Joshenilia (16)
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April 24, 2016
One in a series of posts exhuming the juvenilia and significant objects of HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn.
On January 31, 2007, panicky police officers in Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville mistakenly identified battery-powered LED placards, which (to be fair to the police) had been attached to bridges and other infrastructure in the dead of night, as improvised explosive devices. Even as Globe reporters were writing sensationalized stories about these “suspicious objects,” a few of us at the Globe — that’s me and Tito Bottita, now one of the principals of the Boston-based creative studio Upstatement, in the photo above — realized that the devices were part of a guerrilla marketing campaign for an Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie.
While I was covering the story for BRAINIAC, the Globe blog I’d recently started, Tito went out and actually found one of the “Mooninite” devices. I’m jealous. What a souvenir.
READ MORE essays by Joshua Glenn, originally published in: THE BAFFLER | BOSTON GLOBE IDEAS | BRAINIAC | CABINET | FEED | HERMENAUT | HILOBROW | HILOBROW: GENERATIONS | HILOBROW: RADIUM AGE SCIENCE FICTION | HILOBROW: SHOCKING BLOCKING | THE IDLER | IO9 | N+1 | NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | SEMIONAUT | SLATE