Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 14:42:43 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Culture hi, culture lo
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Saturday morning to see the Turner exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art =
(http://www.artbma.org/home.html) then in the evening to Star Wars II.

& for those who wish to decamp (as it were) from Balticon for a bit - or =
the day -  the #3 bus that runs on Charles St would take you within a very =
short walk of the Museum.  The exhibit ends 26 May (Saturday).

And a blast from the past, Letterman on Phantom Menace:

The Top Ten List "Surprises in the New Version of Star Wars"

10. Part of Chewbacca now played by a shirtless Ed Asner
9. Commander of the Death Star: Dr. Kevorkian
8. Land speeders replaced with bitchin' pink Miatas
7. Comic relief provided by Cheech Marin as Luke Skywalker's wacky Mexican
   caddy
6. Darth Vader's voice goes up three octaves after Dennis Rodman kicks him =
in
   the groin
5. Instead of "May the force be with you," Obi-Wan Kenobi says, "Show me =
the
   money!"
4. Cameo appearance by Bob Dole as Yoda's great-great-grandfather
3. Luke and Darth Vader work together to beat the crap out of a bunch of
   Trekkies
2. New scene in which Jabba the Hut is hugged by a sobbing Richard Simmons
1. R2D2? Gay

mjw