DIGITAL SUICIDE AS ATONEMENT

Take our life from us. We laid it down. We got tired. We didn't commit suicide, we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.  -- Jim "Father" Jones

"We're trying to sort of make the remark: 'Why do we care so much about the death of one celebrity as opposed to millions and millions of people dying in the place that we're all from?'"

 hmm...that really makes you think.  Doesn't it, little monsters? Or not.

Also: WEIRD VOODOO TYPE STUFF PERHAPS RESOLVED

The Bad Romance singer has been accused of copying Lina Morgana who she collaborated with in 2007. However, Lina committed suicide in 2008 and now her mother is claiming that Gaga 'ripped off' her dead daughter's image. Yana Morgana told the New York Post: "I'm doing this because I want to keep her spirit alive. Lady GaGa is holding Lina's soul and I want her soul to be free.

PALACE COUP

The people have spoken.

& MSNBC goes ever more meta, replaces self described "Angry Weatherman" with cute, loveable puppy, Bong Cha, who also holds the rank of Colonel in the North Korean Air Force. Puppy to be voiced by gringo humorist, Roberto Smigel.

American leftists overwhelmingly feel the move better reflects their need for a televised political mascot & champion.

MEA CULPA, MEDIA MAXIMA CULPA

...our most important spy.
Wounded in the line of duty,
parachuting acid into diplomatic cocktail parties,
urging Fidel Castro to abandon fields and castles.
Leave it all and like a man,
come back to nothing special,
such as waiting rooms and ticket lines,
silver bullet suicides,
and messianic ocean tides,
and racial roller-coaster rides
and other forms of boredom advertised as poetry.
I know you need your sleep now,
I know your life's been hard.
But many men are falling,
where you promised to stand guard.

Let me see if I have this right:

Two very entertaining gringo television "demagogues" make a very unpostmodern plea for sincerity and civility on the eve of a depressing election, and lead the crowd in a rather threadbare Woodstock of Mortification, and this whole program is branded as a sanity restoration...?

They don't call it Comedy Central for nothing.

THE SPECTACULAR CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN

"I suppose Stakhanov need not have been the first... It could have been anybody else. In the final analysis it was not the individual face-worker who determined whether the attempt to break the record would succeed, but the new system of coal extraction."

The interesting thing about how these little Stakhanovs function in the spectacle is that they have to walk a dangerous and non-sensical line which is beautifully represented by the Damien Hirst-lite hoodie.

A complete creature of the spectacle, drumming away in his room, waiting for the moment to APPEAR and be recognized as a citizen demigod.

And then suddenly the Ragged Dick thing gets EXHORTATORY, recycled and fed back into itself, his story is displaced onto yours and the subject is frozen into a permanent loop.

The Inspiring True Story of an Ordinary Kid 
YOU discovered.

"He's such an inspiration -- he came from such a small town -- he gives us hope."

"He's living an extraodinary life, but he's just like you or me..."

"There's gonna be times when people tell you you can't live your dreams, this is what I tell 'em: never say never."

ASSISTED REALITY

Here's a cool idea for a show!  A team of celebrities that parachute into areas of world-misery to focus audience empathy on them.

You vote where they go! They might get HURT! 

Or spend money!