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Some predictions for 2012…
Here are my predictions for things that I think might happen this year:
Fidel Castro will pass away.
Mitt Romney will be the GOP presidential candidate.
At least one country in the Euro zone will stop using the Euro and revert back to their former currency.
Kentucky will win the NCAA basketball championship.
The Pope will pass away. (“Is there a heaven? I’d like to think so…”)
The Miami Heat will win the NBA championship.
The Chicago Cubs will continue their long history of failure.
More weird weather events. Ohio earthquakes. A volcanic eruption somewhere. Many windstorms and tornadoes. A plague of locusts (OK, I’m kidding about that one).
Barack Obama will be elected to a second term.
North Korea, Iran, and Iraq will be causing more worries (as usual).
The Mayan calendar will turn out to be incomplete…
(“In every dream home a heartache…”)
I’ll read a lot of good books and write reviews about them.
Check back at the end of the year and see how many of these predictions have panned out.
(with apologies to Roxy Music for borrowing some of their lyrics to “In every dream home a heartache…”)
Vick Mickunas
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By Mark from St Paul
January 4, 2012 11:58 AM | Link to this
Mitt Romney will win the Iowa Caucuses, the NYTimes will embrace him (while ignoring the heck out of Ron Paul), cartoonist Ronald Searle will die, top executives will reward themselves with massive bonuses and the economy in general will go into the sh*tter even as Wall Street continues to record record profits, almost none of which will go to average hard working Americans.
By null
January 3, 2012 7:42 PM | Link to this
obama will not be in office for a 2nd term.cause he is always on vacation.
By karon
January 3, 2012 12:37 PM | Link to this
I predict the Cincinnati streetcars will put Cincinnati back on the map for tourism! Also I predict that gas prices will reach over 4.00 by late winter! Also Kasich will resign as governor of Ohio!
By Joanie
January 3, 2012 11:39 AM | Link to this
I know nothing about sports, but I predict die-hard fans will paint their bodies and wear stupid head gear. Crying seems to be a popular political passtime now, so I predict John Boehner will still do it. I’m hoping he will cry because he loses his seat. Newt Gingrich will not win the nomination, so he will feel free to dump his third wife and marry his current mistress. Vick will review books on the Occupy Movement. Most of them will be bad. (There are already a few out.)
By vick
January 3, 2012 1:03 AM | Link to this
OK, Bill! I like those predictions! Thanks.
By bill
January 2, 2012 11:59 PM | Link to this
Going out on a limb for 2012.. The SEC will win the national football championship. The Bengals will not win the Super Bowl. A hot summer will be blamed on global warming. A cold winter will be blamed on global warming. Whatever cell phone you have now, you’ll want a new one. Facebook will require everyone to post something every hour, no matter how mundane. Larry King will have another kid. Lindsay Lohan will be back in court. Justin Bieber will hit puberty and be quickly forgotten. Casey Anthony will give parenting tips on her new show “La Vida Loca”.
By prose
January 2, 2012 11:46 PM | Link to this
Gosh, Vick the only things you left out were the sun will rise in the east, and now with an additional wild card the Bosox will get to the playoffs, again. I once was a colleague of our state economist who said, “if you make predictions make a lot of them, some may come true”. He stole that line, of course. How about some bold prognostications? I predict the wealthy will continue to be so. The poor will be poorer. More homes will fall to foreclosure, or remain empty. Fees on everything will increase. Student test scores will continue to decline. Drunks will drink. The pious will be self righteous The sun will set in the west. Happy New Year, from Avalon.