Star Wars day

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Hans Solo, Harrison Ford, May 4th, postaday2013, Star Wars

My dear friend Tilly of thelaughinghousewife.wordpress.com fame wished us, her readers, a Happy Star Wars day by saying May the 4th be with you. I had a good laugh at her cleverness. What has been interesting to me is that lately Harrison Ford, during his rounds of promoting his latest movie 42, has been asked if he had been contacted to be part of a new Star Wars movie and he has been very coy about it. I would love to see Star Wars be reintroduced with the next generation of Solo-Skywalker progeny, the offspring of Princess Leia and Hans Solo. Imagine, it would be so cool, little ones even stronger in the force than their Uncle Luke and their mom Princess Leia.

Actually Harrison Ford said during one interview that he had never been contacted and he wouldn’t reveal anything else. There was a funny bit right after that line of questioning when Jimmy Kimmel threw some questions out to the audience, and Chewbacca stood up and Harrison Ford became quite irate, implying that Chewbacca crossed the line and it was unforgiveable. Harrison’s last parting shot was “that was my wife! You furry @#$@###”

Disney owns the rights to the Star Wars franchise so it will be interesting to say the least what comes out from the Disney creative team later on down the road. I think that we all need a new Star Wars and a new generation of heroes and hope.

Daily Prompt: Text, text, text

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online, postaday2013, spoken word, texting, writing

How do you communicate differently online than in person, if at all? How do you communicate emotion and intent in a purely written medium?

Recently I have found myself better at communicating my thoughts in written form. My focus is better harnessed when I’m writing, I don’t know what is happening to my brain nowadays when I am talking with people, my thoughts get all jumbled up, they get disassembled and I lose my train of logical progression. That being said, I haven’t exchanged speaking for texting. I still enjoy speaking with people, I just keep it simple. I used to debate politics and economics but I have stopped because it has become difficult keeping my stream of consciousness flowing in a coherent manner. I still practice my debating skills but now I do it in the written form with my political blog A progressive’s thoughts. I do get to laugh more often whenever I garble the simplest words, it makes for entertaining and funny conversations.

I do text my young adult children because that is the current form of communication if you need to find out the necessary information such as when are they coming home, do they need a ride, or what do they want for dinner. Phones have been replaced by the literal walking fingers, years ago phone companies used walking fingers as an advertising tool so its ironic in my mind that texting has replaced dialing just as written speech has replaced vocal speech in the young universe.

I love speaking with my children and I’m so happy that they still respond with words and don’t text me from their rooms, that would be horrible.