Apocalypse watch
One of my favorite cosmic coincidence sites is Goro Adachi’s Etemenanki. (Etemenanki is one of the towers of Babel.) This post connects the showing of a Battlestar Galactica episode about radiation poisoning, solar flares, a Discovery launch, the opening of Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, the end of the Mayan calendar, the Transit of Venus, the “passing of the torch” from Ronald Reagan to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Deep Impact, the octagonal floor plan of the Dome of the Rock, the Russian spy Litvinenko who died of radiation poisoning, Comet McNaught, Nostradamus, Pink Floyd, the death of Gerald Ford, the execution of Saddam Hussein, 2001: A Space Odyssey and two must-haves of any good conspiracy theory: the Knights Templar and the Book of Revelations.
Mind-boggling entertainment, the start of a migraine, or your signal to drop everything and head for the hills to await the apocalypse?
So if you’re planning on writing the next Da Vinci Code-type bestseller, you know where to rip off your plot.
Has it occurred to you that Transformers has a premise similar to that of 2001: A Space Odyssey, only it’s much less static?
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
August 17th, 2007 at 19:48
Dear Ms. Zafra,
Times like these I really miss your brand of “acerbic wit.” Save us from the talentless columnists out there who pollute the Philippine publishing industry with their grammatically correct but witless writing. If no one has suggested it yet, maybe you might think of bringing your magazine Flip back? There might just be a market now. Thank you.
August 18th, 2007 at 10:11
SPARKS! agree, agree.
August 22nd, 2007 at 21:06
Count me in sparks and mewmew…
im a zafroid…have all her books save for Twisted Travels (it gets harder when ur in the middle east)…and oh, the FLip magazine didnt reach me though…some fine line there between living in the barrio and earning for a dime to spend so i can buy her stuff!
im in the uae and would fail to read a report in the office but not miss zafra’s blog entries..oh well, too much details now..
cheers ms. JZ!