Wednesday, September 19, 2007

It's Beginning

A friend tipped me off that early reports of the recent "meteor crash" in Peru included eyewitness claims that the recently dead came back to life, not in a resurrection way, more in a let's eat, dawn of the dead kind of way. At first this sounded specious, but after reading the reportage, and by this I mean reading between the lines of the reportage (as any non-brainwashed citizen ought), thee distinct possibilities became clear:

1) The author of the The Blob was a prescient genius.

2a) The builders of the meso-american pyramids were not slaves, nor were they merely alien - they were undead hordes enslaved by aliens.
2b) The masters are back.

3) This is part of an aggressive viral marketing campaign for the upcoming X-Files sequel.

Option 1 is almost certainly false (as any who have seen the film can attest) and is included simply to show that all possibilities are being considered, however absurd*. Option 3 is likely on the surface, but upon consideration proves highly risky in terms of liability for those injured by the marketing and is therefore improbable given the current litagous climate in Hollywood and the United States (also it's a good idea and a good idea from the X-Files camp seems unlikely and suspect at this stage in the franchise). Therefore Occam's Razor directs us toward number 2 as the most likely explanation.

*Obviously a literal meteorite is ruled out on several grounds. Firstly, authorities are warning people to stay away from the crash site - a textbook response to alien encounters. Second, leading news organizations are keeping the word "meteor crash" in quotations. This has always been obvious code for alien spacecraft.

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