Damage control

This article on WSJ.com tells about some Russian professor's theory about the disintegration of the United States by 2010. Granted, the article gives equal time to describing that he's a total fucking crackpot who's obsessed with the KGB, czarist Russia, and post-Cold War, post-USSR breakup bitterness.

I just want to say, in some odd defense, that I have my own future America envisioned in slightly similar terms, and dammit, I came up with them independently. At the bottom of the WSJ post is a map of how the country will be split up after a civil war. I've spent the last thirteen years of my life (since I was ten years old) constructing a vision of a future American after a second domestic war, and I came up with it without some crazy Russian telling me which states will align with other states. Unfortunately, his map is close to mine, though I'd include a few more states in his so-called "Texas Republic." And the eastern seaboard wouldn't align with the E.U.; they'd segment themselves as a unit similar to how the blanket term "New England" is applied to the northeast. Oh yeah, and also, the country would still be America, but not fifty states, and there'd be armed checkpoints between the four territories.

That's enough from me today. Aside from posting a new video, watching two movies, spewing nonsense via Facebook status updates, and, yesterday, posting some bizarre impression of a noise-rock record on my other blog, I think I should just shut up and edit my movie. Too bad I'll be in Detroit for the next four days, with neither my precious media nor internet. At least I'll have some screeners and a few stockpiled Netflixes.