A fun Christmas Star Wars video from the Swiss police; you don't need to know any German. I love the sign at 1:22 - the Empire could well argue that it doesn't apply to them. At the end you can see the labels on the gifts: "Für Luke von Papi" and "Für Leia". :-D

Translation of their festive greetings:
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We went to The Rise of Skywalker on Thursday (1 hour's drive each way) - and it was fun! So much better and much more upbeat than The Last Jedi despite the inevitable lens flares - seriously, we want to be immersed in a story, not distracted by a camera which isn't part of it. But that stupid Abrams quirk aside, it was entertaining, fun, and a very ( Read more... )

The May the fourth - and fifth - NZSO Star Wars concerts (the first two original films with the orchestra doing the score) were amazing, especially the second one with the iconic Imperial March and all its variations. Just stunning! The films were on a big screen over the orchestra and had subtitles for when the dialogue was partially overwhelmed ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the 4th of May, or indeed May the Fourth, and we're off in the morning to Auckland to see the first two original Star Wars films - with the NZ Symphony Orchestra playing the score. Yay!

Not yay - they're going to search bags (and only small ones are allowed) and frisk everyone going in. I have never been frisked. Yes, that is the way ( Read more... )

The Last Jedi was great! It's easily the best of the three most recent: danger, excitement, plus humour. Pity Rian Johnson isn't directing the next one too.

We went to the midnight showing (well, one minute past to make it the day of release) so this is a couple of days late. I could say a lot about it, but 
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IT WAS GREAT ( Read more... )

The rain's so heavy that it looks like nightfall outside, and it's only the afternoon. We have to go out in that later as we're going to see Bryn Terfel. That stuff's tropical intensity and when we went out for brunch this morning, there was already flash flooding. It won't be sandals tonight, then ( Read more... )

It's a blustery and occasionally wet Sunday as a storm the size of Australia passes over, which means that it's not worth going out to Ardmore for the Battle of Britain air show, dammit. They have the Warbirds (vintage war planes) there and it would have been wonderful in decent weather. We wouldn't be able to see them with the rain and low clouds ( Read more... )

What do you get if you cross Hello Kitty with Star Wars? These cute little guys! They remind me of my potato-head Darth Vader and stormtrooper. :-)

Poor Paul the Octopus. He's getting death threats for his "predictions" and now they've even got Paul recipes. Octopuses have eyes very like ours; I looked at the flags he's had to choose between and ( Read more... )

This likeness just amused me; no offence intended. :-)


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