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Various Middle Finger Waving Moon Man Lite-Brites Terrorize Boston
- By Guest Writer
- February 05, 2007
How awesome is the above headline? How awesome is it because it is one hundred percent true? Various middle finger waving moon men looking Lite-Brites were placed in select cities around the country in a marketing campaign to promote the late-night Adult Swim cartoon, “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.” Boston authorities did the proverbial “freak out” when it was assumed that these boxes were bombs, not Lite-Brites. Both Lite-Brites and bombs do indeed light up an area around them, however one is more destructive than the other.
I cannot blame Bostonians and especially the authorities there for being a little jumpy given their previous track record concerning Logan Airport and 9/11. Boston technocrats did what people usually do best in institutions, cover their own asses. This happening: art installations directed by a corporate mechanism (Time Warner) through its chain of command and then mistaken for bombs by the government may be the most telling event on the current state of affairs in America since last night’s American Idol.
The American Government and corporate America are intertwined so tightly it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins. I’m not surprised that somebody didn’t get the memo on this one. Who reads their memos anyway?
Read this memo: Awaken avant-garde artists. Time Warner is making you look bad because they’re using your tactics to sell their product.
Maybe Time Warner wanted the profane moon men boxes to be taken for bombs. Maybe Time Warner hoped to terrorize the population into watching a late-night cartoon. Maybe Mayor Menino receives campaign financing from Time Warner and he put some pressure on some underlings to make this happening happen.
Unlikely, of course. And that’s what makes this whole thing so sad and amazing at the same time. I’m not exactly sure what this event tells us about the state of America culture. I do believe that it tells us slightly more that the last State of the Union and slightly less than John Stewart’s, The Daily Show. I do know that I’ll never look at Lite-Brites again the same. They will find their place among clowns and Barbie dolls as yet another thing that is a little sinister and creepy, but also entertaining.
Author: Kevin Del Principe | Ink Hand Moon Eye
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I wish somebody would tell me why these guys are in legal trouble? This seems like a misunderstanding and I don’t get why these guys should feel so horrible for the fact that a city overreacted. i know it’s a tough time right now, but geesh!
655 days ago by Trickdaddy