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Sigh. Too many grown-ups not watching enough cartoons.
In an echo of the kind of paranoia that thought rock music was a communist plot, and which led some people to duct-tape their entire houses against an exaggerated anthrax threat... today, Boston called out the bomb squad to handle the Mooninite invasion.
Which consisted of -- prepare to be very, very frightened now -- small blinking lights in shape of cartoon characters. AAAAIIIEEEEE!
Jeebus. I mean, I'm as big a coward as there is on the planet, but there's a bigass billboard of a Mooninite giving people the finger, right down the street from where I'm sitting, over on Pico Boulevard in Venice. And somehow nobody calls Homeland Security.
Is Al-Qaeda really going to attack by decorating its bombs with blinking lights, specifically calling attention to the bomb?
This is worse than the freak-out people had over musical newspaper vending machines. Remember that? Somebody hears the Mission: Impossible theme coming from their newspaper box, so the cops come and blow everything up, just to be certain? Because terrorist explosives always come with a recorded soundtrack.
Wow. America really has to start watching Adult Swim. Anybody who doesn't already faithfully watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force frankly deserves to panic blindly.
UPDATE: While we're at it, here's the trailer for the upcoming Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie, plus a clip, because I like you and want you to be happy.
I am counting the days.
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