Let's try out another poll. Either we're at war, toxic asteroids are falling, or some other great catastrophe is going on that causes you to head underground, alone, to a small fallout shelter you built for just such an occasion. It's a special fallout shelter -- no phones, but you took the time to add battery-operated TV/VCR combos so you can watch videos while the world explodes. What do you take down there -- movies, books or whatever else, to keep yourself occupied for the many weeks or possibly even months? What kind of fallout shelter are you running?
Posted by Matt on 02/04/2004. E-mail me!
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My sister, the one who died once already, is in the reserves and is right now getting ready with her unit to go to Iraq. She could hook me up with M(eals) R(ejected by) E(thiopia)s and those spooky sandwiches that stay fresh for five years. Theres a few caves round these parts for shelter, but a well-stocked hole would be located under my dream home (a smallish castle out in the country, with RV hookups in the courtyard for friends, if I ever win a few million dollars, everyones invited to a housewarming at Castle TimeLost) and have full collections of Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, Arthur C. Clarke, E. E. "Doc" Smith, Stephen "Hey, is that a van?" King, First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, All the Ring books, Collections of Greek, Norse, Japanese, Irish, Russian, and of course my own tribal Myths and Legends (and many other ethnic groups I may have forgotten to mention), pretty much entire sections of libraries and bookstores. Various volumes of how-to manuals, some to use, some to trade. Too many videos to count. A lot of art supplies. All my old video games. All my TansFormers. A computer with at least a decent word processing setup. Hallowe’en decorations. Giant flyswatter (I have one somewhere). Bible, of course. My Rubik’s Cube. A ton of my diabetic supplies. My copies of "Duende Meadow" and "Alas, Babylon." Risk 2120, Dungeon, OuiJa board, cards (Playing and Tarot). Whoopie cushion. And a girl of high intelligance, great sense of humor, who’ll fight by my side as we battle hordes of zombies who want my issues of Amalgam Comics.