Star Wars

So Disney has purchased the rights to Star Wars from George Lucas. I am what you could call a "nerd." While Star Wars is certainly not the holy grail of nerdom to me as it is to some of my friends, I thoroughly enjoyed the original trilogy(episodes 4-6). The prequel trilogy I enjoyed... less so, though I still enjoyed watching them (mostly, Jar Jar was pretty darn annoying). The other night I was hanging out with some friends and we ended up talking about the possibilities now that Disney has control. We all agreed that Disney is certainly capable of making excellent (and bad) films, and that the fact that more movies will be made is a good thing. I was surprised though, that no one seemed to mind that Disney made the purchase. I was the only one that was worried that George Lucas will not be heavily involved in the now announced next Star Wars installment. Most of my friends seemed to think that after the "poor" movies of the prequel trilogy George Lucas is clearly not capable of making any more "good" Star Wars movies. This might be true, and this matters much more to most of my friends, who are much bigger Star Wars fans than I am. But I can't help that think a big part of Star Wars, original and prequels, is somehow his. And that if he can't (or won't) make good Star Wars movies, can anyone? I am sure I will see whatever the next movie is. But I think that the optimism shown by my friends now that Disney is in control might be dashed whenever the next installment is released.

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Sandy

So I just found out that my Aunt and Uncle on Long Island finally got power back. They had been running on a reasonably small generator for quite a while. I guess they were letting neighbors keep food in their fridge and let them shower. I find it interesting that their response to a crisis was to help neighbors while at least one man (allegedly) refused to let a woman a her two young sons into his home during the hurricane itself, apparently leading to both of the boys drowning. With the number of news organizations, charities and websites devoting space to seek donations to those affected and so on, I wonder how many of those people who are donating would actually help others during the crisis itself, not after the fact. It seems cynical of me I am sure, but I cant help think that all those people clamoring for the man who refused to help might respond in the exact same way he did, by choosing not to get involved.