Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire Chris Kempshall

25. Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire

I’m reading the history book! I’m reading the Star Wars book! I’m reading the history book IN the Star Wars book!

Dear lord, I’m a nerd. (I really want all those papers and books in the footnotes to be real)

#booksky

An art print featuring Spaceship Earth, a rainbow with the old Epcot logos, and the imagination pyramids. I cannot do it justice.

This is an absolute *masterpiece* from @skipperhoss.bsky.social. (And thank you, @alicia.social for organizing the fundraiser every year!)

Just to add: I only use a jokey tone with my wife occasionally.
Instead, we have our own little spousal cinematic universe of in-jokes and shared references we use with each other.
It's one of the great joys of bonding with your wife and I'm sure as hell not sharing that with fucking Clippy 4.0

My flight to Orlando has 65 people on it. Total.

Economy is fine though! The best ever!

(If anyone sits in my row I’m throwing hands.)

An LA Dodgers helmet filled with rainbow sherbet. Why is this in Alabama? Got me.

The back of a scoreboard at Regions field that says “barons”

Regions Field, home of the Birmingham Barons

Why is a White Sox affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama selling me a Dodgers ice cream helmet? #baseball

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Regions Field: ✅

mRNA vaccine is greatest miracle of science in my lifetime and I guess we're not doing it

I’d even say 6pm is the end of that window!

there was a competitive brand of baseball that prioritized fun and fan experience it was called the minor leagues and it was eviscerated to save a dollar

I just got done with some work stuff and… WTF.

Ethiopian!

If you haven't, both SUPERMAN and FANTASTIC FOUR are great movies to see in theaters while you still can.

I don't care that much about box office, I just think they are good, fun films full of heart that deserve to be seen.

Selam Ethiopian in Orlando. It’s right near SeaWorld.

Also: last year MLB genuinely had one of their best events in recent memory with the Rickwood Field Negros Leagues game. They had amazing guests talking genuinely about racism while highlighting the league’s coolest dudes. And someone said “okay now let’s do one for the conservatives” and did this.

I feel so bad for Caitlin Clark, a completely normal person who the least normal people on earth have decided to make their mascot

It is incredibly self contained.

You will miss nothing!

(Thunderbolts and Marvels are great though and you should watch them eventually.)

A plate of delicious Ethiopian food served on injera bread. There is Kitfo, red and yellow lentils, cabbage with carrots, collard greens, and awaze tibs.

Grand Finale of birthday weekend didn’t disappoint.

Best damn food in Orlando.

Triplets here- happy birthday, sir!

@wellthats.bsky.social and I were just talking about how sports owners overwhelmingly hate their sports. They get in the way of what they actually want to do— make money.

This is such a cool story

Thanks!

Correct. As of yesterday. 😒😒

I continue to be thrilled that I returned his Super Bowl jersey.

The oral history of the Speedway Classic is going to be a juicy read.

Sponsors. Why won’t anyone think of the SPONSORS.

Putting bags of quick dry on this lake of an infield

But the poor SPONSORS, Molly. THINK OF THE SPONSORS.

You're sitting in the rain in BFE Tennessee at a race track sitting 600 feet from home plate on metal bleachers watching 18 of the most miserable people on the planet try to play a baseball game. Your toothbrush is in a hotel room that hasn't been renovated since the Nixon administration.

My best baseball trivia fact is that I saw Maddux win his 299th game lol.

👏🏻 he’s 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 wrong

I would never want to earn that glare from Marta #CopaAmerica