South Dakota Mayans

Good news: We made it

It’s 12:01 a.m. and I’m still alive.

Our own Payton Randle survived to see her 21st birthday and didn’t - as one unnamed coworker said - “basically die a virgin.”

Doomsdayers will likely continue to plan for end times, but gas masks and canned goods will go unused today.

Sioux Falls’ celebration of a highly-unlikely scenario will undoubtedly leave many feeling like their worlds are indeed over tomorrow and will give others a reason to party again tomorrow night: We’re still alive!

I encourage everyone to remember those panic-induced thoughts of love and goodwill beyond this apocalypse scare. Take a chance to do some of your last-day-on-Earth activities. Eat your favorite meal next Wednesday, just because.

When the world does come to an end, though, I definitely want Later Babes to be my soundtrack. Sorry, REM.

— Jenny Lockhart, ALM

Later Babes bringing us through the Mayan end at the Vault.

Woody’s - part of the Liebrary, Tommyjacks, Red Eye, and more bar chain - advertised Apocalypse Survival Kits, but when we got there the doorman told me the only special was ladies night. Lame stop on the Tour.

Speaking of ladies, though. And doom, actually. I may have accidentally outed a woman’s pregnancy to her fiancé** so we hightailed it out of there.

(**All evening I’ve been asking if anyone has a last minute confession - Bieber obsession, weird phobia. One girl may have told me she’s pregnant, which I may have said out loud in front of her fiancé. Which may have ended awkwardly.)

DJ Absolute at the Vault. Later Babes is going to hit the stage at 11:30 according to organizers.

We’ve got more than enough security tonight. If zombies come in here, that’s why we have an off-duty cop.

Mike Redam, security director at the Vault

Do you love Guy Fawkes?

If patchouli and anti-establishmentarianism are your thing, Rookies is your place to live out the Mayan calendar.

My hair wasn’t dredded enough for this crowd, so I’m off to the next stop on the SF ApocoTour.

Guy Fawkes Santa of the band Dead Larry performs at Rookies on 12/12/12.

Dead Larry at Rookies

Almost didn’t get in at Rookie’s for tonight’s “Here Comes the Apocalypse” Party with The Fortuitous, Useful Jenkins and Dead Larry. Partly because I didn’t want to stand outside and the line was literally out the door and partly because the doorman seemed confused by my press badge.

Inside now though and Dead Larry is on stage. Video to come for all you psychedelic rock fans out there.

Everyone wants a reason to celebrate. Why not celebrate a hoax? I can’t wait to tell my kids how many times I’ve survived the end of the world.

Jodi Fromelt — GM at Club David

“Something crazy will happen”

LaShay Keller spent her day cleaning her house. The smell of bleach still hung on her clothes when we talked tonight about the end of the world.

“At least my house’ll look good if we end it all,” she said.

But tonight she came out to support her friends performing in Club David’s 9:30 pm drag show and relax.

At least a little.

“I think something crazy will happen tonight,” she said. “Someone will do something horrible for attention, for fame. They’ll say ‘yeah, I did something crazy for the end of the world and it didn’t happen.’”

I hope, like our doomsday predictions, LaShay’s foretelling doesn’t come true.

South Dakota Mayans

A tongue-in-cheek look at "What if the Mayans were right?" with a South Dakota twist. Here's to Dec. 21, 2012. Cheers!

Good news: We made it

Do you love Guy Fawkes?

Dead Larry at Rookies

“Something crazy will happen”