The division of Korea was one of the big fails of the 20th Century and it's been a foreign policy eyesore / expensive military sinkhole for the last sixty years or so.
Yesterday North Korea said they blew off an H-bomb and maybe they really did. There's nothing much they can do with it unless they send it to the U.S. on a freighter so mostly the people of South Korea are a wee bit tense because the NK's could deliver it to SK's. Maybe the NK's have a rocket which could deliver it to Japan but probably not.
We will have a huge United Nations crisis because we really love those. When someone makes a bomb capable of killing millions of people we know there's one perfect reaction to it.
(Ed: give a boring speech?)
Right you are, matey mate. Even better at the United Nations because they will make lots of boring speeches about it.
(Ed: maybe it would be better if North Korea and South Korea worked their shit out to decide if they will reunite or stay two countries because, screw it, they like it better that way and, gasp, they won't even threaten to shoot each other anymore.)
That does seem the logical thing but logic and foreign policy have about as much fun together as a cat in a swimming pool.
There's not much more to do with the story because pundits will give speeches even if the UN doesn't so we will take the opportunity to talk about our own nukes in "The Silo Song" because it still needs some better reason to tell the boys not to push the button to launch the nuclear missile.
We get it's a metaphor for nuclear disarmament but there's no conceptual bang to it, there isn't any story.
(Ed: isn't it enough to suggest the soldier defy his orders and refuse to launch?)
No. See above about North Korea. We can talk to them pleasantly and say, "Heya, Kung Fu. This is really kind of a dumb ass thing to do, don't you think?"
How about we have some people outside the missile silo and they're calling to the boys inside asking them to come out to be with them. We're all going to be gone anyway and so are you eventually so let's be together for this.
(Ed: that couldn't be any more bleak if you drove a truckload of puppies over a cliff!)
It's an inherently brutal subject and the object is to describe it in a beautiful way. The chords are pretty and they bang along well. They can rock up to major metallic if I want because they've got the beat. In some ways that's warranted because this changes the theme. Now it's one of 'if we have to go then we will go as one.' That's rock hard, finger in the air defiance.
That just might be it. Possibly there's a story in this and we can make a love story out of it too because their girlfriends are out there and they want them to come out of there as well.
This deflects nothing from developing "The Sanctuary Song" because it's in a different stage of development. The incision from the surgery is not leaking as much but there's a surprising amount of leakage from it so I've got to be seeing a wee bit less blood before I'm going to push it.
Note: I only took aspirin once and that's important because it can slow blood clotting.
I'm diggin' this approach as I'm thinking it's almost credible. The people know the other side has launched and they want their boys with them. It's only part an altruistic suicide and the other part is the need to be with each other when we're really screwed.
(Ed: this is so fookin' uplifting. Do you have any stories about suffering orphans?)
The uplifting part is we do not have to do any of this and it takes no effort to accomplish that. The nuclear people need only turn off their shit and go home. Then we don't have to talk about it anymore.
Whoa, whoa, whoa ...
At the end we discover the other side did not really launch. It was a false alarm.
(Ed: this is getting too Walt Disney)
Dunno, Skeptical Sam. It's kind of wishful but that won't burn my soul too much. The boys think the other side has launched so now they have to do it. The people from their town, particularly their girlfriends, are outside, and they hear come on out so we can all be together. The soldiers do decide to stand down and they go outside for love, love, love until the end. And then the bingo ... the other side never launched. It was all a mistake.
(Ed: it still ain't Vonnegut)
Nope but some hard rock sci-fi with a touch of Disney could come off just fine with me. Looks to me like there's a story in it.
(Ed: right now it is a fantasy. It's a story when you write it.)
Roger that, Cap'n.
Yesterday North Korea said they blew off an H-bomb and maybe they really did. There's nothing much they can do with it unless they send it to the U.S. on a freighter so mostly the people of South Korea are a wee bit tense because the NK's could deliver it to SK's. Maybe the NK's have a rocket which could deliver it to Japan but probably not.
We will have a huge United Nations crisis because we really love those. When someone makes a bomb capable of killing millions of people we know there's one perfect reaction to it.
(Ed: give a boring speech?)
Right you are, matey mate. Even better at the United Nations because they will make lots of boring speeches about it.
(Ed: maybe it would be better if North Korea and South Korea worked their shit out to decide if they will reunite or stay two countries because, screw it, they like it better that way and, gasp, they won't even threaten to shoot each other anymore.)
That does seem the logical thing but logic and foreign policy have about as much fun together as a cat in a swimming pool.
There's not much more to do with the story because pundits will give speeches even if the UN doesn't so we will take the opportunity to talk about our own nukes in "The Silo Song" because it still needs some better reason to tell the boys not to push the button to launch the nuclear missile.
We get it's a metaphor for nuclear disarmament but there's no conceptual bang to it, there isn't any story.
(Ed: isn't it enough to suggest the soldier defy his orders and refuse to launch?)
No. See above about North Korea. We can talk to them pleasantly and say, "Heya, Kung Fu. This is really kind of a dumb ass thing to do, don't you think?"
How about we have some people outside the missile silo and they're calling to the boys inside asking them to come out to be with them. We're all going to be gone anyway and so are you eventually so let's be together for this.
(Ed: that couldn't be any more bleak if you drove a truckload of puppies over a cliff!)
It's an inherently brutal subject and the object is to describe it in a beautiful way. The chords are pretty and they bang along well. They can rock up to major metallic if I want because they've got the beat. In some ways that's warranted because this changes the theme. Now it's one of 'if we have to go then we will go as one.' That's rock hard, finger in the air defiance.
That just might be it. Possibly there's a story in this and we can make a love story out of it too because their girlfriends are out there and they want them to come out of there as well.
This deflects nothing from developing "The Sanctuary Song" because it's in a different stage of development. The incision from the surgery is not leaking as much but there's a surprising amount of leakage from it so I've got to be seeing a wee bit less blood before I'm going to push it.
Note: I only took aspirin once and that's important because it can slow blood clotting.
I'm diggin' this approach as I'm thinking it's almost credible. The people know the other side has launched and they want their boys with them. It's only part an altruistic suicide and the other part is the need to be with each other when we're really screwed.
(Ed: this is so fookin' uplifting. Do you have any stories about suffering orphans?)
The uplifting part is we do not have to do any of this and it takes no effort to accomplish that. The nuclear people need only turn off their shit and go home. Then we don't have to talk about it anymore.
Whoa, whoa, whoa ...
At the end we discover the other side did not really launch. It was a false alarm.
(Ed: this is getting too Walt Disney)
Dunno, Skeptical Sam. It's kind of wishful but that won't burn my soul too much. The boys think the other side has launched so now they have to do it. The people from their town, particularly their girlfriends, are outside, and they hear come on out so we can all be together. The soldiers do decide to stand down and they go outside for love, love, love until the end. And then the bingo ... the other side never launched. It was all a mistake.
(Ed: it still ain't Vonnegut)
Nope but some hard rock sci-fi with a touch of Disney could come off just fine with me. Looks to me like there's a story in it.
(Ed: right now it is a fantasy. It's a story when you write it.)
Roger that, Cap'n.
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