Bordering into Friday... The nuclear, asteroid Armageddon Apocalypse movies are so full of shit, picturing Americans gathering with family and friends waiting, weeping and communing with one another, turning their lives over to spirits great and small or rampaging through angry streets pillaging and gorging on the remnants of commerce and culture. They're full of shit because I know what's going to happen on that final day: There will be a woman in a donut shop yelling at the clerk, "I don't care if the world is ending, I want the multi-colored sprinkles not the orange ones!" There will be a young child on the deck of a beautiful final resort screaming at his parents, "You brought me here and there is nothing to do! Except look at trees!" There will be a man reaming a salesman a new asshole over a minor detail in the new siding that is being applied to his home, "I want this fixed, immediately!" There will be a man directing another to fill the enormous gas tank of an enormous SUV, "Hey Habib or whatever the fuck your name is! Fill it up pronto!" There will be a woman in a movie theater demanding, "I want two free tickets for the movie I just watched because I was ten minutes late. I missed the entire dream sequence." There will be a man in a Mexican restaurant pouring margaritas down his throat and complaining about how horribly his family treats him, "They jusht don't appreshiate me!" There will be a woman in a convenience store interrogating the clerk about the freshness of the coffee, "This coffee had better be fresh or I will bring it back and you will replace it!" There will be a man informing a carpenter, "I have to go to Manhattan to get my dog's ears pierced and I want this job finished before I return." There will be manic and dangerous jockeying for position on the highways and turnpikes and expressways. There will be a woman in a Thai restaurant asking the waitress, "Are you Chinese?" I know that this is what will happen, because we were given the chance to reflect, reconsider and effect change. I know that this is what will happen, because this is what has happened since the world ended the last time. You remember when the world ended the last time, right? When the towers fell. When everyone said how profoundly it would effect life in these states. How profoundly it would impact the people. Shall we face the dark, horrific truth? We have screwed the pooch and there is nothing to suggest that we would spend the next chance any differently. Hey Habib! There's nothing to do! They don't appreciate me! I want this job finished! I want fresh coffee! I want orange sprinkles! Are you Chinese?