Some thing about some missiles

Yes, I feel lame that the Protein Water commercial was on during a feature about the North Korean missile launch and I'm talking about the skinny machos. I will give you a little update.

They do make news easy to understand on the morning feature shows. The reporter put up a map of the world and stuck on cardboard flags to narrate the reaction to the last time North Korea launched a missile right over Japan into the Pacific. The flag over Japan said "anger" and had a little manga anger symbol. Then America got an anger flag (over NY), and then South Korea got one, too. But wait! When NK explained that it was just for a satellite, the top layer peeled off the US flag revealing "relief," with litle "phew!" sweat drops. Ditto South Korea. Japan, still angry. (I personally was "annoyed" as I had to work late every night for ages, but that is neither here nor there.)

A reporter on the street in midtown Manhattan stopped two middle-aged white people, asking them without context what Taepodong means. One asked if it was a game, and another mixed it up with tempura over rice. (That's "ten-don." Close!) Back to the studio to ram home the point that people in other countries just don't know or care about the situation.

David Spector, the token foreigner on the panel, stepped up and said that the situation is indeed being reported overseas, but that they are using terms like "North Korean missile" more than "Taepodong" so simmer down. Thank you, David.

Incidentally, stopping people on the street in midtown Manhattan and asking them without context what Taepodong means is probably exactly what I am doing right now in the parallel universe where I stayed in New York with the Japanese media.