End of Days - How Will You Spend Them? - Miss War

Hola Bitches. Let's get serious.

Seriously serious.

Ok, the girls and I have been a bit lazy as of recent. This laziness is reflecting in both my volume of blog posts and my ever growing thighs. (Eff you, Treadmill. I'll burn my cals with my new badass Universal Remote until this winter of discontent is over.)

So, we were imbibing the other night when Miss Death suggested from underneath her lampshade that we play the End of Days Game.

"What BE this End of Days Game," you ask? Oh, it's no different from the "Stranded on an Island" game, except that you have no chance of rescue. So, what favorite movie, book and song will you carry into the Great Abyss? Well, that's up to you (alcohol helps this game along nicely.)

See if you can top my answers (and don't get all "Apocalypse Now, Bible and Bach" on me. Be creative.)

Movie? The Big Lebowski. Why? Because you can literally watch this movie a millions times and keep finding new and interesting angles. We could analyze characters for YEARS! I mean, the Dude aside, what about Donnie? What does his death mean to the other characters? What is his back story? And Maude! And Bunny! And the Nihilists? So much to watch and discuss. (Admit it, you agree with this choice. It's a clear winner.)

Book? The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Collection. Why? See above. I know what you're saying. "What a Nerd!" But I believe in the power of this anthology for the same reason that I geek out over TBL above. You can literally read and disect every strip of that comic. It's written for an intelligent audience who still think like kids. Ah...le sigh. How I love these books.

Song? The Beatles. Imagine. No further explanation needed.

So, where do you stand? What are your top three answers?

No Beatles in your Apples! – Miss Conquest

During these turbulent times we often find ourselves looking forward with great anticipation and hope to unmistakable signs marking our coming Apocalypse.  And we wait.  And we wait.

And we wait.

But the status stays quo.

And the quo blows.

Today we were looking for some telltale apocalyptic signs hidden in the latest Apple conference announcing all of their new goodies.  But we found none.  No world-altering shifts at all.

Just some lower prices on iPods. You can now record video on your Nano. Your iPod Shuffle will now talk to you (well, ok.  Electronics talking back to you IS a sign of the apocalypse so… yay for AIs!).  iTunes now has iTunes LP with newfangled and “cleaner” features – video, liner notes, lyrics, etc.

What was NOT announced – not one tiny little peep, singing guitar note, nor harmonized bulletin – was the release of the Beatles catalogue on iTunes.  Not. Gonna. Happen (today, at least). 

It seems Apple and EMI still have yet to reach an agreement, so the Beatles music you all know and love will remain firmly on “compact discs” (you remember those, right?) until further notice. 

So there you go.  After all of that suspense, we will NOT be experiencing the 12^th Sign of the Apocalypse today.

Sigh. 

I guess I’ll just go get my The Beatles: Rock Band and practice so I can kick Death’s skinny little ass at Famine’s party on Saturday.

Oh the little things.

Miss Conquest

Feelin' Nine-y - 4HW

Nothin' says "marketing ploy" like a day with all the same numbers.  Today may not be a Saturday like 07/07/07 (raise your hand if this is your slightly cliche wedding anniversary!), but there is CHANGE in the air.  Apocalyptic Change.  We can FEEL it.

Things to look for today: 

• Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov release Shane Acker's kick-ass looking apoca-mation "9." (Miss War already has her tickets -- look for a review coming to an apocalyptic blog near you!) 

• Rock Band releases their newest and most anticipated version of the game ever -- The Beatles: Rock Band.  (Miss Famine is planning her very FIRST Rock Band party thanks to this!)
  

• APPLE is making some huge and mysterious announcements about new products, that may or may NOT include the Beatles catalog coming to iTunes (Sir Paul McCartney says it ain't so, but we won't know until the official announcements at 10am PST).  Check back soon for Miss Conquest's run down on all the new goodies! 
  

So go out and celebrate this entirely made up holiday (nine beers maybe? nine shots of whiskey? we're not here to judge) and come back soon and often for all of the up-to-the-minute-9-news -- Apocalyptic style, of course. 

This message has been brought to you by the Number 9.

-4HW