Oh, my gawd! Oh, my gawd! Oh, my gawd! Oh, my gawd! Oh, my gawd! Oh, my gawd! Oh, my gawd! Oh, my gawd! Oh, my gawd! Oh, my gawd! Oh, my gawd! Oh, my gawd! Oh, my gawd! Oh, my gawd! Oh, my gawd!

(Shane jumps up and down like a school girl.)

Wow!  How did I miss this one?  The bloody Wookiepedia!  This is brillant!  I haven't had much time to go through it but needed to let people know as quickly as possible.  Although, I am sure everyone I know has already been there.

Tags: wookieepedia, star wars, wiki

I really need to learn to track these things - and I normally do - but this one slipped through the cracks.  Who of you out there has this book?  I want it back!  If you have my book, drop me a line and I will reward you with riches beyond the moon's of the Triannly Maelstrom.  I appear to have a history of lending out books and never seeing them again.  If you are one of those people who has borrowed one of my books and never brought them back - a hex on you.  Those are not your books!  Mine!  MINE!  I don't share easily when it comes to books.  I am a one person book lover. 

So, seriously, if you have that book, it is time for it to come home.  I am not a library and your fine is quite high now.

Tags: book, lending

So, I went to the eye doctor yesterday and was told that I had 20/15 vision which is apparently the top 2% of the population. I assume this means Canada. It struck me as incredibly bizarre because even I thought I should have glasses by now considering my family history. But, the doctor was amazed and surprised that I could read such small lettering a few times. I praise my genetics!

Now, if I could only look like Adonis, I'd have it made.

Tags: eyes, good vision, glasses

It appears that Ghostbusters 3 is becoming a reality.  How odd is that?  Oh, wait, it is going to be animated.  I don't know whether to be excited to scared.  Ghostbusters 2 was bad enough - but an animated third installment?

Tags: ghostbusters, movie, films

An event called The Vader Project is one of the more interesting popular culture events I have ever seen.  I wish I had the talent to join in an turn my own Vader helmet into some piece of art.  There is a great story on StarWars.com and a Flickr stream of the latest Celebration IV event.

Pop surrealist, graffiti, tattoo, lowbrow, comic and underground artists Shag, Tim Biskup, Frank Kozik, Marc Ecko, Amanda Visell, J. Otto Seibold, Gary Baseman, Joe Ledbetter, Urban Medium and Jeff Soto, among others, show their allegiance to the dark side by customizing Darth Vader helmets in landmark gallery exhibition called The Vader Project, to debut at Star Wars Celebration IV on May 24 to 28 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

The Vader Project is presented by Master Replicas, and curated by Dov Kelemer of DKE Toys, one of the largest designer vinyl and art-toy distributors in the world, exclusively representing over 50 companies, artists, and designers. Kelemer gathered the hottest underground and pop surrealist painters, artists and designers and gave each artist a Master Replicas 1:1 scale prop replica of the Darth Vader helmet used in the Star Wars films. Each helmet served as a blank canvas for each artist to paint, design, mash up and customize in their own unique style.

"Most of these artists are involved in the designer vinyl and art toy community so they understand customizing a 3D object even if they are 2D artists, painters and designers," Kelmer explains. "I tried to have all the different communities represented. The designer toy scene is really an eclectic group of artists. They come from all different backgrounds. On one hand you have this urban graffiti street art culture, the lowbrow pop surrealist group, then there is the whole culture of Asian inspired 'cute' art, rock poster art, and Japanese Kaiju, of course. Most have nothing to do with one another but it's all the same culture in the toy world."

Tags: vader project, star wars, pop art

I am heading out to the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Sing Along this coming weekend and wonder if anyone else would like to go?  There will be two Buffy episodes played on the big screen (a warm up episode and then Once More With Feeling).  I don't think I will dress up but I plan to sing as I have been practicing the last few days.  Tickets are $10 and should be purchased from Happy Bat Cinema prior to the date (as they may sell out like last year).

SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 2007  doors 1:00PM  show 1:30PM
PACIFIC CINEMATHEQUE  1131 HOWE ST   VANCOUVER

TICKETS ARE JUST $10 AND AVAILABLE NOW AT:

HAPPY BATS CINEMA

198 EAST 15TH AVE (CORNER OF MAIN ST)

HOURS: 12 NOON TO 11PM

If anyone is interested in going with me, let me know soon and I can purchase a ticket for you.  It should be a blast!

Tags: buffy the vampire slayer, once more with feeling, vancouver

I saw this on Digg today.  It is Mos Eisley Space Port in Lego and it is very, very cool.  I recommend even the non-geeks check it out, worth every brick.  I wish I could have done this with my Lego when I was a kid.

Tags: lego, star wars, mos eisley