bleak dystopias

Sweet Molasses, I Do Declare, It’s Hotter Than a Pig on a Flapjack This Mornin’!*

Someone offers the mayor of New York a piece of cake in the year 2050.

* This is how everyone in New York will speak by the year 2050, when the city “could have as many 90-degree days as Birmingham, Alabama, does today,” according to Seth Pinsky, the president of New York City Economic Development Corp, who is helping to spearhead Mayor Bloomberg’s post-Sandy hurricane planning efforts. **

** We have never heard a Southerner talk before. 

New York City Will Be As Hot As Birmingham