Went to the first Disney Star Wars Weekends this weekend. Fantastic fun, as usual, with the best guest mix I think you could ask for. Jay Laga’aia, the host this year, welcomed Warwick Davis and Ray Park. In the “And now you know, and knowing is half the battle” category, Ray is playing Snake Eyes [...]
Entries from May 2009
Disney Star Wars Weekends 2009, Week 1 Pics
May 25th, 2009 · No Comments
Categories: Disney · Star Wars
Tags: star wars weekends 2009
Will Ferrell Takes A Dump On My Childhood – Land of the Lost
May 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Why, oh why are they making a movie of Land of the Lost with Will Ferrell being a total ass? The TV series was probably just about my favorite show of all time. Dinosaurs. Time travel. Dimensional hopping. Deep science fiction. Crystals. Ape people. Fantasy. Sleestak that scared the crap out of me, for crying [...]
Categories: Movies
Tags: land of the lost, will ferrell
Star Trek for the Next Generation (My Review, Minor Spoiler)
May 10th, 2009 · No Comments
I really liked the new Star Trek movie. I had actually written the whole franchise off a few years ago, after Enterprise once again disappointed me with how unlike the original series it was, and even how dark and adolescent it was. I had some trepidation about the new movie. First off, though I think [...]
Categories: Movies · Reviews
Tags: jj abrams, LOST, star trek
Jury Duty Sucks
May 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Polk County has seen fit yet again, for the second time in two years, to call me for jury duty. Wow. A chance to do my civic duty. Great. Yeah, not really. It’s a friggin’ hour drive to Bartow to the court house, way too early in the morning. Then I get to spend the [...]
Categories: Events
Tags: jury duty
Star Wars Weekends 2009 “Backstage” Posters
May 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Yep, I’m a Cast Member and I haven’t seen any of these “backstage” posters. I want them on the wall behind my desk at work: http://www.starwars.com/fans/events/news20090427.html
Categories: Disney · Star Wars
Tags: star wars weekends 2009
Disney Adds The Magic of LEDs to the Castle
May 1st, 2009 · No Comments
My wife found a really kewl article about how Walt Disney World Resort is now using environmentally friendly LEDs to light the castle. From the article: In the end, Walt Disney World Entertainment replaced a total of 34 arc-source fixtures with 74 five-watt LED fixtures, cutting the total power requirements by at least 40 percent [...]
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Tags: environmental


