what we do at unpopular front meetings

[sabotabby]

cuban rum is the bestest rum.

yay communism.

also some peoople are ogonna get purged yippee!

and now all of the cats are stoonnnnned.

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Possible Icon Fodder?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I thought you might find this schadenfreude / squee-worthy: Patches for Imperial Stormtrooper "reenactors" from many nations - including Canada and Israel. There are a handful of Rebel patches as well; some Canadian, none Israeli. The Michigan one is cute, as well as the Rebel "Ghostbusters" patch.

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[sabotabby]

Oddly enough, I never got seriously into Star Wars. I mean, I loved the old ones as a kid, but the new ones...ugh. And as I probably mentioned a gazillion times, I went to high school with Anakin Skywalker, making it utterly impossible for me to take him seriously.

This said, the fact that there's a pink and black Imperial cog makes me utterly happy.

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Well, I thought you might be amused by Israeli stormtroopers.

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[sabotabby]

That and the Saudi stormtroopers.

I can see why someone would want to collect them.

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

... and those from Al Berta.

Hey, not to pimp myself too shamelessly, but you haven't commented on anything since my pirate swag post and I've been on fire lately.

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[sabotabby]

Because there have been links. That requires clicking on things. :(

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[sabotabby]

To be specific -- I can't view anything lower than 10-point type on my monitor at work (and even that's a stretch), which pretty much vetos web comics.

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

New Star Wars- terrible. I thought that the last one was funny though, the best of the 3. Hayden Christiensen= worst actor ever. He's cute though in a non-sexy kinda way.

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[sabotabby]

Dare I ask what the Darth Maul Estrogen Brigade is?

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Probably best that you not know.

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

I wonder why Arabic numerals are used with whatever script that is on the patches. "501" is universal?

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[sabotabby]

I'm feeling insufficiently geeky. Something must be done!

Quick, someone start talking about Firefly.

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

Uuuuh, do you think Mal and Kaylee ever argue over Serenity, the way parents would argue about how to discipline or raise their children?

I could see it.

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

I mean...if they were real...and had lives outside of the fictional stories we see them in....

Or maybe Nathan Fillion and Jewel Staite will actually launch into an argument like that while they're hanging out at a con and then stop and go "...Whoah..."

Whatever, it's late. goodnight.

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[sabotabby]

Mal and Kaylee definitely do (well, even in the show they did).

If Fillion and Staite did, I'd be a bit disturbed. Not because their fictional personas had intruded into their personal lives, but because it would force me to contemplate the actors outside of their roles, which in turn would remind me that Jayne is played by a Republican. So sad!

Jayne is played by a Republican

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

What, you're surprised? Jayne is not only played by a Republican, he IS a Republican! The only reason his character is not a racist, mysogynist pig (remark, not that Democrats can't do that as well) is because of political correctness.

I mean, even Mal is the classic working-class Republican, a kind of male ginmar. (She's not anymore, but she used to.)

Re: Jayne is played by a Republican

[sabotabby]

But actors are all supposed to be flaky liberals! It's a waste of hot!

I wouldn't say necessarily contemporary Republican for either of them. Maybe right-wing populist, given that they do identify as working class. Of course, the whole set-up is a PC version of the American Civil War, so you have political decentralization but not social conservatism, given that it's Joss Whedon and he wants us to root for them.

Re: Jayne is played by a Republican

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

I'll go with ring-wing populist...

This reminds me of when Miles O'Brien started getting more attention on TNG because the public identified with him and demanded more of him. I mean, who actually identifies with Patrick Stewart?

Re: Jayne is played by a Republican

[sabotabby]

I don't. Among the many reasons why DS9 was a better show than TNG was that the characters in DS9 were actually human, so to speak. The crew of the Enterprise were the best of the best -- and how many people do you know like that? -- whereas DS9 was full of flawed, ordinary people who fucked up on a regular basis.

Re: Jayne is played by a Republican

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

And DS9 started collapsing when the doctor turned out to be a GMO-supergenius who'd been faking it as a regular Joe. That wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back, but it was all happening around the same period when you started having demon-fleets of Dominion and whatever the hell they threw in that show towards the last seasons. I stopped watching.

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

It's Star Wars - there's sound in space and Han & Leia can step outside in it wearing only gas masks - and you are worried about numbers?

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Han & Leia can step outside in it wearing only gas masks

That came out wrong. ... Well, not wrong but ...

Re: Possible Icon Fodder?

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

It would have made things more interesting.