ATTENTION: There is a travel advisory for visitors to the third planet in the Sol system. Reports of theft on this planet are rampant. Travelers are advised to not leave their possessions unattended.
Hijinx involving a popular Bavarian woody seems to be a fitting addition to the conversation.
I really enjoy public art. Really.
From the cited article:
Probably swallowed by some beaver.
The third monolith, near Atascadero, has been torn down by assholes who replaced it with a cross.
Seen on a bumper sticker near Atascadero:
My imaginary friend can beat up your imaginary friend.
No, He can’t.
My gawd, they’re breeding! Soon we’ll be overrun!
Anybody else remember the movie “The Monolith Monsters”?
[Raises hand]
One comment though, while it was a B movie and should be a good MST3000 fodder, back in the 50s there were scenes that recalled and were similar to the polio epidemics of the day, (one treatment for the crystals from the monoliths that turned people into stone were iron lungs) it was very scary stuff back then.
- Nightmare Fuel: The monoliths aren’t viscerally scary, but they’re absolutely relentless. It’s surprisingly effective.
- The various scenes in which people being essentially turned to stone by the space rocks is compared to the effects of polio. This might take some explaining, but even as late as the 50’s polio was scary . At best it left you partially paralyzed; at worst, you were trapped in an iron lung, unable to move, for the rest of your life. To the generation that first saw this film, this was pure undiluted horror.
Jupiter will turn into a second sun this week.
At which point the anti-global warming crowd will immediately issue blanket denials that any of Jupiter’s extra energy streaming into the Earth will (or even could) have any effect on Earthly climate.
And even if it does have an effect, it’ll only be beneficial everywhere always.
Mark my words; you read it here first! 
Me, too. One of the standouts of 1950s Monster Movie Flicks (along with The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and Kronos) because it was so outside the usual orbit of that limited genre.
Sons of Gorignak
Anthropomorphic Jupiter? Has there been secret space colonization I should know about?
In the unlikely event you’re not joking and I’m being whoosed, check out the post just above the post of mine that you quoted.
That would be something wonderful.
Full Frontal Nerdity has been playing with the monoliths all week.