Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for May 12, 2018

what could possibly go wrong?

My God, it’s full of stars!

[Brewster turns away from the windshield, looks back at the new monolith-shaped digital assistant]

The visuals that could follow could be nice. A view of the slowly tumbling monolith with Saturn in the background… followed by a space-suited hand slowly enclosing it … followed by a space-suited voice saying, “Thank Bog for Find My Monolith!”

“Suddenly I feel the urge to grab a thigh bone and start pounding your head, Brewster…”

The only song it will play is:

“Also sprach Zarathustra”

A tiny monolith? Like the ones everybody walks around staring into? Based on it’s size I’d say it’s an iPhone 2001.

no, it has to be 1 x4 x 9

Monolith: “Found: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Ryan Reynolds, Robert Downey, Jr., Johnny Depp, Tom Hanks…”

“Let’s use that monolith looking thing for a door stop.”

“It will make you feel young again!”

Uh oh….

You can get your very own. https://www.wired.com/2010/10/2001-a-space-odyssey-monolith-action-figure/

Visiting a friend recently, her granddaughter kept yelling “echo! echo! 40 minute timer! echo! echo!” over the cacophony of four barking dogs, a loud TV, and several adults talking. I thought she was shouting at a kid, until I realized she was leaning towards a little device.

Why didn’t she just set a kitchen timer?

I see a dead space situation in their future

A minilith?

Dun, dun, Du-dun……