Bingowings

When Artoo restores Threepio’s memory Poe says, “Somehow Threepio has returned.”

The probe droid is something I had hoped someone would do. I couldn’t convince Adywan. I think it works well. Obviously the music cue would need to change.

The Star Wars Purist said:

For sequel continuity’s sake, every mention of Palpatine in the OT (until Jedi) is cut, as well as everything featuring him after the Yoda fight in RotS. The last piece is adding a “somehow, Palpatine returned” to the Home One briefing in Jedi.

Maybe when every character that has appeared before is featured again… “Somehow (fill in blank) has returned”.

At the end of TPM Mace and Yoda ponder which Sith was destroyed, The Master or the Apprentice. Pan right to Palpatine wearing a big top hat a monocle and a waxed moustache which he waggles while winking at the audience.

For months now I’ve been eating Natto for breakfast. I used to have it with a rice bowl but now I have it with a 50/50 rice and Quinoa bowl with vegetables, and Kimchi. It’s groovy.

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Rarely does a thread have a soundtrack and yet…

https://youtu.be/4hlDqCR4trc?si=5qDWoKN-XBNrhAd1

When the first Death Star is destroyed a large section lands on Yavin 4 during the medal giving ceremony killing many Bothans.

Thanks guys. I guess im hoping that people with old Myspace accounts will dust them off and use them. An older Internet vibe before it became fashionsble to hate again.

Strange as it may seem but MySpace isn’t entirely dead.

When Zuckerberg announced his removal of any pretense of moderation on Faceboot I started to look for something else.

I have replaced twitter with bluesky and I feel all the better for it but I couldn’t find anything Facebookesque.

I assumed MySpace was long gone but exists it does. It’s just very empty.

All the music feeds have gone, the people have gone but the site remains.

It might be fun to reactivate or sign up to colonise the space.

I’m using mine as an online art gallery at the moment. I could see it as a fun way of journaling or publishing poetry etc.

If doing the same or similar interests you I recommend you avoid the app. It is run by an ad company and every swipe and every four key entries will trigger an very long unskippable advert for rubbish phone games. Some were so long tgey had mini ads interrupting the maxi ads.

Use a browser with an ad blocker. Brave is a good example I guess. I was pleasantly suprised by the old school charm of it.

https://myspace.com/briancombe

Mrebo said:

My edit has been on the back burner but occasionally game out how to address things I want to address.

Changing the podrace announcer was a dream out of my reach but with AI it would be easy.

This is not perfect (link good for 2 days) but it’s pretty good:

https://streamable.com/xdrunx

That’s brilliant.

Last night I had one of those classic, ‘dreaming that you wake up’ dreams.
In the dream I wake up and make my bed. I then go downstairs I walk to the far end of the hallway. The electricity is out so I am in pitch darkness. I suddendly bump into a giant but still unseen humanoid form. 7 or 8ft tall. The being shunts me towards the door with its body weight alone, it never lays hands on me. I try to talk to it but get no reply. Just being pushed along. In fear I wake up. Only I still havent really woken up. Im back in a house which is nothing like my real home but using dream logic I know it is my home somehow. I can hear loud electrical sparks from the garden. There is a work bench. A wired device that looks like cylindrical drill or an electrical screwdriver is overloading. I open the sliding glass doors to the garden and carefully switch off the powerpoint from a free standing console. For some reason the previously empty garden is full of covered workbenches and each has somebody working away with a handtool on some project. One guy, a Canadian with wavy white hair and a beard asks if I switched off the malfunctioning power point and explains that he had tried to earlier but he could get close enough. I then wake up with my alarm…or do I?

He might come back. We dont know whats going on in his life. I hope it’s nothing bad.

Is the bluesky account genuine? I noticed its not been used yet. If you needed someone in a B-wing Bingowings seemed an obvious choice😁 maybe I could change my name to Xingowings. Though I do look more like an Ewok at the moment.

Angus MacInnes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_MacInnes

"They are on levels 5 and 6 six now Bert"😁

Great work as always. The colours really pop.

SSWR has done this before. Maybe he has a lot on his plate. Things happen out of the blue. I hope he is well. I really enjoy our conversations. He has developed his skills greatly over the years. AOTC is the most problematic prequel. Not as disappointing as TPM but narratively much more important. It needs the sort of work SSWR was doing like no other Star Wars film does… And he is a good friend.

Yes I tried sending funds but It won’t let me. To be honest PayPal feels more dodgy these days.

It has been suggested elsewhere but now that we have more material maybe having another try for an edit where there is only one Death Star. It would mean swapping the ROTJ look for the Rogue One look. The attack in ANH only slowing down the construction so Yavin can be evacuated which is finally completed in ROTJ.

My friend, chemist, Paleontologist poet and all round nice person Alice Purnell OBE. Former nurse, founder member of a number of gender based organisations. She leaves a collection of thayltvwould seriously rival and museum of natural history.

Tony Todd [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/tony-todd-death-movies-candyman-age-cause-b2644180.html]

Superheaven called.

It’s Jackie Chan not Jackie Han.

Merry Christmas

When the stormtroopers break open the door to the guard post over from the hanger they all knock their heads and pass out allowing Threepio and Artoo to stroll passed their concussed bodies.