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Webster.com defines "blather" as...

Main Entry: blath·er
Pronunciation: 'bla-[th]&r
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): blath·ered;
blath·er·ing /-[th](&-)ri[ng]/
Etymology: Old Norse blathra;
akin to Middle High German
blOdern to chatter
Date: 1524
: to talk foolishly at length

Let's look at that again - "to talk foolishly" That is this page in a nutshell. This is going to be the spot where Megan or I will post our admittedly non-important views and opinions and generally just whatever happens to be on our mind at any given moment.

As an aside - check out that definition - BLATHRA? Didn't he fight Godzilla at some point in time? And don't tell Megan - but I think I'm going to have to name our first born son - Blodern. Nice ring. I like it.

At any rate - I can't promise you that it will be updated on any kind of schedule - that would be just setting myself up for a fall and you for soul-crushing disappointment. So let's just say we'll try to update it - oh - let's say once a week.

(let's see how long that lasts)

I know I have something on my mind that needs to get out - two words - Star Wars - oh - four more words - Attack of the Clones. My expectations for this latest installment of the "George Lucas Is Out To Destroy My Childhood Memories" series are rock bottom. I refuse to get my hopes up. Fool me once - shame on you. Fool me twice - shame on me. Fool me repeatedly over and over, grinding your heel into my youthful dreams and fantasies - let's just say I think they should take the film rights away from Lucas like a drivers license away from a 98 year old grampa who just ran over a nun in a police station. I have a short list of my most disappointing movies of all time. (non geeks may want to pass this by) (for that matter you have probably clicked out a long time ago) They are as follows, in reverse order of disappointment...

Kids in the Hall - Brain Candy. Oh my. I just sat there - mouth agape. (pronounced ah-gah-pay) I could not believe how funny the show was and how extrordinarily UNfunny that movie was.
Highlander 2. The less said about this the better. The only movie I considered walking out of. And I am a very tolerant guy. Great explanation of the whole immortality thing, "They're from space!" Effing brilliant. Wish I could have been there for that writers meeting.
And of course - Phantom bleedin' Menace. Just saw it again recently, seeing as how I had only seen it the one time, and everyone kept saying how it's better the second time. They LIE. Forget the fan made Phantom Edit where they edited out all the scenes with Jar-Jar, I want to make the Andy Edit - I can pare that piece of crapola down to about 20 minutes. 10 minutes of finding Anakin and 10 minutes of Darth Maul kicking some Jedi buttski. Don't even get me started on that midi-chlorian garbage.

And let's face it - Return of the Jedi wasn't all that spectacular either. It's amazing what a seven year old perspective can do for you. Like most guys my age, I was OBSESSED with Star Wars. Still am. But dammit all...when am I gonna learn?

So the short of it is, worst case scenario I walk out of there with my prediction firmly cemented in my mind and another nail in the coffin of my youth. And hey - who knows - I may walk out of there NOT wishing for Lucas to have a thermal detonator enema. That's all I can hope for.

@ndy - May 8th