Friday Afternoon Interlude (The Smoking Crater Where Wall Street Was Edition)
Economic apocalypse brings to mind, this dreary gray Mid-Atlantic morning, the end of great big things. The end of America’s Empire? The Fall of Capitalism? Armageddon? Ragnarok? The final season of 60 Minutes?
No, I was thinking of something bigger and funnier. Specifically, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. More specifically, the band that plays while the Universe is coming to an end, Disaster Area.
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy notes that Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular concert-goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet – or more frequently around a completely different planet.
Since Disaster Area can’t be here to score the flaming wreck for us, we’ll have to make due with the next best thing. High On Fire will make an excellent soundtrack to the spectacle of Wall Street being sucked into a black hole, don’t you think? So here y’are. Turn it up, enjoy the show, and remember: invest in liquor, smokes, and ammo and you’ll be just fine when this is all over.
Have a great weekend, boom.
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