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Five Fotos Friday: Growing Up Star Wars Edition
I’ve been meaning to post some pictures to the Growing Up Star Wars Flickr Group for a while now, so this as good a time as any to start going through the boxes and boxes of completely disorganized photos and see what else I can find to embarrass myself with each week.
Washington Irving Elementary – Durant, Oklahoma – October 1978
I think I had maybe a dozen Star Wars. I would wear them until the plastic iron-on picture would start cracking.
Halloween in Durant, Oklahoma 1978
Note that I was clever enough to use sunglasses with the Darth Vader mask, but not clever enough to wear a black long-sleeved shirt. Man, these costumes were just awful back then, but we loved them! I’m pretty sure the one-fist-on-the-hip thing was probably my grandma’s idea. Sassy.
My Birthday – Germany – 1980
I remember that this was the puzzle I wanted because basically I liked anything that had Han Solo. Chewbacca, or the Millennium Falcon on it. I don’t think I ever put it together.
Halloween in Germany 1980
I love that I’ve been demoted to a storm trooper, but I’m still taller than Darth Vader.
Christmas – Altus, Oklahoma – 1976
Of course, with a haircut like mine at that age, not everything was Star Wars. I wish I could find a better picture with the insignia showing. If I do, I’ll post it. It would be the logical thing to do.
Lame Crazy Stupid People At Halloween
So, I was talking to my friend Chris (Traci’s husband) while he was standing at the door, handing out candy, and he was telling me that tonight he had seen two weird things in kids’ Halloween candy sacks.
The first thing he noticed was that some lame jackass had given out those stupid Jesus-crispy how-to-avoid-burning-in-Hell comics.
And the second weird thing was that some other crazy jackass had stapled little “Vote for Ron Paul” cards to candy, and for some insane reason thought this would be a good thing to hand out.
I told him if anything like that shows up again, trade the kid some candy for it, and about 5 minutes (and a fun-size pack of Sour Patch Kids) later, a kid showed up at the door with this note in his candy bucket.
Maybe this person and the Vote-For-Ron-Paul person should get together and go bowling.
Who ya gonna call…for a good time?
This is the best Ghostbuster costume I’ve seen.
The line “He slimed me” conjures up a whole new scene for me now.
Halloween In The ‘Hood ‘07
It’s been a while since our neighbors across the street have put up any of those awful inflatable seasonal yard things that Cindy’s mentioned. For Halloween this year, they put out a giant inflatable castle-themed archway for their front door, and a big inflatable jack-o-latern for the lawn. They were up for a week before a few straight days of severe winds thrashed the things, and for the last two weeks they’ve remained right where they deflated.
Everyday, as we pull into our driveway, I look at our neighbors’ yard, checking the status of the inflatables because this isn’t the first time their yard decor ( ‘yard decor’ sounds better if you say it with a French accent; if you don’t like using a French accent, you can call it ‘freedom decor’) has collapsed, so I know one of two things will happen:
One, they’ll leave the inflatable castle entrance and jack-o-lantern where they are, and then inflate them a day or two before Halloween to reduce the chances of another round of winds tearing them up.
Or two — and this is my favorite of the two because it’s so white trashy — they will leave them alone, and on Halloween they’ll be there, crumpled masses of gray and orange plastic, one on the porch, the other on the lawn. That’s kind of scary, isn’t it?
The second scenario has been played out more than a few times, so now I’m always amazed that they even bother trying to put anything out whenever a major holiday rolls around. I figure at some point they’ll begin streamlining the process. One of these days we’ll be sitting on the front steps, and we’ll see them pull into their driveway, get out of the truck with a couple of brand new inflatable yard ornaments, which they will promptly take out of the boxes and immediately throw on the lawn in a rumpled pile of tastelessness.
Done and done.
UPDATE: It’s Sunday afternoon, and they’re setting the stuff up, so it looks like it’s Scenario #1 for Halloween this year.
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Star Wars Easter Eggs
Yeah, I know Easter has long since passed, but I never got around to posting this, so here it is now.
How cool are those? Okay, I mean “cool” in the dorky sense of the word. You know what I mean.
