Hello, and welcome to the Flying Chihuahua Edition of the Weekly Blog Round-Up. As always, we’ve got five great articles from our news blog to share with you, plus five awesome things from those other websites on The Internets. You know the ones we’re talking about.

From the News Blog

1) Definitely the weirdest story on our blog all week–a couple in Michigan learned the hard way that tiny dogs are not a good match for strong winds. Goose has the full story on an eight-month old chihuahua named Tinker Bell that took to the sky, and without the aid Pixie Dust.

2) Speaking of crazy stuff in the air, pigs didn’t fly, but swine flu. Eh? Get it? Meh. Anyway, on Monday, we were safe. On Wednesday and Thursday, people started to get worried as three cases of the H1N1 virus were reported in Rhode Island. A fourth possible case popped up at Johnson & Wales University yesterday, but some health officials now say the virus isn’t as deadly as they initially thought.

3) And now for something completely different…this week, police in Rhode Island confiscated over 1500 pounds of marijuana, worth about $2 million. I just wish our news reporter Quyen Ngo had had use for the term “drug mule” in her story so that all five of our top stories this week would be animal-related.

4) Well, all the stories would be animal-related if you count Chewbacca and Jar-Jar Binks as animals. On Thursday, we found out the Paw Sox are holding their first ever Star Wars Day at McCoy Stadium, and among those expected to be in attendance are Jedi, Darth Vader and a local garrison of Stormtroopers. The Star Wars Day is today, Sunday, and if you’re reading this shortly after I posted it, then you still have time to get down to Pawtucket–the game starts at 1:05. Drive carefully, and may the Force be with you.

5) OK, are the Star Wars nerds gone? Good. Here’s a cool video report from WBRU’s George Mesthos on the arrival of circus elephants in Providence Tuesday night. Insert funny remark about elephants here.

Five Awesome Things

1) I’m a big fan of the New York-based group Improv Everywhere, the masterminds behind such YouTube classics as Best Game Ever, the Food Court Musical and the No Pants Subway Ride. Everything they do is in good fun, but I think this is their most heartwarming prank to date: the Romantic Comedy Cab.

2) Mind= Blown. What if all of Ferris Bueller was just Cameron’s Fight Club-esque fantasy? Holy crap. I’m never going to watch this movie the same way again. I mean, it all makes so much sense, and yet at the same time I don’t want to believe it…or do I? This is going to take some mulling over. Just move on to #3.

3) Speaking of great films from the 80s, I certainly hope you’ve seen Back to the Future: Part II. If you haven’t, then this beautiful, rambling indictment of Hollywood deception won’t make any sense to you at all: The Hoverboard Lie: How Back to the Future Ruined Childhood.

4) Wow, I didn’t plan it this way consciously, but this edition of “Five Awesome Things” is just rife with nostalgia. From mental_floss, a devious little quiz about Oregon Trail. WBRU will not accept responsibility if you die of dysentery while taking this quiz.

5) And finally, last week we asked what would happen if all the world leaders belonged to the same Facebook network. This week, Slate delivers an even funnier Facebook parody: 100 Days of Barack Obama’s Facebook News Feed.