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The Apocalypse According to Bill

Greet the end of the world with William Burroughs.

Jesse Walker | 12.21.2012 8:13 AM

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They say the world is supposed to end today. In honor of the occasion, here's William Burroughs on the apocalypse:

From the excellent Dead City Radio CD.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. invisible furry hand   14 years ago

    **SPOILER ALERT**

    It's now the 22nd and it didn't end

    1. Whiterun Guard   14 years ago

      We don't care how you do it up north.

    2. Groovus Maximus   14 years ago

      YAY! Our canary in the coalmine lives!

      Now I can have a simple, modest dinner instead of going to the trouble of an elaborate final feast.

    3. $park?   14 years ago

      AFAIK, there were no Mayans on your island. The world will end appropriately in our time zone.

  2. Whiterun Guard   14 years ago

    Man, people are making apocalypse jokes like there's no tomorrow.

    1. Agammamon   14 years ago

      If there were a god you would have been smited for that.

      1. Whiterun Guard   14 years ago

        People may not laugh at everyone's jokes about the end of the world, but they certainly laugh at Mayan.

        1. invisible furry hand   14 years ago

          Whiterun Guard tetchy vs Whiterun Guard punning... what is worse in the morning?

          1. Groovus Maximus   14 years ago

            Depends upon whether or not he Tikals you.

            1. invisible furry hand   14 years ago

              Christ on a bike, not you too

              1. LTC(ret) John   14 years ago

                Oh come now, you would expect nothing less from this crew, ne?

    2. $park?   14 years ago

      I don't know about you guys, but armageddon outta here.

  3. Fist of Etiquette   14 years ago

    WHY HAVE I NOT BEEN RAPTURED YET?

    1. LTC(ret) John   14 years ago

      SINNER!!!!!

      1. LTC(ret) John   14 years ago

        Wait?! I'm still here too - damme!

    2. $park?   14 years ago

      It's not even 9 AM yet. You don't get to be first in everything you know.

    3. Killazontherun   14 years ago

      God's a butthole who hates people who know how to have fun even in a world he built to maximize misery.

  4. Zeb   14 years ago

    I highly recommend Dead City Radio to anyone who likes Burroughs at all.

  5. waaminn   14 years ago

    Bill sounds like a petty wise man to me dude. Wow.
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