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  • I know, Adam threads always turn into some sort of weird zombie apocalpyse-type drama.

    Adam Lambert song snippets: Let's rank a dozen of 'em from most awesome to not-quite-as-aweome! | EW.com 2009

  • Concerning Palin, the East Coast Elite (R) dismissed Ronnie Raygun as a lightweight too, and he ended up riding across the political landscape like the 4 horsemen of the apocalpyse.

    Matthew Yglesias » 71 Percent of Americans, Including 52 Percent of Republicans Are Liberal Elitists 2010

  • Part of it is because I'm home more, and part of it is because of that creeping sense of the coming apocalpyse/economic collapse/McCain victory.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008

  • I suspect that's deliberate, as is the fact that the story's relationship to apocalpyse-city-escape stories is left vague.

    Eeeee! Art! shweta_narayan 2009

  • In response to, or perhaps out of a desire for, a perceived apocalpyse of poetic expression, Kenneth Goldsmith advocates "conceptual writing" and "uncreativity".

    Roving Thoughts on Apocalpyse 2007

  • In response to, or perhaps out of a desire for, a perceived apocalpyse of poetic expression, Kenneth Goldsmith advocates "conceptual writing" and "uncreativity".

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • For those who don't know it: Riddley Walker isn't standard post-apocalpyse SF, but is a literary novel written entirely in a worn-down future English, where myth and fable mix with garbled scientific phrases whose meaning has been forgotten.

    Archive 2004-09-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • For those who don't know it: Riddley Walker isn't standard post-apocalpyse SF, but is a literary novel written entirely in a worn-down future English, where myth and fable mix with garbled scientific phrases whose meaning has been forgotten.

    Doing the tell Ray Girvan 2004

  • I always enjoyed massive apocalpyse like events at the end of Beta tests.

    How to end a world? 2005

  • We all knew that after the apocalpyse it'd just be cockroaches and televangelists and some militia members camped out in bomb shelters in Montana.

    A city covered in coasters - Anil Dash 2004

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