Hmm…dating a celebrity seems like it would be fun…until the cameras start rolling.
Is your girlfriend’s life being documented for the drama factor?
Hmm…dating a celebrity seems like it would be fun…until the cameras start rolling.
Is your girlfriend’s life being documented for the drama factor?
By: Alien Jones, Intergalactic Correspondent
Greetings Earth Losers!
Alien Jones here once again to educate humanity’s masses and help you help yourselves.
This week, avid Bookshelf Battle Blog Reader “Sledpress” has consulted my genius brain thusly:
“But I WANT to see “Flatulence Intervention!” One of my string of weird ex’es needs it…
On the other hand, I’ve been meaning to ask AJ whether a majority of aliens have weirdly wrinkled and shiny leathery skin, or if it’s just that somewhere in Hollywood there are warehouses full of unused Naugahyde that they have to work off.”
Flatulence Intervention is just one of the many reality television programs that my Supreme Overlord, the Mighty Potentate wants off Earth airwaves before it offends his eye receptacles on our home planet, the name of which I’m not allowed to tell you as His Royal Pontentositude fears Hollywood suits will spend copious amounts of Earth money to unlock intergalactic travel for humanity for the sole purpose of peddling reality TV to our home world.
Other Reality TV programs that offend His Epic Potentosity:
Anyway, Sledpress basically wants to know if Hollywood is doing a good job of capturing what aliens look like.
Well, yes and no.
With their limited imaginations, humans conceive of the concept that there are worlds where beings look vastly different than what they are used to.
For example, renowned science fiction director James Cameron provided your world with the grotesque and hideously scary “Aliens” in the Alien movies.
Years later, he tried to make a fictional species that appeared beautiful in 2009’s Avatar but the effort fell flat and he basically just produced a race of half-man/half-smurfs.
(Seriously, everyone and their Uncle opined that damn movie was going to be the best thing since sliced bread but you haven’t watched it again since you saw it in the theater have you?)
Where Cameron gets it right is this: there are some alien species that you humans, based on your own concepts of beauty, would find attractive or disgusting.
However, keep in mind that beauty or ugliness is in the eye of the beholder.
Some beings would never be attracted to beings with “wrinkly naugahyde skin.” Others won’t go anywhere near a being who doesn’t have it.
It’s a diverse universe out there and every alien has their own preconceived notions of what is and is not appealing.
Personally, I’m glad that my species has developed cloning and outgrown the need for procreation, as that’s a whole rat race that isn’t worth it. My government mandated life mate and I get along because the Mighty Potentate demands that we do so and that’s all this being needs to know.
Alien Jones is the Intergalactic Correspondent for the Bookshelf Battle Blog, on a mission to raise Earth’s collective intelligence levels one question at a time. Do you have a question for the Esteemed Brainy One? Tweet it to @bookshelfbattle on Twitter, leave it in the comments on bookshelfbattle.com, or stop by Bookshelf Battle on Google Plus. If he likes your question, he might even promote your book, blog, other project in his answer.
Alien image courtesy of a shutterstock.com license.
Alien Jones.
He’s on a two-fold mission:
1) Help get Bookshelf Q. Battler’s blog off the ground, thus introducing a writer who will stem the tide of reality programming. AJ’s boss, the Mighty Potentate, hates reality programming.
2) Answer questions posed to him in his “Ask the Alien” column, which he writes in an effort to raise Earth’s collective level of intelligence and help it overcome its label of “Dumbest Planet in the Universe.” (Theoretically, this could help with the anti-reality TV mission.)
Do you have a question for the Esteemed Brainy one? Submit it in the comments, tweet it to @bookshelfbattle or leave it on the Bookshelf Battle Google Plus page.
Together, we can stop the onslaught of reality programming, thus ensuring the Mighty Potentate’s eye holes won’t be offended by the likes of:
Reality TV Shows the Mighty Potentate Hates
1) Goat Martial Artists
2) Nazi Housewives of Kalamazoo
3) Flatulence Intervention
4) Who Wants to Marry a Clown? (As in an actual circus clown)
5) The spin off – America’s Next Top Clown (Clowns compete in a clown judged competition to be the nation’s favorite clown)
6) Dancing with the Hobos
7) Day in the Life of Insert Formerly Fabulous Now Elderly and Incompetent Movie Star, Singer, Other Entertainer
8) Satan’s Breakfast Nook (It’s like Hell’s Kitchen, but an angry chef yells at you that you’re scrambling the eggs all wrong)
9) Schmuck Island
10) Antique Ninjas (Not old ninjas but ninjas who go antiquing)
Alien Jones hates stupidity and intergalactic fast food workers who forget to put his honey mustard sauce in the bag.
He’ll have to get his own honey mustard, but let’s him help him answer some questions. Ask away.
As always, he’ll plug your book or blog in his answer.
Alien abduction image courtesy of a shutterstock.com license
Greetings Earth Losers!
Alien Jones here. As you 3.5 readers are aware, I hail from the most intelligent species in the universe and therefore hold in my cranium a vast reserve of knowledge to answer your questions.
My planet’s Supreme Ruler, The Mighty Potentate, has commanded me to help Bookshelf Q. Battler usher in a new era of entertainment that will push back the scourge of reality television.
Yes, the Mighty Potentate loves his scripted TV and fears that if left unchecked, the reality menace will one day offend his eye receptacles. No one wants a TV full of “Hollywood Housewives on Crack” or “Undercover Dentist” or “Who Wants to Marry a Schmuck?”
(Between you and me, I actually quite enjoyed Who Wants to Marry a Schmuck? The schmuck was the best part. Don’t tell the Mighty Potentate though.)
Anyway, this summer marks Bookshelf Q. Battler’s effort to bring more followers to the blog. That’s fine by me because as soon as BQB starts getting paid for writing the Mighty Potentate will release me from my columnist duties.
How do I, a lowly human, follow Bookshelf Q. Battler?
TWITTER – @bookshelfbattle
GOOGLE+ – https://plus.google.com/+BookshelfBattleblog/posts
It’s not that it takes much effort to write this column. My powerful mind allows me to perform hundreds of tasks simultaneously.
I just feel my brilliance needs to be exposed to more than 3.5 readers.
By the way, if you have a question, I’ll answer it, as I am also on a mission to raise Earth’s collective intelligence levels one answer at a time.
You can ask your questions through this site or the same Twitter and Google Plus info above.
The Mighty Potentate has declared your planet to be uber stupid.
No offense.
Alien image courtesy of a shutter stock.com license.