John’s Crawlspace

So I had a pretty crazy weekend. I was heading to Shippensburg on Friday and it was raining pretty hard. I was going over a bridge, and the guy in front of me slammed on his brakes. I braked hard but my car slid and slammed right into the back of his. His car was fine, but the front of mine is pretty messed up. It turns our that this guy graduated from Shippensburg as well, and he was really cool about the whole thing. He felt that the accident wasn’t my fault at all, but wanted to call the police just so he’d have an incident number for insurance purposes. So the cops show up, and naturally they screwed me over. Not only did I leave the scene of the accident with what’s probably over $1000 of damage to my car, they also gave me a citation for “following too closely”. This is total bullshit, especially since they weren’t even there to witness the accident, and the other guy vouched for the fact that I wasn’t to blame for the accident. We were going over a bridge and the roads were slippery as hell anyway. So I’m gonna have to fight that… If I get any more points on my license, I’ll lose it.

Anyway, we did make it to Ship. We were hanging out at my friend’s house, and some people went out to bars, while the rest of us stayed and hung out there. The people who went to the bars ended up coming back with Chris Raab (from CKY/Jackass) and the guys from London File, who had played earlier that night at Market Cross, one of the bars in Shippensburg. So that was interesting. I had heard that Raab was back at Shippensburg taking classes, but didn’t think I’d end up running into him or anything. If you’re into jam band type stuff, London File is actually worth checking out, and they seemed like cool guys too. Anyway, I was up until 6:30 AM Saturday morning, and ended up getting about 3 hours of sleep. Later on Saturday, I turned on WSYC (the campus radio station) because I remembered Raab saying the night before that he’d be on there. Literally the second I turned it on, he was talking about his Friday night. It was pretty wierd to hear him talking about being at my friend’s house and all the stuff that was going on there. All in all I’d say I had a good weekend, but now I need to start looking for a new car because it just doesn’t make sense to put any more money into the one I have now.

I’m sure that by now a decent amount of you have heard about the “bomb scare” in Boston. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s what happened. As part of a guerrilla marketing campaign to promote the Adult Swim show “Aqua Teen Hunger Force”, devices were placed at bridges and other landmarks in 10 cities. These devices were basically circuit boards wrapped in duct tape with LEDs that, when lit up, would display Ignignokt (one half of the Mooninite duo from the show) flipping the bird. There were 38 of these in Boston. It is unknown exactly how many of these were placed in the other cities: 56 were confiscated in Philadelphia, and 41 in New York. These were also placed in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Austin, and San Francisco. But Boston is special. After someone reported what they suspected to be an explosive device, Boston went into terror-alert mode on Wednesday, and as a result Boston University was closed, as well as at least two bridges and the passage from the Charles River into Boston Harbor. The coast gaurd also closed the river to boat traffic. Police were assisted by bomb squards in scouring the city to locate (and apparently blow up) the signs. These signs had been in place for up to three weeks… I don’t understand how if someone thought these were bombs, it took them that long to report them. I can’t imagine being paranoid enough to think these were bombs, but at the same time being so lazy that it took me several weeks to do anything about it. Peter Berdovsky, 27, and Sean Stevens, 28, have been charged with creating a hoax leading to public disorder (a felony) and disorderly conduct (a misdemeanor) by Boston’s District Attorney. I’m not sure what’s better: Boston’s ridiculous reaction to the whole ordeal, or the press conference given by Berdovsky and Stevens (check out the video here) in which they refuse to talk about anything but 70s haircuts. Anyway… The thought of a bomb being presented in this manner (with a cartoon character giving the middle finger) reminds me of something straight out of Batman. I could see the Joker placing bombs around Gotham City with big evil looking smiley faces on them or something. The cops would gather around the bomb and prod it and then it would start emitting purple gas and put the whole city to sleep. For more details check out the Wikipedia article 2007 Boston Security Scare. Oh yeah, and check out the trailer for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. I am doing this as hard as I have ever done it before!

I definitely saw this coming, but it’s worth checking out anyway: The frat guys who sued Borat lost.

I don’t know about you, but this is my idea of a perfect date. Ouch. That’s all for today, folks.

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