Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Thursday, September 01, 2005

Katrina the hurricane, Sparrow the poet, "Grizzly Man" the movie...and Mickey Z. at the US Open?

Hugo Chavez on “Cowboy” Bush and the hurricane:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N31407523.htm

Bush rules out significant federal aid to hurricane victims
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/hurr-s01.shtml

Crackdown on looting: New Orleans police ordered to stop saving lives and start saving property
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/loot-s01.shtml

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Sparrow says:

Soldiers die in four ways:
a) accidents
b) “friendly fire”
c) the enemy
d) suicide.

After a war,
they continue
to die from (a)
and (d).

More poems from Sparrow:
http://www.thesunmagazine.org/previous.html

This is Sparrow’s latest book:

http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-932360-86-7

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Michele and I saw “Grizzly Man” yesterday.

http://www.grizzlyman.com

It was worth the bargain matinee price but, as documentaries go, it was poorly constructed...however, the subject matter easily lures you in and the grizzly footage keeps you there.

I’m expecting much more out of this book I just started reading: