Pizzazz/Gladiator

A vignette about accessing values-intuition in dusty America, relevant for everyday traffic-diaries (and dreams!).

An homage to patriotism-storytelling (to finally sign-off with!), inspired by Fried Green Tomatoes. 

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An American artist named Pinkesh lived in a nice suburban area near Boston (New England) and lived off his family-inheritance money while using his design-drawings studio to fashion special patriotic drawings of incredible modern United States policemen/women who'd served to ensure Homeland Security.

He used his drawing-studio/den to create works for cyber-forums and stirred dialogue about the socialized appreciation of domestic antiterrorism securities linked to modern-day traffic fears/paranoia, which had cast his special Boston-home studio as a workshop for civilization diagrams.

However, despite this personal creativity, Pinkesh grew steadily more depressed about the contrasting 'dark' reality of America troubled and worried about social stigmas/problems such as 'invisible purge-crimes' which made him think about the nature of American horror-conditions like the bloody murder of young women, and the pensive prince-artist of New England, Pinkesh, began 'seeing' himself mutate/transform into someone (or 'something') much more brooding of social depression and disasters.

One night, Pinkesh resolved to 'cook-up' a special batch of magic potions in his Boston-home and then drank Vodka to 'wash' the magic down and resolved to go to sleep that night and dream he'd been 'transformed' into a rocking American 'gladiator' or media-stage 'crusader' of social ethics/values, perhaps even a female rock musician! Pinkesh considered this single-night of 'potion-discovery' a representation of American value.

When he dreamt that night during REM dream-sleep, he envisioned he'd 'transformed' into the celebrity rock-musician named 'Pizzazz' who'd performed all over the great United States, erecting special value-songs about the priorities of ethics consciousness in conditions of terrible social/domestic distress such as narcotics exploitation, crime-syndicate domination(s), and urban abuse. Pizzazz was something of a 'gladiator' of the American rubric, fashioning 'tunes' of wondrous values-driven imagination!

During this 'dream' that potion-magic night in his New England residence, Pinkesh ('Pizzazz') further dreamt he'd teamed up with a Hollywood actor/star who liked making movies about values, ethics, and crusades for social justice. He and this other male 'gladiator' of the media-stage went on a special WalMart mission to advocate the safe/secure consumerism traffic for American citizens who didn't want to be destroyed by the malignancy of criminal darkness, and Pizzazz and the Gladiator became a 1-2 punch for media-stage messages about the role that role-models played in advocating overground traffic beauty.

PINKESH/PIZZAZZ: Hey, if you want to engage in 'invisible' post-curfew crimes in America, do so without harming WalMart!

When Pinkesh ('Pizzazz') and her Gladiator ally (in this lucid dream-sleep crusader-adventure) became icons on the world-stage for the advocacy of defense of everyday commercial traffic securities for Homeland Security, they'd been cast in supermarket tabloids as the 'jungle-team' for the defense of American value(s). Justice is blind when it comes to race/sex and Pizzazz and the Gladiator had become messengers of overground sanitation and justice-sanity for a modern nation/culture arguably 'stressed' by the dilemmas of capitalism-instability in this post-9/11 era!

When Pinkesh awoke from this very amazing lucid dream-sleep adventure, he decided he'd make more descriptive artistic renderings in his Boston-home drawings-studio depicting the 'raw value' of American consciousness regarding the messaging of special/important subjects including civics, teamwork, commerce, free-speech, education, women's rights, and of course, dollars. This was a new 'brand' of vigilance, and it reminded the pensive Pinkesh of the symbolic US history-watershed days of Sacco and Vanzetti.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)