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Hey Richie, Think We Can Use Your Mom's Back Yard?
Have sandcrawler, will travel:
Not so long ago in a galaxy far, far away -- or just southeast of Philadelphia -- Mike Degirolamo had a plan.He wanted to build a 20-by-12-foot model of a Jawa Sandcrawler, a hulking transport vehicle from the original "Star Wars" film, before the next installment of the saga "Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" opens in May.
To get the project done, he doesn't need the Force, but rather the power to persuade the township council it's a worthy project.
There's a building just down the road from my house, right outside the Dulles Airport grounds, that looks just like a sandcrawler. Nobody seems to know what, exactly, it's for. Some claim it's "NSA South", others that it's just a goofy office building. Whatever, it lets Ellen and me hyperspace to super-geekdom when we start Jawa babbling at each other every time we drive by.
I am so glad I'm not the only one who drives by that building and thinks it looks exactly like a Sandcrawler. Just off of the Dulles Toll Road, before you get to 28, right?
Posted by: Eric on December 9, 2004 01:57 PMYup, that's the one. :)
Posted by: scott on December 9, 2004 01:59 PMYup, that's the one. :)
Posted by: scott on December 9, 2004 02:01 PMuhmmm - as part of my plan of world domination, that building will be my palace.
i see it all the time. maybe one day i'll stop by and see what it actually is. guess much of the fun of living in the DC metro area is guessing which buildings here don't officially exist.
Posted by: Ron on December 9, 2004 03:39 PM