Thursday, May 26, 2005
A tribute to Andy
In honor of his wedding in Chicago this weekend, I would like to reflect upon four things, for better or worse, for which I will always remember Andrew Kenneth Covington.
Uno: Watching as Andy humbly submitted to being duct taped to the wall of our dorm in college. Good times.
Dos: The Kryptonite, which is a little throw pillow with two kittens frolicking on it that says "A Tale of Two Kitties." My mother gave this to me when Andy and I were roommates near D.C. Why she so desperately wanted the other occupants of my apartment building to think her son and Andy were a couple remains a mystery to me. For the past six years, Andy and I have tossed this thing back and forth across great geographical distances like a hot potato. I snuck it back to him at Sara and Will's wedding last September, so I have to be on the lookout for the damn thing this weekend.
Tres: Where My Wife At?
Catorce: And most importantly, without Andy, Mr. Slam would not be named Mr. Slam. I don't know what name I would have picked instead, but I do know he would not be Reginald, which is quite possibly the dumbest fucking name on the planet for a cat.
Vulgarities aside, congratulations, Andy and Elizabeth.
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Thursday, May 19, 2005
Now THAT'S more like it
The new Star Wars movie is awesome.
It's been 22 years since I've said that and actually meant it. I said it in 1999 after I saw "The Phantom Menace" for the first time, but I was really just trying to convince myself of something that wasn't true. I didn't bother after "Attack of the Clones."
While "Phantom" is too much of a kiddie movie and the huge droid armies make "Clones" too sterile, it's worth slogging through them both to get the payoff in Episode III. Seeing the birth of Darth Vader is incredible. Go see it. I will again.
WARNING: Spoilers in comments! If you click to read the comments and learn plot points you didn't want to know, you have no one to be pissed at but yourself.
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Sunday, May 15, 2005
A disturbance in The Force
I like Star Wars as much as the next guy (unless the next guy is Morgan, then never mind). I already have my ticket for the first midnight showing of Episode III. I still have all my Kenner action figures from the original trilogy in the next room, safely tucked away in a C3PO carrying case. I'm even a faithful reader of Darth Vader's blog. (Thanks, Will!)
But this boggles the mind. It's just so horribly wrong on so many levels.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Two wrongs make an even bigger wrong
Everyone knows that the Gatekeeper and the Keymaster are at the crux of the universe and the joining of these powerfully evil beings could unleash a hell unlike anything this world has ever seen.
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