yes, this is ten years old, but it's the most popular thing in my house right now

It's pretty apparent that Star Wars takes up about 98% of the space in JAM's brain these days. He's had an interest in the whole thing for quite a while now, but lovely hubby and I have opted to take a gradual approach to things... talk about the storyline, have the first exposure be through book form, opt to start with the 'milder' middle of the story, and finally watch the first movie (as in Episode IV- the first movie made back in the 70's) last summer just before JAM turned eight. That's what seemed to make sense to us, and we're still continuing with the gradual approach these days, seven months later. In that time, he has watched Episode V and VI as well, but we are still waiting a while before allowing him to watch the other, more recently made movies, since the imagery and violence levels go up a few notches with the increased technology and sophistication in movie making twenty to thirty years later. He's not particularly happy with us for that, but he knows the boundaries are there and he doesn't ask or complain about it anymore. He's content with reading SW books, and his school library has a plentiful supply of them to fill his time. He has about a klabillion and one legos, and whether they were originally part of a SW product or not, they are used to create ship after ship that I never call the correct name, much to JAM's chagrin. (Insert eye-rolling and "Mo-o-o-o-o-m!" here.)

But the one thing that stands above the rest in his Star Wars Obsession, is easy to identify. About two months ago, he came home from school and said that a friend of his told him to look something up on youtube. This friend is a lot like him- hyperactive, academically good student, potential for pretty serious dork status in adolescence- so my first thought was that it was probably something innocent and SW related. My instinct was correct, and we've watched this video quite often since then. This is Weird Al at his best-- the lyrics are spot on for the story, but they're funny as heck as well. I swear that I cannot stop singing this song... so I pass it along to you!