Sunday, February 13, 2011

Awesome News! The World is Ending! Everybody PARTY!!!

So, we were driving back from grabbing lunch at Curra's here in Austin, and at the intersection of Congress and Oltorf, three trucks were parked in a lot, all with the same graphic.

I could only get one of the trucks with my cell phone.

the most oddly depressing strip center in Austin gets a little added spice

In case you can't read the graphic:

Guarantee is a very strong word...  I'm just saying.

As if that wasn't wacky enough, Andrew - a guy I am 6 degrees away from being a relation (uh, Jamie's brother's wife's brother.  Yes, that sounds right)  also posted images on Facebook of himself next to exactly the same truck in Virginia.  He says there were five at his location.  So, people, let me know if you're spotting this fleet of people declaring the Earth will end before the Green Lantern movie gets released.

As Jason said "well, there's been somebody predicting the end times are about to happen since time began".  But I'm not exactly sure what the hook is here other than some mash-up of Mayan snake-god calendaring getting mixed up with Poltergeist-2/ tent revival/ end-times fun.  And, look, if its a financial scam, three months isn't really much time to maximize your profit.

On the one hand, if the world were ending...  Just imagine how kooky the next three months would really get.  I tell you what, I wouldn't feel very incentivized to show up at work or fill out my tax return.

8 comments:

Fantomenos said...

That's quite a typo in the first caption...

The League said...

HO NO!!!! Well, its fixed now, but... yowza. Just to be clear, I love all my fellow South Austinites, no matter their ancestry or place of origin. It was a type-o, indeed.

Good golly, Miss Molly. Good eye, Fantomenos.

Paul Toohey said...

We probably almost passed in the parking lot at Curras...we had "brunch" there (which was more like lunch...but whatevs...).

There is also a fairly good chance that I will be moving to North San Antonio (which is what I call anything south of the river) in the future...so we'll be living in the same town.

The League said...

I think you will be delighted to find that South Austin has its charm. We live a little too far South, but I'm curious to hear where you're looking.

Unknown said...

They have a billboard in Oakland! I kept meaning to check out familyradio.com but would be distracted by shiny things on the drive home and forget to do it later. Heading over there now...

Unknown said...

Ehh...looks like a bunch of badly-formatted word documents (seriously, some still have the editing marks left in.) It's more annoyingly-nonsensical rambling than excellently-nonsensical rambling.

Unknown said...

About 5 trucks with that picture passed me up tonight in LaPlace, Louisiana.. Anybody know what this is all about?

The League said...

I looked at their website and its some pretty boilerplate endtimes prediction whatzit. They just seem curiously well-funded.