I foresee that I will become increasingly aggravated by people saying ridiculous things about the Mayan calendar over the next year.
The Mexico tourism people over here are running a Visit Mexico campaign with a world-ends-in-2012 theme; can't find the posters online but they have the general message of "It's all going to end soon, better hurry up and go somewhere nice before you're annihilated!"
And I must say that, given the state Mexico seems to be in, Liebestod tourists are probably their key demographic.
If this misinterpretation of Mayan culture turns out to be accurate we're going to have to start believing the misinterpretations of what Mayans said about all sorts of other things. Vaccines? It says in the Dresden Codex that they'll give you the flapping disease. The Designated Hitter rule? It will one day bring about a great drought. Charlie Sheen? The Maya tell us he should be hailed as a great leader.
Meanwhile, on wikipedia:
The folding books are the products of professional scribes working under the patronage of deities such as the Tonsured Maize God and the Howler Monkey Gods
"Yeah, I mean, it's tough to make a living as a writer, but until my codex hits the bestseller lists I'm living off a grant from the Tonsured Maize God foundation and luckily have been able to find some teaching work at Howler Monkey Gods Technical University."
My several dozen tattooed idiot high school friends have been on about this on fb for a while now, and I'm so sick of it.
You went to tattooed idiot high school? Lucky you, I had to make do with summer classes at sarcastic bastard college.
It wasn't a tattooed idiot high school at the time. That had to wait until the last 5-10 years, when tattoos became rebellious, in a conformist sort of way.
Twenty-twelve doesn't sound quite as fake as twenty-eleven. I've really been enjoying Twenty Eleven.
8: It does sound like it could be slang expression like "twenty-three skidoo".
"When the pepper spray hit we Twenty-Elevened out of there"
Events will be such that by the end of 2012 we will long for the end. But no release will come.
I suppose it could get fun, in a wacky way.
"ZOMG. Do you know what else is from the Maya? KENYA! Obama 2012! AhhhhHHHHHHHHH!"
Is this an appropriate thread in which to mention my concerns that the global economy is collapsing due to whatever is happening in Greece?
we will long for the end. But no release will come.
Sex in the Someguy household: An issue.
"Yeah, I mean, it's tough to make a living as a writer, but until my codex hits the bestseller lists I'm living off a grant from the Tonsured Maize God foundation and luckily have been able to find some teaching work at Howler Monkey Gods Technical University."
Do you see what abolishing copyright gets you?? Do you see? It's human sacrifice and weird rubber ball games all the way to the ecological catastrophe.
13: It does sound like Walt is taking the whole Tantric thing a bit too far.
14: As opposed to IP terrorism bear and weird rubber ball games all the way to the ecological catastrophe? Hmmm ... must try to think.
I think the Mayans were off by several centuries on predicting the end of *their* world, so fuck 'em.
10: More than 4 hours? Don't wait until 2012, see a doc now.
Women sense my power and seek out my life essence. I do not avoid women. I do deny them my essence.
