What Are Long Beachers Doing for the Rapture?

5:01am | Rapture? I barely even know her!

But seriously…No, you can’t really start a sentence on the topic of the Rapture’s coming on May 21, 2011, with the phrase “But seriously,” can you?

I’m aware that many people believe the Rapture is coming at some point — and however much I am not one of them, I couldn’t care less about denigrating people’s religious beliefs (so long as those beliefs help them be good neighbors, citizens, etc.).

But when you look at the numerological mumbo-jumbo behind the idea that the Rapture is coming this weekend, you’ve got to laugh, right?

So let’s have a little fun. What are you doing for the Rapture? Any special Rapture-themed events? If the Rapture does come, would it be bad form for me to still hold my Saturday-night reading of my novel The Use of Regret at The Farm (555 E. Third St.)? Will the LGBT Pride Parade still be happening? (I’m pretty sure most Rapture believers will tell you that the LGBT community will be quite intact on Earth post-Rapture.) Should we keep publishing the Long Beach Post right through to the end of the world on Oct. 21?

See you on the other side!