Tomorrow is the anniversary of The Great Boston Mooninite Attack of 2007

[Ian David]

Does everyone remember where they were the day Mitt Romney saved us from the lite-brite Mooninites?

Network Claims Responsibility for Suspicious Devices
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Suspicious Devices Found In Four Areas In Boston
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'24' Boston Bomb Scare (Jack Bauer saves Boston from The Mooninites!)
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CNN/AP: Boston scare suspect videotaped bomb squad
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Boston Artists 'performing' an homage to ATFH
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[Ian David]

1. Random Panic

Random Panic
Today is the anniversary of the day in 2007 when Boston was under attack by cartoon terrorists.

On this day, we ought to reflect and remember the victims. I don't mean the mooninites' usual victims Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad; on January 31st, 2007, they struck further and wider. On this day, remember our fear based policies, our hostility to quirkiness, our collective political sickness of panic and xenophobia. Although the Mooninites (with the aid of lightfixer and his friend) temporarily turned it all into a farce, their job is not yet done.

So today, I'm reposting something I wrote for the Blue Mass Group blog shortly after the cartoon terrorist scare of 2007:
What Does Random Panic Protect Us From?. I've added some new material to this re-post. Please read it, and share it, and re-post it.

More:
http://cos.livejournal.com/87579.html

[Ian David]

2. Mooninites cripple Boston, rock your face off

Mooninites cripple boston, rock your face off
Published Feb 01 2007, 02:35 AM by Carly Carioli

Boston, 2007 = Grovers Mill, 1938.

For those of you not familiar with Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the Mooninites are a race of video-game aliens who attempt, albeit inefectually, to wreak mayhem on the world. (They are completely awesome, though, because Schooly D does their theme song.) The joke is that the Mooninites always fail to do any real harm.

Except, that is, in Boston.

Roads and rivers were closed, businesses sent employees home, traffic was snarled, and the bomb squad even detonated a "sophisticated electronic device" when a bunch of lite-brite boards -- all bearing a peculiar resemblance to a certain Adult Swim cartoon, which also happened to be plastered across billboards in Allston and I-93 -- were uncovered by Boston's crack anti-terrorism units. The BPD, which has had trouble the past couple years solving real crimes, wasted no time in rounding up the Arlington artist who was an accomplice to this grave deed. The state AG is promising lawsuits, and lots of them. Sleep easy, Massachoochians, your blessed city is safe . . . from evil cartoons.

Just to make you feel worse, the "devices" were also scattered around NY and LA. Nobody freaked out there. Our guess? Something to do with this new-fangled contraption called "YouTube." Apparently this city's never heard of it. At least not over at the Globe, which posted a grip of bomb-scare stories (this just after the boring broadsheet fell for another local hoax -- the one about Theo Epstein getting married at a New York hot dog stand. Oops.)

More:
http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/phlog/archive/2007/02/01/Mooninites-cripple-boston-rock-your-face-off.aspx

[Kat45]

3. I remember that.

I was working in Boston near BU at the time. We didn't get evacuated or anything and I heard about it later on. One of the younger folk at work was pretty amused and explained to us what the characters were.