A few days ago, probably during a conversation about the cold I had coming on, the topic of whooping cough came up. I then made mention of the old late ’70s PSA in which C-3PO admonishes R2D2 for thinking he has whooping cough and then warns Earth parents of the importance of immunizations.
Much like what happened with the Happy Pancake Witch, no one had any idea what I was talking about.
So, here they are, the Star Wars PSAs:
On Immunizations…

On Smoking…

On Drunk Driving…

Last night as an installment of our annual summer Bad Movie Night tradition, 112 minutes of the precious little time I have on this Earth was futilely squandered at a screening of “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” — what could very well be the worst big-budget motion picture I have ever seen.
Top billing is given to Brendan Fraser and Jet Li, even though the latter is in the movie for about 5 minutes before being replaced with CGI effects and remaining that way until about the last 10 …

My closest friends know a side of me that few people see — a dark and obsessive curiosity about death.
The concept of nonexistence both baffles and terrifies me and not a day goes by that I don’t wonder about it. A burning want to understand the instant at which “to be” becomes “not to be,” restrained by sheer terror that leads me to do all I can to not experience it firsthand.
This obsessive mindset compels me to Google the victim’s name each and every time I read an …

For most of my life I had a vague memory fluttering in my head. A witch, serving pancakes in a breakfast restaurant, that when you eat them make you happy. The spell was shown by a freeze frame as colorful dots splashed across the screen.
In my teens, no one I ever mentioned this to had any idea what I was talking about. I began to think it was maybe just something I had dreamed. But in my early adult years, I found …

Or at least that’s what she might as well be saying as she flagrantly mocks the struggles of amputees in her latest film, “I Know Who Killed Me.”

In this “suspense” “thriller” that strains credibility to such an extent that by the climax the audience was actually laughing, Lohan spends much of the first half of the movie as a double-amputee. But then, just as the special effects budget was running out, Crab Man saved the day by fitting her with prosthetic limbs in a single office visit and …

Last night, thanks to the alert find and quick actions of Brandon, I was able to attend a sneak preview of Friday’s season 3 premiere of Battlestar Galactica. It was a nice event, held at the Sprint IMAX theater at the Zoo, and while naturally the nerd contingient was well-represented, there was also a surprising cross section of the general population as well.
I do have a couple of suggestions for the organizers:

If you are going to give away video games and ipods based upon asking trivia …