Saturday, April 12, 2008
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's an Enigmatic Bounty Hunter!
Conversation overheard between Parker and a boy on the playground at Possum Creek:Parker: And you can be Boba Fett.
Boy: (excitedly) Boba Fett can fly. Like Superman!
Parker: He CANNOT fly. He has a jet pack.
Twenty years on, and Boba Fett still rules.
Labels: Star Wars
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Revisionist History...Lucas Style
Celebrating the almost-true life of a scruffy-looking nerfherder from Illinois who became our greatest president. From the creator of PVP, and available at his store at Half-Pixel.
Labels: Fun on the Web, Sheer Awesome, Star Wars
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Saturday, August 11, 2007
Star Wars Weekend
We braved the sweltering weather of the Florida summer to brave the one location that Florida residents routinely avoid like some sort of cursed ancient burial ground - Disney World. True to form, it was sweltering, and gave us an absolutely torrential downpour that ended our attempt at the Star Wars Weekend way early. We spent about two hours trapped in a theater with Jedi Mickey, catching only a glimpse of Chewie as he was whisked to the back (According to his handler, the Ewok that was with him got swept away by the flash flood).Parker wasn't as into it as I thought he would be. He didn't want to join the Jedi Training Academy, an interactive adventure where kids in the audience could duel Darth Vader. Later, parker solemnly told me he didn't need to be part of the training, as he was already a Jedi. He seemed pretty confident about it.
We were soaked to the bone by the time we got through the park and back to the cat, riding a tram through a violent lightning storm that was certainly equal to any fireworks display we might have seen later that night. We then practiced some contortionist tricks changing out of our clothes and into our clothes from the day before, in the back of the van, taking breaks every eight minutes or so to hide behind fog-tinted windows as another tram disgorged another soggy mass of tourists who had reached their limits. I think my shoes dried out somewhere near Ocala.
Labels: Art, Disney, Kira, Parker, Star Wars, Weather Dominator
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Everyday in a Galaxy, Far, Far Away
It seems everywhere I looks these days, Star Wars has definitely taken its place as a permanent fixture in the pop culture landscape. It’s the cinematic equivalent of a Tootsie Roll. Cases in point:The new Target ad has Lambda shuttles flying in formation depositing snowflakes across the typical Target-inspired Dali landscape.
The local television station is running an ad looking for sales representatives. For no reason among their images of camera operators and boom mikes, there’s a five second shot of Han Solo shooting down TIE fighters from the Falcon.
A promo for college football, also on that station, shows one fan wearing a Stormtrooper uniform – in his team’s colors.
Finally,an Animal Planet special on close shaves for nature photographers shows us an underwater filmmaker who decided to base his squid protection gear on that of the Stormtrooper.
Didn’t he ever watch the movies? If it can’t even deflect a blaster bolt, what good will it do against a kraken?
Labels: Hooray for Hollywood, Star Wars
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