CASTING CALL: "Hell's A' Poppin' " (Revival) /

A.K.A. "2012 A.D., A Fantasy"

GENERAL NOTICE (Subject to change)

NOW Auditioning: Extras and Supers ONLY. After you are seen, please leave by the Street Exit.
Kindly be quiet and orderly; the Media is no longer interested in you. Use care
exiting the stage as the scenery and props have been in storage for four years.
Note: Moth-ball aroma is not life threatening. Thanks in advance for coming in. As always, " Don't call us, we'll call you."

ADVISORY

PRINCIPALS Auditions: POTUS Coming soon. Notice will be given.

Note: There is to be an Audition audience as well as a Dress Rehearsal audience in attendance. Be presentable and prepared; working script in hand. (The play is the same so any old script will do nicely).

Note: The final script will have provisions for some minor ad libbing but the acts, scenes and ending will be the same as usual. Of course, high drama and sincerity count, but keep the emoting and scenery gnawing to a minimum, please. Two lead characters will be cast as usual; POTUS and V-POTUS. The actors may differ from the last selection but be assured the roles are identical.

DIRECTORS NOTE:
Four years ago permission was granted to have the notion of "Change" expressed by the principal lead. Be advised this is no longer operative as it has confused the audience. In the future slogan selection will be confined to one with a remote plausibility of enactment.


***Professional support courtesy of Equity, SAG and AFTRA. PRINCIPALS are not union members.

Requiem for Fukushima et al

Go West at Zion's View

The hill is leached
Shriveled
It lays supplicant
to the sun.

Smalled men came here
Landless
They had big arms
but no regard.

Cropping on carbon lodes
Despoilers
Shucking living valleys
heaping raw dregs.

Despite ever blackening lights
Quarrying
Myopic dung beetles
at their greed.

Machines are boning out coal mountain
Strangely
Seeking ancient veins
scrapping choicer flesh.

Jiffy lakes of aberrant hue
Chimerical
Sully spring freshets
Coddle acid brew.

Lately monster devastation calls
Holicidal
Man's haughty genes
green the overburden.

ibid

Be Afraid: Be Very, Very Afraid

A syndicate of counterfeiters is flooding the world with funny money. It's identical with real money but millions around the world are yearning to reject it. Still it comes rolling off the presses by the ton.

This gang can be so violent that many people are afraid to cross them and continue to accept the phony swag. It's sort of like the old 'protection racket'. Very simple. Here's how it works. You take our fake money, shut up about it and we won't kill you. Classy, eh?

Everybody just dreams of the day they can tell the big bosses "we don't want your stinkin' loot." Stick it! But that day hasn't arrived yet, sadly. And the big bosses get meaner and meaner all the time. Nobody's safe...and I mean nobody. The bosses changed the deal and got a license to kill. How 'bout them, apples. Right out of James Bond. Take our fake cash or else. Wacky guy in the MiddleEast tried to get everybody to use real money and every day they bomb his house. One day they'll nail him.

Now this counterfeiting ring has been at it since the early seventies. Started off slow, just passing enough of the phony stuff to get people used to it. Bit by bit the flow increased until it was like the Nile in floodtime. Oceans of the bogus stuff. Worlds drowning in it but on and on it comes.

In the old day you could get the law to put a stop to this criminal stuff. Interpol, or somebody. No more. Not since the big hoods got the license to kill. Now they branched into another dirty little racket; extortion. You got something they want, they make a deal; we get it or we kill you.
Wow, if the old mobs only had that special license: alas, they had to earn it the hard way.

Or course, what good is a license without the goons to go with it. Goons!, that's ancient stuff. They got high tech hit-men. Guys half human and half machine. Really, can't tell where one part leaves off and the other begins.

Bolt the door, Marge! There's something out there!

What Will Homer Simpson Do?

If his workplace should suffer something similar to the Fukushima disaster; what will Homer Simpson do? Would he do as the extremely heroic, three hundred or so, atomic workers in Japan have done which is basically sacrifice their lives? Have they such an have a overreaching sense of responsibility or is it a genuine concern for community that prompts them to stay on? Japanese culture and American culture may have different basic attitudes that need examination in advance of disaster.

If a meltdown was happening now at Indian Point, NY, or Turkey Point, FL or the Diablo Canyon reactor in California, what would Homer Simpson do? Granted, Homer Simpson is imaginary (sort of ) but he is our everyman, also imaginary (sort of ), so in that sense Homer reflects our national character, our collective psyche.

What will Homer Simpson do? Will his union pull him out stating hazardous working conditions?
Will his insurance carrier threaten cancellation if Homer remains in harm's way? Or will our court-of- last-resort, the National Guard in space suits, with bayonets leveled, keep Homer working?
Will the corporate CEO with his top staff jet in, roll up their selves and pitch in? Perhaps several bus loads of shareholders, anxious about their investments and just a little guilt-ridden will arrive to help. (Perhaps Bart Simpson ( he's not imaginary! ) will sneak past the cordon to "help the old man get out before he's toast, d'oh!")

Should re-licensing agreements for nuclear facilities include Homer Simpson profiles to predict who will stay in an emergency and who will bolt?

So, what will Homer Simpson do? Will he stay or will he run? I would. Would you? Stay tuned.

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Top-notch Second-Raters Rule!

America could very well be the very last nation to experience major uprising and rebellion. The reason we as a nation will not resort to revolution is because we are so terribly well adjusted to our society. Unfortunately our society may be in fact, insane.

Aldous Huxley had this to say in Brave New World Revisited;
"The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal."

The noted philosopher-psychiatrist, Dr. Erich Fromm : "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as neurotics do."

So then, if we are so crazy, how come we can manage three wars, survive a devastating financial crises and have next to zero, civil disturbance?

This is because our totally sane, top-notch second-raters, who are charged with nudging along the ship-of-state have learned two lessions in the past half century. These may be the only things learned, but they have served well. These master-minds of the national inertia we call progress determined there was to be no repeat of the sixties. i.e.

Firstly: Never under any circumstances risk repeating the chaotic sixties by re-instituting the military draft. Even if this requires recycling and rehabilitating one single, albeit well-armed, regiment, forever. What Nixon (blessed be) wisely took from us; let no Selective Service System reinstall.

Secondly: Never promise any minority group anything at all... ever. LBJ cost us several cities
nearly toasted, countless riots, and a decade of unrest because of empty promises never intended to be fulfilled. No more promises.

Thirdly: Ignore totally Jefferson's plea, "No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one will ever be." Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792. Strive always to keep the Major Media in as few Corporate hands as possible. Insure that a free press remain an archaic remnant never to been seen here again.

With these major impediments to tranquility removed from the national scene, rest assured the streets will remain serene. All will be well. Ours is a well trained constituency who have responded faithfully to suggestions from our leading media to behave well and consume nicely. And so we shall. We have no choice, for deviant behavior is anathema; is Un-American in fact.

Follow the Money

To the Shores of Tripoli Our old friend "Deep Throat" provided a road map to so many of the major puzzles of our era with those infamous words. "Follow the money" indeed, this time to a continent sized pile of gold. Forget the oil barons, small change. Look instead to the real players in this nasty little war.

" It seems that the rebels might actually be under the overall supervision of the international banking industry, rather than the oil majors". Alexander Cockburn

If you thought you had seen about every perversity imaginable in the business of killing for profit dig this:

CNBC senior editor John Carney asked, “Is this the first time a revolutionary group has created a central bank while it is still in the midst of fighting the entrenched political power? It certainly seems to indicate how extraordinarily powerful central bankers have become in our era.” and this; “According to a Russian article titled “Bombing of Lybia – Punishment for Ghaddafi for His Attempt to Refuse US Dollar,” Gadaffi made a similarly bold move: he initiated a movement to refuse the dollar and the euro, and called on Arab and African nations to use a new currency instead, the gold dinar. Gadaffi suggested establishing a united African continent, with its 200 million people using this single currency".

"The initiative was viewed negatively by the USA and the European Union, with French president Nicolas Sarkozy calling Libya a threat to the financial security of mankind; but Gaddafi was not swayed and continued his push for the creation of a united Africa." Ellen Brown

The unmitigated gall of this guy! Well, he's got to go. So three flat broke, but well armed bandit gangs, CNN vetted and found admirable, let loose the usual barrage of first, demonization and then rocketry we have come to expect; demand?. What did Muammar Gadaffi do that was so terrible, you ask. Well first of all:

"WHAT IS THE ISLAMIC GOLD DINAR?

A.D. 700 - A.D. 1924: From the very beginning, Muslims used a gold coin called a Gold Dinar as their form of money. The Gold Dinar remained the official Islamic currency until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1924... when it disappeared for 77 years. But on Nov. 7, 2001 -- less than two months after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 -- the Islamic Dinar was officially re-launched by the Islamic Mint in West Malaysia and is now available to the public. Although a beautiful coin, the Gold Dinar could pose a serious threat to the U.S. economy! " By Craig R. Smith, CEO SATC

So that's the deal. And furthermore he needs to learn respect for his betters. So down he comes and his stinkin' Central Bank as well. Nobody tells our capos no. Nobody.

"One major problem for globalist banking cartels is that in order to do business with Libya, they must go through the Libyan Central Bank and its national currency, a place where they have absolutely zero dominion or power-broking ability. Hence, taking down the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) may not appear in the speeches of Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy but this is certainly at the top of the globalist agenda for absorbing Libya into its hive of compliant nations". Market Oracle, Eric Encina

So Quadaffi is to be toast and truth and freedom are to triumph again!