allow me to weigh in on the mooninite attack:
ok, boston. i'll give you this: turner broadcasting should have gotten city permits for the aquateen hunger force ads. city permits don't mean publicity. no one other than city officials would have known about them, so the campaign would have still been just as "guerilla". barring that, placing them on bridge supports was a poor choice of location (honestly, the sullivan square bus station? i can think of more profitable places to place the ad). i think people would be less jumpy about a strange, glowing character on the side of a random building, than they would be about finding one on a bridge, or the side of a hospital, or you know... other things that could conceivably be actual terrorist targets.
but. i have NO IDEA how any rational adult could have looked closely at the things and MISTAKEN THEM FOR BOMBS. they look like lite-brites. good work, BPD. why don't you detonate Toys R US too, just to be safe? and then pressing charges because you're embarrassed? that doesn't make boston look any better. this was not a hoax. does menino even know the definition of a hoax? it involves INTENDING TO SCARE PEOPLE. there was no intent to scare. and the poor sap who put the things up should not be facing jail time. we still to have to find a town scapegoat every time city officials fuck up? how delightfully puritan.
people are asking why this didn't happen in the nine other cities where they were installed. you know why? because SOME CITIES AREN'T FUCKING NUTS. that's why. or maybe they have people under 30 on the police force. aqua teen hunger force is not that obscure. it's been on tv for at least five years, and it hasn't been funny for at least three, so it must be fairly popular, because everything that's funny stops being funny once it becomes mainstream.
and for everyone who is saying that we're "better safe than sorry" and "what if it was really a terrorist attack next time"-- if it was really a terrorist attack, WE'D ALL BE DEAD ALREADY. because these things have been up for THREE WEEKS.
i am not going to live my life in fear of lite-brites, and i am not going to feel grateful for having city officials that do.
but. i have NO IDEA how any rational adult could have looked closely at the things and MISTAKEN THEM FOR BOMBS. they look like lite-brites. good work, BPD. why don't you detonate Toys R US too, just to be safe? and then pressing charges because you're embarrassed? that doesn't make boston look any better. this was not a hoax. does menino even know the definition of a hoax? it involves INTENDING TO SCARE PEOPLE. there was no intent to scare. and the poor sap who put the things up should not be facing jail time. we still to have to find a town scapegoat every time city officials fuck up? how delightfully puritan.
people are asking why this didn't happen in the nine other cities where they were installed. you know why? because SOME CITIES AREN'T FUCKING NUTS. that's why. or maybe they have people under 30 on the police force. aqua teen hunger force is not that obscure. it's been on tv for at least five years, and it hasn't been funny for at least three, so it must be fairly popular, because everything that's funny stops being funny once it becomes mainstream.
and for everyone who is saying that we're "better safe than sorry" and "what if it was really a terrorist attack next time"-- if it was really a terrorist attack, WE'D ALL BE DEAD ALREADY. because these things have been up for THREE WEEKS.
i am not going to live my life in fear of lite-brites, and i am not going to feel grateful for having city officials that do.