I finally have a moment to celebrate – this blog turned two years old a couple of days ago. Yeah! Hooray! Alleluia!
It’s hard to believe how quickly these years have flown by. And it’s fun to mark the changes over the past couple of years by looking back at some of the posts from a year or more ago:
This time last Sunday night, I (and you too?) was watching the Oscars. If you haven’t done so yet, check out my post on where you can watch the nominated films.
Have you ever wished your favorite movie characters could be in the same film – TOGETHER? Now, thanks to editing and production so amazing I don’t even want to begin to figure it out, you can see this:
The tone does shift towards violence about halfway through when the Aliens show up. Until that point, it’s pretty fun to see how such a great range of favorite actors and characters (check out where at least four James Bonds connect) come together in one place within a story:
Today’s the day we’ve all been waiting for – my daughter’s 12th birthday!
OK, so if you don’t live in my home, you’ve likely been counting down to this day as the first time in a decade we’ve had a brand new “Star Wars” film. Maybe you’ve already seen it by now?
I have my tickets in hand (on my phone actually) for the 9:05 pm showing this evening. VERY excited that just 12 hours from now my son (who was four years old when “Revenge of the Sith” was released) and I will be back in the fun and fantasy of this beloved film universe.
While there’s no shortage of funny “Star Wars” videos in cyberspace (in fact I posted one here last week), I discovered these three which I find pretty funny:
Steven Colbert (yes, I’m a fanboy) makes no secret of his mad love for “Star Wars” and “The Lord of the Rings.” But until the other night, no one knew of his personal involvement in the casting of “The Force Awakens”
He’s also begun a Twitter campaign to muddy the waters of the spoilers flooding the internet:
Here’s a clever variation on a theme from a rival late night show:
And speaking of clever, here’s a panoply of puns from across the pond:
16. “A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind…. All his life has he looked away…to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless.”
“-Yoda notes how Luke simply cannot keep himself focused on the present moment, but is instead always looking to run before he can walk. (Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back)”
Until then, I need to settle for this extremely well-done video which combines something I really like with someone I really don’t. So, thanks to Slate, take a 7 minute break to refresh your memory about Star Wars IV, V, and VI and also about some of the always interesting things The Donald has said. Be sure to watch while in a place where you can laugh out loud!
And be sure to watch until the end (or just forward to there) as the Trumpization of the final scene of Return of the Jedi is priceless – and it showcases the last sequential image we saw in the Star Wars universe.
It’s Friday again and time for some clever levity! C’mon, after this busy week, you earned a few minutes to explore this fun Mental Floss link displaying 10 infographics with Myers-Briggs inspired type listings of your favorite characters from the following pop culture stories:
Game of Thrones
My Little Pony
Lord of the Rings
The Walking Dead
Harry Potter
Disney Princesses
Grey’s Anatomy
Marvel Comics
Star Wars
Star Trek
My favorite two out of the ten are:
If you’re not familiar with the MBTI, Mental Floss offers this information:
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®) is an instrument to define your personality along four parameters: (I) Introversion vs. (E) Extroversion, (N) Intuiting vs. (S) Sensing, (T) Thinking vs. (F) Feeling, and (J) Judging vs. (P) Perceiving. Trying the instrument gives you a “type,” indicated by a combination of four letters. There are 16 possible combinations, which lend themselves well to a chart, called the Myers-Briggs type table.
As I was thinking about this blog post, I was very pleased to see that Stephen Colbert had a hilarious segment about the MBTI on his “Late Show” last week. It’s a clever piece on him getting help in discovering “the real Stephen Colbert”
For what it’s worth (spoiler alert) Colbert is an INFP and I’m close to that as an ENFJ.
