Star Wars

Just to show how backlogged I have become with this blog, here is something that I meant to post a month ago, at the beginning of November. That was when Priscilla and I went to the Star Wars exhibition at Science Works. (Yes, we are both nerds, as if you couldn’t tell!)

 

The exhibition was interesting and Science Works did try to blend in some science fact type of information with it, but in reality it was just an excuse for us nerds to look at the Star Wars costumes and models and puppets and droids.

 

My photos didn’t turn out as well as I’d hoped. There were a group of fat, middle aged, heavy metal type nerds who took a real delight in deliberately walking in front of the camera every time I tried to take a picture.

 

[rant/] Young kids too kept deliberately annoying me while I was there, and their parents (who are my age) just ignored them. That’s one thing I hate about my fellow Generation X’s, they let their kids run around being little shits, they don’t try to discipline their kids at all, but whenever someone complains about their kids being shits they suddenly become very aggressive in defending their children’s behaviour. I know, I know, wait until I have kids and then I will know how difficult things are… blah, blah, blah… [/end rant]

 

Above is a picture of Luke Skywalker’s land speeder.

 

 

The actual Millennium Falcon…

 

 

an Imperial starship

a couple of Imperial walkers

Chewbacca

Yoda

R2D2 and C3PO

Darth Vader

I did enjoy my day at Science Works. This post is now officially over. It has taken me ages to get this all done. The photos took a long time to load but now it’s finally done.

Obama Hates Charlie Brown

I know that it’s fun to think that Australian politicians are stupid but compared to some of their American counterparts ours are really quite intelligent. Take for example Arlington, Tennessee Mayor Russell Wiseman who became very crabby because President Obama made an address to the nation to announce that he was escalating the war in Afghanistan. The ironically named Wiseman was so incensed about this that he wrote on his Facebook page…

“Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch ‘The Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ and our muslim president is there, what a load…..try to convince me that wasn’t done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation (sic) about it….w…hen the answer should simply be ‘yes’….you obama people need to move to a muslim country…oh wait, that’s America….pitiful.”

He further followed that diatribe up with…

“you know, our forefathers had it written in the original Constitution that ONLY property owners could vote, if that has stayed in there, things would be
different…”

I find it laughable to think that President Obama would be checking the TV Guide especially to make sure that his announcement would pre-empt the Charlie Brown special because he’s a Muslim, even though it is well known by everyone except Southern rednecks that Obama is a Christian. I think he needs to have a therapy session with Lucy. Good grief!

2009 MYER Christmas Windows

The last time I made a post on the MYER Christmas windows was in 2007, when the theme was Graham Base’s book Uno’s Garden and I snapped a great picture of the Snortle Pig. I don’t know why I didn’t make a post last year and I am struggling to even remember what the theme of the 2008 windows was.

I ventured to the MYER Bourke Street store again this year to look at the windows and took a few more very good photos. The theme this year was Olivia Helps With Christmas, based on the book by Ian Falconer.

I do think Olivia is very cute. Both Priscilla and I adored the original Olivia book so much that we sent a copy up to Brisbane when my cousin gave birth to her daughter Olivia.

The MYER windows are again great this year. The story is read by a recording of Moonee Ponds’ own Dame Edna Everage, a true Melbourne icon.

We also should try to remember the true meaning of Christmas too. Fortunately MYER aren’t all about the commercialisation of this holiest of times and have given baby Jesus a tiny window for him and his family.

Bugatti

Here’s another couple of posters that I like.

Martini

I just like the art-deco look of this Martini poster.

Sex has always been used in advertising to sell stuff, but that doesn’t mean that it has to look tacky or slutty. I don’t know the vintage of these posters but they are probably modern-ish.

An earlier style Martini girl.