Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Friday, October 14, 2005
It's all uphill from here...
Do you ever get the feeling...?
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From today’s New York Times:
Treasury Secretary John W. Snow, touring this village in the Sichuan province to promote “financial modernization,” urged China on Thursday to take lessons from the United States on how to spend more, borrow more and save less. Mr. Snow argued that China’s consumers and entrepreneurs are badly in need of financial sophistication offered by American banks and investment banks.
China’s savings rate is nearly 50 percent, one of the highest rates in the world. The savings rate in the United States, by contrast, has sunk to less than zero in recent months and is one of the lowest rates in the world.
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British playwright Harold Pinter awarded Nobel Prize in literature
http://tinyurl.com/chvmc
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The Collective Bio Project
Nick Mamatas has a large, lively readership at his blog and he recently asked them for help in writing his bio: http://tinyurl.com/c2v98.
Nick
The end result:
“Not one for first impressions, Nick Mamatas is an acquired taste. He was born in an age of fire and steel, upon the field of battle, just behind the 7-11 and a little past that old pizza shack, long since looted. Some say Nick once worked in the adult film industry under the alias “Mr. Humpy.” If you knew Nick as well as Nick knew writing, you would’ve had sex with him by now. Few people on earth appreciate great literature, professional wrestling, and American Idol in equal measure; Nick is one of these rare individuals. Some people say that dogs and their owners share traits - As his pet Kazzie the mutt has jaws of steel on people’s hands, Nick’s metaphorical jaws will lock onto the truth and not let go in debate until his opponent relents. Not content with Hunter S. Thompson’s funeral, Nick’s fondest dream is to be shot out of a cannon while still alive. Mamatas was recently indicted by the International Criminal Court in the Hague for war crimes committed during the Wonka Incident in Malawi. (He mocks your value system.)”
(Nick sure loves rasslin’)
Inspired by Mr. Mamatas, I put it to you—the Expendables (not to mention all you lurkers out there lying in wait for an opportunity like this)—to help me write my bio for some book talks I have coming up. Write one sentence or phrase about me in the comments section. I’ll string together the best of them and submit this collectively-created bio to serve as my public introduction.
Some sarcasm, humor, and good natured ribbing is expected and welcome...but don’t break my balls, okay?
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