Timothy Patrick McMahon

Again, I haven’t posted a damn thing to this site.

Instead of whining or making excuses about that crap, here are some points of uninterest about my life recently…

• The kids were sick last week, and got me sick.  Stomach Flu.  I don’t enjoy vomiting, but hey, what can you do.
• I hit level 50 in SW:TOR.  Waiting for the new patch to come out in April before I start a second character.
• I’ve picked up my camera again, after a long absence from photography.  Pictures soon, maybe.
• I am sick of Girl Scout Cookies.  I’ve spent 4 weekends selling cookies on street corners.  It’s for a good cause; we’re taking the girls to DC in June, but… I’m sick of it all.
• I’m very far behind on my TV watching, movie viewing and book reading.  But what’s new there, right?
• I’ve almost completed my multi-year project of building a database for my Star Wars Book/Comic/Magazine collection.  Next step is to publish it online.
• Sadly, I’m too broke to go to ROFLcon III this year.  Very upset about this.

I haven’t given this site any love in months and months.  Let me catch you up on why…

School started in the fall, and I thought I would have all this free time with the kids away each day, but no, I didn’t.  In fact, I became even busier then ever with kid-based activities.  I also took a class myself (but that was a disaster to talk about another day).

Then, December rolled around and brough Star Wars: The Old Republic.  This is a MMO game that I had been waiting years for, and well, once it hit, it sucked up ALL my free time for weeks and weeks.  I’m starting to come down off my SWTOR high, and while I still enjoy it, I no longer feel the need to spend every free moment playing it.

So, things are less busy with the kids now, and I have broken my addiction, and I feel that it is time to get back to the internet.

Why the hell do I feel the compulsion to post crap on line?  I’ve had this “need” for years now, and I  think I should be over it by now.  Especially since I have nothing to say; no original thoughts or witticisms, no grand adventures to document, no works of creativity to share.  But, something about this modern era of digital sharing drives me to keep posting and reposting, even though I know no one is listening, or cares.

This compulsion really kicks in every two years when ROFLcon rolls around.  ROFLcon III is just a few months away, and if I ever hope to be on a panel (one of my secret dreams), then I need to get off my butt and find some internet notoriety.  But, again, I have nothing worth sharing.

Anyway, I’ve given up creating online goals for myself that I never follow through on.  (my latest idea was to just post audio snippets, but I hate the nasally sound of my inarticulate voice.)  I’ll just go back to reposting other peoples crap.  Enjoy!

Love these!

This posts kinda relate to Marry Me! part six…

Happy Star Wars Day! – May The 4th Be With You! (yes, I am a dork.)

marryme, originally uploaded by TimothyPatrickMcMahon.

:-)

I just have to share this link…  Star Wars, as if it were set in the old west.  Brilliant!

http://www.sillof.com/C-SW-western.htm

Click the link!

Star Wars + Lego + Guinness = Greatness!

On December 13th, 2010, I wrote…

Last year, I spent way too much time browsing the internet just looking for the lulz. It was fun, but a complete waiste of time. I’ve broken myself of that habit thankfully. (though, I still haven’t accomplished anything yet with all this new time I’m not flittering away.)

Anyway, here is a bunch of stuff I found last spring, (which is eons ago in internet time). Just wanted to share it, so I can justify this stuff clogging up my hard drive. (this is post one of two – I’ll get to the rest of it later.)

Well, here is post two. Sorry it took me so long to get back to this. Enjoy!

I love that you can read this as he left them, or, he killed them. Makes me smirk darkly either way.

I'm with the 80%

Religions are silly!

We got a puppy last year - It's true!

Liked this one, simple as that.

Ya know, there are a great many things not in the bible...

I think the same can be said for politics.

One for the Potter fans.

Milhouse is not a meme.

Science can be funny too!

Statistically, my life is half over, and I've already come to this conclusion.

I wake up everyday feeling like this banana. Ugh.

So sad. So funny. So true.

His signature shot.

Punny!

It was funny when I was 9, it's funny now.

I wonder who was the first idiot to pull this face and think that it made her seem hot?

IMagine what we could do, if we all worked together?

We all do it in the end. :-)

Now, before you complain that I am objectifying women, let me just say that I am not. I just like cute girls who are into Star Wars. In fact, I married a cure girl who used to like Star Wars… but I think she is sick of it now. -Maybe I just need a cute girlfriend on the side who is into Star Wars? What do you say Kate, would you mind?

My post a day goal is quickly unraveling.  It has been more like a post every other day.  Here’s why…

I WANT to post new, original, interesting things about myself and my life.  However, there is nothing new, original or interesting in my life to post about.  Instead, I just end up reposting stuff I find online.  BUT, I haven’t been surfing around much lately, so I’m not even finding interesting stuff to repost.  Thus, I end up posting nothing at all.  Ugh.  It is a vicious cycle.

So, until I get off my arse and start creating something, anything!, worth posting, I’m just going to give you more stuff by other people.  But, keep in mind, it’s stuff that I like.

Today, I give you this awesome re-telling of Star Wars using only icons created by Wayne Dorrington.

I’ve read crappy Fan Fiction, I’ve view countless pieces of Fan Art, I’ve seen some nifty Fan Films, but this is the first time I have ever heard of a Fan Made Documentary! Jambe Davdar has created three interesting films and put them on YouTube. I’m such a Star Wars nerd, and so enjoyed his work, that I am going to repost them all here now for you. So, sit back and enjoy “‘Star Wars Begins’, ‘Building Empire’ & ‘Returning to Jedi’.

The best part of the Super Bowl is always the ads.  I can already tell you that this will be my favorite ad this year.

Part two of “Everything Is A Remix” is out. If you haven’t seen part one, check out the site. While I enjoyed part one, I loved part two cuz it was very Star Wars heavy. Here, take a look…

Josh Millard did an epic job of combining Mamet and Lucas.  HERE is his original piece, but I enjoyed it so much  I had to reprint it here.  (reprinted with love, but without permission)

THE DEATH STAR, INTERIOR: A CONFERENCE ROOM

A SITH LORD, VADER, addresses IMPERIAL COMMAND STAFF, including ADMIRALS OZZEL and MOTTI

VADER: Let’s talk about something important…

[Vader snaps toward Ozzel]

VADER: Stop. That. Breathing.

[Ozzel freezes]

VADER: Breathing is for chokers only.

[Ozzel gasps]

VADER: You think I’m Jedi mindtricking you? I am not Jedi mindtricking you. I’m here from Coruscant. I’m here from Palpatine and Sidious. And I’m here on a mission of mercy.

VADER: Your name’s Ozzel? You call yourself an Admiral, you son of a Bith?

[Motti stands up]

MOTTI: I don’t gotta listen to this sorcery–

VADER: You certainly don’t, officer. Because the good news is, I’ve altered the deal. The bad news is, you’ve got, all you have got one week to convince me not to alter it further. Starting with tonight. Starting with tonight’s rebel crackdown.

VADER: Oh, have I got your attention now? Good. Because we’re adding a little something to this month’s Imperial Raffle. As you all know, first prize is a TIE Advanced Fighter model x1. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steaksabers.

VADER: Third prize is I’m your father.

VADER: You get the picture? You laughing now? You got the Force. Palpatine and Sidious invested good midichlorians. Find their coordinates and kill them. You can’t forcechoke the rebels you’re assigned, you can’t forcechoke shit, you are shit. Hit the reactor chasm, pal, and beat it, because you are going out.

OZZEL: The Force is weak.

VADER: The Force is weak? The fuckin’ Force is weak? You’re weak. I’ve been wearing this helmet twenty years–

MOTTI: What’s your name–

VADER: Blast you, that’s my name.

[Motti laughs uncomfortably.]

VADER: You know why, Admiral? Because you flew a Tatoiine podracer to get here tonight, I drove an eighty billion credit Imperial Destroyer. That’s my name.

[Motti waves Vader off. Vader turns to Ozzel.]

VADER: And your name is you’re powerconverting. And you can’t play in the Sith’s game? You can’t crush them? Then go home and tell your protocol droid your troubles.

VADER: Because only one thing counts in this war: get them to die in the base which is rebellious! You hear me you bordok-loving rebelhuggers?

[Vader activates a holoprojector. Acronyms glitter in the still conference room air.]

VADER: A.B.C. A, always; B, be; C, choking. Always be choking. Always be choking!

VADER: F.O.R.S. Find, overwhelm, retrieve, smother. Find. Have you found some rebels. Overwhelm. Are you overwhelming their defenses, I know you are because it’s crush or walk, you choke or you hit the escape pods. Retrieve, have you retrieved the rebel plans for Kenobi. And smother.

VADER: F.O.R.S. Get out there. You got rebels starting uprisings, you think they’re doing that to get out of the asteroid field? A guy don’t threaten the Empire unless he wants a quashing. They’re sitting out there waiting to give you their plans. Are you gonna choke them? Are you man enough to choke them?

[Motti laughs.]

MOTTI: Incredible.

VADER: What’s the problem, Admiral?

MOTTI: You, Vader. You’re such a monk, you’re so powerful, how come you’re coming down here and wasting your parsecs with a buncha Hutt-slime?

[Vader gestures to his belt.]

VADER: You see this lightsaber?

[He sets the weapon on the conference room table.]

VADER: You see this lightsaber?

MOTTI: Yeah.

VADER: That lightsaber cost more than your speeder. I subjugated a hundred and seventy star systems last year, how many did you subjugate? You see, Admiral, that’s who I am, and you’re sarlac food. Evil guy? I don’t give a shit. Posh accent? Fuck you, go home and iron your Nazi duds.

VADER: You want to work here, choke!

VADER: You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you wookiee? You can’t take this, how can you take the blaster fire you get on a raid? You don’t like it, leave.

VADER: I can go out there tonight, with the battle stations you got, and kill myself fifteen thousand rebels. Tonight! In two hours!

[To Ozzel]

VADER: Can you?

[To Motti]

VADER: Can you?

VADER: Go and do likewise. F.O.R.S. Get mad, you clones of bitches, get mad! You know what it takes to crush rebellions? It takes brass rebreather units to crush rebellions.

VADER: Go and do likewise, officers. The rebels are out there. You wipe them out, they’re yours, you don’t I got no sympathy for you. You want to go out to those bases tonight and choke, choke, then it’s yours. If not you’re gonna be shining my faceplate.

VADER: And you know what you’ll be saying, a bunch of losers sitting around in a cantina. “Oh yeah, I used to be a Grand Moff. It’s a tough racket.”

[Vader pulls out a glowing vial.]

VADER: These are the new midichlorians. These are the Skywalker midichlorians. And to you, they’re Mandelorian gold. And you don’t get them. Why? Because to give them to you is just throwing them in a garbage compactor.

VADER: They’re for chokers.

VADER: I’d say the Force be with you, but you wouldn’t know who to electrocute with it if you had it.

[Vader straps his lightsaber back on and turns to Motti.]

VADER: And to answer your question, Admiral, why am I here? I came here because Palpatine and Sidious asked me to, they asked me for a favor. I said the real favor, follow my advice and fire your scruffy head, because a nerf-herder is a nerf-herder.

[Vader twirls cape and leaves.]

Come on ladies, lets move to Utah and start a family.

Star Wars + World Cup

Awesome!

Though, I must point out (because I am a nerd) that she starts with the opening theme of A NEW HOPE and then segues into the Imperial March, which did not appear in that film, so… Oh hell, what do you care. >:-[

James Hance’s Amazing Star Wars-Themed Art

I am a major Star Wars nerd.  I’ll admit it.  I already knew the stories this guy is telling, but, I wanted to share it with those of you who are not familure with the “Expanded Universe”. – This will make you take a second look at the Star Wars movies and wonder all about each and ever back ground character you see.

More things I’ve found online that made me laugh, but might “upset” some of you. Oh well. I wont apologize, but I will keep on giggling like a school girl.

It's an AT-AT - Get it?

Emoticons can be hawt too!

Punny & Arty

Politcal Perspective

I wanna know what happened AFTER grandma went to the Lemon Party

I'm gonna miss LOST next year :-(

Can you even buy cassettes any more?

It probably is.

I'd see this movie.

This is why I love Photoshop! (even bad Photoshop.)

Oh Babies! So stupid. And so angry!

Change is good. I need some change.

Prolly fake, but it would be a great show to attend!

Those aren't pandas!

It's deep, cuz it's true. Too true. :-/

Psych 101

Odin is the All-Father!

excuses, excuses.

wait for it…