I like how you can add “-pocalypse” to anything and it becomes a revelatory Armageddon-like crisis. For example, remember when there were heaps of snow on the East Coast in February and they called it “Snowpocalypse”? That was kind of cool — but not as cool as the term, “douchepocalypse” which I think originated from How I Met Your Mother.
Nonetheless, I saw the term “heatpocalypse” when I was trying to check into AT&T Ballpark on Foursquare. There was a location called, “Heatpocalypse San Francisco” — which isn’t really a location, but a “state of mind.” Foursquare likes to do these general physical destination-less check-in points a lot.
This “Heatpocaplypse” is, of course, the result of the record breaking heat we were having in the Bay Area today. Seeing that I am from Texas, you would think I am used to this kind of heat. But since I have lived in the Yay Area for almost five years, my tolerance for heat has gone down immensely. When the temperature in the city gets above 80 degrees, I get worried and I break out my maxi dresses and shave my legs.
But yeah, it was HELLA-hot today. I felt greasy. And being in an office that lacks air conditioning isn’t that comfortable.
While I was walking around in the heat of the city, I was humming “Heatwave” quite loudly. In turn, it made me think about the time when Kimberley Locke performed it on the second season of American Idol and Simon said it reminded him a Burger King commercial.
Too bad that part isn’t in this video:
- Excited
- Fascinated
- Amused
- Bored
- Sad
- Angry
