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If you’re a Star Wars geek, chances are you caught last night’s Robot Chicken Star Wars special on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. I tuned in. Now, up ’til last night I had already seen this lil’ Star Wars clip from the Robot Chicken show…

But last night was the first time, ever, that I tuned in specifically for Robot Chicken on TV. So I watched the Star Wars special (which was hilarious!) and then, decided that I see what “regular” Robot Chicken is like.

I haven’t laughed this hard at television in… I don’t know how long!

And I can’t believe that I haven’t watched Robot Chicken until now!

For a long time, I’ve thought that television had become stale, without anything “new” adding vibrancy and vitality to the medium. And then Lost comes along, and re-defines dramatic storytelling. And now here is Robot Chicken, which I think ...

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There’s apparently starting to be some interest in the stating of my intentions a few days ago that I would address the Rockingham County Board of Education at its July 9th meeting… fully costumed as a Jedi Knight. The only thing that I am leaving off the ensemble is my lightsaber. For one thing, I am being extremely cautious in adhering to the school system’s weapons policy: even though this is not a functional weapon by any means, I’m not taking chances. For all intents and purposes, this is simply a “different” mode of attire than what you usually see at a school board meeting. As it is, I don’t see this being construed as a special circumstance, and I’m not going to intentionally make it one, either.

Besides, I have something much better than a lightsaber that I intend to take with me. You could say that I will ...

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And I invite anyone else who wants to protest the board’s indifference toward us on the school uniforms issue to likewise come dressed as outrageously as they wanna be (within reason of course).

I had originally thought to come to the meeting wearing V’s costume from V for Vendetta, but won’t do that out of respect for public safety concerns. That, and because it would be really hard to speak to the board from behind a Guy Fawkes mask.

Please, if you want to join along with this protest, do not wear something that has a full-face mask.

The board – for the most part anyway – is not listening to us. They apparently paid not one whit of attention to what we had to say to them when we spoke during public comments at Monday night’s meeting.

Even if they refuse to pay attention to our words, we ...

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Just one more post before I really absolutely do take a self-imposed sabbatical from blogging for the next few days: it was first mentioned last week that the first commercial from my school board campaign – the “zany” Star Wars-inspired ad – will be screened this weekend at the first-ever Pixelodeon Independent Video Festival at the American Film Institute… in Hollywood! So if you’re in Los Angeles for the next few days, I guess you can stop by and watch the Death Star blow up a schoolhouse.

Hey, it helped get me almost forty-seven hundred votes, didn’t it?? šŸ™‚...

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The History Channel re-broadcast Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed last night. It’s a two-hour documentary about the film saga, its mythic roots, and the timeless values that it’s tried to share with the modern audience.

As the program was winding down I thought, and not for the first time lately: after all of these years of being a devout Star Wars fan … well, what is the point of it? What has been the point of any of the loyalty that we as fans have shown these movies?

Guess what I’m wondering is: in spite of the multitude of morals and lessons that this movie series has given us, what have we actually done with them, at all?

F’rinstance, George Lucas intended for the recent Star Wars prequels to be a parable about the decline of republican government: that democracies invariably become dictatorships. The final step toward tyranny usually happens ...

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A few days ago we had the 30th anniversary of the release of Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope, even though it was a few years later when the subtitle was added). Last night the History Channel ran Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed, which is one of the best documentaries about Star Wars that I’ve ever seen. There’s been a lot of jubilation this past week about our favorite modern saga…

…but today is a time to mourn.

Today Sacrifice, the new Star Wars novel in the “Legacy of the Force” series, was published. As is being widely reported already, this is the book that sees the death of Mara Jade Skywalker: wife of Luke Skywalker and perhaps the most beloved Star Wars character to have never appeared in any of the movies.

Mara Jade first appeared in Heir to the Empire, the first ...

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I must admit, when I first heard about this project I was more than a little skeptical. I mean, haven’t the Clone Wars been depicted enough over the past five years? Guess I was hoping for this kind of effort to be made toward covering ground we haven’t seen yet (like the interval between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hop, or the Old Republic era). That said, this looks “impressive… most impressive!”

Mash down here for the new Star Wars: The Clone Wars trailer.

Speaking of computer-animated Star Wars, a few days ago I posted a report about something called Tales of the New Republic. Ever since word about this came out last week a lot of fans have been stymied as to whether or not this is an official Lucasfilm production. Sometime in the last day or so it was posted on the project’s website...

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… Star Wars was born.

You’ve come a long way, baby.

Happy birthday to the greatest movie saga ever.

(Don’t forget that today is the day that the Star Wars postage stamps go on sale at U.S. Post Offices across America. I’ll be going to get mine in the next little while šŸ™‚...

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I doubt it.

The Internets have been buzzing all day – spurred on by a story from the Daily Telegraph – about a supposed “major announcement” tomorrow at Star Wars Celebration IV: that George Lucas is going to make another Star Wars movie.

I’m not going to be at this year’s Celebration, but I was at the second in 2002 and the third in 2005 (both in Indianapolis) and trust me: this thing seems to breed wild rumors like you can’t imagine. Over the course of two Celebrations I’ve heard that: Hugh Jackman was confirmed to be in Episode III, that we would find out the name of Yoda’s race, that George Lucas was “definitely” coming to Celebration II (he didn’t, but we did see him at Celebration III), that the adjacent stadium would be used to host the first public showing of Revenge of the Sith for convention ...

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