Blogs Dig Blob

The local blogosphere loved Tuesday's Daily News headline, "Mystery blob eating downtown." Some reax:

Blogging.la (where we grabbed the above image): Best Headline Ever. This was Tuesday's Daily News headline. I wonder if paper sales spiked because of it. Probably not. Probably only weirdo, easily amused, former X-Files fans found themselves shelling out .54 cents for this one. People like me.

Anyone ever find out what the mystery blob was? Please tell me the blob is sentient, please tell me the blob is sentient, please...

Defamer: Extra! Surprise Blob Attacks Downtown. We’d like to welcome all visitors to the fine city of Los Angeles, a town so consumed by its history as the entertainment capital of the world that it recreates a classic B-movie disaster scenario each day of the week for the benefit of our tourists.

If you enjoyed yesterday’s dramatic blob attack downtown, make sure you spend tomorrow on the Walk of Fame, where you’ll have a stunning view as a number of Hollywood’s landmarks are vaporized by Martian spaceships that curiously resemble huge, spinning paper plates.

KROQ's Bean: Best headline of the day yesterday was from L.A.'s "Daily News": "Mystery Blob Eating Downtown"! Okay, the exclamation point is mine but how awesome is that? A "tar-like goo" is oozing from manholes downtown and heating the sidewalks to 100 degrees. Some streets have buckled. Building foundations have shifted. No one knows what it is....or what it's come to Earth to do!!!!!!!

The WOW Report: Ooze to Blame Los Angeles does in fact have a daily newspaper other than the LA Times. It's the Daily News and its alarming front page today reports that the city was about to be eaten by a mysterious blob. That was a fate first foretold in a 1958 movie, but assumed to be a fantastical, mostly implausible scenario.

We live downtown and you'd think we'd have been aware that yesterday "a mysterious black blob" was on the attack "with a tar-like goo that oozed from manholes, buckled a street and unmoored a Raymond Chandler-era brick building." LAFD Captain Al Gonzales said, "The street looked like it was about to pop. Everybody sort of stepped back and said, Whoa." Turns out, though, it was simply the St. James Oil Company on a nearby petroleum drilling job that got out of control.

Boi from Troy: Mystery Blob to Take Over LAUSD Looking at the Los Angeles Daily News front page, above the fold, this morning, you see two headlines:

Mystery blob eating downtown
and…
Goldberg to head LAUSD?

For a second there, I thought they were talking about the same story.
There’s good reason, after all, that some folks call the Assemblywoman from Hollywood, “Jackie the Hutt”.
(Martini Republic also found the juxstaposition amusing.)

Lucky Adrastus: I stopped for lunch at American Burger in Hollywood and went to buy a newspaper. The headline for the Los Angeles Daily News? "Mystery Blob Eating Downtown"

It seems that a massive black ooze is coming out of the ground downtown at Olive and 12th. It's a mix of mud, oil, and boiling water -- pretty much wrecking the place. I heard on NPR that it might be caused by an oil company that flushed boiling water into oil pipes to loosen accumulated gunk. Apparently despite the cold snap (low 60s, brrr...) the sidewalk is hot enough to burn your feet.

And, man, what a great headline!