The first Asides of 2007!

Please...don't all get up at once.

• Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the state of paranoia. Of course, I'm referring to the city of Boston's response to Adult Swim's "guerilla marketing" campaign...complete and utter bat-shit knee-jerk reactionary bullshit. I can't help but sit back and laugh at the fact they shut down part of the city and removed and detonated these LED cards with the Mooninites to the tune of $1 million. And Boston wants Turner to pay. And Aqua Teen Hunger Force just got an assload of PR. Talk about getting your knickers in a knot. Boston Metroblogging has a nice play-by-play of the events and the aftermath. I seriously don't see the panic, but I wouldn't be surprised if more everyday Paranoid Janes start squealing to the feds every time they mistake an umbrella base for a landmine.

  Oops...too late.

  UPDATE: Oh no....no no no no no. NYC, please don't overreact. If guerilla marketing has a home anywhere in the US, it's there. Oh, and if you're listening Atlanta, please don't trip if you see one of these (they've been around town for months now), it's bad enough out here with the traffic and the weather and shit.

  UPDATE 2: Tee-hee...

• Groundhog's Day is tomorrow. There will be "festivities" at work. Like I give two shits about where the sun shines on an rat's ass in Pennsylvannia.
• Fellow 9ruler Matthew Stibbe has a pretty kick-ass guide on how to be a freelance journalist. Go check it out if you want to try and make the leap from soul-crushing nine-to-five to the jetsetting, glamorous world of freelance journalism! </sarcasm>
• Next week on February 10, in case you haven't registered yet (and if you haven't, registration's closed, sucka), SoCon '07 will be here at Kennesaw State University. Me and J. will be there...will you? Maybe I should get some business cards printed up right quick for the event.
• I really wish I had something to say about this whole Isaiah Washington/T.R. "I know you di'int" Knight/'faggot'/Katherine "I'ma fuck you up Isaiah" Heigl debacle, but I really don't. Seriously, it's just tired at this point, and the media is playing connect the dots like an episode of Pee Wee's Playhouse.

  La-la-la la la...

• "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," he said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man." A storybook man? Surprise, surprise...some of us actually have a command of the English language, wash our ass twice a day and are nice-looking.

  Joe Biden, eat a dick.

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