This review has been interrupted by cats no fewer than five times already: a cat chewed my pen while I took notes; a cat stood on my mouse and blocked 90% of the monitor; head-butted the iPad out of my …
The funny thing about aliens is that we, the human race, have come up with this idea of what they look like, based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever - merely a concept passed through the ages. You can imagine that if we finally do meet beings from another place, they're going to catch us completely off guard by looking nothing like what we thought they would.
Although "Take My Machete" sounds like a murderous one-liner from comedy king Henny Youngman ("Take my machete—please!"), it's actually a brief set of instructions on how to survive in an alien-ravaged world. Little green men have landed on Earth, and someone needs to do something about it. You're elected. Grab yourself a big, big knife and show those alien scum how humans do things downtown.