ok..it all started with two "love birds", and then "I had my eyes pecked out, and the rest is history". Now Strange things are happening here too. There were rumblings on a local radio station saying that people were standing around Malls, knocking on doors with petitions to get sig's to get our Dem. governor recalled. I laughed.(I see a couple of blue jays on my mailbox). I mean our power bills were like 3 times the norm and we did have rolling blackouts during that summer, but recalling the Gov? Next thing..Out of the blue we have a new Governor...yup..you know the guy..Mr. Movie Star.(now, there is a row of birds hanging out on my telephone wire out back and they won't go away.)
Flash forward to 6 weeks ago election eve..."Kerry in a landslide"-but Bush wins a second term and Kerry has disappeared. (Seagull's appear in valley..many, many seagulls, hovering over...of all places, my house.) Cut to this past week. In LA...Libbyland, Bluer than Blue, I'm in a Mall Christ shopping, ooops Holiday shopping, wait Christmas shopping..ok..just shopping. Yikes, here they come... six, tall, hollywood handsome real soldiers in full uniform heading towards me in a straight line leaflets in hands.."The Army needs YOU!" I am accosted and given a 10 min. sermon how it is my duty to inlist and prepare to go fight in Iraq. I know I look good for my age, butI AM 40 y/o. (WTF) cut to: (outside the window in the mall..I see millions of Hawks flying around slamming into the glass). OK..I keep walking and notice many teenagers reading the flyers from the soldiers, they are high 5ing each other and are into it..like they won the lottery! As I go to get my car out of the parking lot I notice several SUV's have written on them "Put the Christ back into Christmas", and many cars have Bush/Cheney and Support our troops bumberstickers on them. I AM IN LA. On my way home I pass a Giant Billboard saying in huge Caps.."UNITED WE STAND-GOD BLESS AMERICA" in smaller letters at the btm..clear channel. On my way home, I stop by the market and I see in front of me a man from India, he puts his hand in front of his eyes as he walks up to me and says "The light coming from your forhead is Blinding..it is so bright, white and powerful. He said I was a special one, and of a higher power. That I have had a ruff year, but things would soon change. Only one negative thing for me, I need to be more spiritual and travel to the middle east to help make change. (at this point thousand of birds, all species come barrelling towards me from all directions...attacking me..pecking at me, knocking me to the ground and ...I look for a phone booth to escape inside...) This was all with in one week. What is happening in this country? Of course...this is not a holiday story and the bird part is of course not true...However all the other things ARE. And I didn't even include the street urchin LaRouche kids acousting me on the corner the other day in Beverly Hills. Slowly but shirley...something is happening, it's in the air..on the streets, and I am not just hearing stories second hand..this shit happened to me. One by one..it's started...and it's getting worse. It seems to be everywhere. Is this the small rumble that proceeds the big one? Did this kind of stuff start happening here in the beginning or early stages of Vietnam? "united we stand=divided we stand?" Are there any Dems out there spreading the good word? Has anyone in any other places in the US.World...Urban, rural, big cities, small counties, noticed things that seem to be out of the norm? A change in the air, the people. If so, share your thoughts...cause...I am starting to think I am alone and have become Tippi Hedrin in the birds and they might eventually get me..