It's not every day that you find new heroes. But today is one of those days (see, told you February would be awesome). In case you've been living under a rock, two guys (pictured left) were arrested for putting up what amounted to self-powered Lite Brites of Err from Aqua Teen Hungerforce all over Boston. Heaven help us all when batteries and lights are strung together in a way that could only be called... harmless.

The initial reporting is the most insightful to understand how out of proportion this has been blown. The subways were shut down and so was a bridge because there were wires and a circuit board. Amazingly ridiculous. But here's the interesting part, "devices have been in place for two to three weeks in 10 cities: Boston; New York; Los Angeles; Chicago; Atlanta; Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Austin, Texas; San Francisco; and Philadelphia." These devices had been up for at least two weeks in Boston with no problems. They had been up all over the country with no problems. And suddenly, we're in such a state of fear that a whole city practically shuts down?

It is overreaction to the misunderstood that makes America so boring to live in sometimes. I'm not calling for performance art to be placed at every single step in a busy city, but the fact that two guys advertising a show (and a movie to be released March 23) were hauled off to prison because people didn't fully understand what was going on, is quite pathetic. It makes life duller to have only pre-approved forms of art and individual growth is stifled by only experiencing what you expect.

Anyway, the whole thing is too comical to get too hung up on. Clearly, as this fantastic video demonstrates, Peter and Sean aren't getting hung up.



Here are some great pics that exemplify how out of control this all got in a very short time:

So that's what a WMD looks like.

"Yeah, I mean we were going to go get some donuts and write traffic tickets, but we could go look at that."

Careful... those Duracell batteries might asplode!

"These mics have wires and lights. They also might be bombs."

Nothing says overblown like props. Where's the little vial of anthrax?

"Yeahhh...we might have fucked up on this one."

Feel free to add your own captions in the comments. I'm pretty tired today. The ol' wit isn't firing like it used to.

Danger! Doom! Aqua Teen Hunger Force!

I still haven't sorted out what I'm going to do with Mediafire. So I'm going to piggyback off of this music posting by Los Amigos De Durutti. From the album that used to be on nonstop play at work about a year ago, we have a perfect fit for the Beantown insanity:

Dangerdoom - Aqua Teen Hungerforce