The Droids You Are Looking For…, By Whitney Farmer – Un Pop Culture | @MDWorld

July 11, 2012 Whitney Farmer 5 Comments

Whitney runs a rock music venue on the beach in L.A.. She has an MBA, and still confuses the re-numbering of the Star Wars movies.

Parking at the Pier was a nightmare on Saturday. It didn’t help that I was running late. And it didn’t help that – forget rock stars – intergalactic stars had come there for a personal appearance.

Five-ish tricked-out buses pulled into the loading/taxi zone about 30 yards (unknown number of meters) outside of our front entrance. Since I was late to work, I have no idea how they jostled for space with our bands who were loading their gear in for the show that night. But our security guards had a blast meeting the celebrities, particularly the metal ones. R2D2 had a serious retinue of bouncers around him, but was completely open to pictures with fans.

We had no idea what this caravan was until I saw a promotional banner on the Comic Mix site saying that it was a regional bus tour meant to whip up Comic-Con fever. It’s not surprising that we were surprised by it. Sometimes news here is parsed strangely. About a month ago when Former President Clinton gave the commencement address for his nephew’s high school here just a few miles away – while our current Secretary of State beamed from the audience – it made page SIXTEEN of the local paper. The front page feature was a Day-in-the-Life story of a barback, a dogwalker, and a tarot card reader. Our local cops were part of the security detail, and they never even spilled the beans and gave me a hint about why they were going to be working the day shift.

So, it’s tough to stay informed and know what’s going on, especially when you work underground in the dead of night.  It’s the same reason why I can’t go to Comic-Con this week. I gotta work.

But the nice thing is that the droids knew this and were kind enough to do a drive-by on their way to THE SHOW. Their pilgrimage will help the city of San Diego heal after the recent shame of the accidental lighting of their entire 4th of July fireworks show all at once. Quarter of a million dollars of gunpowder lit up the sky for about 15 seconds in what was described as “premature ignition” in the news.

The really big stars are always the most generous, and know where and when to show up when they are needed.

Enjoy the Con. And tell R2…
Well…
Nevermind…
He knows.

Quote of the Blog, from Ed, Dude of Light and Fog: “There wouldn’t be any wars if everyone was as lazy as me.”

Image of R2D2 wielding a lightsaber against multilevel marketers, courtesy of Bone’s cell phone.