Thank God for rowdy chicks… and beer…
Any Chicago rocker from the 70s remembers fondly Off Broadway (USA) and their 1979 hit “Full Moon Turn My Head Around” I have the single! Yes, I bought 45s even at age 22. I was broke, okay? Great rocker and I guess they still play now and then. A friend of mine saw them at a bar and said their light show consisted of a light bulb hanging above the singer’s head. Cool. But, only two albums and they fizzled. Such is life.
More Rocky (less Bullwinkle) on Monday as the band gets ready for their first gig.
Three times a week next week… unless my house blows up or something… 🙂
EDIT: I don’t like to point things out as much as I use to, but notice Jeff’s license plate? THC is Tetrahydrocannabinol, the main psychoactive substance found in the Cannabis plant. Dude… no one got that? If you don’t know what 420 is, go to Wikipedia.
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Silly boys, that’s a Full Moon.
Some would argue its a New Moon, but they would be wrong.
(*Former Astronomy Major*)
Jeremy – Absolutely full moon… New Moon would be covered up and who wants that when being mooned? I was hoping folks knew what the terms waxing and waning referred too and you’ve answered my question!
Astronomy was one of my favorite non-major courses in college. Aced it too! 😀
Ugh! I hated Astronomy! I absolutely couldn’t stay awake for it at all. (Of course, we only had the normal, boring old rock moon to look at.)
BTW, super-gratz on your interview and your reviews! Well damn done! 😀
Thanks, Kevin on the “super-gratz.” I’m pushing the heck out of this thing of late and seems old marketing techniques still work.
The stars are very cool to stare at. I lived on a farm where there are NO city lights what-so-ever and, man, can you see the stars! So I figured I study them a bit. I’m heavily into Sci-Fi too, so knowing the difference between a light year and a parsec was handy… Unlike Han Solo…
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Maybe the boys are arguing how she got her butt so smooth? 😉
Why are you discussing astronomy when there there are exposed buttocks.. Good God man!
RE: Vince – In cartoon-land, everything is “perfect!” 😀
RE: LordBeavis – A red blooded male finally speaks up! YES! We have butt-cheeks today, and what a glorious day it is too!
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I will be having some equal time for my lady readers as Lorraine is about to get… a boyfriend! And there’s bound to be some cheek-sneaks coming for sure.
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Lucas came up with an explanation for the Kessel run. (Which though obviously cobbled together post-facto, actually made a certain kind of sense.) Basically, the idea was that the run took you through a particularly hazardous part of space, lots of radiation or something like that. If your ship was slow, then you’d have to take the long way around. “I did the Kessel run in 16 parsecs.” was the T-shirt you’d buy from a cruise liner, while running it in 12 meant you either had an incredibly fast ship, or you were suicidally brave. Or both.
I still don’t believe that he had that in mind at the time, and I think that Lucas simply made it up when someone finally explained to him what a parsec was. But I learned it from Star Trek. The only thing I ever learned from Astronomy was how to sleep sitting up.
From what I remember in the ORIGINAL Star Wars novel (written by Lucas as well I think) was that when Han said that, there was some narrator comment about how Obi-Wan and Luke were catching on that Han was a prime bull-shitter and had merely screwed up while boasting. But in the movie itself, the pair just look at each other while us Sci-Fi geeks in the audience went “You are so WRONG Lucas!”
I agree with you, George screwed it up and has since covered his tracks nicely. I can relate…
I have a poster that states proudly “Everything I learned, I learned from Star Trek” Then it lists a bunch of geeky facts… cool poster. 🙂
there was a Dark Horse comic that explained the Kessel Run when Han and Chewy go back to the Mines of Kessel. Kessel is this Massive asteroid field that they do mining and smugglers move fenced items through there all the time. Well the empire decided to surround the place with star destroyers, etc. So the only way to get out is to either go the long way or have a super fast ship. My memory might be faulty but that’s what I remember.
Also I just barely got a chance to see the comic so you were a little fast with the edit to the comments. Also I like the 4/20 National Pot Smokers day also the police code for arresting pot smokers. “I was at the party, but I didn’t inhale.”
on the kessel run, there’s some black hole, the further from it you travel, the saver the route, but also the longer. a shorter distance refers to passing this black hole thing in a smaller angle, thus less distance on the total route. he might have very well made that up later on 🙂
but then… all these facts… just watch the moon and enjoy.
RE: Tanap – I am one of those Sci-Fi folks that likes to stick to what is canon IN the three original Star Wars films. Even the novelizations of the times were a tad different then the movies. The idea was that Han was screwing up in an attempt to bullshit his way into a paying fare. Over the years, Lucas, and others, have attempted many ways to cover this up. They are original and interesting, but alas, the original intent is still there…
Here is the exact line from the script published in 1979 in the original “Art of Star Wars”
Han: It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs.
Ben reacts to Solo’s stupid attempt to impress them with obvious misinformation.
One of the benefits of my being “old” is that I have this original stuff to help prove what a moron Lucas can be at times… just like the rest of us! 🙂
PS: Oh, when Empire Strikes Back came out, the paperback book came out TWO days before the movie opened, so those of us who rushed out and bought the book knew Vader was Luke’s father.
I’m sure Lucas was “WHAT?! Now who released the book early?”
Re: Tanap: I don’t mind admitting I was at the party, and inhaled A LOT.
Byron: Scott Kurtz of PvPOnline fame sold (sells?) a shirt that reads
Han Shot First. I have seen this shirt on characters in several webcomics.
RE: Byron: Never read that book, just going off of something I had read. Also cool about the info, it always helps to have all the facts.
Re: Brett: Cool, so that was you over in the corner. Never smoked myself, but I have been contact high a few times. I was trying for that famous comment by Prez Bill.
Tanap – I hope I didn’t sound harsh or anything… was a rough week. As a Sci-Fi geek of sorts, I can get wrapped up in these types of discussions sometimes.
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I WAS at the party and I DID inhale… it was nice indeed. Oreo anyone?
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RE: Brett – Hmmm Kurtz, Kurtz… name sounds familiar… oh yeah, him!
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I have never met Scott and I only occasionally read his comic (I am not a gamer of any sort and miss some of the points) but I like a person who can start such a free-for-all sometimes with comments he makes, or, that are made at him.
When you are close to the top of the heap, it is easy for those below you to take pot shots at you (heh, pot shots) but it takes even more class just to realize why the comments are being made and ignore them. In broadcasting, there are egos the size of Hummers and will roll you over just as fast, so I learned a long time ago to try and check my ego at the door and not take things too seriously.
Here at 1977, the comments are always fun and never harmful. I don’t delete any comments (well, thus far) and if someone has a beef, let them speak. Unless they do it in such an obvious fashion that shows such total ignorance on their part, I’m probably going to leave it alone. Now with that said, I’m sure folks will get under my skin at some point, but at the moment… eh, whatever.
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Who waxed the car?
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I had my own band just forming around then. “Stay in Time” was the only single I ever recall hearing on WLS, etc., but we played it and Full Moon too. Cliff Johnson was a piece of work, as was their guitar player.
When I went to Purdue, I tracked him down & wrote a letter – I think he was in Madson, WI. The band had cracked and I wanted him to form a new one that included me (and my numerous credits of 1980!).
I never did get a reply… so I graduated instead.
I think I took the wrong path.
“I saw the crescent – you saw the whole of the moon!”