After listening to the ukulele cover of the Imperial March on Coverville, I decided to do a search of "Star Wars" on Amazon's MP3 download site.  After mentally filtering out the zillions of John Williams versions, there are some interesting items out there.  Everyone in the family has been giving me their pepsi bottlecaps, so shall I blow some ( Read more... )

Geek alert.

Tonight's "Deal or No Deal" is a two hour Star Wars special.  Promos showed the briefcase-carrying girls wearing either the infamous Leia bikini or Stormtrooper armor.  Special appearances include Chewbacca and Carrie Fisher.  I set the DVR since it might amuse the kiddos.

Since I had a pretty decent weekend and nothing's getting done at work, I might as well blog.

Without telling the kids beforehand, we took them on Saturday to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.  We've had tickets since January to see the special Star Wars exhibit and do the Millennium Falcon experience.  ( While the kids didn't go bonkers when they learned what we were doing, they had a good time. )

I swear when they kids say it, the name sounds like "Grandma Tarkin".

If I only had the photoshopping skills...