On an occasion or two, I’ve mentioned that I’ve weeded — scythed, actually — posts from this blog since 2009. The other week, however, I stumbled onto the fact that my WordPress ‘Media Library’ remains completely intact. I discovered this noticing in my ‘stats’ that people’s internet searches will occasionally ferret out a image from my trove.
In late 2011, when the late Kim Jong-il of North Korea, became ‘late’, photos and video online depicted the most outrageous displays of public grief, simultaneous theatrical weeping and sobbing by throngs of North Korean nationals.
At about the same time, someone sent me a video entitled ‘I Hate My Job’. Don’t remember why, though I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a statement about the possibility that Kim Jong-il hated his job. I cobbled together this ‘chimera’ below, when I noticed that the relative leg/body positions in two very separate images were just crying out to be joined. (And the shoes and hatband match. Kismet!)
We recently learned that Donald Trump thinks that Kim Jong-il and his son Kim Jong-un are the same person, and thought he’d sent a U. S. Navy aircraft carrier to threaten him, but actually hadn’t.
With things this très screwed up, reposting this picture can’t do that much harm.
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April 20, 2017 at 6:09 pm
Willym
Well we all know what happened to those what didn’t cry loud enough!
April 21, 2017 at 7:58 am
Dave
I couldn’t summon a tear on cue if my life DID depend on it. There’s a story about how Bette Davis used to do it…
April 20, 2017 at 6:25 pm
larrymuffin
Reminds me of the 1948 movie The red shoes with Moira Shearer and Anton Walbrook.
April 21, 2017 at 7:52 am
Dave
More like ‘the other’ Michael Powell film, ‘Peeping Tom’;-)
April 20, 2017 at 8:43 pm
Mark Alexander
LOVES IT!
April 21, 2017 at 8:01 am
Dave
The picture, or Trump the Imbecile;-)
Thanks!
April 22, 2017 at 11:08 pm
Urspo
Sometimes said in our house “There will be no performance of The Red Shoes this evenig’. I don’t know what it means but I find it a smile.
April 28, 2017 at 1:24 pm
itsmyhusbandandme
My mother once told me that only little girls and prostitutes should wear red shoes. Imagine my surprise when I saw her wearing a pair recently.
Your picture has all the makings of an international incident.
JP.