eBirdseed.com Wild Bird Feeding Blog: 12/21/12

I guess every blogger has to cover this upcoming event... Tomorrow, a day that will live in infamy, if there are any more days... So let's just say that the Mayan's long count calendar is right, and we're about to get smoked... Well, if that's the case, then let me add my $1/50... Oh, but my prediction is that it won't start with an asteroid strike as the NASA artist's depiction above suggests... No, that will be the ending... Here's how I see the cataclysm unfolding (in no certain order,,,)

A shocked world will learn that Bigfoot has eloped with Big Bird...
Cats and dogs will actually, really start living together...
The magnetic poles will shift because Donald Trump changed his hairdo...
Chupacabras will run wild through all major cities, but before they can cause any significant carnage, the rats will tear them to pieces...
I'll be abducted by aliens and subjected to the most indiscreet probes... But hey! At least I'll get to meet Elvis!!!
The 'Bermuda Triangle' will expand to become the 'Bermuda Octagon', and that will cover all the waters on earth including ponds and streams. And then, even the polliwogs will disappear through a worm hole into an alternate universe populated by cross-dressing William Shatner impersonators and Christmas trees strung with screwdrivers and bacon ornaments...

And when ALL of that is said and done, then we'll thankfully be singed off the face of the planet by the asteroid...

There, that wasn't so difficult now was it?

Or maybe, just maybe, the Mayans weren't talking about the spectacular sort of event, but rather a tipping point of the less cinematic... Maybe they were warning of a world that behaved so fiscally irresponsibly that catastrophe had become inevitable... Maybe they were thinking about global climate change that could foster a once in a millennium storm like Hurricane Sandy, or a culture that could somehow breed a generation of young people who mass murder their own in the names of sickness, thrill, frustration, and infamy... Maybe 12/21 has been with us for some time now...

I opt for the latter...

By the feeders...

CapeCodAlan

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