Because Stormtroopers Are People Too

I also don't want to lose track of this awesome project.  A brilliant photographer doing family style portraits of the Dark Side, one photo a day for every day of the year (click here to go to her flickr account and scroll through the others).

Subway Star Wars

I'm way behind here, I've got several posts I want to write, but this was too awesome, it had to be put up immediately.

Oh, how I love New York.  And Improv troupes.

It's Always 20/20

On a Stiiick, Day Two

Second Day at the Fair was Thursday afternoon into evening with Dad. Brenda was supposed to join us but she had a sore ankle and didn't think she could handle all that walking. So it was just pop and I.

We started by taking a picture with all my boyfriends. :)


Then we did a lot of walking around outside and people watching while Dad smoked a cigar and checked out the man-toys on Machinery Hill.

We did take the Sky Ride and got the cow car!


Unbelievably, this was Dad's first ever trip on this thing. He doesn't like heights, and even though we were enclosed it was still a little too high for his comfort, so it was probably also his last trip on the sky ride. :)





We ended with the Midway, which looked especially pretty during the "magic hour."








Also, in some live Twins blogging: Twins are full of illness and injury again and playing a very thin bench, Duensing gives up a grand slam in the bottom of the first, goes out with a strained oblique in the second, despite all of this Twins miraculously manage to tie things up, 6-6, by the top of the fourth, and then Gardy puts Dumatrait in? Followed by Mijares?

Is their death wish as strong and unavoidable as a tractor beam on the Death Star? Are they writing the book for a new musical, "How to Utterly Fail at Baseball While Really Really Trying"? Will this abysmal season ever end?

Be Still My Nerdy Heart

Behold, Hamluke, a mash-up of lit major geekery and Star Wars geekery from the brilliant mind of some genius named Brad. Not only is the play hilarious, well-directed, well-acted, and creatively costumed, it is accompanied by pieces from the original Star Wars score redone with period Shakespearean orchestration. Clearly, the Force is strong in this one. See it you should. Get thee to the Fringe Festival.

Another piece of awesomeness that has come into my life this week: The Muppets. Auf Deutsch.

Of course The Muppet Show would have been dubbed over, the Germans dub everything over. And people these days put anything and everything on youtube. Why didn't I think of this sooner? Behold the treasures waiting to be viewed:

Star Wars und Schweine im Weltall


Shakespeare und Tierklinik


Und am besten: Der Schwedische Koch!




The funny thing is, I can understand the Chef in German better than I can in "English!" The Germans actually made up more dialogue and articulated it enough to make it understandable! [though not being able to understand him in English is half the fun; that, and pistol-weilding lobsters liberating their muchachos!] Here is the turtle soup sketch in English so you can compare.

Vicar of Minneapolis, I love you for making me aware this was out there on the interwebs. Thank you!

Finally to round things out with some good old-fashioned church geekery - I'm working with a group of folks from my church and our two partners in the ministry center to write our own Sunday school curriculum for the coming year. It is so. much. fun. I hope the kids have fun with it too (and, you know, learn something to boot!).

ADDENDUM FOR MORE CHURCH GEEKERY:
I just put together that the dude who played "Darthius" was Mike Rylander, aka Jonah from recent years of Augsburg Fortress VBS stuff (I did not recognize him in his costume tonight).

It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity

Ok, at this point it would require an absolute freak move on Mother Nature's part to snow us out, so I think I'm safe announcing this (our most recent attempts at performing and recording were cancelled due to Hoth-like conditions, not merely once but twice - we were starting to develop a complex).

InVocation concerts this weekend and next. A couple madrigals, some global music, pops - a little something for everyone in this program! See you there!

Grocery Store Wars

Star Wars + Food Politics = Awesome.



Would it be oversharing to admit I actually own a Darth Tater? It's a Mr. Potato Head with Darth Vader helmet, lightsaber, and other sundry parts. It was an awesome gift (thank you, Dan and Veronica)!

Hat tip to Beth Ann for the video.

The Force is Strong in This One

I love this commercial. It is better than the Jetta "Synchronicity" commercial, which was pretty awesome.



This may possibly convert an avowed Honda girl into a VW owner. . .

This is Equal Parts Amusing and Disturbing

So I was thinking about enhancing my last post with a picture of a rebel victory on Hoth, and my internet search turned up this:



Apparently, it began as an April Fools joke on ThinkGeek but is now a real product, due to consumer demand.

It's cute and clever and all but. . .considering I still have to look away whenever Han cuts open the Tauntaun, I just don't think I could ever actually sleep in something like this.




Is it terribly obvious I'm avoiding the two papers I should be working on? ;)

The Great Blizzard of '10 Part Deux

Thankfully I don't have to worry about moving Hermes until this thing ends and plow guy comes back.

But some neighbors were parked on a snow emergency route. They needed to move their car ASAP lest the city impound it.

Fool that I am, I was walking around outside trying to get some pictures of the storm when I came across them.

So I ran home to get my shovel and came back to help.


Every car we successfully got off the emergency route and onto a side street felt like a Rebel victory on Hoth!


Who needs a gym membership when you live in Minnesota? :)