A very clever chap has put together something quite clever: a video (mix of AI and traditional footage) depicting a contest between Star Wars baddie Darth Vader and Pinhead from the Hellraiser series. Who wins: the Dark Lord of the Sith or the leader of the Cenobites?
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EDIT 10/09/2026 12:55 AM EST: Why not?
I think that taking a stand against antisemitism certainly counts toward doing good.
Here is the post that I had taken down a few days ago:
I debated about whether to post this. Truth be told apart from some mad comment left on a previous post I’d forgotten about Connor Heggie, the owner of Facebook group The SW Geek Hub and the extremist LGBT stalker who accused me of bigotry because of my convictions about the homosexual lifestyle and how it is not only wrong, but it’s dangerous.
There have been too many great things in my life lately than to be concerned about a twit and his fellow goons on Facebook. Things like new friendship, well-paying new job, new car, my book selling well and I’ve begun writing another… God has been very good to me in the past ...
What if the Palpatine we saw in Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker was not the “real” Palpatine at all? What if he was some kind of replica without an iota of Palpatine/Sidious’s spirit whatsoever?
There is precedent for such a notion.
In Timothy Zahn’s two-part “Hand of Thrawn” novel duology from the late Nineties, the galaxy hears whispers about the return of Grand Admiral Thrawn. Thrawn in the still-venerable expanded universe, you may recall, was killed toward the end of The Last Command. The galaxy thought he was dead. But he prophesied that he would return in ten years’ time if he ever was thought to have died.
Long story short, it turns out that at Thrawn’s hidden fortress (see what I did there?) in the Unknown Regions, the grand admiral had prepared a clone of himself. It had been in stasis all that time. Just waiting ...
Are massively multiplayer online role-playing games still a “thing” anymore? Oh sure there is EVE Online (more than two decades old and still going strong) and I’m going to hazard a guess that World of Warcraft is even today enjoying much play. And every so often when curiosity hits I log into the original Guild Wars, now 21 years since its launch and as beautiful as ever while also remaining free to play.
Update 07/21/2026: A reader has provided plenty of information about “SW Geek Hub”…
His real name is Connor Heggie. He’s about age 34 or 35. He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne in England. Here is his Facebook page.
For all his ravings, he is really a very sad individual. He has no one in his life apart from people down at “the pub” which includes Front Street Tap House and occasionally the Hobbit Pub. One of his Star Wars groups on Facebook was shut down for impersonating another page.
At one point he claimed to have run for office himself. Personally, I doubt it. He comes across as too much a severe screaming nutcase. He’s especially fixated on finding “bigotry” and “fascism” among real Star Wars fans.
Our guy Connor will probably never marry. He will never write a book. He will never truly see the ...
The very sad news came in the past few days that Marcia Lucas, the incredibly talented film editor who made her mark with the original Star Wars and many other movies, has passed away at the age of 80.
It was about 6:30 a.m. local time in the desert of Tunisia, on March 22, 1976, that the first scenes for George Lucas’s film Star Wars were filmed. Shot that day: the Jawas “droid auction” and the scene between Luke and Threepio as they are standing outside the homestead looking for Artoo.
Here is Mark Hamill in costume, in the first behind-the-scenes pic from the production of a Star Wars movie:
One has to wonder, what were the cast and crew thinking as that first torturous day unfolded (the Artoo-Detoo’s front leg refused to deploy, and Anthony Daniels’s Threepio costume didn’t fit). Did they have any notion at all just how special their project would become to not only millions but arguably billions of people over the course of the next half-century? How it would be endlessly discussed and debated, and so beloved even five full decades later?
It all ...
It’s become something of a tragic holiday tradition for me. Every year about this time, I watch The Star Wars Holiday Special – considered by many to be the very worst two hours of television ever produced – and do a running commentary about it for my friends on Facebook. Why do I torment myself like this? I have no idea apart from the comedy (?) value. I’ll do most anything within reason (emphasis on “reason”!) to make my friends laugh. And if it takes subjecting myself to this… thing… then it’s a minor sacrifice to make each holiday season.
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| Pic I took of my TV screen while watching The Star Wars Holiday Special, here depicting the lowest moment of Harvey Korman’s career |
It was on this day ten years ago that Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens was released in theaters.
I caught the first show of it on opening night, at a theater in Raleigh, North Carolina. Chad, my best friend since childhood, and his wife and I saw it together. And it truly was a very special night. It was the first time in all our history together that Chad and I had seen a new Star Wars movie with each other in the theater. It was like God was winking at our shared childhood. Made all the more poignant because a few months later Chad and his wife became parents to a beautiful little girl.
Yes, I’m aware of the reputation that the Star Wars sequel trilogy has come to have. I would be a fool to not acknowledge that particular gundark in the room. I have shared ...
Nine years ago tonight I was in a movie theater in San Diego, California. I was about to do something I’d never done before in my entire life: watch a Star Wars movie in the theater without anyone to share the experience with.
It was still Tammy the Pup and me, a boy and his dog across America, a very long way from where we had started six months before. I was stuck between wanting to see a new Star Wars film so very much, but also having to face that there would be no friend or family to enjoy it with. That’s how I went in to see Rogue One.
But maybe God provided. I wound up sitting with some high school kids who were very excited about the movie, and we talked a little bit. We’d become rather acquainted by the time the lights went down and ...