SEATTLE - Seattle residents were enjoying a chuckle Tuesday asthey wondered who, or what, planted a rectangular
black monolith in a popular park on the first day of
2001. The 9-foot steel box was an obvious salute to
the classic Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space
Odyssey, in which a similar-looking object pops up in
a prehistoric setting and radiates a form of energy
that somehow kicks in the development of human-like
intelligence among the local apes. I feel my
intelligence increasing by the moment, passerby Denny
Sargent joked to the Seattle Times. The only
indication that earthly beings were behind its
planting was some soil packed around the base and some
bottle tops, indicating the crew apparently paused for
some liquid refreshments.
I'm more or less bad ass.
