Word: cardboard
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Very few book parties feature a man whose face is a giant cardboard...
Hipper-than-thou trends like this one tend to slip under my radar. But I had the pleasure of chatting it up with a man wearing a cardboard box over his head at the book party for the Practical Guide thanks to the good graces of an FM story assignment. The result: a membership on the Kaiju fan e-mail list and an invitation to this oh-so-happening fete...
...supporters say that Kaiju is about more than just dressing up in bizarre foam rubber and cardboard costumes and romping. It’s about monsters and men working clandestinely to dominate the world and the heroes that try to stop them...
...barely escaped the security officials who hustled petitioners into vans to send them back to their hometowns. He lost his blanket and clothes in the raid, forcing him to keep warm in the dismally cold days that followed by building a tiny fire out of scraps of cardboard. Most of the petitioners' makeshift homes?built of plastic foam, plastic and tarp?were destroyed. Still, says Li, "[The petitioners] will be back. This is their only goal in life...
...definite scarcity of good monsters these days. Oh, nobody says anything about it--nobody wants to be outed as a monster lover--but really nasty, credible, plausible evil is in short supply. (At least in the world of fiction. Plenty of it running around in real life.) Voldemort? Cardboard. Magneto? Not bad, except for that silly hat. Sauron? He's an eyeball. What, he's going to blink you to death...