Can You Guess Which Movie This Foreign Poster is Promoting?

So I thought I would lighten things up with a rather fun look at international posters that promote American movies.

So what movie is does this poster promote?

If you guessed, The Robotic Disco Puma, you are wrong.

This is actually a Russian poster for Star Wars. Crazy, I know. This poster was only 18th on cracked.com's "Lost In Translation: 20 Baffling Foreign Movie Posters" list. Cracked.com is a great site. Follow the link to see some other great posters.

If this poster isn't enough to pique your interest, take a look at the poster that comes in at number 3 on the list.

Traditional Gender Roles

I know my first post made it sound like my blog would be a fun and light-hearted space for me to talk about unimportant stuff but there are occassions when I need to geek out on matters that I think are important and relevant.

I was going to wait until tomorrow to make my second post but I was inspired to write tonight.

I think it is really unfortunate that Michelle Obama has been relagated to 'fashion diva'. Take one look around the internet and you get websites devoted to apparent fashion sense. The images I have put up are images from the front page of http://www.mrs-o.org . It's a website devoted to the fashion of Michelle Obama. I think it's incredibly unfortunate that the first lady is reduced to the traditional first lady role of just the pretty lady with no talents to offer the country and the world other than standing beside her husband, the president.

What a waste of talent. According to Wikipedia, Michelle is only the third first lady to have a post graduate degree. She has been an associate dean, a lawyer, a social acitivist, and graduated cum laude from Princeton freaking University.

The esteemed "Mrs O" website has high hopes for Michelle. But it isn't because they think she'll push for health care for the nearly 46 million uninsured Americans. They don't have hope because they want Michelle to push the gender boundaries and show the world what an intelligent powerful woman can do. None of that matters. According to mrs-o.org and many others, Michelle Obama is the next great hope.

Mrs-O.org hopes Michelle Obama is the next great stay at home mom.

Welcome to My Sanctuary.

Welcome,

I've created this blog as a space for me to geek out on random things that interest me. I have a lot of quirky interests that don't fit into a neat and tidy category so I thought "Geeking Out: A Sanctuary" was an appropriate title. On top of that, I'd like to think that this is indeed a good place for people to talk about things that are not that popularI know there quite a few closet geeks in my class so I'm hoping they'll come out and be free (I'm looking at you Julia).

I stole some defintions from here and as well as here to help describe geeking out.

1. To spend an ammount of time discussing geekish things with other geeks, or to participate in geeky undertakings and pasttimes with one or more other geeks.

2. To engage in a conversation of a highly technical nature, typically with some other members of the party you are with, completely (and usually inadvertently) alienating others in the process.

3. To participate in or talk excessively about a current interest or obsession which is not part of mainstream culture.

This one is my favorite.

4.To enthusiastically share details about a current interest which is of little or no importance to your audience.

If you are turned off by my blog already, don't worry it is not simply for SciFi related topics. To me, geeking out simply means that I'll talk enthusiastically about things that interest me even though there may be no one that cares. But don't worry, I'll get around to other fun topics like politics and the economy.