mooninites

Help a Lite Brite Boy's mother escape

adamg — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:48:08 +0000

Peter Berdovsky (the one with the hair) is originally from Belarus. His mother's still there. YourArlington.com reports (scroll past the poll) on a benefit show March 8 to help her get out:

... While staying in the United States I have been finding out that most of my family in totalitarian Belarus have been dying one by one in mysterious circumstances. Now, only my mother is left from my close relatives.

"And the authorities have recently locked her up into a mental institution for not complying with them. She was facing an uphill legal battle to try to preserve her land and property and has made a decision to immigrate to Poland. ...

It's like the anniversary of the Blizzard of '78, only stupider

adamg — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:34:57 +0000

Bostonist reminds us what happened one year ago today, with an e-postcard sent out by one of the participants (hint) . Also, local artistes remember with LED art all over the city. The one saving grace: Couple the anniversary with the news that Bruce Willis is coming to Boston to film a movie about run-amok androids or something and it gives me a reason to run this great trailer again:

Globe reporter says Herald sucks, at least when it comes to Peter Berdovsky

adamg — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:09:36 +0000

Mooninites! Boy, that's a word I was hoping I'd never have to hear again. But Associated Press did a whatever happened to? story on Peter Berdovsky, one of the Lite Brite boys, and the Herald followed up with its own story on how Berdovsky must be made to pay as hard as he can and now Geoff Edgers at the Globe is busy deconstructing what he calls "an exercise in journalistic knee-jerkism" and an example of why "why younger people are abandoning newspapers in droves" by the Herald's Joe Dwinell. He also provides a sample of the sort of art the Herald seems to imply Berdovsky should be making.

Meanwhile, over at Boston Magazine, Amy Derjue tells Berdovsky to just shut his yap and grow up already and sternly advises Boston City Council President Maureen Feeney, who wants to send Berdovsky to bed without any dessert, to stop being such an enabler.

Bonus inside-baseball fun fact: Edgers and Dwinell used to work together at the Middlesex News in Framingham (I'm also an alum of the paper, but don't hold that against me).

The last Mooninite post?

adamg — Fri, 11 May 2007 16:21:35 +0000

The boys have done some community service at Spaulding Hospital, they showed up in court all contrite and polite and stuff and so now they're free to go.

Mooninite Lite in Newton

adamg — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:55:38 +0000

Greg Reibman reports the Walnut Street parking lot at amazing Newton North High School was shut down - and a state police bomb robot (and the mayor) brought in - after the discovery of several potential bombs hanging on a fence. They turned out to be backpacks advertising some Web site - with fake money attached:

Police are comparing today's bomb scare to the promotional gimmick which shut down much of Boston, Cambridge and Somerville in January.

A parent reports the school was not evacuated.

It takes a lot to make him feel sorry for marketers

adamg — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:44:15 +0000

So the Boston City Council will consider requiring marketers to get city permission before "pushing products." Michael Femia thinks the Council needs some craft projects to keep themselves busy:

... Does this mean all the flyers on all the lampposts in Allston will be regulated? Signs advocating electing a new slate of City Councilors? ...

Does this mean everyone whose commercial airs on television within the city limits falls under the City Council's jurisdiction? And finally - and most importantly - can we preemptively revoke the license that allows Ernie Boch Jr. ads to run in the city? ...

Lite Brite or Die Hard

adamg — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:27:45 +0000

If you only see one movie this year, make it this one (Bostonians will love the clip of Brian Williams reporting with the fake Boston skyscraper over his shoulder):

Marking things for the bomb squad

adamg — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:50:43 +0000

Rod Begbie is going around Cambridge putting Not a Bomb stickers on objects to make life easier for local bomb squads.

Earlier:
Bomb squad detonates traffic counter.
Mooninites.

Mooninite lesson: Don't be an asshole

adamg — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:56:52 +0000

If you get arrested for planting light-up cartoon characters and then hold a bozo press conference, don't count on getting the charges dropped anytime soon. If you plant what looks like a real bomb, but keep your mouth shut, you have nothing to worry about.

Cartoon Network honcho quits in mooninite dustup

adamg — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:47:19 +0000

Jim Samples tells network staffers he's resigning because of the uproar here in the Hub, not because the stunt failed to lift ratings for the show.

Via John Cass.

Sacco and Vanzetti, they're not

adamg — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:24:29 +0000

Mike Mennonno tells the LiteBriters (and their supporters) to suck it up:

... And let's face it. They had not done anything subversive at all, but were acting like they were these indie countercultural heroes. These tools got paid--what?--like, three hundred bucks each, to do Time-Warner's bidding? Not only were they media whores, they were cheap media whores. And they acted it all through their little fifteen minutes--and they were sure as heck gonna get every last second of those fifteen minutes, weren't they? Their lawyer had to practically pry their white knuckles from the mic.

Now it's on to the shit-heap of history, boys.

And as for everybody ragging on ol' Mumbles Menino. At least he's got an excuse for being naff. And guess what, bitches? He got a cool couple million out of Time-Warner for his trouble. So who's the tool now? ...

It's official: We're a joke

adamg — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:50:47 +0000

It's all over when the fat lady sings, um, the Onion does a man-in-the-street about you:

... "What about all the Cheers shit you used to see around town? Man, that used to freak me out all the time."

Finally, we can put our long mooninite nightmare behind us

adamg — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:00:14 +0000

I know I'll sleep easier tonight, knowing that John Stossel has finally weighed in on the whole thing:

... The news media went wild, with television stations interrupting programs for alerts, and breathless TV reporters talking about the "terrorism threat." This went on all day. ...

Tough talk from a man who once did a breathless feature on dwarf tossing.

Oh, and there's now a support site for the two LiteBriters - Alas, no forum to discuss what they were doing videoing the emergency crews rather then telling them what that thing above Sullivan Square was.

If we can get $2 million for LiteBrites, what can Portsmouth, NH get for an Altoids tin?

adamg — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:56:48 +0000

The Manchester Union-Leader reports that police want to question a geocacher who left an Altoids box attached with magnets to an electrical panel outside a Shaw's as a prize for fellow geocachers (you know, those people who try to find things using their handheld GPS units).

... "I'm so embarrassed," Lord said last night. "I've heard of people who actually make their caches look like something more dangerous than they are. Then I look at mine, a little mint box. No wires. No gimmicks. I never intended to cause any trouble."

Portsmouth police Lt. Rodney McQuate said detectives are waiting for a call from Lord before they decide if charges - including misdemeanor disorderly conduct and causing a false public alarm - will be lodged against him. ...

No word, however, on whether Portsmouth will try to negotiate a large financial settlement with him for the tens of dollars in overtime the police have no doubt spent on the case.

Via Flashes of Panic, a geocacher who expresses contempt for the guy.

Number 1 with an LED

adamg — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:47:18 +0000

This is Casey Kasem with today's number-1 hit: 99 Mooninites by ~~Nena~~ Juldea. Lyrics by ~~Holland Dozier Holland~~ Spatch.

This is Casey Kasem saying: Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the I-93 overpass.