Ever walk around the office ask your co-workers if they know what a Mooninite is?

I have. And I have never felt so alone in my life.

Attention, we are not under attack by terrorists. However, we have been invaded by Mooninites.

Late this afternoon I got an email warning about traffic problems due to "suspicious devices."

Whenever something like this happens I start doing my own special research. I hit the Universal Hub and when I saw the picture of the alleged bomb, I knew we were in for something weird.

I recognized the Mooninite.

Today, I said to more than one person at work, “Do you know what a Mooninite is?”

Sadly, many did not. Aqua Teen Hunger Force isn't just for college students. Or maybe it is. But I have a mortgage and have a 401k. I'm outside the demographic.

If you don't know - it is a somewhat recurring character on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force - a show on Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network.

As one astute commenter on the Hub wrote, I'm not sure what is more disturbing: that the guerrilla ads were posted for three weeks before anyone noticed or that because they basically shut down the city for a few hours.

Indeed.

Meanwhile, aged anchors are talking about these cartoon characters and keep saying "Mooninite" which is very silly. And once they figured out, hours later, that these were cartoon characters - they started to carefully blur out the left hand of the Mooninite because that hand is flipping the bird.

So to recap: the city was freaked out by a cartoon alien from the moon flipping the bird. Film at 11.

I expect that some member of my family will call any minute.

Labels: 2007, Boston, evil bird, weird stuff