for launching an accidental Socialist revolution last week, directing my ire not at the kulaks or the Czar's family - but at George Lucas' revisionist policies in regards to the Star Wars trilogy.
I didn't quite mean to call forth my comrades to revolt, but it has occurred, and Emily has taken up the Cause and discusses, in depth, what uniform we should wear - those of us who are in accord on this very important matter. Any Socialist worth his or her salt must wear some kind of uniform.
I am particularly thrilled and repulsed at Bill's idea of the Youth Brigades of the Cause wearing red T-shirts with a simple picture of Yours Truly.
Comrades! Our Beloved Trilogy is at Risk! Join the Millions and Millions who are already Marching towards the Glorious Light and Truth of the Force as we originally understood the Term! The Force is not in the Blood, the Force cannot be counted like Corpuscles or Homunculits.
The Force is in the Hearts and Minds and Spirits of all Righteous Men and Women!
Posted by sheilaHmmmmm...now that you mention it, George Lucas does bear a passing resembalnce to Tsar Nicholas II. The difference is that the Tsar was a basically good, if ill-advised and somewhat naive, man who, unlike Lucas, did NOT deserve to be shot.
Posted by: Dave J at February 20, 2004 1:32 PMNot to mention his innocent children! The hemophiliac son, the daughters with the jewels in their corsets ... which, unfortunately, prolonged their deaths in that Siberian basement...
What a travesty.
Posted by: red at February 20, 2004 1:48 PMI've taken grief at times from some of my family for being a Russian Jew defending the Tsar, but all the pogroms that the monarchy ever inflicted on us are simply nothing compared to the machine of death that was the Soviet Union. Russia on the eve of WWI was in the process of becoming a constitutional regime, complete with the professional middle class necessary to undergird that; the Bolsheviks destroyed so much that might have been but is irretrievably lost. It is symbolic, horrible, but of course also no more than typical how they murdered the Tsar and his family.
Posted by: Dave J at February 20, 2004 2:16 PMThe revolution has a really bad marching song now...I can say no more.
Posted by: Ken Hall at February 20, 2004 4:56 PMKen:
Once more, 12 parsecs to Kessel
No more to suffer changes for the worst
We'll regain our joyous golden mem'ries
Where Han Solo shoots first
I just don't know what to say. It's kind of brilliant. Well done.
Posted by: red at February 20, 2004 5:00 PMGrunthos the Flatulent...is that you?
Posted by: Emily at February 20, 2004 5:27 PM