21st century American middle-class folkways

[ Americans shop at Wal-Mart thus enabling Wal-Mart to drive local retailers out of business. ]

[ Americans spend a lot of time and energy playing the stock market ]

[ American are getting ever more obese ]

[ American love their cars. They spend a lot of time in traffic jams ]

[ New home somewhere in Western United States ]

[ Americans like to golf, and to live next to the greens ]

[ Senior citizens enjoying well-funded retirement ]

[ American teenagers like to cosmetically mutilate their bodies ]

[ Americans like to get away from their lives -- even if it's just to a sunburn ]

[ Unsold house built 'on spec' (speculation...), I see each day on my way to and from work! ]

Look! Open house, today!

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See	unsold "spec" (built on speculation...) house I see rotting each day on my way to and from work

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above images with those of 1940's American middle-class life (Singing in the rain...)

How about strapless dresses & pillarless coupes?

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02 May 2006 (2006-05-02 ISO 8601)
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Paradise, for the Mercury Grand Marquis / Lincoln Town Car driving, easy listening music listening, Manhattan and martini cocktail drinking, Surf 'n Turf eating, gold Rolex wearing... set: Florida (aka: "Fla" -- rhymes with "Ahhh...").

[ Americans in Paradise on earth, or as close as one can get... ]

Baseball Commissioner and sometime Yale University President, Bart Giamatti, said that a baseball stadium is a simulacrum of Paradise (a classical Persian walled garden).