Alderson! Alderson!

Alderson! Alderson!

Naaah, not quite.

Just doesn’t have the same storm-the-barricades electricity to it.

Probably just the cadence.

This is a picture of the Alderson facility, also known as Camp Cupcake…



And this from today’s NYT about Herself’s internment in the Cupcake Archipelago.

Martha Stewart Calls Lockdown 'Hideous'
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 12:24 p.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- Martha Stewart says in a new interview that her nickname in prison was M. Diddy, that house arrest is ''hideous'' and that her prosecution was about bringing her down ''to scare other people.''
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''Of course that is what it's all about,'' Vanity Fair quotes Stewart as saying. ''Bring 'em down a notch, to scare other people. If Martha can be sent to jail, think hard before you sell that stock.''

Stewart, 63, is serving a five-month term of house arrest at her Bedford, N.Y., estate that followed five months in a West Virginia federal prison. She is scheduled to go free early next month.

''I hate lockdown. It's hideous,'' Stewart tells the August issue of the magazine, on newsstands July 12.
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Stewart has two TV shows planned for the fall season -- a one-hour daytime talk show ''Martha'' and a version of the NBC reality show ''The Apprentice.''
She says her version of ''The Apprentice'' will be different than Donald Trump's and that she doesn't want to be portrayed as mean and harsh. She says she would never use Trump's catchphrase, ''You're fired.''

''We are trying to come up with other ways to say it,'' she says. ''For instance, if someone is from Idaho, I could say, `You're back in Boise for apple-picking time.'''
A federal appeals court is considering Stewart's bid to overturn her conviction on charges that she lied about her sale of 3,928 shares of ImClone Systems stock in late 2001.
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She even laughs at a joke made by Jon Stewart of ''The Daily Show'' -- that she could make a shiv, or small blade, out of a lamb shank.

''He was talking about me after I left, and -- I have to say -- Jon Stewart is even better looking in person than he is on TV,'' Stewart says. ''I have such a crush on him.''

First thought, I will stipulate that Martha Stewart did get picked on because of her fame and her gender. Sorry, Martha. You did get kind of a raw deal. Welcome to the Desert of the Real. Having said that…

Second thought…she's humping Jon Stewart’s leg because she’s finally found that one special celebrity with whom she can at last share a last name without the corporate re-branding costing her an arm and a leg.

But mostly, well, not since “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” have I been so personally affected by such a harrowing tale of brutal internment.

Not since the FBI report on Guantanamo Bay, have I been so shocked that this could go on in America.

And not since “Letter from Birmingham Jail” have I been this inspired.

I…I…I’m just so fucking moved.

Sorry.

I need to take a moment…but I am not ashamed of the tears!

**(Thanks to old blogfriend Tanbark for the inspiration. Any lapses in taste, judgement or execution, however, are strictly on my own nickel.)