Day 19 of 20 Days of Christmas
A lot of elderly folks pass away during the holidays, and this year Kim Jong-il joined their ranks. How better to commemorate this occasion than to play the classic Weird Al Christmas nod to the USA's fear of getting nuked during The Cold War in which North Korea so happily participated? Yes, a bit of dark humor coming your way from the man himself: "Christmas at Ground Zero" (recorded in 1986, this song does NOT refer to 9/11).
P.S. I really love all the scenes of school children practicing ducking/covering during bomb drills. This is so not how it looks when my students do drills..."But how would shards of glass get in my eyes?" "Wouldn't that be better than in my spine?" "Why do we have to be quiet?" "What if you're in the bathroom?" "How come we always do these?" ...
