KC With A Russian Accent proposes a 30th anniversary celebration for one of the worst television mini-series of all time that featured the destruction of Kansas City by way of nuclear bomb.
It's a good idea and something that cowtown hipsters might enjoy . . . Sadly, white flight and a slew of horrible politicos did just as much damage dropping a nuke bomb on this town.
On the other hand . . . Science tells us that in the event of a nuclear apocalypse only roaches and real estate developers will survive.
It's a good idea and something that cowtown hipsters might enjoy . . . Sadly, white flight and a slew of horrible politicos did just as much damage dropping a nuke bomb on this town.
On the other hand . . . Science tells us that in the event of a nuclear apocalypse only roaches and real estate developers will survive.
A nuclear bomb is kid's stuff in destroying a city compared to neglect, ignornace, upside-down priorities, wasted business sudsidies, and out-of-control spending.
ReplyDeleteThe Russians really take a back seat to Sly and the council in accelerating KCMO's decline.
And let's not forget to throwin the police board and Forte'.
No need to blow things up. We just keep painting a house with no foundation, all the while congratulating ourselves at how nice it looks.
When's the next All Star Game?
Great movie back in the day. KU is mentioned several times in the movie. Jason Robards was da man.
ReplyDeleteGO JAYHAWKS!!!!!!!!!!
7:04 I was thinking the same thing. Now instead of one big blow up, it's death by a thousand cuts.
ReplyDeleteKC's eastside young black males are our nukes.
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ReplyDeleteOuch!
Nice job.
"...roaches and real estate developers.."
:)
This makes me feel old. I remember watching this, especially the depiction of the nukes going off. It was a big deal at the time.
ReplyDeleteI was in news then, closely following the nuclear debate at that time... the film came out a few months after a big "GROUND ZERO" Nuclear holocaust national awareness program came out. Americans were very much thinking about the dangers of cold war. Coincidentally, there was a Reagan/Soviet standoff right about that time....and the Titan missile complexes in Kansas and Arkansas were at, like Defcon 3 at one time. It was very scary for those who were in the know.
ReplyDeleteMost people had no idea because it was not in the press...but not long after that that the public awareness program came out.
Then, after "Day After", came another made-for-TV special on a network called "THREADS", the story of Manchester England, following the war for 25 years after the war. It too was pretty ugly. I think those efforts from Hollywood and protesters like the Catholic workers who protested outside the silos, had something to do with us all backing off the edge.
That was pretty much the last we all heard of militaries talking about nuclear war as a real, ACCEPTABLE possibility. And not long after that, the Soviet Union collapsed.
I remember that at that time, I ran an unheard-of 9 minute news story 'blowing up' the city where I was doing TV news then. The civil defense director finally admitted during that story, that he could not do his job and save the population, despite his planning to 'evacuate' the city.
America simply concluded that year that war was not a possibility.
It was an unthinkable option. I think the Russians figured that out at the same time.
And everybody just quit talking about it, and started removing their underground missile silos because that 1950s mentality was just absurd!
Anon 5:40
ReplyDeleteComments like yours are one of the reasons I read this blog. Thanks.