I Like My Beer Cold, My TV Loud, and My Supernovæ Fa-LAMING

This would be about nine kinds of awesome.

Sadly, it'll probably be a good 30 years before we know whether it's going to blow, and I'll probably be dead when it does. Which pisses me off, because the 1986 Halley's Comet reappearance was a dud and because after I waited 20 years for the 2000-ish Leonid meteor storm, they happened on the other side of the world.

UPDATE 15 June:
Over the weekend I read R. J. Sawyer's Calculating God, which made use of a Betelgeuse supernova as a plot device, along with one other strikingly coïncidental thing that I no longer remember what it was.