It is currently 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on an otherwise nondescript Wednesday in October. This is what Louis C.K. has been up to for the past hour.
https://twitter.com/louisck/status/519877621929480193
https://twitter.com/louisck/status/519878355907534849
https://twitter.com/louisck/status/519885535016677376
Quick pause. Let’s recap where we are so far: Thousands and thousands — and possibly millions or billions — of years ago, there was a race of “very us-y people-things” living on Mars, and when global warming started to render their planet unlivable, they all — or at least many, many of them — traveled from Mars to Mars’s nearest moon and proceeded to drive that moon to Earth like an RV.
Still with us? Okay, moving on.
https://twitter.com/louisck/status/519885750339641344
R.I.P., billions of Martian people-y types.
https://twitter.com/louisck/status/519886219552231426
https://twitter.com/louisck/status/519886286052937728
Okay, that settles it. We have got to get Louis on Season 2 of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. Someone get deGrasse Tyson on the phone.
UPDATE: Louis is back at it. Now the sun is involved. And things have taken a, uh, turn…
https://twitter.com/louisck/status/519899055254937601
https://twitter.com/louisck/status/519899350978527233
https://twitter.com/louisck/status/519903092679008256
https://twitter.com/louisck/status/519903950988791809
https://twitter.com/louisck/status/519904582001246208
https://twitter.com/louisck/status/519905022520623105
https://twitter.com/louisck/status/519905278674751488
So Louis is high as hell right now, right?
https://twitter.com/louisck/status/519905355073990657
Oh. Never mind.