Writer's Block: The X-Files Birthday

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Like many fans, my stand-out favorite is "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" which was almost a total parody of everything The X-Files took seriously. It had a deliberately cheesy stop-motion alien monster, Alex Trebek and Jesse Ventura as a pair of Men In Black, and a sheriff who edits out all his foul language as he talks. ("That's a bleepin' dead alien alright.")

Other favorites of mine include:

-"Home", about incestuous backwoods mutants

-The "crossover" episode with reality-TV series COPS.

-The one where Bruce Campbell played a demon with a domineering wife.

Man, I still need to see the newest movie...

Black Hole Sun! Black Hole Sun!

So I saw a headline yesterday about someone somewhere getting ready to test the biggest particle accelerator ever built. I was like "oh that's nice" and moved on.

Now today, all over LJ all these people are like "OMG we're still here! A black hole didn't open up and crush everything! The particle accelerator didn't destroy the world!"

I was completely unaware of the threat. Oh wait, that's because there wasn't one! The particle accelerator was never going to open up a hole in the world and suck us all in. Somebody apparently completely misunderstood how particle accelerators worked and started a panic about it. Heck, I don't know how particle accelerators work and I've never been particularly worried about them. I'll bet the same goes for most other people who aren't physicists, so why did they get worried about this other than because some jerk on the internet said so?

People are such ignorant savages.