Driving through Indianapolis this past weekend I saw something exceedingly alarming. Saw it again on the outskirts of Chicago.
A billboard for something called Disney Radio.
A radio station, just a regular radio station on the FM dial, which was purporting to be home to much Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus. And likely other Walt-approved scoured-clean-until-rehab pop-"rock" simulacrams.
This reminded me an old Zippy the Pinhead strip/comic wherein Zippy goes to the desolated future (which at the time was 1984 [spooky]!). His tour guide shows him various oddities, including a mall/amusement park dealie where patrons go around with shopping carts and can "pretend to spend - for a fee!"
All the repellent Clear Channel-y radio stations have killed dead the joy of a summer's day with the radio blasting out fresh new hits, to the extent that today's youth can now have the charming option of a branded facsimile of the old experience.
Goofy wept.
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