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...guerilla advertising,” deliberately planted—in the coldest of blood—lighted devices around our fair city. Their plan? To forever change our way of life by inducing us to watch a certain television program, evilly titled “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.” The perpetrators of this plot, who—much like Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri—have facial hair, calculatedly placed light boxes with sinister circuits of wires, batteries, duct tape, and a lighted cartoon character in strategic locations throughout the city. The danger posed...
Starting the next day, the food got worse. Some days there was just a little dry rice with boiled cabbage, others just some boiled sweet potatoes. Hunger became a permanent state, an ever present hollowness. The flesh on my body slowly melted away, my eyesight deteriorated, and simple activities such as washing clothes exhausted me. From time to time, I was called for special indoctrination and questioning by militant guards. The guards used these occasions to abuse me verbally and to tell me I would be shot soon or kept at the detention house for the rest of my life...
...recesses of my brain verses that had lain dormant for decades. Whenever I managed to piece together a whole poem, I felt a sense of happy accomplishment. My persistent efforts to maintain sanity had a measure of success. But there were still moments when I was so burdened with hunger and misery that I was tempted to let go my tenuous grip on the lifeline of survival. At those times, I had to depend on conflict with the guards to stimulate my fighting spirit. ''How long do I have to wait for the government to investigate my case?'' I would...
...Longfellow Bridge and parts of Interstate 93. The hysteria eased, however, when investigators discovered that the packages were in fact part of an outdoor Turner Broadcasting marketing campaign. The network had placed the packages to promote Adult Swim’s animated television show, “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” according to a statement from Turner reported in The Boston Globe. The statement said the packages were “magnetic lights that pose no danger.” The first of the packages was discovered at Sullivan Square in Boston and was destroyed by authorities...
...assume, to me. I order the Earl Grey tea and the Macbeth--a petite ham-and-cheese panini, the preferred snack of bloody-minded Scottish tyrants. Mikami leaves to prepare the tea but not before showing us a golden bell we can use to summon him. We hunger. We ring. He runs. Six seconds. Jeeves would be proud...