tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346830305687186778.post8684827841647844269..comments2023-10-18T06:20:09.433-07:00Comments on cul de sac: May the Fourth Againrichardcthompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02176282831210054050noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346830305687186778.post-73263730612353737602011-05-04T17:35:15.186-07:002011-05-04T17:35:15.186-07:00Richard - you're a cartoonist. You don't n...Richard - you're a cartoonist. You don't need any more geek cred.Mike Rhodehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14551914909843150387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346830305687186778.post-47423951085223862302011-05-04T10:34:53.855-07:002011-05-04T10:34:53.855-07:00I remember going to see Star Wars over and over ag...I remember going to see Star Wars over and over again that summer, because it was so totally different from any of the other movies that were out, and just... so exciting! My friends and I would race to sit in the front row, because we'd discovered that during the Death Star battle scenes, whenever a fighter would drop into one of the "canyons," we'd all feel a brief moment of weightlessness and motion, as if we were riding in the cockpit, too! I wonder how many engineers of modern 3-D rides were kids that summer, too?Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522633884217854888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346830305687186778.post-81225041731326152102011-05-04T05:54:25.202-07:002011-05-04T05:54:25.202-07:00Interesting how, so long ago, Jar-Jar seems to be ...Interesting how, so long ago, Jar-Jar seems to be channeling Sarah Palin. ("...blah, blah and how you betcha!"Neil J Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08852834659400991664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346830305687186778.post-72957360290401583212011-05-03T22:36:14.908-07:002011-05-03T22:36:14.908-07:00I saw Star Wars for the first time in a mall theat...I saw Star Wars for the first time in a mall theater outside Hollywood, FL in June of 1977. My parents had just divorced and my Mom hauled all five of us kids down there from Union Station in DC on the Auto Train to see her family and try to regroup, so to speak. We stayed two weeks, during which she realized that even as an unemployed, divorced mother of five she was in better shape than the rest of her family. We also saw Star Wars three times in 10 days. Then we went back to Maryland and I saw it another 15 times. It's all I remember about the trip or that summer really.Chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05191940228368484377noreply@blogger.com