last night kevin and i watched “mars attack” again, and we realized that stephen hawking must have just watched it for the first time and gone into a panic.
OH NO, he must have said, ALIENS ARE VERY BAD, as lisa marie glided through the white house and killed the family dog, and eventually, glenn close.
WE NEED TO RE-THINK SENDING OUT THESE SIGNALS TRYING TO FIND THEM, he thought, as poor sarah jessica parker was decapitated, her head attached to the body of her chihuaha.
actually, sarah jp didn’t seem to mind so much that she had her dog’s body. at least it was a tiny little dog and not some big slobbering thing; that would have definitely made her very upset because her clothes wouldn’t fit anymore.
stephen’s feeling that aliens out there definitely exist and we should STOP TRYING TO CONTACT THEM ALREADY because they are PROBABLY BAD certainly has a very long precedent. War of the World. Aliens, all of them, of course, Signs, Men in Black (although some of the aliens were ok), Predator…and the list would go on if i could think of any more this morning.
on the other hand, not to discredit steve at all, there was also Star Man, Star Trek Voyager (except for the klingons of course), Earth Girls are Easy, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and of course, the ultimate good alien, E.T.
so, mr. stephen, maybe you should calm down and watch E.T. no need to send humankind into a big tizzy right now. we manage to have many other things to get all worked up about as it is.
and for goodness sakes, when any of the Aliens movies comes on late night TV, JUST TURN IT OFF.
ok then,
grace trying to solve big world problems.
p.s. if stephen IS right, well then, i maintain that we need to have a WHOLE LOT MORE FUN right now, EACH AND EVERY DAY, if we’re just going to get taken over by aliens, wiped out, enslaved, and turned into half-dogs.
i think i’ll get an ice cream cone today.