"Thank you, Jesus!" ~ Ray Nagin (part 3) ~ Black Betty Had A Baby Bam-ba-Lam

Continued from, "Thank you, Jesus!" ~ Ray Nagin (part 2) ~ the Storm (Katrina) before the Calm (of Testimony) ~ asking "What if?" 

Anyone who consumes art and who does not re-art (re-author) the art is just not getting his or her money's worth.

This includes consuming movies.  Anyone who pays time and money to watch a movie and who does not re-write the movie many times is just not getting his or her money's worth.  Those who do not re-write the movies that they see are on the "Trail of Tyranny" (bottom of Zorro poster) that the movie wants to take them on.

Same with consuming worthless television shows. Like American Idol and other worthless religious television shows.  Except that worthless television shows and other effluents may be worth watching once -- just once -- to see the Surgeon General's warning that watching television shows causes degenerative brain disease and plugs you into The Matrix where you may live in your private toilet bowl existence and where you may think you are free -- because you can prove to yourself that you are free (or enslaved in the "Trail of Tyranny") by choosing to watch American Idol.

Free? Or Esnalved to Idol?

Truth or dare?

Which brings me to the news.  The same is true for consuming news.  Spending time to read the news.  Or spending money to get the news - and then spending time on top of spending money to get -- really get -- the news.  It's important to rewrite the news many times.  To make good news better.  And make bad news redeemable with better endings.

I hope Ray Nagin gets sentenced to lifetime community service -- real community service and not a guest appearance on American Idol -- a real sentence under under restorative justice in order to give back the lifeblood that Nagin bled from citizens of New Orleans.

Why?

Because Black Betty Will Have a Baby Bam-ba-Lam.

Or, hotter.

Black Betty?  Who is Black Betty?

Or what?

And what does Black Betty have to do with this?

Well ... so many theories, so little time.

So, I'm going to take my own advice.  And rewrite the art.  And rewrite the movie.  And rewrite the news.  And rewrite the meaning of Black Betty.  And whip it right into shape.

More coming (in progress Sunday, February 16, 2014) ...