CapeCodToday.com – He’s not just an Academy Award nominated actor. Mark Ruffalo, a long time environmental advocate, is the founder of Water Defense, a non-profit committed to keeping the country’s water contaminant free. To support that cause, Ruffalo and Cape-based scientist Scott Smith will speak at Cape Cod Community College on Monday, February 24 at 7 p.m. about new initiatives in water quality testing and pollution control for Cape Cod waters.

Everybody and their grandmother has been sending us this story and I couldn’t figure out why because I honestly had no idea who Mark Ruffalo is. Quick fun fact about Hippie; I can’t remember the last time I watched a movie that wasn’t a documentary. I looked up Mark’s IMDb page and apparently he is a big star, Oscar nominated even, but I haven’t seen one single movie that he is in.

I’m not sure if that says more about him or me. I am on the internet all day, I am somewhat versed in pop culture by default, yet I wouldn’t know who this guy was if we were sitting next to each other on a plane. He is either a genius at staying under the radar or he has the worst publicist in the history of Hollywood. Either way it just seemed strange that this week is the first time I’ve seen or heard of him.

Anyway, I’ll get to the point. I guess everyone has been sending this in because they think I am going to make fun of this guy? Call him out for speaking about a subject that isn’t acting or something? Maybe they expected a “who does this guy think he is” type rant or something? Ummm… why would I be upset that some dude wants to use his celebrity for something positive in society?

Granted, if I were a famous actor I highly doubt if I would take time out of my busy schedule of banging Hollywood starlets and playing with my baby giraffe to talk about water quality at Cape Cod Community College, but that doesn’t mean I can’t respect him for doing it.

To put it even more simply? Anyone who thinks they have any right to tell another person how to live their life or spend their time is a douchebag of epic proportions. That’s one of Cape Cod’s biggest problems, people worrying too much about what other people are doing. It’s the fundamental difference between us and the Fun Police, we are busy living our own lives while they are busy trying to stop us.

The $10 pre release tix for The Real Cape Kale Soup Cook Off are almost gone. Once they are sold out we aren’t sure when regular tix will go on sale and they will be $15. So save yourself some money and order soon. Our best guess is they will be sold out by tomorrow sometime.

kpho.com – SOUTH PARIS, ME – A man used his camera phone to record a giant fireball in the sky.

He’s not sure what it was, but plenty of other people are willing to take a guess.

“I just happened to catch something out of the corner of my eye,” Bruce York said.

He said he was just driving along Route 26 at 5 p.m., when he noticed what looked like a fireball in the sky.

He grabbed his mobile phone and started recording.

Yesterday we proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that aliens are living underwater in our marinas. Well now we have irrefutable footage of them entering our atmosphere en route to Marstons Mills. The time is over for arguments in the comment areas, we now must band together in solidarity as humans.

We can only wait to find out what they want from us, but I think I have a pretty good idea. They most likely heard about weed delivery and our plan for a disco lighthouse. I’m pretty sure they’re just trying to get in on the ground floor of the Utopian society we’re slowly building.

I for one think an underwater alien colony would only add to the atmosphere around here. I just hope E.T. can get his plans past the Cape Cod Commission.

CapeCodToday.com – SANDWICH – Police are once again reminding the community to take care when opening emails and email attachments from unknown sources. According to a Sandwich police release, a town resident reportedly received an email with the subject “Eviction Notification No 3949”.

The email, which on the surfaces sounds like it could be something important, was most likely a spam email, if not an actual scam. The attachment could not be forwarded and was blocked by other systems, according to Sandwich Police Chief Peter Wack.

Ummm… do you even internet bro? Somebody actually called the police to report ONE email that they couldn’t identify in their inbox? Holy shit people are weird. If one “most likely spam” email warrants a call to the police then I need the FBI, CIA and Homeland Security to come to my house immediately. I’ve got more spam in my inbox than an unemployed Hawaiian eats all year.

I’m not sure which is more of a waste of time, calling the police over one spam email? Cape Cod Today reporting on the police response to the incident? Or me writing about Cape Cod Today reporting about the police report about a spam email. And now you, through no fault of your own, are reading about some person in Sandwich’s spam. The world has become a strange place indeed.

The ultimate irony is that this creature in Sandwich is just now learning about email which is like 2 seconds from being obsolete. Email dude? Next time just hit me up via The Pony Express. If you aren’t too busy opening joint bank accounts with Nigerian Princes of course.