As part of my fascination with variations on the word “Apocalypse”, I couldn’t help but be drawn in by the word “Atacopalypse”, which I can barely say or even spell.

“Atacopalypse” showed up in the recent “Lucy, Daughter of the Devil” episode “Escapeoke”, an equally difficult to say or spell word. Lucy is - the devil’s daughter - and is a charming, alterna-21 year old who appalls her father the way that many charming 21 year old women do. Her father is really the star of the show, and is off doing things like opening a Mexican restaurant, buying a Dildo factory or - going to burning man. He frequently bumps into DJ Jesus, and crosses paths with the three special functionaries from the Vatican who are off looking for the Anti-Christ.

In the first episode of the season, “Escapeoke”, the Devil opens a Mexican restaurant so that he can sell “Atacopalypse”s to people. He also decides to call the diet margaritas “diaritas”.

The devil is voiced by H. Jon Benjamin, whose voice you may recognize from “Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist” and “Home Movies”.

They had me at “daughter of the devil”, but “atacopalypse” sealed the deal.

“Lucy, Daughter of the Devil” airs on Sunday nights on the Cartoon Network’s “Adult Swim” block of programming. You can also pick up the first few episodes through the iTunes Store:

Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil - Escapeoke

Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil - Dildo Factory

Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil - Temptasia
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Phil Plait posts the likely answer to the question of what’s going on with the Peruvian meteorite - it really was a meteorite, and the reason people got sick was that the area it struck was tainted with arsenic.

No sign of the Anti-Christ at this time.

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Hey did you hear the one about the meteorite and Peru?

Something hit the countryside in Peru leaving a giant muddy crater and a bunch of sick people. Almost everyone’s calling it a meteorite, and at least one person is connecting it to a prophecy of the third Anti-Christ by Nostradamus. I can’t keep track of how many Anti-Christs there are, or are supposed to be… maybe kids will dress up as the Anti-Christ for Halloween this year. But in a sprawling screed that connects… lots of dots… with some very shaky lines, The Temple of Love mentions Hitler, George Bush, Peru, Nostradamus, Tom Cruise and the Peruvian meteorite all in one very long breath. Time to inhale, please. Or maybe it’s too late for that.

Boing Boing likens it to the Andromeda Strain.

Phil Plait of the Bad Astronomy blog, says it doesn’t really sound like a meteorite… usually they’re small enough to burn up completely or large enough to behave differently from what’s been observed in Peru.

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There’s so much material at http://www.raptureready.com/ that it’s hard to know where to begin.

Let’s start with the Rapture Index… this is wonderful… it’s a number that indicates how close we are to the Rapture. As of January 8, it’s at 162. It peaked at 182 on September 24th, 2001; it was at its lowest on December 12th 1993. It’s composed by summing together various weighted factors like “False Christs”, “Unemployment”, “Apostasy”, “Anti-Semitism”, “Gog (Russia)”, “Liberalism”, “Beast Government”, and “Wild Weather”.

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It’s the folks who take it all so seriously that make it all worthwhile.

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I posted this yesterday, but for some reason ecto or Wordpress ate my post (first time!) and I was left with a (thankfully) unpublished empty draft. Maybe Caroline Corbitt is on to something with her robotic antichrist essay!

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When I first wrote about Left Behind: Eternal Forces, I honestly figured it was just blog fodder. I thought it would be one of those games I’d hear about once, which might never even make it to release… and even if it did, I’d never hear about it again.

Wrong!
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We always knew you had it in you, Helena Bonham Carter! Congratulations on coming to terms with your inner beast!

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Poor George W. Nobody just “likes” him anymore. Either you hate him or you love him.

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