OK everybody, let’s talk North Korea.
Oh man. That place. As if you didn’t know, today was the 15th anniversary of the death of Kim Sung Il. For North Koreans, this is a huge event. In the words of his son, Kim “King of the North” Jong Il, “Big shit poppin’, little shit stoppin’”.
For North Koreans, Kim Sung Il’s memorial day is like Michael Jackson dying every year. Just like with Jackson in America, all North Koreans are required by law to change their Facebook statuses to reflect how heartbroken they are about the death of a man they didn’t know who hasn’t done anything of interest in the past 15 years.
Of course, that analogy is hardly fair. For one thing, despite the fact that Kim Sung Il was the dictator of an oppressive nation-state whose citizens are required by law to worship him like a god, he probably wasn’t buried in a FUCKING SOLID GOLD COFFIN. For another thing, FUCK THAT.
You'd love to know that I went to a bar made completely of Ice two nights ago.. and they would only play Michael Jackson hits.
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