Tondeleo: It’s been several weeks since I’ve been able to post. Work has been interfering with my life. Currently I am back in America for at least a fortnight, and I hope to be able to record some interesting interviews with Doc and Marilyn and their friends.
I printed out some of the emails I’ve received from Americans trying to profit from the general fear that is in the world. Many of them are transparently selling fear, and then selling products that should alleviate those fears.
With many people deciding that the world will come to an end in May of this year, because the Mayans said it would, the intensity of the emails and product sales for survival is in quite a flurry.
I figured this would be a good topic to talk with Doc and Marilyn about. It turned out to be pretty much what I expected, with them interjecting their thoughts and questions every few seconds, and derailing any train of thought before it even got going.
Here we go:
Tondeleo: Doc, now that I’ve read to you all these emails about the world coming to an end in May, which is only a few weeks away, what do you think?
Doc: Who said it was coming to an end next month, Tondy? What was those peoples’ names?
Tondeleo: The Mayans. They said so. They had it on their calendar that the end of the world was coming in May 2012.
Marilyn: Well WHO is the Mayans? I ain’t never heard of them…
Tondeleo: The Mayans were a group of people who lived in Central America…
Doc: Ohio?
Tondeleo: No, Central America is down south of Mexico…
Doc: South of Mexico… and they call it central America? Ohio and Indiana and Detroit is central America, Tondy.
Tondeleo: OK, well, the Mayans lived there a long time ago, like in 2500 B.C. They were brilliant and had a highly developed civilisation. They…
Big Dave: I know who those people were. Buncha white trash. Learned about ‘em in eighth grade, Tondy.
Those S.O.B.’s would play football usin’ the head of someone they killed.Used it for a football!
They sacrificed virgins to their gods. That ain’t civilised. You’re s’posed to protect virgins, not kill ‘em.
Doc: You can’t kill virgins! They’re a dangered species! Other n’ Marilyn and some of the girls down at the church, I ain’t even SEEN a virgin in what… maybe ten years!
Marilyn: Tondy, those people killed VIRGINS??? That ain’t right!
Doc: Well, that’s it. I ain’t buyin’ it.
Tondeleo: You’re not buying WHAT, Doc?
Doc: Their calendar. I ain’t buyin’ their calendar. What’s it got, only five pages? January, February, March… uhh, April, then May. And that’s it? I ain’t buyin’ it. I got plans for the Summer. We got a lot of gigs this Summer.
Big Dave: Yeah, I don’t want their calendar either, Tondy.
Tondeleo: But, it isn’t like that… not at all…
Marilyn: Tondy, you ought to buy Doc’s calendar. He’s got the whole year on his, and there are a lot of gigs we’re playin’, and they’re all marked on his calendar…
Doc: I ain’t sellin’ my calendar, Marilyn. Then we’d miss all our gigs.
Big Dave: Yeah, forget the Mayans. The Mexicans killed ‘em all. They had it wrong, anyway, Tondy.
Tondeleo: You can’t know that, Big Dave.
Doc: Well, I can. The end of the world already came for them folks, and they wasn’t expectin’ it! And now they’re all dead and in hell. Hmph! …Playin’ football with a man’s head. Killin’ virgins… That’s a bunch of sinner mess, right there. Nothin’ but sinner mess.
