Keith Andersen:
Hi welcome to Channel 9 news I'm Keith Andersen
There's some major breakthroughs going on in Walden
And a lot to recap for those who just tuned in
Walden farmers signed with Raleigh's Tobacco Company
In a measure to preserve the town's economy
But the bulk of the wealth went to the CEOs at Raleigh
So Neil Zimmerman unionized the farm hands
And sent a message to Raleigh of their demands
But this simple act cost them their jobs and their lands
Exploited, unemployed and homeless contributed to higher economic unrest
Deprived of power and means they salted their former farms in protest
Now Raleigh's Company will lose profits buying new land in which to invest
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
My Youtube idea All Sheldons Have Asperger Syndrome
I plan on recording audio to the All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome by Kathy Hoopman and adding a scene from The Big Bang Theory featuring Sheldon acting in accordance with each page of the book. Taking 67 pages into 67 scenes will be hard since only the first season is on DVD and I don't have a video burner to take clips and edit in audio but in September the second season comes out and I already have about half the scenes picked out.
New Jobs
Thoreau:
I found a new job with decent pay
In a town just fifty miles away
We can pack and be there today
Fossey:
Do you know if Neil and Pegi will make it okay
Is there a place for them to stay
Thoreau:
For now they're going to live with his brother in Green Bay
Unfortunately there's not much agricultural opportunity
As it is we're both moving to a bigger city
But at least they're both a green community
I found a new job with decent pay
In a town just fifty miles away
We can pack and be there today
Fossey:
Do you know if Neil and Pegi will make it okay
Is there a place for them to stay
Thoreau:
For now they're going to live with his brother in Green Bay
Unfortunately there's not much agricultural opportunity
As it is we're both moving to a bigger city
But at least they're both a green community
Movie Idea "Bloom Of Youth"
Genre: Coming of Age Drama
Plot: A depressed teenage Jehovah's Witness has to learn to deal with being middle of the road watching some friends go to missionary school and others getting disfellowshipped. Spending his days at community college coasting through wondering how his spirituality is and where to find love and acceptance
Characters:
Peter Gilliam-shy main character forced between two lanes
Mary Gilliam-older saintly sister of Peter
Susan Gilliam-younger more social sister of Peter
Mickey Jones-close friend who moves away
David Chapman-secondary friend who later gets disfellowshipped for premarital sex
George Starkey-replacement friend who gets disfellowshipped for smoking
Jonathon Melkin-older friend of Peter who goes to missionary school
Paul Dole-friend who goes to Bethel
Cynthia Dawson-girl of Peter's affection with a mother who is a Witness and an ever absent father who isn't
Beth Kidman-school friend of Susan who studies to be a Witness and is involved in human rights, green culture, and gun control
Scene Sequence:
1) Years of insignificant youth reviewed in first person
2) Warming up to the congregation
3) No child friends except Mickey and David Peter befriends the elders
4) Enthusiastic burst of theocratic energy in the door to door ministry
5) First days of school (kindergarten)
6) Getting use to stupid questions from students (how come every grade every holiday and birthday)
7) Trying to connect with Mickey and David
8) Mary Gilliam is baptized and joins missionary school
9) Mickey and Peter connect video games, bikes and books
10) Susan befriends Cynthia and many other young girls in the congregation
11) Peter bonds with Jonathon and Paul who are 10 years his senior
12) Peter invites David to join in who reluctantly joins in
13) Years of bonding formed as they get into growing genres of music and film
14) The desires of youth set in the hearts of Peter, David, and Mickey
15) Peter tries to win the affection of Cynthia
16) Mickey announces his family is moving to Massachusettes
17) The big move
18) George is added to the group
19) Further failed attempts to win Cynthia's affection
20) A final rejection
21) Bullied at school for not saluting the flag during wartime
22) Nice women worldly women with abusive worldly boyfriends make Peter question the stigma of interfaith relationships
23) Father figure and long time friend Jonathon announces he will do missionary work in Africa
24) Peter meets Beth through Susan' Bible study with her and Peter and Beth connect over philosophy, theology, social events and art
25) George gets disfellowshipped for smoking
26) Peter and Beth bond at school lunch
27) Peter finds out Cynthia is dating a school bully and suspects she is sleeping with him
28) Peter hangs out with David talking about how he feels about Beth and what he thinks about Cynthia
29) Paul Dole volunteers at the Watchtower Tract Society
30) The goodbye
31) Lonely nights of teen angst
32) Peter finds out David is getting disfellowshipped for premarital sex
33) Peter phones in door to door ministry work feeling like a phony
34) Peter confronts elders about his feelings of alienation but nothing supportive can be said that Peter feels applicable
35) Vague ambiguous ending of Peter tormented by options of his future tries to ride away on his bike but gets lost in circles
Plot: A depressed teenage Jehovah's Witness has to learn to deal with being middle of the road watching some friends go to missionary school and others getting disfellowshipped. Spending his days at community college coasting through wondering how his spirituality is and where to find love and acceptance
Characters:
Peter Gilliam-shy main character forced between two lanes
Mary Gilliam-older saintly sister of Peter
Susan Gilliam-younger more social sister of Peter
Mickey Jones-close friend who moves away
David Chapman-secondary friend who later gets disfellowshipped for premarital sex
George Starkey-replacement friend who gets disfellowshipped for smoking
Jonathon Melkin-older friend of Peter who goes to missionary school
Paul Dole-friend who goes to Bethel
Cynthia Dawson-girl of Peter's affection with a mother who is a Witness and an ever absent father who isn't
Beth Kidman-school friend of Susan who studies to be a Witness and is involved in human rights, green culture, and gun control
Scene Sequence:
1) Years of insignificant youth reviewed in first person
2) Warming up to the congregation
3) No child friends except Mickey and David Peter befriends the elders
4) Enthusiastic burst of theocratic energy in the door to door ministry
5) First days of school (kindergarten)
6) Getting use to stupid questions from students (how come every grade every holiday and birthday)
7) Trying to connect with Mickey and David
8) Mary Gilliam is baptized and joins missionary school
9) Mickey and Peter connect video games, bikes and books
10) Susan befriends Cynthia and many other young girls in the congregation
11) Peter bonds with Jonathon and Paul who are 10 years his senior
12) Peter invites David to join in who reluctantly joins in
13) Years of bonding formed as they get into growing genres of music and film
14) The desires of youth set in the hearts of Peter, David, and Mickey
15) Peter tries to win the affection of Cynthia
16) Mickey announces his family is moving to Massachusettes
17) The big move
18) George is added to the group
19) Further failed attempts to win Cynthia's affection
20) A final rejection
21) Bullied at school for not saluting the flag during wartime
22) Nice women worldly women with abusive worldly boyfriends make Peter question the stigma of interfaith relationships
23) Father figure and long time friend Jonathon announces he will do missionary work in Africa
24) Peter meets Beth through Susan' Bible study with her and Peter and Beth connect over philosophy, theology, social events and art
25) George gets disfellowshipped for smoking
26) Peter and Beth bond at school lunch
27) Peter finds out Cynthia is dating a school bully and suspects she is sleeping with him
28) Peter hangs out with David talking about how he feels about Beth and what he thinks about Cynthia
29) Paul Dole volunteers at the Watchtower Tract Society
30) The goodbye
31) Lonely nights of teen angst
32) Peter finds out David is getting disfellowshipped for premarital sex
33) Peter phones in door to door ministry work feeling like a phony
34) Peter confronts elders about his feelings of alienation but nothing supportive can be said that Peter feels applicable
35) Vague ambiguous ending of Peter tormented by options of his future tries to ride away on his bike but gets lost in circles
Paths
Pegi:
Now that, that is done where do we go from here?
Farmer Neil:
The answer to that is never really clear
You just got to prepare to face the fear
Thoreau:
Whatever will be will just be
We are not the masters of reality
We choose our paths without seeing the destiny
Now that, that is done where do we go from here?
Farmer Neil:
The answer to that is never really clear
You just got to prepare to face the fear
Thoreau:
Whatever will be will just be
We are not the masters of reality
We choose our paths without seeing the destiny
No Offense Taken "Everybody Expects...(a tribute to Monty Python)"
(doorbell ringing)
Man: (gets off the couch to the door) Oh my god it's those damn Witnesses again (answers the door to two ordinarily dressed men) Oh thank God I thought you guys were Jehovah's Witnesses
Knocker One: I know (two men undress into suit clothing) EVERYBODY EXPECTS JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES!!!
Man: (whining) Why must you do this?
Knocker Two: For a very basic reason Scriptural Command!
Knocker One: And concern for the well being of man's relationship with God!
Knocker Two: And faith in God's will!
Knocker One: And rigorous routine.
Knocker Two: And because we don't have much else to do (Man shuts door and reenters house)
Knocker One: Oh crap I left my magazines in the car (leaves)
Knocker Two: We'll be right back (follows Knocker One)
Man: (gets off the couch to the door) Oh my god it's those damn Witnesses again (answers the door to two ordinarily dressed men) Oh thank God I thought you guys were Jehovah's Witnesses
Knocker One: I know (two men undress into suit clothing) EVERYBODY EXPECTS JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES!!!
Man: (whining) Why must you do this?
Knocker Two: For a very basic reason Scriptural Command!
Knocker One: And concern for the well being of man's relationship with God!
Knocker Two: And faith in God's will!
Knocker One: And rigorous routine.
Knocker Two: And because we don't have much else to do (Man shuts door and reenters house)
Knocker One: Oh crap I left my magazines in the car (leaves)
Knocker Two: We'll be right back (follows Knocker One)
Pegi's Lament
Pegi:
Goodbye my dear Walden
And to all the memories held in
Did our innocence have to end?
Fossey:
The innocence had already died
Evil converted good men to the dark side
Now in lamentation penance is applied
Goodbye my dear Walden
And to all the memories held in
Did our innocence have to end?
Fossey:
The innocence had already died
Evil converted good men to the dark side
Now in lamentation penance is applied
A Personal Ad
In a little while I will try to make it as a writer by first publishing with Author House and move into screenplays by joining the Writer's Guild of America. And when or if I ever get to make films or have bestselling books I would like the following female celebrities to meet me because I always dreamed of meeting an artistic/expressive person to fall in love with and everybody has celebrity crushes usually more than a few so don't think low of me for this list of hopefuls, but meet me if you want especially if you are on my dream girlfriend list
(five deal breakers: smokers (strict rule), alcoholics, actively pro-choice (personal value but okay if you don't agree so long as you don't plan on having an abortion), gun freaks (another personal value), eating disorder (I've been through that drama personally), racist (another personal value))
Brief reasons for this selection between their name and their picture
Mandy Moore
ecological
religious upbringing
suffers depression (relate-able)
simply beautiful
honor student
musical
sense of humor
America Ferrera
beautiful complexion and figure
sense of humor
Amanda Bynes
sense of humor
honor student
plain hot
Jordin Sparks
religious upbringing
musical
great figure and complexion
Heather Kuzmich
beautiful
Asperger's Syndrome (strong common factor)
same area of interests video games, art
Katy Perry
religious upbringing (despite reputation)
great figure
sense of humor
(five deal breakers: smokers (strict rule), alcoholics, actively pro-choice (personal value but okay if you don't agree so long as you don't plan on having an abortion), gun freaks (another personal value), eating disorder (I've been through that drama personally), racist (another personal value))
Brief reasons for this selection between their name and their picture
Mandy Moore
ecological
religious upbringing
suffers depression (relate-able)
simply beautiful
honor student
musical
sense of humor
America Ferrera
beautiful complexion and figure
sense of humor
Amanda Bynes
sense of humor
honor student
plain hot
Jordin Sparks
religious upbringing
musical
great figure and complexion
Heather Kuzmich
beautiful
Asperger's Syndrome (strong common factor)
same area of interests video games, art
Katy Perry
religious upbringing (despite reputation)
great figure
sense of humor
Salt March
Thoreau:
We will make sure tobacco production comes to a halt
We shall pour on our polluted land twelve trucks full of salt
The chemical waste planted in the dirt already shows who's at fault
Farmer Neil:
Tobacco bamboozled us out of our land
Forced into a situation we couldn't understand
Where our lives we mistrusted in their command
We've poisoned Mother Earth
And she can now no longer give birth
We mistook her and what she's worth
Thoreau:
So the salt is for the mourning of the unborn
A reminder to us what we've yet to learn
And until the day we do we are doomed and forlorn
We will make sure tobacco production comes to a halt
We shall pour on our polluted land twelve trucks full of salt
The chemical waste planted in the dirt already shows who's at fault
Farmer Neil:
Tobacco bamboozled us out of our land
Forced into a situation we couldn't understand
Where our lives we mistrusted in their command
We've poisoned Mother Earth
And she can now no longer give birth
We mistook her and what she's worth
Thoreau:
So the salt is for the mourning of the unborn
A reminder to us what we've yet to learn
And until the day we do we are doomed and forlorn
No Offense Taken "President Wartime Press Conference"
Interviewer: Mr. President you say God told you to go ahead with the war?
President: Yes He told me He would back this war for it was part of His plan.
Interviewer: He said it was part of His plan?
President: Yes it was prophesied specifically in the Bible.
Interviewer: Where at?
President: In Revelation
Interviewer: What is the context of this prophesy?
President: Something about Armageddon I believe He said
President: Yes He told me He would back this war for it was part of His plan.
Interviewer: He said it was part of His plan?
President: Yes it was prophesied specifically in the Bible.
Interviewer: Where at?
President: In Revelation
Interviewer: What is the context of this prophesy?
President: Something about Armageddon I believe He said
Wives
Pegi:
Fossey did you hear what Thoreau and Neil planned today?
They're going to ruin the fields with a dozen salt trunks on their way
Fossey:
Yeah a national stunt to get the nation to hear what we have to say
Pegi:
You're okay with our farm's desecration?
Fossey:
It's not desecration it's a demonstration
Anyway the soil's tainted by the chemicals of that evil corporation
The soil's already unfit to grow vegetable produce
Raleigh saw to it tobacco would be it's only use
We are not destroying something we didn't already lose
Fossey did you hear what Thoreau and Neil planned today?
They're going to ruin the fields with a dozen salt trunks on their way
Fossey:
Yeah a national stunt to get the nation to hear what we have to say
Pegi:
You're okay with our farm's desecration?
Fossey:
It's not desecration it's a demonstration
Anyway the soil's tainted by the chemicals of that evil corporation
The soil's already unfit to grow vegetable produce
Raleigh saw to it tobacco would be it's only use
We are not destroying something we didn't already lose
Movie Idea "President Caesar"
Genre: Political Drama (or an accidental satire)
Plot: A secret Republican committee seeks to destroy the re-election for reformist Democratic President by using illegal resources and tactics such as document fraud, phone tapping, blackmail etc. Once destroyed politically the President is missing and the Vice President makes a martyr out of him giving his party even greater power to the shock of the Republicans
Characters:
President Michael Leonardo Kahn-Democratic president who is destroyed by a false note to start a war with Israel (Julius Caesar)
Vice President Max Little-Democratic vp who immortalized Pres. Kahn (Marc Anthony)
Representative Nigel Cavett-Missourian Republican (Cassius)
Senator John Brooks-Arizonian Republican (Brutus)
Scene Sequence:
1) Televised speech to the nation about his new tax reform plan with Congress beside him while Nigel talks to John between breaks about growing power being handed over to the Democratic Party
2) Nigel and John discuss matters in a secret caucus persuading John that although there are no grounds for impeachment President Kahn needs to be impeached before he abuses his power
3) Nigel schemes with conspirators save for John on how to take down the President
4) The scheme is formally announced to John Brooks getting his approval secretly taped
5) The conspirators record phone conversations between the President and the Tobacco Lobby and find nothing incriminating
6) False documentation of President Kahn adding his name to a list of Klansmen in the Portland Oregon district
7) Proof of its fraud is found out as Klansmen denounce any connection with him
8) A Washington madam claims to have the President as a client
9) Scandal falls apart as the story lacks consistency
10) John's wife tries to console him assuming he's worried about his own re-election while John nearly confesses everything to her
11) John goes to withdraw from the conspiracy only to find out he cannot
12) The group's final effort is a forged document of the President saying he wants to wage war on Israel to keep good ties with the oil industry
13) The document is linked to Israeli ambassadors who notify the prime minister
14) Pres Kahn tries damage control by taking Air Force One to Israel to speak to the prime minister
15) News reports Air Force One is missing
16) Vice President addresses mourning nation taking the President's place in his absence
17) Distressed by the turn of events each conspirator pays homage to the President as a cover up
18) Conspirators worry John Brooks won't cooperate and seek him out
19) Sen John Brooks is abducted and threaten with exposure from the tape
20) Worried speculation increases as John keeps tight lipped and recluse
21) In a studio the congressmen alter the voices on the tape except John Brooks
22) John Brooks resigns from the race
23) Nigel talks to John privately finds out John knew about the tapes by then and doesn't care just wants to distance himself from the whole situation
24) Knowing it is inevitable he drops out too
25) John Brooks blows the whistle on the conspiracy to the American public (the false note of war not the airplane missing which is till a mystery)
26) The next day John and Nigel are killed in a cover up as Pres. Kahn returns from his African hiding resort as planned and plays along with the theory of his abduction by Muslim terrorists
Plot: A secret Republican committee seeks to destroy the re-election for reformist Democratic President by using illegal resources and tactics such as document fraud, phone tapping, blackmail etc. Once destroyed politically the President is missing and the Vice President makes a martyr out of him giving his party even greater power to the shock of the Republicans
Characters:
President Michael Leonardo Kahn-Democratic president who is destroyed by a false note to start a war with Israel (Julius Caesar)
Vice President Max Little-Democratic vp who immortalized Pres. Kahn (Marc Anthony)
Representative Nigel Cavett-Missourian Republican (Cassius)
Senator John Brooks-Arizonian Republican (Brutus)
Scene Sequence:
1) Televised speech to the nation about his new tax reform plan with Congress beside him while Nigel talks to John between breaks about growing power being handed over to the Democratic Party
2) Nigel and John discuss matters in a secret caucus persuading John that although there are no grounds for impeachment President Kahn needs to be impeached before he abuses his power
3) Nigel schemes with conspirators save for John on how to take down the President
4) The scheme is formally announced to John Brooks getting his approval secretly taped
5) The conspirators record phone conversations between the President and the Tobacco Lobby and find nothing incriminating
6) False documentation of President Kahn adding his name to a list of Klansmen in the Portland Oregon district
7) Proof of its fraud is found out as Klansmen denounce any connection with him
8) A Washington madam claims to have the President as a client
9) Scandal falls apart as the story lacks consistency
10) John's wife tries to console him assuming he's worried about his own re-election while John nearly confesses everything to her
11) John goes to withdraw from the conspiracy only to find out he cannot
12) The group's final effort is a forged document of the President saying he wants to wage war on Israel to keep good ties with the oil industry
13) The document is linked to Israeli ambassadors who notify the prime minister
14) Pres Kahn tries damage control by taking Air Force One to Israel to speak to the prime minister
15) News reports Air Force One is missing
16) Vice President addresses mourning nation taking the President's place in his absence
17) Distressed by the turn of events each conspirator pays homage to the President as a cover up
18) Conspirators worry John Brooks won't cooperate and seek him out
19) Sen John Brooks is abducted and threaten with exposure from the tape
20) Worried speculation increases as John keeps tight lipped and recluse
21) In a studio the congressmen alter the voices on the tape except John Brooks
22) John Brooks resigns from the race
23) Nigel talks to John privately finds out John knew about the tapes by then and doesn't care just wants to distance himself from the whole situation
24) Knowing it is inevitable he drops out too
25) John Brooks blows the whistle on the conspiracy to the American public (the false note of war not the airplane missing which is till a mystery)
26) The next day John and Nigel are killed in a cover up as Pres. Kahn returns from his African hiding resort as planned and plays along with the theory of his abduction by Muslim terrorists
Carthage
Thoreau:
Hey Neil how is it going looking for a new location?
Farmer Neil:
That depends on if I can get a new vocation
Thoreau:
What about your original avocation
Farmer Neil:
Farmers today can't get enough work in the independent market
And corporations really don't learn to forgive and forget
And every industry has tobacco ties who deem me a threat
Thoreau:
Well when in Rome do as the Romans I say
Salt the ground like Carthage you've lost it anyway
You may not take down tyrants but you don't have to obey
Farmer Neil:
You're right they may now legally own the land
But they still have no authority to demand
Everything they got was at our command
Hey Neil how is it going looking for a new location?
Farmer Neil:
That depends on if I can get a new vocation
Thoreau:
What about your original avocation
Farmer Neil:
Farmers today can't get enough work in the independent market
And corporations really don't learn to forgive and forget
And every industry has tobacco ties who deem me a threat
Thoreau:
Well when in Rome do as the Romans I say
Salt the ground like Carthage you've lost it anyway
You may not take down tyrants but you don't have to obey
Farmer Neil:
You're right they may now legally own the land
But they still have no authority to demand
Everything they got was at our command
Poetry Post 311 (soon to retire)
Free Verse Of A Trapped Mind
My parents are hypocrites
They give an illusion of options
With implicit boundaries
They want me to be them
When they rejected their parents
Where's the justice
It's lost in cruel irony
God gave me free will
But no one wants me to exercise it
So screw my free will and give me death
Artistic Disclaimer
I'm not self indulgent just self reflective
I write strictly of my own perspective
I am not a stooge or a corporate fool
I use the mass media as my tool
Whatever I say I speak true
I never waiver in my point of view
And from speaking truth I shall never cease
Because I have too far to go till I reach my masterpiece
Poetic Farewell
My writings of poems has come to an end
Now to the readers searching for a friend
This volume to you I send
Now as the ink pen of my brain runs dry
And life goes on passing me by
To you loyal readers I say goodbye
My parents are hypocrites
They give an illusion of options
With implicit boundaries
They want me to be them
When they rejected their parents
Where's the justice
It's lost in cruel irony
God gave me free will
But no one wants me to exercise it
So screw my free will and give me death
Artistic Disclaimer
I'm not self indulgent just self reflective
I write strictly of my own perspective
I am not a stooge or a corporate fool
I use the mass media as my tool
Whatever I say I speak true
I never waiver in my point of view
And from speaking truth I shall never cease
Because I have too far to go till I reach my masterpiece
Poetic Farewell
My writings of poems has come to an end
Now to the readers searching for a friend
This volume to you I send
Now as the ink pen of my brain runs dry
And life goes on passing me by
To you loyal readers I say goodbye
Legal Theft
Thoreau:
Something is wrong with the world today
If a company can just take another man's life away
Any lone criminal would of had hell to pay
But the laws protect mafias, pirates and mobs
As they steal another's wealth by taking their jobs
Larceny is lawful depending on who robs
But now's the time this is the hour
I see the dangers from the watchtower
Now is the changing of the guards a changing of power
Something is wrong with the world today
If a company can just take another man's life away
Any lone criminal would of had hell to pay
But the laws protect mafias, pirates and mobs
As they steal another's wealth by taking their jobs
Larceny is lawful depending on who robs
But now's the time this is the hour
I see the dangers from the watchtower
Now is the changing of the guards a changing of power
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