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[liptonrm_backup]

When I was a kid I mostly remember my parents watching PBS. I have very strong memories of Dr. Who on Saturday afternoons and Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! and Nova. I grew up whetting my tv viewing teeth on Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow and Mr. Roger's Neighborhood and Voyage of the Mimi. Now as an adult I seem to be rediscovering the PBS love. It still shows some of the best stuff on television. All I need is HBO for the dramas, PBS for the documentaries and news broadcasts and British shows, Cartoon Network for the cartoons and Food Network for when there's nothing else on and I need to watch something. This has been another episode of 'If Only I Ran Television ...'

Speaking of crazy tangents, while eating dark chocolate peanut M&Ms last night I had the crackiest most Mary Sue-ified idea ever. Okay, so we know that Obi-Wan says that Vader and the Emperor killed all the Jedi but, you know that wily Kenobi was always twisting words and truth and stuff. We also know that the Jedi Council, for all its wisdom never noticed that Anakin went off and got himself hitched. Obviously they weren't keeping the closest of tabs on their young Jedis. So, just imagine if you will, a bunch of Jedi fangirls who put aside fighting for truth and justice for a while and follow some celebrity around as he/she/it tours the Known Galaxy. They're completely oblivious to the Clone Wars and the Rise of the Empire and by the time the tour ends all the Jedi are mostly dead. And then I realized that I was writing a Mary Sue in my head so I stopped because down that road lies Madness. But wouldn't fangirl!Jedi be just about the coolest thing ever? Or possibly the crackiest.

I hear that George Lucas is going to guest star on an episode of The OC. I also hear that Lucasfilm has started working on some televised Star Wars programs. Oh, and apparently Kitty Pryde is going to have a bigger role in the upcoming X-Men movie and that there will also be Juggernaut and Dark Phoenix. And that's all combined with Beast and Angel and Gambit. That's going to be a really full movie.

I have to remember to mail off the money order so I can get the thing I won on eBay. I'd tell you what I won but seeing as I have plans to use it as a birthday present for someone who can see this I think I'll keep you all in suspense instead.

Before I forget, the whole reason I was posting was to let you all know that I finally downloaded Yahoo! Messenger and can be found using the name liptonrm. The babble, it burns precious.

Comments

[hiyacynth.livejournal.com]

Argh! I don't have Yahoo! Messenger at work. *tries to make Trillian go here again*

p.s. you are crazeh baby

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

You totally need to write the fengirl!Jedi story. That is hilarious. She could meet up with Luke and be all, "Yeah, I missed the Clone Wars because I was busy being a groupie to this boyband." And Luke could be all, "Jedi should have groupies. I need to get laid, yo."

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Dude, do not encourage me. Actually, go right ahead and encourage as it would probably never get written anyway. I am glacially slow.

Fengirl!Jedi would be all, "Don't worry Luke, I'd do you." 'Cause all fangirls have had a thing for Luke Skywalker at one point or another.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

Hee. Luke gets a pity shag.

"The closest I got with some chick, and it turns out she's my long-lost twin sister! I mean, damn. Now, I ask every girl I meet when her birthday is, just to be safe."

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

You must write the Jedi fangirls down! It would be so incredibly funny. :)

[lil-banik-slave.livejournal.com]

Kitty Pryde is going to have a bigger role in the upcoming X-Men movie

Is she still going to be played by Katie Stuart. She and Tegan Moss are two of my favourite "rising" Canadian actresses.

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

It would be hilarious. Just imagine the testimonial, 'How Fangirling Saved My Life'. *snerk*

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

From what I read it looks like Matthew Vaughn, the new director, is looking to recast the part. Just like they did to Pyro in between 1 & 2.

[baylorsr.livejournal.com]

All the fangirl!Jedis are following the Dead for the summer, aren't they?

[liptonrm.livejournal.com]

Well duuuuuuh! There's no better way to expand your mind and be at one with the cosmos then spending a summer following the Dead and imbibing in the Force-altering substances that will totally be passed around. Duuuuude