Commie Paradise

Beautiful in a sense.

Yeh, thats what Pittsburgh looked like once. Whats yer point ?

I never knew Pittsburgh to look that good . . . you been smokin' sumpin, FM?

There were always lights on in Pittsburgh...

I spent a few days in an industrial city in Czechoslovakia in what is now Slovakia) in October 1982. I remember it was October because there were posters celebrating Marx and Lenin all over the place plust the odd poster of Leonid Brehnev (who died about a month later) and the Czech Party boss at the time. I was staying in a tourist hotel and woke up one morning and looked out of the window. It was grey and overcast (that was because of the weather) but the people shuffling along the footpaths to work also looked grey and overcast (like they had one big collective hangover). The place looked liked this picture. Grimy, industrial, depressing, like any industrial city in any country in the world. But the people looked as if they had no hope at all. That for me was the telling point.

I and some friends were driving cross-country a while back (late 60's), and awoke from an unrestful sleep as we drove down into Pittsburgh. The only thought that would come into my head was Dante's Inferno. I dozed off again, and they awakened me at White Castle. Then i knew my instinct had been correct.

li'l kim sure does know how to make a place cozy.

Thats an amazing picture. Depressing, but amazing.

i feel bad for those folks. they need to revolt against kim or they're gonna die, man. nobody can live in that toxic environment and survive for long.

They don't know any better. The people who voted for the Bushii admire him in the same manner that the North Koreans admire their own dictators - blindly and uncritically - ie brainwashed.

i guess... but damn, how long do you have to live on rat and glow-in-the- dark water before ya figure that you're gettin' screwed ?

I happen to live in the real Commie paradise. It ain't that bad...

Bridge to the real Commie Paradise:

nah. neither has anything to do with communism. even the staunchest american liberals are far far away from communist ideology. hard to grasp with black and white vision glasses on. you're supposed to be either on a republican right or democratic left, no other option. both are far far far right compared to north korea.
i also highly doubt that people in north korea adore kim jong-il. most people just do what they gotta do to survive, not starve to death, get imprisoned or killed. and those that don't, starve, get imprisoned or killed. and people know that.

gunga is like our own David Seoul, except that hes white and cant compose his thoughts real well.

yeah, i like dat coney paradise. dey got ya hawdawgs, ya cold sodas. and i really like da leo gorci and huntz hall memorial...

What Dagmaraka said.

Gee dagmaraka,

You sure know how to hit a liberal guy where it hurts.