What the hell is a Wookie?!?!

Lately, many of my posts haven't included a lot on the mommy to be, Katie. She's kind of shy so I didn't want to embarass her too much by writing on her. I did offer to put her as a contributor on the blog, but she declined the offer so you're going to be stuck reading my posts. Hopefully some day I can get the baby to bang on the keyboard and make a post. Anyways, for those of you that forgot what she looks like, here is a pic of us from a late Christmas at her parents house in Herreid. No, we didn't plan on wearing the same shirts.

One thing that I've learned in the month and a half that we've been living together is that there are certain cultural differences between a 23 year old female and a 36 year old male. Driving back from Herreid a week ago I made an off hand comment that the countryside looked like "the frozen planet of Hoth." She gave me a look like "are you smoking something?" C'mon! The frozen planet of Hoth, the stronghold of the rebel forces in The Empire Strikes Back!!!

Then I stopped and thought. "When that movie came out she was still 5 years away from being born." I was already rockin a Star Wars backpack on my way to school for a couple years at that point. I need to give her a pass on some of her lack of knowledge on cinematic classics.

So tonight as I was watching the NFC playoff game I was flippin channels and came across the Star Wars trilogy on Spike TV and thought I would pause to let her take in bits and pieces of what made me the weirdo I am. I'm not talking about those last three films George Lucas puked out...... Jar Jar Binks is dead to me. I'm talking New Hope, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, the films that all other Sci-Fi is compared too. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some Sci-Fi geek that lives and breathes Star Trek and all those others, my love of those wained considerably after 1983 and Return of the Jedi.

I'm getting off subject tho. As Katie was watching she made little snickers at the way the TonTon's stiffly ran. First off, yes, special effects weren't that far along in 1980 and second, how do you know thats not the way that TonTon's ran in real life!?!? Later on, she couldn't figure out why Luke Skywalker was once again in trouble in a swamp. Sigh........ It's the Dagobah system. Yoda lives there. Yoda is a Jedi master. Luke needs training to become a Jedi warrior, so he goes there to meet with Yoda, duh!!! I mean this isn't rocket science here.

Ok, I admit, the way I was flipping between the game and the movie, nobody could have followed the plot line. I've decided I'm not going to try to indoctrinate Katie into the Star Wars fan club, but I am going to make her sit and watch another of my favorites that was made even way before I was born - "The Bridge on the River Kwai".

Coincidentally, and I never realized this until I had just watched the River Kwai last night, but Sir Alec Guinness plays Colonel Nicholson in that movie and he plays Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars. Great actor and my favorite beer is also named after him. That would be cool to have a beer named after you.