Parodies-r-us

[jay]

Now remembering the goofball reporter that called me on 9/26, just before I left for the field... I should have known better. Apparently this week's local entertainment tabloid (San Jose "Metro") includes a story poking fun at Mars robotics in general and parodying the subject. I haven't seen the story, but am apparently mocked, misunderstood (intentionally?) and taken far out of context... and I apparently "badly need a wedgie", as quoted by a co-worker via email. I haven't seen the article myself... just as well I'm in Spain, I suspect.

Comments

[phoenixrisen.livejournal.com]

Umm - what a ridiculously humiliating article. For the writer, that is, not you. Apart from not being in the least bit funny, it comes across to me as something written by someone who's watched way too many science fiction movies and as such has totally closed their minds to the possibility that there may be fascinating things out there that we never could have imagined. And the R2D2/Hal thing? Oh please.

I'm no writer, and even I can tell this is just so much hogwash. Sorry you had to be the brunt of such a pathetic attempt at parody.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's almost a meta-parody... and I'm still waiting for someone to attempt the wedgie thing, but most of the folks here have geeky credentials equal to my own (or more so ;).