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December 22, 2007  As I make my annual preparations for Life Day, I had a frightening thought: The Star Wars Holiday Special will not enter the public domain until January 1, 2074, assuming that there aren't any more questionably constitutional retroactive copyright extensions. Will it be officially released or re-broadcast before then, and, if not, will anyone in 2074 care about it? I looked up the Copyright Office registrations for the legendary program, and found two funny character copyright registrations, one for "baby wookie," described as having a "ghoulish face with animal's nose and long hair," and one for "grandfather wookie," described as having a "ghoulish face with protruding gums and long hair." December 21, 2007  I spent last weekend in the Iron City of Pittsburgh, PA. Going to a Steelers home game was a pretty amazing ride, even though they lost. I feel like I got my money's worth in terms of Steeler football, however, because it was completely frigid, snowed for most of the game, and I got to experience drunken Steelers fans en masse for four hours. Bonus points go to Jerome Bettis' Grille 36, which we experienced the night before the game. December 09, 2007  Although I wholeheartedly approved of last year's Rocky Balboa, I am decidedly more apprehensive about Rambo, which is dropping during the inauspicious movie month of January. While Rocky Balboa was essentially an update and tribute to the first movie, the plot of Rambo seems to be a tribute to Rambo III instead of First Blood. Still, the street ads pictured above are really exciting, even if Stallone hasn't looked like that since 1985. I don't see how you can have a real Rambo movie without Jerry Goldsmith. December 01, 2007  One of my most recent projects was a calendar of the beautiful covered bridges of Lancaster County. The twist is that the pictures are all new scans of slides that my grandfather took in 1960. (The calendar is a holiday present for him.) It turned out that many of the bridges he photographed were destroyed during the 60s, making his pictures interesting documents of history. For more info on covered bridges, check out the Covered Bridge Society of PA. |