12/21/2012: It's the End of the World as We Know It!

Rusty Shackleford · Post by **Rusty Shackleford** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 3:35 pm

Obligatory posting of REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It" and the "news" report of the event...

ravenlore · Post by **ravenlore** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 4:15 pm

And I feel fine.

(I have been surprised and disappointed at the lack of REM on the internets today.)

KABarash · Post by **KABarash** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 5:02 pm

OK........... so now what?

Syd · Post by **Syd** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 5:09 pm

Rusty Shackleford wrote:Obligatory posting of REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It" and the "news" report of the event...

Until I hear it from Bat Boy I don't believe it.

TVB · Post by **TVB** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 5:31 pm

ravenlore wrote:And I feel fine.

(I have been surprised and disappointed at the lack of REM on the internets today.)

You've been on a different internet than I have.

BuddyRaton · Post by **BuddyRaton** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:59 pm

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes,
an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn,
world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs.
Feed it off an aux speak,, grunt, no, strength,
The ladder starts to clatter with fear fight down height.
Wire in a fire, representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site.
Left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck.
Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing!
Fine, then.
Uh oh, overflow, population, common food, but it'll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right - right.
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign towers.
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn.
Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood letting.
Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed. Uh-oh, this means no fear cavalier.
Renegade steer clear! A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) and I feel fine.
(I feel fine)

It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) and I feel fine.

The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide. Mountains sit in a line
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev. Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.

It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) and I feel fine.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) and I feel fine.

It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) and I feel fine.

It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) and I feel fine...

Post by **ericalm** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:09 pm

TVB wrote:
ravenlore wrote:And I feel fine.

(I have been surprised and disappointed at the lack of REM on the internets today.)
You've been on a different internet than I have.

No kidding!

My favorite thing of the day: a video composed of edited-together clips of LA getting destroyed in various disaster movies. The building I'm sitting in gets destroyed at the 2:50 mark. YAY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxgnuH-nQK0

Stormswift · Post by **Stormswift** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:16 pm

Since the world did not end I did what any woman would do to celebrate such an occasion: I did a bit of late shopping. Snagged me a summer mesh jacket on sale Shipping was free because it was .99 cents over the " free shipping after you spend $49.00" deal.

I just hope it is not going to be too big....

Syd · Post by **Syd** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:33 pm

ericalm wrote:
TVB wrote:
ravenlore wrote:And I feel fine.

(I have been surprised and disappointed at the lack of REM on the internets today.)
You've been on a different internet than I have.
No kidding!

My favorite thing of the day: a video composed of edited-together clips of LA getting destroyed in various disaster movies. The building I'm sitting in gets destroyed at the 2:50 mark. YAY!

You work in the record stack? Cool.

scubadoobie · Post by **scubadoobie** » Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:38 pm

Me too....

jrsjr · Post by **jrsjr** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 12:57 am

ericalm wrote:
TVB wrote:
ravenlore wrote:And I feel fine.

(I have been surprised and disappointed at the lack of REM on the internets today.)
You've been on a different internet than I have.
No kidding!

My favorite thing of the day: a video composed of edited-together clips of LA getting destroyed in various disaster movies. The building I'm sitting in gets destroyed at the 2:50 mark. YAY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxgnuH-nQK0

You're in the Capitol Records building?

Way cool! Is there any historical lore about your particular office area?

Post by **ericalm** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 7:58 am

jrsjr wrote:
ericalm wrote:
TVB wrote: You've been on a different internet than I have.
No kidding!

My favorite thing of the day: a video composed of edited-together clips of LA getting destroyed in various disaster movies. The building I'm sitting in gets destroyed at the 2:50 mark. YAY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxgnuH-nQK0
You're in the Capitol Records building? Way cool! Is there any historical lore about your particular office area?

Actually, I work across the street from Capitol and spend the day staring at it out my window.

So at least I get a good view.

Below is our building as it looked in 1928, when it housed an insurance company and a Piggly Wiggly. I only wish the interior was as beautiful as the outside, but little remains of what it once was. There was also a Lloyd Wright-designed market next door in the '30s, since torn down.

The historical lore of my office: Until the lease ran out and the building was re-unified under one owner/tenant, my office was rented by the guy who wrote the TV special in which the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman got married. I looked him up after taking his nameplate off the door.

Not as cool as having the Beatles stop by.

jrsjr · Post by **jrsjr** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 6:39 pm

ericalm wrote:The historical lore of my office: Until the lease ran out and the building was re-unified under one owner/tenant, my office was rented by the guy who wrote the TV special in which the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman got married. I looked him up after taking his nameplate off the door.

Not as cool as having the Beatles stop by.

Well, now we know who got Norm Morrill's office.

I guess these days he's much better known for producing/writing episodes of Covert Affairs, my wife's fave.

VinylDoctor · Post by **VinylDoctor** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 1:50 am

We got ripped off.
I got totally drunk the day before,
and woke up around midnight, and we are not dead.
I was waiting to wake up dead that day.
now I have a very live hangover.

Rusty Shackleford · Post by **Rusty Shackleford** » Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:49 pm

Oh, I'm still alive...

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Stormswift · Post by **Stormswift** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 2:33 am

I was waiting for zombies to show up.When is the next apocalypse? This one wasn't t fun at all.

still shifting · Post by **still shifting** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 4:40 am

Plenty of Apocalypses around if you notice...R

charlie55 · Post by **charlie55** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 1:09 pm

still shifting wrote:Plenty of Apocalypses around if you notice...R

If you're talking about all the zombies on the road and in the malls, oh yeah!
Just wish that they were actually trying to find "brains" instead of "bargains".

still shifting · Post by **still shifting** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 2:26 pm

Yes those are one of the phenomena... R

Post by **ericalm** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 7:08 pm

jrsjr wrote:
ericalm wrote:The historical lore of my office: Until the lease ran out and the building was re-unified under one owner/tenant, my office was rented by the guy who wrote the TV special in which the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman got married. I looked him up after taking his nameplate off the door.

Not as cool as having the Beatles stop by.
Well, now we know who got Norm Morrill's office. I guess these days he's much better known for producing/writing episodes of Covert Affairs, my wife's fave.

WINNAH! Ha, I watch Covert Affairs, too. I think it started after I moved in so didn't even realize he was involved. If I ever meet him, I can say, "DUDE, I have your old office!" And he'll say, "Yeah, they kicked me out when my lease expired." End of conversation.

jrsjr · Post by **jrsjr** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 9:46 pm

ericalm wrote:
jrsjr wrote:
ericalm wrote:The historical lore of my office: Until the lease ran out and the building was re-unified under one owner/tenant, my office was rented by the guy who wrote the TV special in which the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman got married. I looked him up after taking his nameplate off the door.

Not as cool as having the Beatles stop by.
Well, now we know who got Norm Morrill's office. I guess these days he's much better known for producing/writing episodes of Covert Affairs, my wife's fave.
WINNAH! Ha, I watch Covert Affairs, too. I think it started after I moved in so didn't even realize he was involved. If I ever meet him, I can say, "DUDE, I have your old office!" And he'll say, "Yeah, they kicked me out when my lease expired." End of conversation.

Yeah, not quite as epic as the conversation I always imagined between Albert Einstein and the guy who got his office, Kurt Göedel.

viney266 · Post by **viney266** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:58 pm

ericalm wrote:
My favorite thing of the day: a video composed of edited-together clips of LA getting destroyed in various disaster movies. The building I'm sitting in gets destroyed at the 2:50 mark. YAY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxgnuH-nQK0

^^^ That is kinda fun

..I've had my back yard in a TV show, but never a building destroyed

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