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These following thoughts, or story rather (its all a g-ddamn story) were conceived while waving a salt and peppered glance toward the magazine rack (dunno-y).  I looked upon a Bop, a teen magazine that was the holy grail of almost two years of my life.  Then it was covered by Elijah Wood (young), Jonathan Taylor Thomas, and Hillary Swank (In the New Karate Kid).  This time its cover (I did not look further than that) was twas flooded with Ashley Tisdales, Hannah Montanas, Camp Rock stars, Jonas Brothers.  All these tweenystars, teenyboppers, are products and plushes of the Disney Empire.  I don't think that another network had so much influence and power over the tween population (the most profitable age group) than Disney has in recent history. 
Sure Disney has always been that giant in the corner of the room.  Weird but wonderful.  Orlando was always a big hit for families and so has its movie and animated films over many, many years. 
Yet, until the introduction of That's So Raven and Lizzy McGuire staring a then teenage Hillary Duff, to a Wizards of Waverly Place and Cheetah Girls, the Disney Channel has always been that "cool cartoon channel" that the cable company made available for a week or two.  It was mostly for young children, by far not Disney's greatest profiteer. 
Today the Disney Channel and its creations and stars must bring in billions to an empire that the original Walton, uh, Walt could never of even imagined. 
Elvis was king because he owned the tween world and so was the fab-four.  With children sprawled out on the floor, parents would watch the Ed Sullivan Show along with their children and soon go out to buy them Beatles tickets or memoberlia.  Today their grandchildren are sprawled out in front of the TV watching Hannah Montana's Miley Ray Cyrus (The greatest luck ever experienced by a mullet wielding one hit wonder; Billy Ray).  How many billions of dollars of worth of High School Musical stuff will the Santa's little person slaves make in the North Pole this year?  From the east to the west, in every country in the world from the half decent to the most corrupt blob of the west, billions of daughters sobbed for Suite Life of Zack and Cody dolls.  I'm sure of it. 

I don't know, it kind of makes me sick.  If you ever discover that you have less of a life than I and decide to watch something on the Disney Channel (if you have a daughter I'm sure you've seen plenty of it) you'll notice how little Disney actually spends in their sets, script writing, and actor scouts.  Watch one of the three High School Musicals to get the picture.  The film gives off this puky radiance of a false universe called a high school full of pretty people that each have their very specific and important role in the school structure, singing lyrics ripped off the Donny Asmond Show and filling our youth's eyes and brain with sticky sloppy sweetness. 
This is the first generation since before Elvis when the youth has completely lost all its edge, confidence, and independence.  Replaced with

We’re all in this together

I finally figured it out (yeah yeah)
That all our dreams have no limitations
That's what its all about

Everyone is special in their own way
We make each other strong (each other strong)
Were not the same
Were different in a good way
Together's where we belong

In the words of the great Kill Hannah,

They can't save us now
'Cause we're far away from home
And there's no where else to go
They can't save us now
'Cause we're lost and won't be found
We can scream so loud
But they can't save us now


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The Blizzard Party

Abilify

The house that ain't a home.
Laurels of loneliness.

December 19

Six years and eight months later...
Two candles lit on the alter of life.  Our first kiss in my history of part 3.  I lit two for Mom too.  My other angel and the only other soul that truly knew and became equally blessed by the spirit of Cheyenne. 
There are signs tonight.  I call to her.  The glory of the flyer.  It will be okay.  Live and die with wings.

Divers removing the bell of the Fitzgerald in Lake Superior feared a spark would ignite some pressure tank.  They were more than three hundred feet under water....

A Shell Commercial that is popular with both parties for sure informs us of glorious news:  To feed our glutton want of black gold, they are inventing a more "cleaner" and nicer way to drill for oil:  a super long snake like tube, more like an ill, that would bury itself into the sea bottom as the rest of its snake like body length whips around the sea.  Oh yeah, much safe than sturdy drilling and I'm confident whales might like to get smacked by it every once in a while.  But hey, it looked cool on TV right?  People are dying of diseases that should have been cured decades ago yet we are still focusing our technology on ways to cause more destruction of the land, water, and air, the same destruction probably responsible for the incredible rise of physical and mental illnesses! 

You’re not yelling when you’re right.

December 22

Blizzard Party

A Jonas Brother has type 1 diabetes. Like me

The Obama inaugural ceremony won't allow stolers or wheels chairs anywhere within two miles of the candidate everyone loves so much.  Everyone loves Obama so much that more taxpayer dollars are being spent and more law enforcement are being called to enforce and arm this inaugural event than any other in history.  Also, the list of banned items, which do include the preferred mobility of both infants and elders, is larger than any one like it in the past.  Change we can believe in indeed!

The first inaugural speech ceremony that featured armed guards was the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in March of 1861.  Reflecting on building his administration and his empire on sending an armed military by sea and land to deny a people's right of revolution and constitutional right to secession, Lincoln feared for his life and maybe his soul.  The measures that Lincoln conceived to protect his own life, that future presidents would feel compelled to follow, were the same as his measures to oppose a South that attempted the journeys of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. 

This is the year of Jefferson Davis.  200  There were no armed guards at his inauguration in either Montgomery or Richmond. 

I love my heritage.

The blizzard continues in and outside. Wooooom wooooosh.

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