So let’s see. There’s actually a non-astronomical chance that I’m related to someone who just won $200 million in the lottery. No, seriously. One of the three winners of the $640 million Mega Millions lottery bought their ticket at a convenience store in the tiny town of Red Bud, Illinois, population 3700. And most of my father’s rather large family happens to live in Red Bud, going back generations.
Really.
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New Year’s Eve this year will be spent quietly, peacefully in avoidance of any sort of driving or partying outside of the home.
And that seems more than fitting, because 2011 is the year that we got our house back. It’s been a good year, a year of dressed wounds and repair and recovery, a year of sideshow dramas and long overdue catching up. And so in the usual R&K spirit of spilling the story before the calendar resets tonight, we present 2011 in review. Click through for more.
Another year, another round of Black Friday Walmart shoppers pepper spraying each other for awesome deals. What is it about Xboxes that drive people mad? You just don’t hear about Playstations leading to bloodshed.
(Oh yeah. Except for that Philly thing. I guess there is that. Point taken.)
Anyway.
So this year we went through this whole three week phase, jockeying around the penultimate question that defines the embarkment onto federally mandated holiday joviality: what the hell do you want, anyway?
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Okay, so before anyone accuses me of offering up an insufficient sympathy dosage to the countless numbers who are facing suffering beyond comprehension in Japan today, this has nothing to do with them. I’m as shocked, riveted and sympathetic to their plight as you are. This is about the people living on this side of the Pacific who are making a run on local health food stores for medication to save them from the cloud of zombificating radioactive fallout about to descend upon California at any moment.
Japan is 6000 miles away, people. That’s about a quarter way around the Earth. So just chill out. Any radiation that shows up on the West Coast is going to be very minimal, perhaps not even detectable. Sheesh.
For those reading this who aren’t familiar with Vault Boy, he’s sort of the mascot icon of the Fallout video game series. Think of VB as the famous “duck and cover” turtle, amped up to insanely ridiculous degree.
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