I'm proud to say that my city was paralyzed yesterday by a friggin Lite Brite. People need to shed their cornered-animal mentalities and learn to lighten up. Other cities have had been part of this "guerrilla marketing" campaign (I refuse to call it a "hoax", as the media are referring to it), and not panicked in the slightest. But I guess this was the sort of response that the Department of Homeland Security's terror alert system and "constant vigilance" campaign were supposed to elicit. Bravo on a job well done. Panicked animals are easier to control. Unless they lash out and behave unpredictably, that is.

When I was visiting family in Philadelphia around Thanksgiving, they had these there too, as well as a giant billboard of a Mooninite giving passing cars the middle finger along one of the USA's busiest highways, Interstate 95. Hundreds of thousands of people saw this billboard every day. Ruth and I just about split our sides laughing.