Penelope

this one has been thinking about Jacob Geller's essay Art In The Pre-Apocalypse, mostly because it played Umurangi Generation a couple weeks ago, but also the way Cohost is going reminds it of how Geller talked about On The Beach. for those not familiar, it's a late-50s novel/movie about a group of people in Australia waiting for the fallout of a nuclear war to finally reach them. They know the end is coming, they know there's nothing anyone can possibly do to stop it, and they act like nothing's wrong. They just live their lives like normal.
As it turns out, the amount of time you can spend mourning the world is usually less than the time you're given to mourn it. This one is sure there will be much more crying, much more anguish come the 30th of September, and even more, unheard, on the 1st of October. This one will be crying with you. But for the past couple weeks, and just a few more days still, we can all just act like everything is normal, and we'll all still be here in a week's time.