Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader, as you may know, has two young Villainettes at home. They are aged 10 and 8. The older one (annonymously objectified on this blog simply as Villainette #1) likes Hannah Montana. For the uninitiated, Hannah Montana is a show on Disney Channel. Disney, always cashing in on their successes is having a Hannah Montana tour… And that is where this comes in…

Forget The Police, Justin Timberlake or Bruce Springsteen. The undisputed hottest concert ticket of the year is for 14-year-old pop star Miley Cyrus, star of the Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana” TV show.

Fans are so desperate for seats to her 54-date tour, kicking off later this month, that venues have sold out in as little as four minutes and scalpers are getting four to five times the face value — creating a torrent of complaints from frustrated parents.

“We knew it was hot, but we had no idea it was this crazy,” said Debra Rathwell, senior vice president of AEG Live, which is handling her tour. “It’s like the Beatles.”

About 12,000 seats for the Memphis show were gone in 8 minutes. It took 15 minutes in Columbus, Ohio, and swift sellouts have been reported across the country — Nashville, Miami, Lexington, Ky. The Kansas City Council is investigating the matter.

One ticket for the show in Charlotte, N.C., sold for $2,565.

Your Maximum Leader is now, officially, throwing in the towel on civilization. One seat for a Miley Cyrus show selling for more than $2400! Miley Cyrus is compared (seriously) to The Beatles! Gad it is bad out there.

Carry on.