Venger+Tilda: The Red Wiz

An alien visitor and a human psychic guide confer on the potential Romanticism behind Earth's special commerce-life Ego diet.

A commerce-life airport-traffic 'faerie-tale' for modern times. 

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VENGER: I've been living on Venus only with my dark horse companion (Nightmare) and was persuaded to travel to Earth to see what kinds of beings composed the capitalism chess of that world and wanted a window into that social culture of media/cyber activity driven street-journals and expressions of commerce-life Ego and cartoons/cinema (ha).

VENGER: When I got to Earth-world, I took stock of the arrays of consumerism-convenience culture and the eatery-amenities of Earth's special capitalist race driven hospitality and luxury, and the Olive Garden restaurant branches and Starbucks coffee spots all over the great United States, the Big Brother of human capitalism, and I started to think about the quality of human Romanticism in this living capitalist system of network-tied social negotiations of everyday life (e.g., Facebook-chess, Security Council, JFK Airport, Qatar World Cup, Al-Jazeera (TV), etc.

TILDA: I've been working in the media-world and movie-production commentary 'sector' of the cyber-highway(s) for sometime now on Earth-world, and I share a name (incidentally) with a cinema-fantasy universe star, and I have these sensitive mind powers, and I sensed your presence, Venger, and I knew you'd want to 'tour' this Earth-race of capitalism chess conveniences and consumerism-lifestyle IQ and tracked you through your various cyber-posts about capitalism convenience, blood-diamond insurance corruption concerns for capitalism securities, street-lore surrounding urban vigilance for controls in anarchy, and I wanted to pose you a real challenge of Romanticism, because I think that's what you came here searching, guided by your Venusian vizier-companion 'dark-horse' companion (Nightmare) and offer you the chance to 'accept' me as your angel-guide on this Earth mission, sweet if brooding sorcerer of Venus --- take this 'adventure' proposal of Romanticism social-media journal work (of the real variety).

VENGER: What could I do but to accept this proposition from this mysterious 'psyche-sensitive' woman (Tilda) who claimed to 'sense' my alien visitation to Earth and despite my overtly cyber-messages/posts/writings about a particularly 'American-Catholic' sensibility about capitalism examination(s) of humanity/consciousness didn't feel blinded by my veiled Atheism or formal Rationalism regarding capitalism-chess culture analysis and demanded I draw myself into the Romanticism pledge she 'sensed' (equally) drew me to Earth (which it did, honestly!), and so I started reading Richie-Rich comics to feel more 'adapted' into a more 'human' sense of commerce-life Ego richness or emotion(s).

TILDA: Now...you're thinking like a 'real' man, sweet if brooding Venger (wow).

VENGER: Well, Tilda; I've procured two special sports-market 'treasure' cards of team-transfer Super Bowl ambitions-IQ.

TILDA: Wow, the iconic Strike-Force double-set of scarlet-print and silver-edition print Randall Cunningham Viking-QB gems!

VENGER: Cunningham was an Eagles-celeb before departing from Philly to seek a Viking title for Super Bowl record, Tilda.

TILDA: This devastated all the Eagles fans of the great city of Philadelphia, did it not, Venger?

VENGER: Indeed; and these two (Upper Deck) pro-football spirits cards capture all the charm/controversy of team-trade IQ.

TILDA: There's a certain 'chess' to capitalism shaping/examination, and your 'treasure' cards now cast you as a fisherman, no?

VENGER: Indeed...I'd imagine you want me to use these 'gems' in my pledged Romanticism inquiry, which is what I'll do (now).

TILDA: Wow.

VENGER: There I was now with my two 'cool' Strike-Force Cunningham Super Bowl ambitions-symbolic football 'magic' cards, the double-set (scarlet/silver-edition) and walking to the New York airport bookstore hoping to meet a gorgeous 'woman-in-red' as a messenger of street-capitalism ideology and consumerism savvy and would boast the cards to her claiming I was a 'fan' of capitalism's more cheerful face, downplaying the dark-side notion of commerce-life Ego corruption and the jaded-feeling of losing athletes in a sports-fanfare city to Super Bowl legend dreams which otherwise generated 'cool' merchandising imagery, and I'd present these capitalism 'diamonds' to the mystery-woman inside the airport bookstore to see if Romanticism really would be 'wrought' from an Earth-street 'normality' of social-media/Selfie culture driven 'mundane' consumerism psychology (ha).

TILDA: My goodness, sweet Venger, you've managed to concoct an ideal potion/serum of capitalism-life Ego analysis or 'examination' with these two Strike-Force treasure-cards of yours and made me eager to see what kind of 'street-life' conversationalism you'd draw/fish from your exploration of the 'chess' of capitalism storyboards on this great planet and wonder (honestly) who'll cross your 'earnest' path of sports-treasure valuations inside that iconic airport bookstore (hmm).

BOOKSTORE CUSTOMER WOMAN (Airport): My name's Esmerelda.

VENGER: Like that romantic figurine from the Hugo novel about ill-fated if grotesque religious devotion(s)?
ESMERELDA: You're familiar with the Hunchback-lore then, dashing airport-traveler; my mother named me for the Hugo work.

VENGER: So, your mother's a Victor Hugo fan and named you for that 'angel' who moved Quasimodo to become a 'real' hero!
ESMERELDA: Quite...I noticed you're in a suit-jacked inside this airport-bookstore holding two sports-cards(?) in your hand.
VENGER: Yes, these are 'Strike-Force' Randall Cunningham post-Eagles career Viking-QB Super Bowl dream cards.
ESMERELDA: Are you a sports-writer or collector of some kind?
VENGER: Something like that, an 'alien' visitor and commentator of Earth-capitalism follies and chess jewelry, ha.
ESMERELDA: You're making some kind of Romanticism advance now, here in this bookstore, to me (personally).
VENGER: Indeed; in fact, wondering why a pretty-woman like yourself, in a red-dress, would be stirred by these sports-cards.
ESMERELDA: I don't collect sports-cards or have any casual 'street' interest in sports-treasures or the like, unfortunately!
VENGER: Sure; but I sense you'd been seeking some kind of 'gallant' stranger with a 'cool' sense of consumerism Ego-defense.
ESMERELDA: So those two 'Strike-Force' romance-cards of sports-lore and Super Bowl symbolism are your 'dashing' jewels, eh?
VENGER: I'd hoped they'd 'draw' you to me for an offer of a nice airport meal of Italian-variety inside the food-court.
ESMERELDA: Mmm, with some latte and conversation about what makes you half-salesman and half-romantic gentleman, eh?
VENGER: Why not?
ESMERELDA: Are you seeking 'serendipity' from the bottomless pit of capitalism mechanics inside this airport bookshop, sir?

VENGER: Call me...Quasimodo.

TILDA: So you fell in love with Esmerelda and now want my parting-gift advice before you return to Venus to reunite with Nightmare your dark horse vizier, having achieved that micro-miracle of capitalism-culture 'chess' Romanticism with your (now) 'lucky-charm' Strike-Force double-set of football cards of Super Bowl ambition symbolism and hope I feel 'impressed' or swayed' by your 'romance' with the airport 'lady-in-red' (Esmerelda)?

VENGER: Surely, that's not such a cynicism-drawing requisition, Tilda, given that I've cooperated with your 'psychic' exchange with me as my Earth-journey angel-guide for this capitalism examination and will offer me the right-stuff response(s) to what certainly became an airport-traffic human encounter of commerce-life Ego sensitization --- my magic cards brought me not only a consumerism enchantment but a real chat-energizer with Esmerelda who eventually 'shared' my passion for the 'chess' of commerce-life Ego defense(s).

TILDA: Alright then, sweet sorcerer of Venus; I'm (equally) Impressed by your jaunt with romanticized commerce-life and sports-treasure showcase which brought you 'closer' to a more 'human' response regarding the quality of Earth-journey inquiry and airport-magic; your 'encounter' with the lovely lady-in-red (Esmerelda) has (indeed) shown you something that no computation exercise in capitalism-theory would --- the shine of social media treasures, like your Cunningham-QB Super Bowl ambitions-symbolism football/sports cards, drew you to a 'revelation' about the 'line(s)' between life...and critcism.

VENGER: Now that's a conclusion that Nightmare will find quite 'American' (thanks!).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)