The sky is falling (and it’s rectangular)

Published 12:01 am Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Don’t tell Chicken Little: Nobody’s really sure what it is, but a thin sheet of metal, 23 by 18 inches, fell on a Mountlake Terrace house earlier this month. The residents heard the rectangle whooshing through the air before it landed on their roof. Officials at Paine Field airport examined the object, but don’t think it fell off an airplane.

Airplane? No. More than likely, it fell off a souped-up saucer, but the teenage humanoids from Omnichron 6 who lost the panel taking a corner too quickly around the International Space Station are too embarrassed to claim it.

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“Surrender, Dorothy”: Young New Englanders are fond of using the word “wicked” as a modifier when describing sports teams, the weather or anything else. Now, it’s a marketing tool for T-shirts, food companies and muffler shops .

Citing infringement of trademark, the Wicked Witches of the West and East, LLC, have sent cease-and-desist letters to everyone in Boston under 35.

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From the shores of Tripoli: His leadership shaken, Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi appeared briefly on state TV to deny he had fled to Venezuela. “Don’t believe those misleading dog stations,” Gadhafi declared.

Regardless, the Animal Planet channel stuck by its reporting that Gadhafi is on his way out.