The candle burns to the end.

[reddragdiva]

The lack of IMPENDING THERMONUCLEAR APOCALYPSE is why goth sucks these days. It's almost impossible to get this across to anyone under thirty.

(thanks to s0b for inspiration)

Update: Fifty-one comments from other people in just over an hour? This could be my greatest hit.

Update 2: This has now inspired marnameow to a poll.

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

Which explains why the best goth tunes were in the 50s and 60s and it was never quite so convincing after that?

[vatine]

Yeah, the angst about nuclear threats has been vastly diminished from the mid-late 70s. Notyhing is as before, not even nostalgia. I demand a more interesting past as time goes by!

[neenaw.livejournal.com]

Bloody candles!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

http://www.footlight.com/product.cfm?product_id=30463

[steer.livejournal.com]

God I love those titles "Atom and Evil" --- awesome.

[plinkymoo.livejournal.com]

Threaten to kill them - that might help! :-D

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Can't you just substitute SERIOUS AND CREDIBLE TERRORIST THREATS? C'mon, just give it a try.

[tals.livejournal.com]

Speak fer yerself! I spent half the 80s literally waiting for the end on a daily basis... and dear gods, the nightmares.

[tals.livejournal.com]

Too true.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I think I need that.

I want to host a 1950s Cold War party now. We could eat Unwise Food and do swing-dancing.

[reddragdiva]

The world remains a dangerous place. But it's not THE END OF HUMANITY AND ALL LIFE ON EARTH danger in popular culture.

[reddragdiva]

I just can't see hardcore punk working off that one.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Think Ronnie Reagan plz k thx.

[phelyan.livejournal.com]

Give the radical elements in the world a few more years to develop/steal/buy their own nuclear devices.

Actually, that doesn't quite cut it, does it? We need to be sure that any missile launched will trigger a 20x Overkill... damn...

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Hey now, with the terrorists you've got religion in the mix as well, unlike those godless commie bastards.

[reddragdiva]

With selections from the Gallery of Regrettable Food!

[tviokh.livejournal.com]

Clearly we need to get Bush to threaten North Korea a little more.
That'd up the threat level.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Sock hop! (http://www.fiftiesweb.com/atthehop.htm)

[vatine]

At that point, I came to the conclusion that i9f there was a bomb, I lived close-enough to several factories building shit like fighetr aircraft avionics that I'd probably not even see the flash, so I instead lived as if I had to experience everything *now* (also, I started moving towards a double-digit age; I feel exuistential angst is strongest around 7-8 years old).

[vatine]

What? You mean Reverend Lenin was *not* preaching the teachings of Guru Marx? I am devastated1!1

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

You just don't know how to spin the terrorist thing plz.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Religion is the opium of the masses, k?

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

I didn't get existential angst until my teens, which was mostly the 1990s.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Not quite enough for THE END OF HUMANITY AND ALL LIFE ON EARTH danger in popular culture.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Bring back the days when laudanum was the opium of the masses!