"Monolithic" Pop Culture References #64

Ever searching for news about Rapa Nui, this blog's administrator comes across many references to Rapa Nui and its famous moai. Often, these references are quite comical and have nothing to do with the island or the culture of Rapa Nui. Other times, they appear to be speculative, based more on misconceptions than reality, or downright bizarre. Here are some of the more recent references:

Meerkat drama is back on 'Manor'
Chicago Tribune, United States - Aug 16, 2007
Standing stock still as they scan the horizon for food and predators, their tiny faces are as watchful and wise as the statues of Easter Island. ...

BRIGHT, SHINY, POPPY THINGS
District Weekly, CA - Aug 15, 2007
Bill Collins mines the annual Burning Man festival for Extraterrestrial, a surreal photo montage of two stone busts of men—Easter Island writ small—gazing ...

11th Commandment: Thou shalt skip 'The Ten'
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Aug 16, 2007
Soon, we're watching a guy (Adam Brody) jump without parachute, landing alive but stuck in the ground, then worshipped like an Easter Island statue – this ...

Drawing on wicked humour
Advertiser Adelaide, Australia - Aug 17, 2007
Then, of course, there was Malcolm Fraser from Easter Island. Perhaps the best period was the Hawke-Keating rule (the government we had to have). ...

The motif of mysterious footprints in Čapek's stories [1]
cafebabel.com, France - Aug 17, 2007
We often assume that the residents of Easter Island or the Anasazi caves were completely unconscious of the consequences of their actions or the direction ...

Young producers open digital recording studioNorthernLife.ca, Canada - Aug 21, 2007Rondeau met Bruhmuller in 2002 when he and his Easter Island Studio recorded his band Stroker’s CD. “What Billy and I are doing means musicians like myself ...

Lost city of of Mu 'found'
Channel 4 News, UK - Aug 24, 2007
Mr Kamura believes the city had a castle, a shrine, a triumphal arch, Moai-like statues found on Easter Island and even a coliseum once upon a time, ...

Films in Focus: New and recent releases
Bend Weekly, OR - Aug 24, 2007
Soon, we're watching a guy (Adam Brody) jump without parachute, landing alive but stuck in the ground, then worshipped like an Easter Island statue - this ...

Pieces of the past
Sun Publications Chicago, IL - Aug 26, 2007
At the last stop on our walk, Stop 22, the trail guide posed a question I've heard before, at the Mayan ruins in Honduras, on Easter Island in the South ...