You have to give Victor Gischler credit - he starts
Go Go Girls of the Apocalypse with a bang. The main character, Mortimer Tate, has been hiding for 9 years in a cave in rural Tennessee, as the world spirals down into utter chaos. The first three humans that he sees in that time end up dead, and his adventure begins.
Unlike most disaster/apocalyptic novels, Go Go Girls doesn’t have a single cause to the apocalypse. Instead, the world lurches from disaster to disaster, finally melting down into the familiar post-apocalyptic landscape that we all know and love. While this is happening, the hero - Mort - is hiding in a cave in the backwoods of Tennessee from his soon-to-be-ex wife. He gets a ringside seat to the meltdown via radio, but batteries soon burn out and he hunkers down to wait for the screaming to stop.
Nine years later, three men show up, scouting around his refuge, and end up dead. This gets Mort thinking, and he decides to rejoin what’s left of the human race. Unfortunately, Mort seems to be fairly clueless. He’s not a quick learner, and is immediately captured & tortured for the wonderful things he’s carrying. Conveniently, his captor is confronted by a fellow survivor, dressed as a cowboy. The captor ends up dead, the cowboy ( who calls himself Buffalo Bill) turns out to be a decent fellow, and Mort has a guide in the scary new world.
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I love it when the world ends on a tee.
Basically, my feeling is that there are far too few t-shirts reveling in possible armageddon. I think it’s a very unexplored but badly needed area of fashion and I can tell you that my wardrobe, at the very least, could use some apocalyptic luv.
Enter this cute, cute white tee from artist Aaron Augenblick called The End of the World. It features a comic-book-like design screenprinted on the front of the tee featuring such gems as “Crazy Robots” “Evil Disease” and my personal favorite: “Big Explosions”. You can get a zoomed-in version of the comic design itself on the web site, which is totally worth looking at.
(I think the design would rock as a print, too.)
Also, “the Mutant” on the front is a really cute mutant. If you’re into that sort of thing.
The shirt is an 11-color screen print and looks like it would be great quality.
[$25, Theselectseries.com]
Mention Experiment, Science, High Energy and Early Universe in one breath and you will undoubtedly get some ignorant savage expounding on how it will destroy the Earth and lay waste to modern civilization. After all, what else could happen?
So while its a shame that critical thinking isn't taught as a subject in our schools, there is an opportunity for us to turn to the web. After all, don't you let the collective do your thinking for you today?
Which leads me to a site with Credentials. With a domain name like ours, how could this public service not be authoritative? - Has The LHC Destroyed The Earth?
[Haven't heard of the LHC? It's a nascent triumph of the particle physics gurus, a 27 km loop of vacuum built in Switzerland.]
* Egregious capitalization and sneering are all meant in the spirit of Science. Yup, with a capital S.
