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		<title>The world is ending Saturday, May 21st 2011</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve heard, but the world is ending this Saturday.</p> <p>It&#8217;s true! According to the internet and various bumper stickers, this coming Saturday &#8211; May 21st, 2011 &#8211; is Judgement Day. Why? Because.</p> <p>Like Christmas or an ex-girlfriend I see when I&#8217;m out in Albany and try to avoid, this one snuck [...]]]></description>
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<p>I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve heard, but the world is ending this Saturday.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s true! According to the internet and various bumper stickers, this coming Saturday &#8211; May 21st, 2011 &#8211; is Judgement Day. Why? <em>Because</em>.</p>
<p>Like Christmas or an ex-girlfriend I see when I&#8217;m out in Albany and try to avoid, this one snuck up on me. I&#8217;ve been aware of it for months now, but I had so many other things occupying my mind such as what I want done at my funeral that I didn&#8217;t even have time to adequately prepare a bucket list.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not a religious man, so I don&#8217;t believe in a Heaven or an after-life, let alone that the deeds I commit on Earth have any bearing whatsoever on what happens to me after I expire. However, I do trust Family Radio head honcho <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Camping">Harold Camping</a> and his loyal followers and acolytes, because they seem far too certain to be wrong about this.</p>
<p>I guess what I&#8217;m saying is I&#8217;m going to be a tornado of selfishness and hedonism the next five days, so watch out!</p>
<p>Ladies, I&#8217;ll be sexing everything that moves, so get in line while the getting&#8217;s good. Food, you better be in good supply, because I&#8217;m going to eat you all. Workplace&#8230;well, it&#8217;s been a fun ride, but I won&#8217;t be in this week because why bother? Instead, I&#8217;ll work diligently on my novel this week so that I can say &#8220;I&#8217;m writin&#8217; &#8217;til the Rapture comes&#8221; all folksy-like. On Tuesday, I&#8217;m going to have a group of actors come up from New York and do staged readings of the two short plays that I&#8217;ve completed then stiff them for the payment I promised. On Wednesday, I&#8217;m going to break my New Year&#8217;s promise and eat some Reese&#8217;s Pieces. Thursday will be Thor&#8217;s Day, and I will conduct myself with the utmost arrogance dressed as the God of Thunder (on an unrelated note I finally saw that film &#8211; more on that tomorrow). On Friday, I will call my loved ones and tell them that I love them. Then I will call my enemies and tell them that I hate them (<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/michaelhuber/">Mike Huber</a>).</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to follow the advice of that poem or greeting card or whatever. I will dance like nobody&#8217;s watching, love like I&#8217;ve never been loved, and Kat Dennings, will you marry me? We won&#8217;t have much time to plan a wedding, but I know an Elvis impersonator. It&#8217;ll be the best of times, and the worst of times, as we approach the end times.</p>
<p>I wish I&#8217;d known about the Rapture earlier. I could&#8217;ve been living quite a fantastic life.</p>
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