{"id":16549,"date":"2017-09-21T20:05:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T20:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=16549"},"modified":"2017-09-21T20:05:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T20:05:55","slug":"life-island-times-flea-market-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-flea-market-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Life &#038; Island Times: Flea Market Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-1LIT.jpg\" alt=\"092117-1LIT\" width=\"613\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-1LIT.jpg 613w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-1LIT-600x317.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-1LIT-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-1LIT-500x264.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those of us who inhabit the American heartland of old Cadillacs, flatlands and flea markets, our national politicans conjure supposed real deals seasoned with a peculiar dash of our unique pop culture affinity for new frontiers and adventure.<\/p>\n<p>It has always been a marvel how lame their blandishments are. Openly small-timey about the country auction like nature of their preferred policies, Washington DC never blushes at its transparent game. I guess that would be hard for a place whose political-social life is filled with parties, hustlers, vixens, and spies. They are alternately beautiful, social-climbing, power crazed, tacky-dressing, aw-shucks-good-ole-boying, patronizing, pushy, pocket and brain-picking, soul sucking, wild, wooly, touching, and often hilariously funny.<\/p>\n<p>Our capitol is a place that is forever asking we-the-people for a sale. They sell. We buy. They profit. We pay and pay and pay. Better than a mini-mall, it&#8217;s the national mall. It&#8217;s like stepping back in time, but not in a good way. Sort of. A lame mall, maybe. It&#8217;s quite fancy on the surface with its architecture, museums and history and seemingly very nice. It is more like a big meaningless space in a giant strip or outdated enclosed mall that leases spaces to whatever groups bid the highest, who then set up booths to sell us low-grade crap.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-2LIT.jpg\" alt=\"092117-2LIT\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-2LIT.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-2LIT-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-2LIT-422x281.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Given the town&#8217;s current low popularity, I think it needs ads and a jingle or two. Ads with low production values, great catch phrase hooks, simple, repetitious with quirky on-screen personalities are always the most effective ones at the local level. Given the level of jive emanating from this nation&#8217;s mini-mall on the national mall, I think it needs a rap song ad that is catchy and offers some cool jerk, dance moves.<\/p>\n<p>Who ever fronts this ad should be able to boogie, have big eyes, poofy hair, a slight underbite and easy to mock. The tune should be stick-in-your-head-all-day good.<\/p>\n<p>Based n the headlines of the past few days alone, here are some initial idea lyrics for a place we all know. It&#8217;s entitled Flea Market Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>Health care, tax cuts, rockets and jobs, oh yeah<br \/>\nYou can find them at Flea Market Washington DC<br \/>\nWe talkin about Flea Market<br \/>\n<em>Washington DC, it&#8217;s more than, more than just a mini mall<\/em><br \/>\n<em> It&#8217;s our national mall<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Oh yeah, come shop and save with us<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I said Flea Market Washington DC<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Health care, tax cuts, rockets and jobs, oh yeah<\/em><br \/>\n<em> You can find them at Flea Market Washington DC<\/em><br \/>\n<em> We talkin bout Flea Market<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Washington DC, its just like, its just like a mini-mall<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Conveniently located on the national mall<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Oh yeah, come shop and save with us<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I said Flea Market, Washington DC<\/em><br \/>\n<em> It&#8217;s just like, its just like, a mini-mall, hey hey<\/em><br \/>\n<em> You heard me<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Come shop and save, health care, tax cuts, rockets and jobs, we got em<\/em><br \/>\n<em> You need it, you&#8217;ll find it, its just like<\/em><br \/>\n<em> It&#8217;s just like a mini-mall, hey hey, you heard me<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Come shop and save, I said Flea Market, Washington DC<\/em><br \/>\n<em> It&#8217;s just like, it&#8217;s just like, a mini-mall, hey hey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Health care, tax cuts, rockets and jobs, oh yeah<\/em><br \/>\n<em> You can find them at our Flea Market<\/em><br \/>\n<em> We talkin bout Flea Market<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Washington DC, it&#8217;s just like, it&#8217;s just like a mini-mall<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Conveniently located on the national mall<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Hey hey, don&#8217;t stop, lets make it a dance, come on now<\/em><br \/>\n<em> To the left (to the left)<\/em><br \/>\n<em> To the right (to the right) lets do this dance<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Hey, to the left (to the left)<\/em><br \/>\n<em> To the right (to the right), lets make this a dance<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Flea Market, Washington DC, it keeps you from jumpin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-3LIT.jpg\" alt=\"092117-3LIT\" width=\"642\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-3LIT.jpg 642w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-3LIT-600x184.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-3LIT-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-3LIT-500x153.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s just like, it&#8217;s just like a mini-mall<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Check it out now, everybody like this now, hey hey<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Flea Market, Washington DC<\/em><br \/>\n<em> It&#8217;s just like, it&#8217;s just like, a mini-mall<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Conveniently located on the national mall<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Don&#8217;t stop, lets dance<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Flea Market, Washington DC<\/em><br \/>\n<em> it&#8217;s just like, it&#8217;s just like, a mini-mall<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Conveniently located on the national mall<\/em><br \/>\n<em> (lets break it on down now, aww yeah I know you gunna like this come on now)<\/em><br \/>\n<em> It&#8217;s just like, (you know what Im saying)<\/em><br \/>\n<em> It&#8217;s just like, (you know what I mean)<\/em><br \/>\n<em> It&#8217;s just like,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> (you know it, so why don&#8217;t you just come on and sing it)<\/em><br \/>\n<em> It&#8217;s just like, it&#8217;s just like, a mini-mall<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Convenienetly located on the natonal mall<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Aww yeah you said it, it&#8217;s just like, it&#8217;s just like a mini-mall, aww yeah you like this come on<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Flea Market<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Washington DC<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-4LIT.jpg\" alt=\"092117-4LIT\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-4LIT.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-4LIT-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/092117-4LIT-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2017 From My Isle Seat<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us who inhabit the American heartland of old Cadillacs, flatlands and flea markets, our national politicans conjure supposed real deals seasoned with a peculiar dash of our unique pop culture affinity for new frontiers and adventure. It has always been a marvel how lame their blandishments are. Openly small-timey about the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16556,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16549\/revisions\/16556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}