Friday Drive By

Question: Have you been reading Julie Leto’s Marisela Blog? She posts Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and her posts are always a whole heap of industry savviness, craft goodness, and just plain old common sense. there have been several doozies in the past few weeks. Seriously. Go read now. I’ll wait.

I might be a bad blogger in the next few weeks as I try to write write write on SSG2, which is due at the end of August.

The foot is hurting again. Cortisone didn’t do it. This is clearly going to be a long process.

OMG, why have I not been watching Veronica Mars? I’m just about to finish the first season on DVD. Amazing.

And, this is really embarrassing, but am I the last person on earth to realize that Keira Knightley was the stand-in body double security person for Queen Padme what’s-her-face-Amidala Natalie Portman in Star Wars: Episode One? How humiliating. Sadly, realizing this yesterday as I read an issue of Spin featuring Miss Knightley while I waited at the Mazda service station sent me off on a whole little mind-tangent of thoughts about Eps 1-3, which, you know, makes me very sad. Very. Sad. As if waiting at the car dealership isn’t bad enough, waiting at the car dealership while being reminded of those abominations (well, parts of 3 were cool, but none featuring Padme) practically sent me into a black spiral of depression.

Sailor Boy and I have decided that, should we have kids, we are raising them in a household that only recognizes three Star Wars films, all starring Harrison Ford. I’m sure that by the time our progeny is ready for school, there will be a whole subculture, and perhaps even charter schools devoted to raising children in a Jar-Jar free environment. So that’s the plan.

May the force be with us.