Hey Kids!

My friend Sandy and I went to the Science Museum of MN today to see the Star Wars: Science Behind the Magic exhibit. It was pretty cool, I must admit. I was this close to Han Solo's costume!!! Was it wrong to check and see if you can tell which way he likes to hang the boys?

I had the worst crush on Harrison Ford when I was in high school. Now, he's sexy in the way Sean Connery is sexy. In that "mature, confident in his own skin, devil-may-care kind of man's man" way that will have women dropping in their paths from instant (multiple) orgasms until the day they die.

Anyway, Han Solo has always been one of my favorite bad boy fantasies. I believe he may have been one of the main reasons for my never-ending fascination with Star Wars. Without a character like him in it, the movies just wouldn't have had the same ooomph, you know?

I won't say it was a perfect exhibit. I would have done several things differently. But then, I have a trained designer's eye, and am therefore not really a "civilian." That said, it was set up to work best for the short attention span of their target audience of 12 to 18 year old boys. Quick snippets, and sometimes longer videos, of information about models and costumes and worlds and robots and future technologies all relating to the Star Wars universe and it's impact on the real world.

I always find it amazing how the camera can fool us into believing we see one thing, when really it's something completely different. There are millions of hidden details, secrets, in every frame of a really good blockbuster epic. But it's only with Star Wars that I find enjoyment in knowing all the little oddities. Most DVDs today come with behind the scenes footage and documentaries giving away all the secrets, but I never watch them if I can help it. I just don't want to know. I like movie magic, I like that they can create a whole, completely believable world, and it makes me sad when someone pulls away that curtain and takes away my ability to live in that world with the characters.

But Star Wars I love. From the story to the characters to the movie history it made.

So, I bought a coffee mug with an original poster of SW: A New Hope on it. I wanted to get a mug for all three original movies, but they cost too much. I've decided to start collecting coffee mugs, and get rid of the ones I have. They don't hold enough, and they're boring. This way, I'll have a different mug for all my different moods. It pleases me that the first in my collection is Star Wars.

Jinx