I know I haven’t been tending to this sideblog ever since I moved my main blog to a new domain and I even forgot it was still up until someone left a comment a couple days ago. So, for my first post back from unintentional vacation, I’ll talk about a news story that is too strange not to pass up.
Surely by now you’ve heard about the “bomb scare” in Boston yesterday over lighted signs meant to promote the upcoming Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. The performance artists, Peter Berdovsky (27) and Sean Stevens (28), were arrested for disorderly conduct and placing a hoax device. Sure, a mooninite giving someone the finger might offend some drivers on the freeway but to think it’s dangerous because it lights up is ridiculous. People in Seattle didn’t seem to mind so why was Boston so uppity?
The mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, gave a statement yesterday saying that “it is outrageous, in a post 9/11 world, that a company would use this type of marketing scheme…I am prepared to take any and all legal action against Turner Broadcasting and its affiliates for any and all expenses incurred during the response to today’s incidents.”
With all the attention this has gotten in the mainstream media, the marketing effort certainly attracted people to learn more about the series and Turner hopes that will parlay into a slightly bigger box office turnout. But I think this is an example of authority figures just not getting it and being out of touch. Example: at a news conference, the two guys wanted to talk about hairstyles of the ’70s instead of the case. (YouTube link) [They likely were told by counsel that they should keep quiet about the details.] Many of the reporters asked them if they were taking this seriously but thankfully others with a sense of humor played along and asked the guy with dreadlocks if he was worried his hair might be cut if sent to jail.
P.S. I’m keeping the name of this blog the same even though I’ve stopped writing at Part-Time Otaku because (1) people for some reason still leave comments over there, (2) it gives a certain sense of inconsistency, and (3) it would be a bitch to move it somewhere else. I’ll try to add a feed to this site in the sidebar of the new one so that people will know I’ve started writing here again.
Bush and the Republicans were not protecting us on 9-11, and we aren’t a lot safer now. We may be more afraid due to george bush, but are we safer? Being fearful does not necessarily make one safer. Fear can cause people to hide and cower. What do you think? How does that work in a democracy again? How does being more threatening make us more likeable?Isn’t the country with
the most weapons the biggest threat to the rest of the world? When one country is the biggest threat to the rest of the world, isn’t that likely to be the most hated country?
What happened to us, people? When did we become such lemmings?
The more people that the government puts in jails, the safer we are told to think we are. The real terrorists are wherever they are, but they aren’t living in a country with bars on the windows. We are.
Comment by Antibush — February 14, 2007 @ 11:38 am
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