-- Remember when Boston panicked over ATHF lite-brites? Never forget! [Neatorama]
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We all remember the mooninites and Star Simpson. Now Boston can add another dummy debacle to its resume. Mannequins are the latest threat to our safety; specifically, mannequins who like the environment, and are chained (bike-locked, it appears—damn hippies) to banks in protest. As global warming might melt their plastic bodies, it is understandable that mannequins want climate justice. Still, we are skeptical that anyone, mannequin or otherwise, would be able to focus on the economy or the climate a week before Opening Day, and suspect that this mannequin a foreign import. At least it only caused a brief bank closure and was cleaned up in an hour and a half, unlike its animated cousins—who, thanks to Jezebel, now know how to dress for their shape (hint: invest in a good bag to carry your often-unwieldy quad laser).
In addition to being the only state in the nation that pays police officers to stand around and do jack shit, Massachusetts is also (ironically enough) the only state that pays police to be fit. According to the Herald, officers who pass a fitness test are given a 2.5% raise. That's like giving secretaries more money for passing typing tests. The expense of offering such raises aside, a fitness test should be a requirement for police officers—not an extra. What shouldn't be a requirement? Overseeing construction sites. Call us crazy, but we think that our officers might have a little more time to stay in shape if they weren't paid so much to stand still all the time. The current bonus system (introduced by Mitt Romney in 2002) ends December 31. Will the police fatten up as a result, or will Massachusetts continue its backward ways? Maybe our officers just need some real crimes to deal with. You know, like Meatwad.
So, the first anniversary of Aqua Teen Hunger Force's attack on Boston falls close to the Super Bowl. The creative minds behind Aqua Teen merge both ATHF and the Super Bowl in one clip, which Bostonist stumbled across on the Best Week Ever blog. However, they're rooting for the wrong team:
Star Simpson, the MIT student whose light-up T-shirt caused a panic when she wore it to Logan Airport, appeared in court today. She asked for the charges to be dropped because the shirt was a form of free speech and that she had worn it days before without it causing a problem. Here's the update from the AP/WBZ:
MAKE: put us on the alert that LED art is all over the city today, and the Bush-Meets-Mooninite piece is only one of the samples visible at the MAKE: Blog.
Peter Berdovsky (aka Zebbler or that Dude With the Huge Dreadlocks) sent out an electronic postcard reminding us of the day the city of Boston was felled by an ill-conceived promotional stunt for the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" movie. Berdovsky and his accomplice-of-sorts, Sean Stevens, appear to have moved on with their lives, but, as shown in the image above, they still can't resist that little electronic critter who gives everyone the finger.
Peter Berdovsky--VJ, artist, and one of the men behind last year's "Mooninite Menace"--and the city of Boston better learn to live with each other because Berdovsky isn't going away anytime soon.
What moved you to speak out this year? A Lite Brite giving you the finger? The Red Sox? The death of Mr. Butch?
Republican presidential candidate and Internet sensation Ron Paul doesn't need Oprah. He doesn't need connections to the hot-shot politicians. He just needs a blimp. Ron Paul's supporters are sending up a blimp for an East Coast tour from North Carolina, through DC and New York, to Boston. According to the flight plan on the Ron Paul Blimp site, the balloon will launch Wednesday in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and then travels north, flying over...
Did you know the MBTA has a "Civil Disturbance Unit" on wheels that is designed to restrain and transport public-transit perps? We didn't, either. David Abel of the Globe describes the MBTA's ride, which has been in use since May: The large, jet-black bus has four surveillance cameras on its roof trained in every direction, and looks like the kind of tool an authoritarian regime might use to scare or scoop up dissidents and other...
We wondered what happened to Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force incident. Berdovsky, also known as "Zebbler," has made lemonade out of the experience. After the Cartoon Network and viral-marketing company Interference, Inc., hung him and Sean Stevens out to dry, Berdovsky made a comeback and has been named one of the top 20 VJs in the world by DJ Magazine. No doubt a little ATHF publicity helped to...
After the swift response to MIT student Star Simpson's infamous arrival at Logan Airport, the united front of law enforcement against the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and the mailing of empty pill boxes to residents, imagine our surprise upon hearing that Massachusetts would be unprepared in the event of a terror attack. Boston proves that just because you're easily frightened doesn't mean you can protect yourself if something really bad happened. Governor Deval Patrick's team...
Image of the Meatwat/Rustwad comparison from Jalopink
Ah, the New York/Boston debate. While many point their fingers at Boston for stoking the flames on a regular basis (chants of "Yankees Suck" heard everywhere might have something to do with it), we can now point a little of the blame back to NYC. Gawker, having decided that they'd chastised Britney Spears' parenting techniques enough, shocked readers across the globe today by turning its typically New Yawk-centric eye beyond the boroughs. But, in characteristic...
Mayor Menino's looked like he's had steam coming from his ears before. Exhibit A: Aqua Teen Hunger Force. But, recently, he's come quite close to having steam literally coming from his ears. An explosion caused by steam in an old pipe rattled New York City, killing one and leaving a gaping hole in a street near Grand Central. Now Mayor Menino is wondering if a similar explosion could happen here. The sudden awareness of the...
Talk about needless panic, city brass of Boston. We let your sensitivity slide during the whole Aqua Teen Hunger Force lite-brite incident because not everyone knew what Aqua Teen was and all. The city has shut down The 6 House. The Boston Licensing Board shut down the bar and suspended its license. But why would you close The 6 House because of a bar fight with a bad ending? The 6 House is not...
Friday will mark the start of the third weekend the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square will serve you a beer and let you take it with you to your seat. The Boston area has been an outcast for a while without a movie house serving beers - the Somerville Theatre has ended our thirst. They may have gotten the idea when Snakes on a Plane hit the theaters, knowing the bureaucracy it probably took until...
As expected, local universities are evaluating their own security response mechanisms in the hopes of avoiding a rampage similar to what happened at Virginia Tech. Boston police didn't wait around - they held a meeting with representatives from local universities one day after the shootings. (Look on the bright side of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force embarrassment - we already know that the BPD and local law enforcement are fast.) WHDH reports, "The group focused...
Okay, everyone, today's the day when we find out if all the ruckus caused by the Aqua Teen Hunger Force lite brites was worth it. Will the "guerrilla marketing" campaign devised by Interference Inc. and the media's subsequent coverage of the bag of fries, shake, and "meat wad" actually bring people to theaters?
The press release really told us all we needed to know: "When an immortal piece of exercise equipment threatens the balance of galactic peace, it is up to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force to run away from it. Peril escalates when the Plutonians team up with the Cybernetic ghost of Christmas Past to strive for ultimate control of the deadly device."
We recently received e-mails proudly announcing the impending arrival of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters on April 13. Even if you didn't notice the - ahem - little problem promotions for the ATHF movie caused in Boston, and even if you've never heard of ATHF, the movie sounds like fun, and the full-length cartoon features the voices of Bruce Campbell and Neil Peart of Rush.
Do they have to keep picking on us? Wired published a story today about new wave advertising. The lead paragraph made mention of the January 31 boondoggle by the Boston Police"These types of marketing tactics will not and should not be tolerated," vowed Boston Mayor Thomas Menino after the now-infamous blinking LED ads for the Cartoon Network's Aqua Teen Hunger Force were discovered on bridges and underpasses, leading to a bomb scare that shut down...
Botched in Boston seems on the fast track to a new defining statement of our city. Kerry started it with his botched joke that got tremendous play nationally. The Aqua Teen Hunger Force bomb scare brought it back as a botched marketing campaign, or at least a botched reaction to a marketing campaign. Dr Pepper has now ended their Hunt for More promotion – labeling it botched – and revealed the location of a coin redeemable for $10,000. The search had people scouring 23 cities, one each for the 23 secret flavors that give Dr Pepper its flavor.
Music, comedy, poetry, and audience participation filled the room. At first blush, it looked like an episode of Prairie Home Companion, but it was really musician/poetess Patti Smith performing at the Institute of Contemporary Art on Wednesday night.
Just wondering. Someone had to fall on the sword, and Mayor Tom Menino sure did seem happy when the head of Cartoon Network, Jim Samples, took the plunge and resigned from his post after the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Incident.
Five out-of-town - and a few out-of-nation - graffiti artists are accused of tagging MBTA cars in Braintree. While they went to court, Boston police grew jittery because of an impending "graffiti convention." The lawyer for the Braintree Five, including two Germans and a Swiss, says that they were out looking for something to eat. But, when MBTA police pulled them over, they smelled paint fumes, had a Berdvosky/Stevens flashback, and brought them in. If...
Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today that the Boston area cut a deal with Turner Broadcasting and Interference, Inc., the brains behind the marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres that made life in Boston a little nutty last week. Boston will receive $2 million dollars for its trouble. In return, Turner Broadcasting and Interference won't face charges. Here's the basic breakdown - $1 million goes to reimbursing state and...