Thirty-five years ago, moviegoers first paid to see a tale from a long time ago, in a galaxy far away. It changed the life of John Booth, author of Collect All 21: Memoirs of a Star Wars Geek.
NPR’s Morning Edition covered the 35th anniversary of A New Hope with a brief segment toward the end of yesterday’s program.
(Source: NPR)
Four for you, GL. Four for you.
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dbsw:
for a thousand years // by Playing Dead
A cool breeze across the dunes of Tatooine still whispers the name….Fett.
I. Love. This.
Ugh, Mondays.
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Doghouse Diaries created this handy and surprisingly amusing guide to Star Wars arch-nemeses.
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Ooohhh, poor Chewbacca, we feel your pain: the comb gets the best of all of us.
Such win.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33yjhialY1qzfsnio1_500.png)
[via archiemcphee]:
Doghouse Diaries created this handy and surprisingly amusing guide to Star Wars arch-nemeses.
[via Nerd Approved]
Ooohhh, poor Chewbacca, we feel your pain: the comb gets the best of all of us.
Such win.
Yo Hologram Tupac, I’m real happy for you and I’ma let you finish but Obi-Wan Kenobi was one of the best holograms of all time!!!!!!!
— Kanye (@Kanye) April 17, 2012
OMG.
Did the Fate of the Jedi finale foreshadow a book/comic convergence?
**FATE OF THE JEDI: APOCALYPSE SPOILER WARNING**
Check out this passage from page 415 of Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse by Troy Denning. It describes a vision that Ben Skywalker has when he goes to check on his wounded father. If you compare the text (which I copied verbatim) to the links (which I added), you can’t help but think that some very interesting things are coming up in the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
He saw Coruscant’s scintillating golden orb mottled by patches of flicerking red flame and black banks of drifting smoke, and beyond it there was a legion of dark silhouettes rising from a shadow-cloaked world, fanning out across the galaxy to meet a much smaller force of luminous shapes.
[…]
There were dark silhouettes and bejeweled women and horned aliens…
How crazy awesome is that?!
By the way, my interview with Apocalypse author Troy Denning is online at Suvudu.
TRUTH.
Most accurate example of cataloging and classification.
^ She knows. She has a master’s degree in library and information science.
This reblog was mostly an excuse to make fun of Mandy.
As you were.
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“McQuarrie’s expansive body of work — including character, creature, vehicle, and setting designs for A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi — has left an indelible mark on the world’s imagination, creating what can only be called the unmistakable ‘Star Wars aesthetic.”
An incredible visionary is gone and the world is less creative because of it. RIP Ralph.
YES.
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WAY TO GO ANAKIN
WTG, BANANAKIN.
Whoops.
Good evening, fellow humans. I am here to present the Vanguard Award to my friend, Mr. George Lucas. Now, I can stand up here and talk about what a visionary George is, and how myths define culture, and all that good Joseph Campbell stuff. But, I’m gonna tell you straight: I love Star Wars. I have always loved Star Wars. The stories, the action, the characters. Luke, Han Solo, my man Chewbacca, and then he busted out Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian — mackin’, in a cape, cruising in the Millennium Falcon, diamond in the back, sunroof, I mean…
But Lando was not a Jedi Master. I’ll tell you the truth, when I asked George to be in the next Star Wars series, I told him, ‘Look, I’ll do anything. I’ll be a stormtrooper, I just wanna run across the screen. Nobody even needs to know I’m in it.’ But he made me Mace Windu. The second baddest cat in the universe, ‘cause Yoda is still the baddest. Let us now take a look at some of the ways George has changed the way we look at movies and the way we look at ourselves.
” Samuel L. Jackson presenting the NAACP Vanguard Award to George Lucas.
Oh look Palpatine ordered two strippers dressed like Jedi.
PALPATINE’S GOT REFINED TASTES.
This is my new continuity.
PALPATINE’S GONNA MAKE IT RAIN, BITCHES.
YES. THIS.
(Source: catalans)
