Is this a business we really want to get into?
From Reuters:
First clown in space hosts show to save Earth's water
By Jill Serjeant
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Wearing a red clown nose, the Canadian founder of Cirque du Soleil hosted an out-of-this-world performance event on Friday, saying he wanted to use his trip as a space tourist to highlight the scarcity of water on Earth.
Guy Laliberte's two-hour performance event called "Moving Stars and Earth for Water" linked the International Space Station with singers, dancers and celebrity campaigners in 14 world cities in what organizers called the first event of its kind to be hosted from space.
"I see stars, I see darkness and emptiness. But planet Earth looks so great, and also so fragile," Laliberte said from the International Space Station, where he has spent the past week after paying $35 million to fly on a Russian spacecraft and become the world's seventh space tourist.
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Irish singer Bono, chatting with Laliberte from a U2 concert in Florida, called the former street performer "the first clown in space."
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Space clowns.
And just days before that we're pumping slugs into the Moon like Norma Desmond dispatching Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard.
You know, when the silver ship comes to hand out the ass kickings
let it be noted that some of us did try stop the madness.
2 comments:
Not that it will have helped at all.
(Now that was truely a space man! And my first scifi movie. Loved Michael Rennie!)
Thanks, Dg.
S
let it be noted that some of us did try stop the madness.
"We care nothing about your petty squabbles."
Now there was an alien who knew how to put us in our place!
Although, come to think of it, the only thing the Killer Klowns wanted was to play nasty tricks on people and then cocoon them in pink cotton candy that dissolved them into a nutritious liquid snack. That's even more humbling.
And dammit, now I've got the theme song to that silly-ass film running through my head!
Actually, my theory is that visitors from outer space come here to laugh at us. We're the slapstick and scat comedy of the universe.
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