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This is a patriotic Christmas-parable in honor of 9/11 and Rockefeller Center.
Cheers,
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A married couple from Algeria named Basira and Sami were U.S. citizens and soldiers in the U.S. army stationed in Iran but were given vacation time for Christmas 2018. Basira and Sami decided to take extra-vacation time and went home (to NYC) in November. Sami began blogging peaceful and fun Internet mosaics about modern media free-speech rhetoric and pornography-controversy (to just forget about the troubles in the Middle East). Basira began going to cemeteries and restaurants in NYC and taking photos to post on Facebook as part of a 'cultural mosaic.' Sami and Basira then shared their online 'activities' with each other and reaffirmed their conjugal vows to each other. They decided to visit Rockefeller Center ('Rocky') to go ice-skating under the lit Christmas city in the NYC they loved as patriots.
In the army, Basira and Sami were part of an elite secret unit hand-selected by the CIA. This unit was called 'G.I. Joe' and was charged with specifically dismantling terrorism-hubs and initiatives and weapons-silos in the Middle East. Basira was given the field alias 'Scarlett' (because her of reddish-brown skin), and Sami was given the field alias 'Snake-Eyes' because he wore glasses and was a great knife-combat solider and computer-hacker. Scarlett and Snake-Eyes were now relieved to have vacation-time to enjoy a Christmas ice-skating 'adventure' in Rockefeller Center in NYC. Scarlett (Basira) and Snake-Eyes (Sami) were 'true patriots.'
When Basira (Scarlett) and Sami (Snake-Eyes) arrived in Rockefeller Center, they were amazed at the splendor of pedestrian life, the brightly-lit multicolored Christmas tree (symbolizing American multiculturalism), and the night basically livened by ice-skaters celebrating the holiday-season. After 9/11, the world realized there were anti-American sentiments around the world (when the World Trade Center in NYC was destroyed by radical terrorists). However, tonight in Rocky, ice-skaters reminded Scarlett and Snake-Eyes that there would always be 'pockets' of magic in America regardless of the 'troubles' around the world.
However, 'all was not well in Camelot.' A disgruntled laid-off NYC post-office worker named Stan who lived in an apartment building right near Rocky was gloomily staring at the Christmas tree and feeling frustrated about being unemployed during the holidays. Stan was not enjoying the Rocky holiday ice-skating, even though Scarlett (Basira) and Snake-Eyes (Sami) were definitely enjoying it. Stan was staring out the window in great sadness, contemplating suicide. It was then that Stan noticed something truly unusual right near the Rocky Christmas ice-skaters.
High above that Rocky Christmas ice-skating rink and tree, a strange ghost-like spectre was seen and resembled a Jesus-like figurine but also resembled an alien-like figure. The spectre/ghost was waving its hands around, apparently signalling something, and when NYC officials shined a giant spotlight to 'catch' the spectre/ghost for observation, Stan was in awe, and Scarlett and Snake-Eyes were completely baffled. This was not the 'usual' Rocky Christmas event New Yorkers were anticipating in this mid-term of Donald Trump's hyped Presidency. Was America (and therefore NYC) once again host to some kind of 'amazing-story'?
The next day, crowds flocked to Rocky and ate at the restaurant by the ice-skating rink to see if the spectre/ghost would reappear in daylight. Even American celebrities Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, star of the romance-imagination film Overboard, were present that day. It was an odd New York story, and Scarlett (Basira) and Snake-Eyes (Sami) wondered if Rocky would become an arena for a new kind of 'haunting folklore.' President Trump tweeted, "The most important thing is to ensure New Yorkers that Homeland Security will create the necessary procedures to manage any terrorist-threat emerging out of this 'zany pedestrian NY story'!".
Russell and Hawn decided to give an interview on the Charlie Rose Show on which they stated that this Rocky ghost-sighting would remind Americans that there were all kinds of crazy social stories out there in this modern age of great traffic that would 'help' Americans get over the 'trauma' of 9/11. When Rose asked the iconic/celebrated Hollywood couple if Rocky was a site for great 'patriotism,' Russell/Hawn stated, "Christmas is American...so it's good to be generally humorous." Meanwhile, Scarlett and Snake-Eyes were briefed by the CIA to keep a close-watch in case anti-American terrorists tried to exploit this otherwise 'eccentric NYC Christmas scenario.'
Trump and the CIA ordered the army's new unit of military-cabs to patrol the streets by Rocky as Christmas approached to ensure pedestrian securities and assure New Yorkers that Homeland Security was always a priority, even in times of great pedestrian chatter/spirit. When the military-cabs were driving around, Stan (the disgruntled laid off NYC post-office worker) was still staring out his window gloomily when he thought he caught sight of that ghost/spectre that appeared that night by the Rocky Christmas tree. Stan called the NY Post, and meanwhile, Scarlett and Snake-Eyes, who were driving two of the military-cabs patrolling the area, made sure that pedestrian traffic was still safe and sane.
It turned out that the ghost/spectre that was sighted in Rocky that Christmas was a Hell-ghoul named Hobgoblin, sent by Satan (the Devil) to create an urban commotion during the holiday-season. Hobgoblin was actually Satan's minion rebel-angel Moloch, dressed as a comic book like 'super-villain' in an orange robe-and-hood and wielding an eerie hand-fire 'magic-trick.' Hobgoblin soared around NYC on a phantom-glider and no one saw him except Stan, but Hobgoblin was more interested to see how these Christmas Rocky 'excitements' would shake and stir the patriots Scarlett (Basira) and Snake-Eyes (Sami).
GOD: Why're you making waves during the holidays?
SATAN: Maybe Hobgoblin (Moloch) will reveal some intrigue...
GOD: Hobgoblin is a terrorist-spectre only!
SATAN: Yes, but he's creating imaginations about urban anarchy.
GOD: What is so good about that, Satan?
SATAN: Well, it seems to me that 9/11 has people 'paranoid' about life.
GOD: No, pedestrian traffic in NYC will be restored by the work of patriots.
SATAN: I doubt Scarlett and Snake-Eyes fully-understand anti-American rhetoric!
GOD: Scarlett (Basira) and Snake-Eyes (Sami) do understand American ethos.
SATAN: What about Stan? No one cares about Stan...
GOD: Be wary of such 'sloth meditations' during the holiday-season.
SATAN: New York will always be a place of 'great expectations.'
Scarlett and Snake-Eyes returned to Iran after the New Year's, to their U.S. army base and wrote in their journals about that Christmas Rocky 'adventure' in 2018. NYU (New York University) became an academic park for various theories and conjectures about students and teachers exploring why/how New York pedestrian traffic contributed to a modern-era 'sense' of great patriotic activity. Would Hobgoblin's appearance in Rocky that Christmas serve to remind America (and the world) that life in the modern age was basically a 'security show'?
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Cheers,
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A married couple from Algeria named Basira and Sami were U.S. citizens and soldiers in the U.S. army stationed in Iran but were given vacation time for Christmas 2018. Basira and Sami decided to take extra-vacation time and went home (to NYC) in November. Sami began blogging peaceful and fun Internet mosaics about modern media free-speech rhetoric and pornography-controversy (to just forget about the troubles in the Middle East). Basira began going to cemeteries and restaurants in NYC and taking photos to post on Facebook as part of a 'cultural mosaic.' Sami and Basira then shared their online 'activities' with each other and reaffirmed their conjugal vows to each other. They decided to visit Rockefeller Center ('Rocky') to go ice-skating under the lit Christmas city in the NYC they loved as patriots.
In the army, Basira and Sami were part of an elite secret unit hand-selected by the CIA. This unit was called 'G.I. Joe' and was charged with specifically dismantling terrorism-hubs and initiatives and weapons-silos in the Middle East. Basira was given the field alias 'Scarlett' (because her of reddish-brown skin), and Sami was given the field alias 'Snake-Eyes' because he wore glasses and was a great knife-combat solider and computer-hacker. Scarlett and Snake-Eyes were now relieved to have vacation-time to enjoy a Christmas ice-skating 'adventure' in Rockefeller Center in NYC. Scarlett (Basira) and Snake-Eyes (Sami) were 'true patriots.'
When Basira (Scarlett) and Sami (Snake-Eyes) arrived in Rockefeller Center, they were amazed at the splendor of pedestrian life, the brightly-lit multicolored Christmas tree (symbolizing American multiculturalism), and the night basically livened by ice-skaters celebrating the holiday-season. After 9/11, the world realized there were anti-American sentiments around the world (when the World Trade Center in NYC was destroyed by radical terrorists). However, tonight in Rocky, ice-skaters reminded Scarlett and Snake-Eyes that there would always be 'pockets' of magic in America regardless of the 'troubles' around the world.
However, 'all was not well in Camelot.' A disgruntled laid-off NYC post-office worker named Stan who lived in an apartment building right near Rocky was gloomily staring at the Christmas tree and feeling frustrated about being unemployed during the holidays. Stan was not enjoying the Rocky holiday ice-skating, even though Scarlett (Basira) and Snake-Eyes (Sami) were definitely enjoying it. Stan was staring out the window in great sadness, contemplating suicide. It was then that Stan noticed something truly unusual right near the Rocky Christmas ice-skaters.
High above that Rocky Christmas ice-skating rink and tree, a strange ghost-like spectre was seen and resembled a Jesus-like figurine but also resembled an alien-like figure. The spectre/ghost was waving its hands around, apparently signalling something, and when NYC officials shined a giant spotlight to 'catch' the spectre/ghost for observation, Stan was in awe, and Scarlett and Snake-Eyes were completely baffled. This was not the 'usual' Rocky Christmas event New Yorkers were anticipating in this mid-term of Donald Trump's hyped Presidency. Was America (and therefore NYC) once again host to some kind of 'amazing-story'?
The next day, crowds flocked to Rocky and ate at the restaurant by the ice-skating rink to see if the spectre/ghost would reappear in daylight. Even American celebrities Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, star of the romance-imagination film Overboard, were present that day. It was an odd New York story, and Scarlett (Basira) and Snake-Eyes (Sami) wondered if Rocky would become an arena for a new kind of 'haunting folklore.' President Trump tweeted, "The most important thing is to ensure New Yorkers that Homeland Security will create the necessary procedures to manage any terrorist-threat emerging out of this 'zany pedestrian NY story'!".
Russell and Hawn decided to give an interview on the Charlie Rose Show on which they stated that this Rocky ghost-sighting would remind Americans that there were all kinds of crazy social stories out there in this modern age of great traffic that would 'help' Americans get over the 'trauma' of 9/11. When Rose asked the iconic/celebrated Hollywood couple if Rocky was a site for great 'patriotism,' Russell/Hawn stated, "Christmas is American...so it's good to be generally humorous." Meanwhile, Scarlett and Snake-Eyes were briefed by the CIA to keep a close-watch in case anti-American terrorists tried to exploit this otherwise 'eccentric NYC Christmas scenario.'
Trump and the CIA ordered the army's new unit of military-cabs to patrol the streets by Rocky as Christmas approached to ensure pedestrian securities and assure New Yorkers that Homeland Security was always a priority, even in times of great pedestrian chatter/spirit. When the military-cabs were driving around, Stan (the disgruntled laid off NYC post-office worker) was still staring out his window gloomily when he thought he caught sight of that ghost/spectre that appeared that night by the Rocky Christmas tree. Stan called the NY Post, and meanwhile, Scarlett and Snake-Eyes, who were driving two of the military-cabs patrolling the area, made sure that pedestrian traffic was still safe and sane.
It turned out that the ghost/spectre that was sighted in Rocky that Christmas was a Hell-ghoul named Hobgoblin, sent by Satan (the Devil) to create an urban commotion during the holiday-season. Hobgoblin was actually Satan's minion rebel-angel Moloch, dressed as a comic book like 'super-villain' in an orange robe-and-hood and wielding an eerie hand-fire 'magic-trick.' Hobgoblin soared around NYC on a phantom-glider and no one saw him except Stan, but Hobgoblin was more interested to see how these Christmas Rocky 'excitements' would shake and stir the patriots Scarlett (Basira) and Snake-Eyes (Sami).
GOD: Why're you making waves during the holidays?
SATAN: Maybe Hobgoblin (Moloch) will reveal some intrigue...
GOD: Hobgoblin is a terrorist-spectre only!
SATAN: Yes, but he's creating imaginations about urban anarchy.
GOD: What is so good about that, Satan?
SATAN: Well, it seems to me that 9/11 has people 'paranoid' about life.
GOD: No, pedestrian traffic in NYC will be restored by the work of patriots.
SATAN: I doubt Scarlett and Snake-Eyes fully-understand anti-American rhetoric!
GOD: Scarlett (Basira) and Snake-Eyes (Sami) do understand American ethos.
SATAN: What about Stan? No one cares about Stan...
GOD: Be wary of such 'sloth meditations' during the holiday-season.
SATAN: New York will always be a place of 'great expectations.'
Scarlett and Snake-Eyes returned to Iran after the New Year's, to their U.S. army base and wrote in their journals about that Christmas Rocky 'adventure' in 2018. NYU (New York University) became an academic park for various theories and conjectures about students and teachers exploring why/how New York pedestrian traffic contributed to a modern-era 'sense' of great patriotic activity. Would Hobgoblin's appearance in Rocky that Christmas serve to remind America (and the world) that life in the modern age was basically a 'security show'?
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