.
Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria on 11/20 at 11:11 AM
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