12 slow day in vistech

And now for some ridiculous new articles:

ATHF Mooninites Don't Scare NYC

This was JUST on the news here at UCLA this morning, but Bostonist has been covering this since yesterday (here is the aftermath wrap-up). As part of a guerrila marketing campaign for Cartoon Network's Aqua Teen Hunger Force on Adult Swim, a couple of guys put up an ass-load of LED displays of finger-flipping Mooninites all over Boston, particularly on bridges and other landmarks/potential terrorist targets. The displays apparently caused a lot of confusion and scares, although I have NO idea how the hell a Lite-Brite-esque Mooninite giving you the finger (image) could look like a bomb.

Regardless, Boston authorities are pissed the fuck off, citing a lack of sensitivity/tact in a "post 9/11 world." Overly-used phrases aside, they do have a point I guess. Not everybody watches ATHF or even knows what it is, so I can imagine a city getting spooked and causing some delays in traffic or something that doesn't involve an entire city being shut down. I still find it kind of amazing that this happened in a college town, where there are hundred of thousands of students, most of whom likely know what Aqua Teen Hunger Force is.

I was talking to Aaron about this and he said that Adult Swim couldn't get any better publicity than a state of emergency, and I agree. I bet ratings for ATHF will be crazy tonight. Also I think it's hilarious that apparently the media has started to censor out the middle finger on the Mooninites. Oh TV news, you crack me up.

Hairy Potter & His Sorceror's Stones

On a less urgent but possibly more scandalous note, Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe is going to be in a London revival of Equus, "a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological sexual fascination with horses" (src: Wikipedia).

Parents of HP readers are not happy, as this means that our image of wizard-hero Harry Potter will be smashed into a million pieces as Radcliffe will be on stage, as an alleged horse-assaulter. Oh and he's going to be naked, did I mention that? Gee. The play website has a press release with a lot of... interesting promotional images. Yikes! But dare I say: he's gotten quite cute.

Here's another link with some of the same photos as above but at a slightly higher resolution.

Now I must go wash my hands or otherwise purge myself of this terribly dirty feeling.