Looking for some insight into the mind of a Sith Lord? Darth Vader has his own blog: The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster. Make sure you check out the comments, since Lord Vader responds now and then. Nice to see him get a chance to help people understand his perspective on things.
Anne Arkham has an ongoing conversation with the Dark Lord of the Sith along with an exclusive interview.
I’ve uploaded photos from our first day at Star Wars Celebration 3. As Threepio might have said had he been at Celebration 3:
We seem to be made to wait in line. It’s our lot in life.
We’re back from Indiana. We left Tuesday for a couple days with family in Fort Wayne, and then headed down to Indianapolis for the madness that was Star Wars Celebration 3.
The show was a lot of fun, but also very exhausting. We spent a LOT of time in line, but overall we didn’t do too bad. If they do any more of these events (and it sounds like they will), they have to fix the logistics problems that seem to continually plague this event. People keep posting about how wonderful everything is because everyone in line with you is so great (which is true to a point), but it should NOT take 7 hours to wait and buy an action figure. Thankfully, we only had to wait two hours in the store line, thanks to a volunteer who steered us into the VIP line for the store by mistake.
The Episode III footage Rick McCallum showed on the digital projector was absolutely unbelievable. Even though we don’t have a digital screen here in St. Louis, hopefully we’ll get to see it when we’re in Chicago next month.
Just downloaded photos last night, so I’ll try and get those online in the next couple days.
We spent part of the day on Sunday over at Forest Park. First we visited the Baseball as America exhibit at the Missouri History Museum. I’m not a huge baseball fan, but the exhibit was interesting with many artifacts from the Hall of Fame on exhibit. One of the highlights was a Honus Wagner T206 tobacco card. A card like this sold for $1.26 million in 2000.
Afterwards we stopped by the Jewel Box for the second annual Tulip Festival. I haven’t had time to post all of the photos, but a few are listed below.
!http://images9.fotki.com/v174/photos/2/247084/914007/IMG_0566-vi.jpg (Fiery Tulip)!
!http://images9.fotki.com/v168/photos/2/247084/914007/IMG_0570crop-vi.jpg (Sea of Tulips)!
Theatres started selling tickets yesterday for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (henceforth Episode III or ROTS). We have our tickets for the midnight showing at Wehrenberg’s Galaxy 14 Cine in Chesterfield. The movie will be showing on the Mega Screen (50ft x 80 ft), so it should be quite the experience.
Afterwards, we’ll go home, get some sleep, grab some lunch, and then go to the 3:15 pm show at AMC Creve Coeur 12. Needless to say we’re taking a vacation day that Thursday.
Update: The midnight show on the Mega Screen is sold out!
