I love Fark.com. It’s full of interesting articles about thousands of things that people shouldn’t care about or aren’t really important to anyone and a few actual news articles. A real prize is the comment sections accompanying every snarky headline. For the most part, it is populated by people who see the inanity inherent in [...]

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Since the blog lists the posts in reverse chronological order, and the whole thread is best served by being read in reverse reverse chronological order, I thought I’d round up all the posts and make it more easily navigable for your benefit. (All links should open in a new window or tab). It was all [...]

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I must say, seeing the prequels actually adds more pathos to Luke’s conversations with Obi-Wan about Anakin and with Vader in the hallway about the conflict within him. “It is too late for me, my son” rings more emotionally true than before. It’s a TRAP!!! Are “There’s too many of them” dude’s goggles made out [...]

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Great line I didn’t remember: Han: “I think my eyesight is getting better. Instead of a big dark blur, I see a big light blur.” Luke: “There’s nothing to see. I used to live here, you know.” Han: “You’re going to die here, you know. Convenient.” I hope I don’t have a Rancor Beast under [...]

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Return of the Jedi has begun and fatigue has set in. Lois has decided to play on PBS Kids and Lana is waiting her turn for it while listening to the movie and looking at the art supplies. Still watching though. Lois fears the Emperor too, so that adds to her trepidation in watching the [...]

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Notes from the end of Empire Strikes Back: Me: “The Ugnaught looks like Principal Strickland from the Back to the Future movies.” Lois: “Why is Lando wearing Han’s clothes?” Lana: “He’s wearing a Han costume!” Me: “Maybe he didn’t bring any clothes from Bespin and had to rifle through Han’s closet on the Millenium Falcon?” [...]

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Luke: “I don’t think so. I’m looking for a great warrior. ” Yoda: “Ohhh. Great warrior. ” [laughs and shakes his head] Me: “Yeah, we saw how great a warrior he was, didn’t we?” Lana: “Yeah! He was AWESOME! [light saber sounds] BatMom Re: Flying Mynoks: “Watch out! A loose kite! ” Me: “How does [...]

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BatMom and I had to get eye exams today, so we had to start our last two films later than we intended. However, that gave us the opportunity to show them what happens at the eye doctor and to see what BatMom’s retina looks like and the different parts of it (optical disk and macular), [...]

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One hour, ten minutes into Episode III, we had to abort. Lois just lost it during the Chancellor/Mace Windu battle. As Windu was absorbing Palpatine’s force lightning into his light saber and Palpatine was mutating (why didn’t this happen with Dooku and Yoda in Episode II?), she buried her head in my chest. I had [...]

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Lana sees a bronze Astromech droid on Obi-Wan’s ship on Utapau. Lana “Look a new Astromech droid.” Lois “What happened to R4-P17?” Lana “He got destroyed remember?” Lois “Oh yeah.” Lana “Daddy? I think R2-D2 is the toughest Astromech droid there is!” They are also keeping a running light saber count on the Obi-Wan/General Grievous [...]

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