Coruscant

When I have time, I try and teach my son the important things in life. Besides the obvious things like God, Family, Friendship and Free Enterprise, I try and make sure I cover important things that some dad’s out there may not. Of course I mean the Star Wars movies. The Oddysey of the modern era; the Sistine Chapel of cinema; the Parthenon of storytelling.
And I know someday we’ll have lots of discussions about things like “What if that red astromech droid hadn’t blown it’s motivator?” or “What if that one guy hadn’t said, ‘Hold your fire, there’s no life forms aboard,’”. But in the meantime, I’m content to have discussions about whose lightsaber is coolest.
So I’ve had Coruscant in mind when I ran across this image of a piece of metal and I just had to do a quick little plantary conversion. If you don’t know what Coruscant is, well then, this will be totally lost on you and I’m sorry for wasting the last minute of your life. So here’s Coruscant:

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And here’s where it came from:

Night Shoot

We did a night shoot for fun last night on commercial street. It was a lot of fun and totally different from most of what I do.

Leaves Everywhere

A.J.

Fear the power of the Crocs!!

Along the way this summer...

Spiderman has another birthday...film at 11:00

North Carolina

Tyler, Texas

Texas is really hot. I mean seriously, it's like stupid-hot. No offense to all of you people who are big fans of the nation's second largest state. Of course, if Alaska decides to change into North Alaska and South Alaska, Texas would move down to #3 in size. Isn't that cute.
Anyway, I say this just to point out that as an ever so slightly non-slender man, I don't do great in intense, overbearing, mind-numbing, sweat dripping heat. I must really like my Aunt Linda who is healing from a fall/spinal thingy that has done a bit of paralysis to her. She'll be fine though because she's got my other Aunt Kathy keeping her sane with stuff like...well I'm not sure what really but I'm guessing it's stuff like Texas Hold Em' and Texas Toast and Old El Paso Salsa and maybe some music like....um....Chicago. Anyway....or as David Paden used to say "At any rate", this was the wonderful Cadillac road trip I embarked upon with my mom. We saw 3 sticks Oklahoma and pondered on its importance to the Indian Nations of old. We saw my cousin's kids, (I don't know if that's second cousins to me or cousins part deu or cousins that should be removed or what.) Anyway...or as a tour guide I met one time would say, "Moving right along", we had a great fat-free (I'm sure) meal at Pasada's in Tyler (you have to try it if you haven't, it will make you seriously consider returning to Texas even if you don't have family there) it wasn't the same without Aunt Linda there though, they had an open chair for her. She does have some little angels by her bed and some yellow mustard that I thought might be strange looking without any yellow. In conclusion....or as a mental hospital worker once said about a new patient, "Let's wrap this up"; we did a big shoot of this cactus in Linda's room. I'm putting up one of the shots but if you want to see the rest you'll have to go and pay her a visit. Happy 4th Everybody!!

Up to Summer Speed

Let's do some catch up on everything, well everything fun anyway. We saw birds.
I learned orioles like grape jelly out of oranges that are nailed down. I did some fun projects with my dad.

We saw the Burtons at the Lake:

I had a road trip with my mom. We went to the zoo and saw frogs. Wesaid goodbye to the Alexanders.

Alec hit a double but was only allowed to go to first. The Shaws showed their team spirit.

We got to do some fun stuff for VBS.

My wife got even hotter.