We're celebrating Klordny Week, Superboy!

I wonder if he adopted the alias right after his template's death?

October 31
[Aberrant] Duke Rollo, neo-Gonzo journalist, is in Miami, watching 6,000 teenagers hump on the beach at MTV3's expense (including one poor girl who gets passed around like a bomber joint by "a detachment of turgid, drunken Sigma Phi Fuckheads").

I've mentioned this party before. Dr. Rollo wrote about it in his "Normal Lives" column for Flare, in an installment entitled "My Plane Crashed on the Damn Runway Again" — based on his experience that "[a]nytime anyone with anywhere to be at any point during the day needs to visit Miami, their plane crashes on the damn runway."

Actually, the battling novas — black Muslim rap star Mefistofaleez and "private police nova" the Miami Streak* — were only a contributory factor in the plane's crash. The "pointless redneck brawl between these two atavisms" had gotten off the highway and onto an MIA runway. "The pilot, in an unwarranted fit of compassion, jerked the plane back up to avoid the slugfesting dimwits in the landing path." This attempt at aerodynamically unsupported VTOL had the nasty side-effect of snapping the wings off the 797, which thereupon executed the previously-mentioned 30-foot plummet. The devil-masked militant and Quantum Boom Records CEO ate a fine of US$900,000, half of which went to buy fresh wings for the plane and the other half into United Airlines' insurance fund.

( Kicking the gods of booze and death in the testicles is not for everyone. )

2000
[Aberrant] The first movie to feature nova actors opens to rave reviews. Stephen Spielberg's Nova is the story of a young man who emerges [sic] as a nova, then dedicates his life to righting the wrongs of society. Various famous novas figure prominently in the cast. The movie breaks all previous sales records, staying in the top spot throughout the summer. Nova goes on to sweep the Academy Awards the next spring, winning a record 18 Oscars.

This was never exactly going to be an Aberrant Life entry. I couldn't have written it on Hugh's terms without a lot of evasion and circumlocution, because (as in the Schroer entry I planned to write) I'd have had to refer to things that may never have occurred to him.

How did N-Day change the face of the media? Specifically, what did it do to a number of things we now take for granted?

( Mutation. It is the key to our cinematic heritage. )