ILM-Lucasfilm Halloween Party

Cardboard robots, DIY monsters, The 5-0-Worst, Marie Antoinette, little superheroes, Monty Python's Holy Grail Knights and a gigantic Trojan Rabbit danced the night away at the annual ILM-Lucasfilm-LucasArts Halloween Party!

I went as the Bride of Frankenstein, as did squidlicious. I have to say there were a lot of cool DIY costumes spotted at the Halloween party this year! Plenty of cardboard robots and stormtroopers, but the lifesize (as in GIGANTIC) Trojan Rabbit complete with a gaggle of Monty Python Holy Grail knights won for best costume of the night. Marie Antoinette (all her clothes and wig were handmade) and the gigantic digital camera that took real photos and the Whack-A-Mole with walking mallet also came in as the night's winners.

Check out all the photos here:
ILM Halloween Party (2006)



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And my photos were just blogged by Boing-Boing and Fark.com.

"Weird Al" -- Nerdy Something

Although Grammy Award-winning musician, satirist, TV personality and accordionist extraordinaire "Weird Al" Yankovic may appear to have followed all his dreams, you might not be aware that he once tried unsuccessfully to join the Skywalker family.

"When I was busy coming up with material for 'The Weird Al Show' (my Saturday morning series on CBS), the writers and I would slip in as many Star Wars references as we possibly could," Yankovic remembers. "My absolute favorite bit got cut before we were ever able to shoot it, though. I had written a segment called 'Cutting Room Floor' in which I explained how I was in the original Star Wars playing Luke's annoying younger brother but all of my scenes got cut out. We were then going to show all the deleted scenes -- which would be actual scenes from Star Wars with me green-screened into them, seamlessly interacting with the characters."

Yankovic continues, "Of course, we had to get clearances from everybody before CBS would agree to let us shoot it. In the end, George Lucas signed off on it, and Sir Alec Guinness signed off on it, but Mark Hamill would not agree to let us use any footage with him in it -- so unfortunately, the whole bit had to be scrapped. It's too bad, because I think it would have been the funniest thing in the whole series."

Read my full interview with Weird Al here:
"Weird Al" -- Nerdy Something