This is the Blog or website of the Loonies, the first question you should be asking right now is "What on earth is a Loony?" Well, good question, and I'm not quite sure how to answer it. I suppose I should begin by telling how I found out. I am a student at
Channing Hall Charter School in Draper, Utah. One day in English (my 1st period), we read a short story called
Mad Moon by
Stanley G. Weinbaum (we were on our short story unit). The story takes place in the future, civilization has spread to one of Jupiter's moons,
Io. There are these creatures that live on Io called Lunae Jovis Magnicapites
or "Loonies" for short. The story's starting description of them is "...the four loonies giggled. Their great, idiotic heads, looking like nothing so much as the comic faces painted on Sunday balloons for children, swayed in unison on their five-foot necks, as thin as Grant's wrist." We are not sure if Loonies are humanoid or stand on four legs, most of us think that they stand on four legs and all of our drawings give the impression that they have four legs. All we know is that they have very thin, five-foot long necks, round, balloon-like heads, comical, smiling faces, three tows, and they giggle a lot (
alot) and love candy. The hilarity didn't really mount until our teacher sketched a loony on the white board.
And it simply grew from there. If you want to read up on the full story of
Mad Moon, then go to
http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff11/html/madmoon.htm. Thanks for reading the introduction, and enjoy the rest of the Blog! (This Blog was created in 2014, I changed the year on each post to control the order of the posts.)
