Score/Topps: The Double Dragon

A mystical young man contends with the forces of seduction as he collects baseball-cards representing the very best of democratic dissociation in the modern world!

This is one last attempt to make a consumerism-paraphernalia vignette about the pseudo-mystical value of commerce-traffic tokens such as baseball-cards and sports-trophies. Now, off to retirement...

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A very eccentric American high-school student in suburban New Jersey named Ajay Satan had a couple of early-era Ramon Martinez baseball (MLB) cards, from the companies Score and Topps. Ajay believed these cards were somehow metaphysically-charged, so he was going to find ways to sell them as modern relics of sports-superstition. It was an odd pair of American baseball-cards indeed, and they spoke to Ajay Satan's personal eccentricity.

Ajay Satan was haunted by the specter of a dead American actress-model named Farah Kohl who terrorized him every night, reminding him he was impotent despite his love for his Ramon Martinez MLB-cards. You see, Farah wanted to Ajay Satan to confront his own consumerism-vanities and realize he was collecting sports-memorabilia, because he was not an athlete philosophically. Was Farah right? Was Ajay Satan just a toy-collector?

So, Ajay Satan began playing Ouija to chase-away the presence of the specter of Farah Kohl. He insisted his love of MLB-cards represented capitalism-tithing and not modernism vanities and indulgences. In fact, Ajay boasted a host of other colorful cards such as a Topps Ryne Sandberg 2nd-year card with the Chicago Cubs. However, it was the RMartinez-double that forced Ajay to invoke the power and influence of Farah Kohl with his Ouija-play and convince her he was a harmless patriot of commerce and merchandising!

Ajay possessed a special gold-glossy soccer-ball trophy from his participation in a youth-league which he praised highly. He believed this praise would defy the corruption of Eden by Satan (the Devil!). Ajay spoke into his Ouija-board and requested that the spirits of Farah Kohl not be allowed to invade his sense of complete human isolationism. After all, Farah was a brilliant mind, and Ajay Satan had to be sure she didn't think he was from Algeria or something, boasting a soccer-trophy in America! After all, soccer was simply not chic/popular in America. Ajay Satan had to rely on the economic sustainability of the RMartinez MLB-cards. It was 'gold for soul' really.

Ajay kept a comics-paramilitary poster in his bedroom of Storm-Shadow and Snake-Eyes, two very unusual and attractive ninja-assassins working for the NSA (National Security Agency) in 2020. This poster signified Ajay Satan's Christian-interest in dualism as a military and psychophilosophical framework. It was basically anti-terrorism propaganda, and Ajay Satan was quite good at it, using his creative collecting to make civilization-reflective 'albums' of demonology.

Ajay had to contend with the spherical power of a potent hologram of a deadly American female specter. This time, Farah Kohl transformed herself into a blue-haired she-creature from the deep abyss. This forced Ajay Satan to demand pity from the forces of darkness, for he simply wouldn't be able to indefinitely resist the charming poisons of the witchy Farah Kohl and would commit suicide thinking his brand of online-evangelism simply wasn't sufficiently dreamy!

AJAY: The Orient is a great market for intelligentsia.

FARAH: That's because of modernism.
AJAY: Yes, traffic normalizes the population conflux.
FARAH: Are you a fan of rickshaws?
AJAY: I'm not vain about everyday civilization diadems.

FARAH: Yet, you purport basically basic consumerism and sports-merchandising.

AJAY: Even coins of the 'pyramid-fountain' represent the glimmer of dystopia.

FARAH: In other words, you use 'aesthetics' to protect yourself from the truth of seduction!

AJAY: I'm not giving into money-sarcasm.

FARAH: Are you a bank-robber?
AJAY: No, I'm a stenographer!

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