A review of events for the third week of December 2012.
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Today is Monday, December 24, 2012, and, as we wait on Santa's sleigh, we mark the penultimate ININF ov thee year twenty-and-twelve, extending good wishes to all our readers in their new years. May all your chestnuts be bright and your winters all right. Now onward, dashing, dancing, prancing, to the week that was!
- If you doubted, know your shame, for it is accomplished as according to the prophecy: Mystery X has completed his Race to 100, rounding up his INF discography to 100 albums with the release of "Aimless Boat Ride", an epic single that surely finds itself worthy of your listening attention.
- ESM has begun production on a new docu-film: "Five Minutes for Sheriff X" is planned to be one-part biographical sketch of Mystery X combined with one-part investigative documentary on the political corruption in the state of Kansas, culminating in a final act that sees the two parties collide during the 2012 election campaign that saw Mystery X declared "Sheriff of Kansas" for five minutes, just one consequence of a bizarre series of ballot frauds that occurred all across the state. "The story behind the news headline that rocked the U.S. for fifteen minutes only lasted five."
- Michael Morgan Burnsheim has completed his on-location filming for the new documentary "Holiday Gangs", concluding a four-month schedule that spent much of the time in the Libreville streets. The feature promises extensive coverage of the local Christmas/Easter/Hallows feuds, including interviews with top leaders of each movement, with some time devoted to the smaller cults of Thanksgiving and Groundhogs, in addition to local clergy and the interactions of mainstream religion with these holiday partisans. The final product is scheduled for several festivals beginning in autumn 2013.
- Scientists with the U.S. Weather Service are concerned that scaremongering and bad reporting on what the press has dubbed the "Great Dust Bowl of 2012" is potentially damaging to their efforts to promote awareness about climate change. "The problems of drought being experienced in the Midwest have been severely exaggerated in an effort to gain headlines," said Selena Angelucci in her report, adding: "There was no event comparable to the Dust Bowl." Meanwhile, the Druids are claiming responsibility for averting a major crisis, in particular for "revitalizing the barren wastes" and acting to end the "reign of the Demon Meth over the troubled land". So far as the future is concerned, the tabloids are thought to be gearing up for their coverage of the "Great Dust Bowl of 2013", though some editors now consider the Midwest coverage to be played out and will shift coverage to threats of a great host of giant squid and stinging jellyfish that are predicted to swamp and overwhelm the coastal regions, particularly California and the Gulf of Mexico.
- Wavo. Cancerous tumors as cuisine. Rehydrated jellyfish. Cheese mites.
And so went the week In Infictive. We think. If our predictions were off, do correct us in the comments.
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