Star Wars

11 January 2011

So, I’m reading Javier Grillo-Marxuach’s “My Year Without Star Wars” at the same time as I’m reading Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Vortex, the sixth part of a nine-part series of Expanded Universe novels in which a sixty-something Luke Skywalker and his teen son fight a Cthuloid space-monster who is a weird, tentacle-y triptych [...]

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Read This.

26 December 2010

“all i know is that they always fail to bring me joy. after many years and repeat viewings in so vast a variety of media, the sad truth is i will probably never understand why they were made, what they are intended to represent, or why i should care.” TV and comic scribe Javier Grillo-Marxuach [...]

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Sic Semper [Darth] Tyranus

5 August 2010

In the context of the Prequel Trilogy, Count Dooku seems like a bit of a chump. Dooku is subverted and initiated into the Sith somewhere in the ten year gap between Episode I and Episode II, and all you can really think about when you see him is that Anakin is supposed to kill him [...]

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True Geek Confessions

17 February 2010

Over at Alert Nerd, we’re celebrating another annual theme day.  Last week year, we celebrated the wedding of Scott Summers and Jean Grey because that is exactly the type of nerd that we are, but this year we’re exposing our True Geek Confessions. Click over and read along as I confess something so horrible and [...]

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Wesa Gonna Die – The Phantom Menace Turns Ten

19 May 2009

I was twenty years old when The Phantom Menace came out.  In the intervening years, I have turned 21, graduated college, gone to graduate school, gotten engaged, gotten married, gotten divorced, switched jobs several times and finally turned 30, a number I never thought I’d hit. I still love Star Wars, but Episode I changed [...]

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Alert Nerd Press Presents: Poodoo

18 May 2009

Alert Nerd Press, the bootstrappy digital publishing consortium of awesomeness that I am lucky enough to be ‘the new guy’ in, has a new offering available for free download. It’s called Poodoo, and it’s by Matt Springer who also has his first novel, Unconventional, available for d/l as well. As a fan with his own [...]

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