“Chewie, we’re home.” This is the number one reason I have been waiting, since 1979, to be abducted by aliens. Please, come and get
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Category: Star Wars
Has ISIS Already Won?
ISIS is now threatening Twitter employees and executives for cracking down on their psychopathic tweets. Golly, just the other day I blocked a person
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One Person’s Blasphemy Is Another Person’s Freedom of Speech?
One of the classic scenes from Star Wars – the first one, was when C3PO was playing some form of chess with Chewbacca. When
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Merry Christmas
A year from now the civilized world will know the fate of the Skywalker family. In honor of what is to come, Merry Christmas!
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Banning Bossy
Between elementary school and high school a girl’s self-esteem drops 3.5 times more than does a boy’s. When a boy and young man asserts
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300 Sandwiches
On Wednesday, much of Manhattan was horrified at a tawdry tale of love, exploitation, an edible version of Sex and the City, and social
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UPDATED: Is Opera Becoming Irrelevant?
UPDATE: The Pink Flamingo is quite accustomed to being criticized. That’s the name of the game. But, today, the anonymous blogger at Command Opera
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The Really Important Stuff of Life: Star Trek!
I never saw this one coming. The bad guy is Kahn! I figured it was going to be Gary Mitchell, but it’s Kahn! I
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Opera, Historical Accuracy & Costuming
I don’t know if I like the idea of Rigoletto being put into the 1950s and Las Vegas, with a Rat Pack theme. It
Read MoreDon’t Sell My Stuff
If you’ve not heard the story, Kobe Bryant’s mother is planning to auction his stuff. He’s mad. She’s claiming he left it at her
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The Far Right and the Dark Side of the Force
Please, forgive The Pink Flamingo for getting a little crazed. I know I’m mixing metaphors, so to speak, but there are times when being
Read MoreWho Am I?
I am a kindergarten drop-out. Lately, The Pink Flamingo has been getting question about who I am. You can find a bit of information
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What Kind of a World?
On Monday, around 11:15 or so Memphis time, my great niece, Sarah Catherine – Catie, was born. I started thinking about the kind of
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More Top Ten Reasons You Know Your Candidate Is Losing
Please, pardon The Pink Flamingo. The wheels on the platinum plated Romney campaign bus are starting to go flat and wobble off, and I’m
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Barack Obama vs. the Alien Menace
Evidently, the American people think that Barack Obama would do better in repelling an alien menace. Let’s face facts, folks, Mitt Romney would go
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Christmas List (or) What Do You Get a Wookie for Christmas?
This time of year, every blogger and their chipmunk try to out do one another trying to impress with how religious they are. This
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The Really Important Things of Life: Star Peace!
This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in ages. Captain James T. Kirk (the real one) started a war with Princess Leia
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Totalitarian Conservatives Will Ruin the GOP
We all know a government shut-down will do great harm to the GOP. Republicans are so dumb, they get played by the Dems every
Read MoreBREAKING: Is It Bigfoot or (my new theory) a Wookie?
(Cue the Star Wars theme located at the end of the post)
The image was taken on October 24 by a game camera in Minnesota. The guys who took it are “not all that into bigfoot”. The photo has lead The Pink Flamingo to reassess her current theories about bigfoot. I think we are dealing with an invasion of Wookies! Let’s face it, the whole idea of bigfoot, Wookies, and UFOs just makes sense. The Wookies are invading planet Earth on UFOs and pretending to be bigfoots (bigfeet?).
Frankly, I think The Pink Flamingo’s new working theory is just as viable as anything else. I rather like the Wookie angle because it would point to the possibility of Han Solo buzzing around out there. Of course with my luck I’d be abducted by Jobba the Hutt instead of Han Solo.
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The New Science Fiction View of American Soldiers
This post is dedicated to my brother, LTC Floyd R. Harris, United States Army (retired – sort of)
If you have been a life long devotee of science fiction like The Pink Flamingo, you may be familiar with patterns within the genre. One of the mos fascinating insights into American society can be observed by watching the way the American military, soldiers, and former soldiers are treated. The same can be said of the movie/television genre in general, but science fiction is usually ahead of the trend.
At the end of World War II the American Soldier was the hero. He was Apple Pie, Jiltin’ Joe, and John Wayne all thrown into one great big hot dog with a flag and a fire-cracker for garnish. He could do no wrong. This same soldier protected us during the Cold War from the invasion of numerous alien hordes. By the mid-1960s things were taking a more sinister turn. Anti-war paranoia was in full spring. The American Soldier was now evil personified. He was a psychopathic baby killer, an object of paranoia and scorn, Rambo on a rampage.
The only point of light in this grim hatred of the American Soldier was the swaggering, macho, heroic James T. Kirk, who personified every great myth of American legend.
Warping into the 1970s when films were a nightmare from hell, one memorable portrayal of the military was George Peppard’s cardboard stiff character in Damnation Alley. We blew ourselves into evolutionary oblivion with the Planet of the Apes series. Then George Lucus and Steven Spielberg single handedly saved the movies. But, the Force was not with the military, and the Empire was evil.
Glen Larson, who helped produce Star Trek Classic, wasn’t finished with the image of the American Soldier. Ronald Reagan was elected POTUS and a month later Thomas Sullivan Magnum single handedly began reforming the image of the former baby-killing Vietnam Vets. (sigh). Tom Selleck’s Republican leanings, Glen Larson, and Donald P. Bellisario began to reform the vile image of the American Soldier. Magnum, P. I. was a reflection of Ronald Reagan’s Republican spirit.
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There is no difference between Obama fans and Trekkies. Please, I am not trying to insult Trekkies, only making a point about the “Dear Leader” films and school plays.
Want to talk about crazy fans? That’s what we are dealing with. When I think of crazy fans, I always go back to one of those almost sacred moments of my life. Yes, I remember where I was, sitting on the edge of the bed in the Fedder’s bedroom with Karen Fedder and my sister. We weren’t very old, but our parents, who were having dinner consigned us to the bedroom to watch THEM. (FYI – Jerry Fedder and Lindsey were law partners).
Democrats think it is okay, which tells you something about them. My fellow Republicans are in a snit over the actions of a New Jersey elementary school. So am I. I’m furious about it. Or, I was furious, then I started remembering back when I was in the 4th or 5th grade and had a crush on some TV star. I refuse to mention the star or the TV show on the grounds that it might reveal how old I am.
Read MoreThe More Obama Tightens His Grip…
“The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.” Princess Leia Organa Solo I think the time
Read MoreC. S. Lewis on Those Who Prefer Not to Be Christians
C. S. Lewis once wrote in Mere Christianity: One reason why many people find Creative Evolution so attractive is that it gives one much
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