canadian thanksgiving was AWESOME! cecile had a great spread including some of sgmt’s stuffing (to die for), turkey, bbq chickens, herby mashed potatoes and pie pie pie. it was incredible. later on cecile and josh serenaded us with the canadian national anthem (accompanied by cecile’s cell ringtone). i got to hear the first part of andrew’s set at danny’s, but had to leave because i was literally falling asleep standing up despite the loud music going on around me. altogether, it was a fun (if tiring) night.

…no that’s not what the turkey really looked like.

update: learn ye, o’ the (brief) history of canadian thanksgiving!

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

friday night we all got together to watch ‘return of the jedi’ at ben’s. it was good but jon was pretty disappointed by the special edition stuff that he had forgotten about (read: tuned out in horror). we were all pretty pissed when we saw that last shot of obi-wan and yoda. you know, the one where anakin appears and you’re all ‘awww, everything’s ok! he’s forgiven! he’s even wearing his jedi clothes.’ except that instead of sebastian shaw, the same dude as you see when luke pulls off vader’s mask (but in better shape), you see…hayden christensen with long hair.

wha?

first of all, sebastian must feel TOTALLY shafted that he was cut out of that scene. secondly…hayden christensen is not an old man. they did not even attempt to make him look like an old man, they just put a wig on him. wtf? i was reading ‘premiere‘ this weekend and they had an article about the 50 most disturbing moments in the history of film. jar jar came in at like #7. this craptastic star wars moment would’ve beat jar jar out, hands down. what is wrong with lucas? can’t he just leave his shit alone? i can understand going back and cleaning up some of the cg and adding in some more creatures and environments…but actually changing characters? WTF??!?!

anyway, post-jedi eric, jon, kate and i hung out at eric & jon’s and watched some late-night comedy central and cartoon network. saturday (and sunday…and a lot of other days this past week, come to think of it), i have been helping jon kill zombies and hunters in ‘resident evil – code: veronica x‘ by being scared and excited and cheering and saying ‘watch out!’ and stuff. also i get to read hints aloud! it is awesome! it’s like being a part of a movie. i watched the ‘enterprise‘ premiere, which ben was kind enough to tape for me…and it was…weird. but good.

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this weekend there was a big to-do at ben & sara’s for the screening of ‘the empire strikes back.’ jon and i were giving each other a hard time and jon kept poking me and i sort of played along, like, ‘no nothing happened…i…i fell down the stairs. yes..the stairs…’ anyway, i guess this is what i get for making light of spousal abuse, because yesterday i tripped on the way up eric’s back staircase and gave myself a nice lump on my shin and fell on the playstation i was carrying.