an anecdote

There, on TV, is Madonna, ranting about how guys are evil.

wake up, David, your people are being persecuted by MTV*. *Big Media, that is.

What people is that?

* (Yeah, I do admire Madonna. Like a Prayer is one of the great

sacred works, especially the infamous music video. So she

Humanity. gives in once, so what? Even Goddesses get worn down.)

Yeah, it's guys today, tomorrow it'll be women, then white folks, then black folks...

So what's new?

And why are you watching that, anyway?

I'm not. One of my housemates is- and she thought it would be something harmless.

Madonna's complaining about how there are no rules- if you're a boy.

Big talk coming from someone who has always played by Big Media's rules.

If there were rules for women, how do you explain Janis Joplin?

Then I put on Janis Joplin and think- Yeah.

Janis Joplin.

There IS a place for us Misfits- Janis Joplin has just shown me that.

Thank you, Janis.

And thank you, Lord.

And remember- there is a place for you, too, right alongside the rest of us in Misfit-land- even if you are not a Misfit.

Remember that, and be free of Big Media forever!

Yeah.

If only Madonna knew that.^ :'( ^(she does.)