The last story I consider complete is the one about the Belly Buster Bistro and the people who ran it. There are multiple subsequent stories but all are under review at once for balance, sequence, etc. Months are compressed to days, comparison of Scotland or America to anywhere is in the toilet, and the objective is to make the point of miserable suffering awfulness without going on about miserable suffering awfulness. This needs to hold up for consistency and presence relative to, for example, Bussana Vecchia which was only one story plus a few mentions as I approached.
There really isn't so much that happened in Edinburgh except a lot of time passed so there is no reason it should expand to stories simply for the purpose of showing time passes. There are good stories to be told as right next to Belly Buster was a shutdown storefront. Over a month or so it came to life and became a bicycle sales and repair shop that was obviously run by highly-enthusiastic young artisans. That was like being Rod Taylor in that really horrible movie version of "The Time Machine" and I do remember the hot blonde was Yvette Mimieux so maybe my mind isn't completely destroyed yet.
So I don't want to waste space on stories that don't need telling as who cares what flying monkeys do, we already saw that movie too. That bicycle shop was cool, tho, and very much a part of living vibrancy as opposed to shock & awe corporations. Motivated kids encourage me and give me hope. Yah, these ones will carry it. They do it already. So I don't mean to chuck stories worth telling and there's a pause even though the stories I'm reviewing are accessible. There's a very high probability the most recent ones will change and I'll make an update when that's cleared.
Some stories in orbit around this: there was a lovely market just around the block from where I lived and I was shocked at how many times people tried to shoplift in it. They had nothing but food so this wasn't theft of beer, liquor, cigarettes, etc. In America and someone steals from Wal-Mart, you might offer to help the person carry the stuff to his car but this wasn't America. It was just some small-time theft to get something to eat in a country which is highly-attentive to its dole. The problem almost certainly comes down to drugs, gambling, or other bad decisions but still it comes to the need to steal food. To cover one aspect of the story while dismissing the other doesn't sit well with me. I never saw anything close to this in Greece or anywhere else.
The socialist aspect screams for mention as NHS was a fail, people stealing food is a fail, etc. That doesn't mean socialism is a failure but rather the UK sucks at it. The US is socialist to the bone as well and the Interstate highway system is a shining example of it. Some taxes are collected from people who could afford to pay them and these were re-distributed through construction of the Interstate system to those in greatest need. That everyone happened to be in greatest need of a decent highway system is irrelevant as the process by which it is achieved is what is of interest.
The states argue incessantly about socialism but most can't even organize a dogfight. The Fed which is overtly socialist built one of the largest socialist construction projects in the world's history. When socialism actually works they call it a demonstration of the efficacy of democracy. Of course, call it whatever you like. The fact is that it was a clear example of the fundamental philosophical principle of the greatest good for the greatest number. This thinking is Seventeenth Century, long before Marx (e.g. John Locke, John Stuart Mill, etc).
In fact, what pisses people off right now is not that America becomes socialist but rather that it doesn't. That's global as you can hear the 1% chant anywhere.
But what does that have to do with Paradise except in the context of staking some claim that well-managed socialism is the Utopian future. Maybe that's true but it's still science fiction and it's not my purpose to write science fiction.
There's also the matter of the Guitar Soliloquy followed immediately be The Rescue. Even for Hollywood that sequence is too obvious. That's really what happened but the time compression makes it seem ludicrous.
That should about do it for scratching notes. I like to use garam massala also and the question is when you need it and when it's just an affection to make something seem Indian.
There really isn't so much that happened in Edinburgh except a lot of time passed so there is no reason it should expand to stories simply for the purpose of showing time passes. There are good stories to be told as right next to Belly Buster was a shutdown storefront. Over a month or so it came to life and became a bicycle sales and repair shop that was obviously run by highly-enthusiastic young artisans. That was like being Rod Taylor in that really horrible movie version of "The Time Machine" and I do remember the hot blonde was Yvette Mimieux so maybe my mind isn't completely destroyed yet.
So I don't want to waste space on stories that don't need telling as who cares what flying monkeys do, we already saw that movie too. That bicycle shop was cool, tho, and very much a part of living vibrancy as opposed to shock & awe corporations. Motivated kids encourage me and give me hope. Yah, these ones will carry it. They do it already. So I don't mean to chuck stories worth telling and there's a pause even though the stories I'm reviewing are accessible. There's a very high probability the most recent ones will change and I'll make an update when that's cleared.
Some stories in orbit around this: there was a lovely market just around the block from where I lived and I was shocked at how many times people tried to shoplift in it. They had nothing but food so this wasn't theft of beer, liquor, cigarettes, etc. In America and someone steals from Wal-Mart, you might offer to help the person carry the stuff to his car but this wasn't America. It was just some small-time theft to get something to eat in a country which is highly-attentive to its dole. The problem almost certainly comes down to drugs, gambling, or other bad decisions but still it comes to the need to steal food. To cover one aspect of the story while dismissing the other doesn't sit well with me. I never saw anything close to this in Greece or anywhere else.
The socialist aspect screams for mention as NHS was a fail, people stealing food is a fail, etc. That doesn't mean socialism is a failure but rather the UK sucks at it. The US is socialist to the bone as well and the Interstate highway system is a shining example of it. Some taxes are collected from people who could afford to pay them and these were re-distributed through construction of the Interstate system to those in greatest need. That everyone happened to be in greatest need of a decent highway system is irrelevant as the process by which it is achieved is what is of interest.
The states argue incessantly about socialism but most can't even organize a dogfight. The Fed which is overtly socialist built one of the largest socialist construction projects in the world's history. When socialism actually works they call it a demonstration of the efficacy of democracy. Of course, call it whatever you like. The fact is that it was a clear example of the fundamental philosophical principle of the greatest good for the greatest number. This thinking is Seventeenth Century, long before Marx (e.g. John Locke, John Stuart Mill, etc).
In fact, what pisses people off right now is not that America becomes socialist but rather that it doesn't. That's global as you can hear the 1% chant anywhere.
But what does that have to do with Paradise except in the context of staking some claim that well-managed socialism is the Utopian future. Maybe that's true but it's still science fiction and it's not my purpose to write science fiction.
There's also the matter of the Guitar Soliloquy followed immediately be The Rescue. Even for Hollywood that sequence is too obvious. That's really what happened but the time compression makes it seem ludicrous.
That should about do it for scratching notes. I like to use garam massala also and the question is when you need it and when it's just an affection to make something seem Indian.
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