The Circle ......Who's 'running the Show'? A terrifying Social Media Prediction from 2017......THE 'CIRCLE' OF 'SOON TO BE EVERYONE ON EARTH'.......AS EGO- EXTENSIONS OF "THE FEW" ....THE DREAMS OF ELON MUSK, OF WORLD DOMINATION THROUGH OBEDIENT, WILLING COMPLIANCE......AKA "A WALK WITH THE NEEDY....ALL BEARING 'SMARTPHONES'......

THE "RED PILL" or "THE BLACK PILL"? or....A BILLION SPHERICAL CAMERAS and EMBEDDED CHIPS..... FEEDING TERABYTES OF 'DATA", EVERY SECOND, TO THE BOSS COMPUTER SERVERS?? SMILE FOR THE FACIAL-RECOGNITION SOFTWARE, PEOPLE.......'You're "ON"'......

KARAMOJA TO MAJOR LEAGUE FOOTBALL

I was in 5th or 6th Grade when downtown movie houses were inundated, usually....Saturdays....., with both Feature Films and Shorts (i.e. "Documentary Films"....with a grain of salt)........Some, especially at Warner Bros. and American International Theaters,  cashed in on low-budget racist exploitation flicks, as well as "White Men In Africa Stuff"....like Ramar Of The Jungle, Tarzan.....of the Jungle, and a dozen, now largely forgotten, Saturday Morning Racist Serials.....   "Karamoja" was, then, what would be, now, "XX"-rated, since it featured ebony-skinned Savages, glisteningly....Naked!  

.....Audiences, then....as now.....salivated, not only over all that nakedness, but also....the bloody slaughtering of wild animals......[Although, a few were 'turned off', preferring to envision their 'Meat' in neat packages, wrapped in plastic wrap, with a 'price-per-pound' label affixed].......I did, at 10, sneak into a downtown Movie Theatre....to recoil, terrified, at the sight of Spanish missionaries being devoured to the bone by Amazonian piranhas, to the delight of watching Natives.....and the viewing of 'NativeYouths'  being initiated into 'Manhood' by donning woven vests of stinging wasps or hornets.......ritual circumcision of both males and females.....and the bifurcation of boys' penises during their ceremonial 'Manhood' events....... Now,  for the more 'refined' audiences with sublimated instincts and repressed desires, there is Football, to displace their real constant cravings......  

FROM A NOSTALGIC DREAM OF SATURDAYS, ALONE, IN DOWNTOWN HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA......c. 1957, SQUANDERING MY WEEKLY CASH ALLOWANCE FOR WASHING MY PARENTS' VEHICLES, TAKING OUT THE GARBAGE, CUTTING THE GRASS AND RAKING THE YARD.....ON MOVIES, MAGAZINES AND SEVERAL MEALS......

Off to the Grand News stand to check out...i.e. 'stand and read...for free' the latest Classic Illustrated, Batman and Tales From the Crypt.....then to the Rexall for a CherrySmash , and a Banana Split.....a trip to Becker's to hang with my Grandmother, who took a break from her part-time job...selling shoes and sewing 'notions'.... for a 3-D movie with me....or two....then, off to Wilensky's Pawn shop to view 'old junk' and do some 'trading', I dreamed...last night....of a morning trip to the Krystal, on the town square, for a hamburger steak with fries, cooked in lard, then a 200 ft. walk to the Lyric for Flash Gordan, Sheena and Rocketman...and a live Stage Show, followed by a cheesy sci-fi movie, viewed from the first row of the balcony...as I snacked on chocolate-covered-cherries from the Erskine's confectionary store next door.....i remember when they were a nickel!...back when dinosaurs walked the Tennessee Valley! .....then, a chocolate sundae  at the Twickenham Drug Store, for a quarter,  and a cherry coke for a nickel, too! then over to the Grand Theater or The Elks Theatre,  where a quarter'd get you three cartoons, newsreels, previews, Flash Gordon, Sheena or more Rocketman, Bomba, Tarzan or The Bowery Boys/Ritz Bros/Three Stooges/Marx Bros. Shorts,  and yet another 'MGM' movie.....all preceeded by a talent show and a filmed horse race that kids could 'place' bets on to win prizes.....after shelling out 68 cents for a hamburger steak and french fries  and a quarter for a chocolate shake,  and a copy of Famous Monsters of Filmland, and a couple of Classic Illustrateds,  my $4 was running out......however, if I had the 'leftover' dollar, I'd take a bus to The Central Theater, in West Hunstville, for even another double feature....and then the nickel ride home to watch my parents play bridge with friends.......while I watched Shock Theater with Jack Zacherle on 1 of the 3 available VHF TV channels...and drank the cardplayers' leftover booze, from a cocktail shaker.