Are you a ‘rubber-necker,’ a ‘gawker’ whenever you pass an accident on the freeway? Pretty much love it whenever some icon in Popular Kulture self-destructs in a fabulous disaster fashion? Can’t get enough of ‘crime and punishment’ style TV? Tired of the family’s same old Disney World vacations and wish there were something better out there?
Well I might have something just for you!!
How about taking a Disaster Tour? Sure….Why not go to Dallas’ infamous Dealy Plaza and re-live that greatest of American horrors? Or maybe take a train ride to Oklahoma’s famous Murrah Site and imagine what it was like on the day some Amerikan Wingnut Jihadist blew up scores of kids?
I found this gem of a News Article whilst sifting through my FeedDemon Feeds. Read and enjoy. Who knows…you may want to rethink that plan to go to the Carlsbad Caverns next year and visit Buchenwald instead!!!
-Mike R.
Your Ticket to Calamity, Lunch Included
From Chernobyl to the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina, disaster tourism is on the upswing
2008
Bliss Ninny Games
by Benners Fox-Vail (fwitsworth@fastmail.fm)
Do you know someone that is almost pathologically “happy?” …Walks around with a stupid looking grin pasted on their face?…Usually wears Birkies or Uggs and talks to you with an annoyingly cloying condescending tone? You know…People that outwardly appear so friendly as to make a diabetic go into shock?
Do you know anyone that somehow creates the feeling in you while you are listening to them that they are very, very interested in sharing information, that they are sincere and ‘clued in’ and yet their face takes on that ‘I could care less, when do I get to talk’ look when it’s your turn to comment?
These “happy idiots” are everywhere in Kalifornia. Most if not all of them have adopted as their weltanschauung the tenets of one or more of the Control Modus NLP techniques and the worst operands of Pop Psychology. A few of these Psychic Piranhas may actually be completely unaware of their duplicitous persona and may even believe that they are ‘sincerely nice people.’ The rest are very aware of what it takes to get you to think that they are ‘cool and concerned’…a true child of the Age of Aquarius!
So next time you run into a suspected ‘60’s refugee, beware of their tendency to disarm you with their engaging persona and look for the De Sade side that lies just underneath, ready to spin you into a web of deceit and compliance, quick to dismiss your thoughts and feelings with a casual smile!
“Enough about me…What do you think about Me?”
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