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To: Star Wars producers and fandom

Re: The Acolyte and social media insanity


I can’t even anymore.  I feel like I’ve officially become an old man who can’t keep up with the youngsters.  I went through enough of this crap twenty-five years ago. God only knows what it would have been like if there had been Twitter and YouTube back in the day.  To paraphrase the final line of a famous movie: “Forget it Jake, it’s Star Wars.”  This entire drama along with The Acolyte itself has taken the wind out of my fanhood’s sails, and my fanhood goes all the way back to the late Seventies.  I shall always treasure the good memories along with the various trophies I’ve accumulated along the way (signed copy of Heir to the Empire, my self-designed and constructed lightsaber, the Yoda puppet autographed by “Weird Al” Yankovic…) and I can watch the

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Whoever is responsible for all of those #@&% banner ads for Evony needs to be dragged out into the street and shot hung from the nearest telephone pole by his circular reproductive units with piano wire.

Seriously.

No, I haven’t played this game. But I have heard from numerous sources that it is terrible. And the thing about Evony being “free forever” is a fraud: to achive anything in the game will likely microtransaction you into bankruptcy.

But that hasn’t stopped the developers of Evony from running a publicity campaign that could be called full-bore faulty advertising, if not increasingly desperate. There is no “queen” to save (nor is there “your lover”, My Lord).

I have tried numerous times to keep the Evony ads from popping up on this blog. They keep creeping in, like so many filthy cockroaches…

Want to see how badly the idiots behind Evony want ...

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To whom it may concern:

The very next “robocall” that comes into this house, I will go out, find the candidate who authorized it, and have him/her hung from the nearest telephone poll by his/her circular reproductive units. With piano wire.

This notice is being made regardless of party affiliation.

You have been duly warned.

Thank you.

EDIT 3:14 p.m. EST: I should elaborate that this only comes after I received four such automated calls from political campaigns within a span of five minutes. So yeah, I’m feeling more than a little honked-off right now…...

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Last December I attended Butt-Numb-A-Thon 9. For those who don’t know, Butt-Numb-A-Thon is an annual film festival/geek pow-wow that Harry Knowles of the Ain’t It Cool News website hosts at one of the Alamo Drafthouse theaters in Austin, Texas. For twenty-four straight hours, the invited are treated (and sometimes assaulted) with some of the best examples of the motion picture medium, hand-picked by Knowles. Almost a year later and I still can’t help but giggle madly whenever I think of Feels So Good (the urethroplasty documentary that we watched during breakfast) and no doubt a lot of people who were there have tried to explain “BECAUSE YOU ARE WHITE!!!” to their friends. But anyhoo…

The final movie of last year’s Butt-Numb-A-Thon – the one holding the coveted slot of “best unreleased film you had no idea was coming” – was Trick ‘R Treat, a horror anthology by writer/director ...

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This afternoon Dad came by. It’s been raining here for most of the day, and it was pretty chilly out in his knife shop and he’d wanted to take a break from his work, and I needed one from some projects too. So we played a nine-hole round of Golf on Wii Sports on the Nintendo Wii that I got Lisa for Christmas.

How did we do?

Let’s put it this way: if Robert Trent Jones ever designed a golf course as evil as the ones on Wii Sports: Golf, he would have probably been dragged out onto the fairway and shot.

We were doing pretty good until the ninth hole. If you’ve played Golf on Wii Sports you probably know which one I’m about to talk about: it’s that one where the hole is in the middle of a rocky island, that you have to drive the ball onto. ...

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