In Honour of this Great Day when the original Star Wars films finally arrive on DVD in all their re-edited, ahistoric glory, a reminder of how art imitates art / politics / life (delete as applicable)...
Posted by Graeme Burk at September 21, 2004 06:43 AMNothing to say about the U.S. elections, oh no...
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at September 21, 2004 08:29 PMPerhaps it's already been done, but surely there is scope for a SNL-type sketch of Michaelangelo in the Sistine Chapel surrounded by Renaissance fanboys bitching that he's gone and retouched it so that Adam points first ...
Posted by: Alan Allport at September 22, 2004 04:58 AM"points first"?
Points at what? Something other than God's finger?
Sorry, explain?
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at September 22, 2004 12:44 PMGod extends his finger toward Adam, giving him life. The idea that it's reversed is a very funny joke/commentary on Mr. Lucas. Well done, Mr. Allport.
Nothing to say about the U.S. elections, oh no...
I said I was a Canadian with little to say. These are important distinctions.
Posted by: Graeme Burk at September 22, 2004 01:08 PMSorry, the problem was I didn't know who Greedo was. If he's the guy in the Mos Eisley spaceport bar who Han Solo shoots, then it makes sense. 'Scuse me, insufficient nerditude. I would, however, whistle you the spaceport band's harmonically dislocated two-step if this forum allowed for sound effects.
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at September 24, 2004 09:36 AM"Harmonically dislocated?" What's that mean?
Posted by: Alan Hogue at September 24, 2004 09:56 AM