COMMENTER “STARDATE”  points out something from yesterday’s footage of SEEGER, HUMBLE AND TRIUMPHANT that I UNFORGIVABLY OVERLOOKED:

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That’s a wonderful thing. Also, while watching it, this happened:

CUT TO:

GEORGE LUCAS (human, mid-60s), singing and swaying in the crowd. CHEWBACCA is nowhere to be seen.

EVERYONE WATCHING ONLINE:
(double-take)
Holy s#!t, was that George Lucas? Did we just blow up the Death Star?

PLURALITY OF AMERICANS:
Sort of feels that way, doesn’t it?

AN EWOK:
Yub nub!

Comment by Stardate — January 19, 2009 @ 2:33 am

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THANK YOU for staying up late, Stardate.

IT IS SO. The camera actually did cut to George Lucas during that song. I glossed it over in my own memory, because it sounded such an off note.

NOT BECAUSE LUCAS does not deserve this moment of joy. This land belongs, after all, to him and me.

BUT BECAUSE ADDING GEORGE LUCAS, INCONGRUOUSLY, TO THE MIX made it very difficult for me to convince myself that I was actually awake, and this was not a weird dream.

That is all.