Tuesday, February 03, 2004

 
AAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

"He was making a list,
And tho chucking it twice,
Sees "Disinterest,"
And then spites good advice."

Or: Vault Finding

Jeepers!- wake up late this morning after posting the below late last night and am shocked and awed(and Aw, Jeewhized)to see that John Igorshire had disinterred lists of codemnable cadavers. Which, from my perspective, around which the world revolves, caused said said world to reel as he pulled out evidence (so damning to my case)with all the flourish of Whittaker producing microfilm from the chamber of a hollowed out pumpkin.
Btw., Jonah may be wrong about having to dig up Michel Foucault's coil without permission of the French. It depends, in part, of course, on where the s.o.b.(who may have deliberately spread the AIDS virus in San Francisco)is buried. Leaving that aside, legal precedent, set by at least one U.S. court in the matter of Mexican nationals given death sentences here, suggests that we need only *notify* some cheese-eating surrender monkey at a French Consulate before the rigors of a mortis trial.(1.)
Also, while not as obsessed with mimes as say, Andy "Digger" Shovelford, I did promise, in an old blog or email, to write something titled "Mime Obsession." One of the best lines from the movie "Hot Shots"(I) came as Lloyd Bridges' character moves a pointer across a map of Iraq during preflight proceedings on an aircraft carrier: "Now, if you have trouble hitting your objective, you secondary targets are here and here: an accordion factory and a mime school. ..." I don't have much agin' accordions, considering them to be, like banjos, "happy" instruments(I think that Steve Martin deserves credit for a schtick along those lines); ill suited for say, folk dirges about war, poverty, injustice and so on....well o.k. there are some counter examples: A Gary Larson cartoon showing harps passed out in heaven and accordions in hell...And the most arresting moment I ever had at a guns 'n stuff show came upon beholding an accordion accompanied by a very high asking price and some lengthy explanation of its great big, garish swastika.

1. "Mexico's Application accuses the United States of a systemic violation of its obligation under Article 36 of the 1963 Convention to inform the 54 convicted Mexican nationals of their right to consular assistance and to provide relief adequate to redress such violation. Article 36 sets forth the right of communication and access, which is the basic principle of consular notification, it spells out the modalities of consular notification, and it lists the measures consular officers may take in rendering consular assistance to their nationals in the custody of the receiving state. Article 36, paragraph 1(b) of the Convention provides in particular:

If he so requests, the competent authorities of the receiving State shall, without delay, inform the consular post of the sending State if, within its consular district, a national of that State is arrested or committed to prison or to custody pending trial or is detained in any other manner. Any communication addressed to the consular post by the person arrested, in prison, custody or detention shall also be forwarded by the said authorities without delay. The said authorities shall inform the person concerned without delay of his rights under this subparagraph."