Club Jade

It’s art! Or not. No. Just no. Clone Wars character design, I know McQuarrie, and you sir are no McQuarrie. On the other hand, Christian Waggoner’s stuff is kinda cool.

Let them eat slime. This Jabba cake is appropriately disgusting yet totally hand-made. Pretty impressive.

Don’t strain yourself.Is Star Wars science fiction or fantasy? It’s sci-fantasy. Duh.

Listicles. Princess Leia is one of Yahoo’s lethal ladies; The prequels bottom out io9′s list of science fiction prequels, beating out even You-Know-Who’s Dune books on their scale of crappiness. Ouch.

Road trip! If you missed it, The Vader Project is now in Pittsburgh.

The second Stargate Universe teaser aired on Friday.  Very heavy on the drama and emotion.  Even though this is a “grittier” show, they’d best show some humor soon or the fan base will get even grouchier than they already are.

Over on GateWorld, coverage of the Friday events at the Vancouver convention is up. 

And I should probably hand this over to Dunc for her ongoing series on fandom cakes, but it was too cute for me to pass up:  Stargate cakes! (via)

Featured on Cake Wrecks today: A Darth Vader baby shower cake. Awesome? Awful? You tell me:

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Matthew Latkiewicz explores the comedy potential of Star Wars branded yoga in a series of correspondence between faux Lucasfilm executive Steve Jones and George Lucas.

• Politics: It’s pretty impossible to miss that we here in the U.S. inaugurated our 44th President yesterday, and just like with the campaign, Star Wars references have been popping up. TFN has collected some news reports, while StarWars.com found an Obama action figure battling Darth Vader and Barack Obacca.

• Food: Another day, another Star Wars cake at Great White Snark… But this one does bring a new level of absurdity by incorporating mini-golf.
• Kids: It takes more than a Star Wars cake to make a kid-pleasing Star Wars party, so here are some ideas from Make and Takes. (via)

• Quite a project: Chris Lee of Tennessee is on an “insane quest” to build a Full-Scale Millennium Falcon.

• Lists: A New Hope is a Geeky Movie That Should’ve Been Terrible; Han’s blaster on 6 Baddest-Ass Sci Fi Sidearms Ever; Han and Chewie, Artoo and Threepio make 30 Burning Sci-Fi Bromances
• Cakes The Millennium Falcon and Death Star, again.
• Sightings: Red and Jonny in Fray’s Geek Issue.

Whatever happened to the collector from Dr. Phil whose wife tried to shame him into ditching his Star Wars stuff? The Springfield News-Sun follows up. They’re still married, he still has his collection, but he did go on a diet. Score?

• Lists: Topless Robot has five reasons Luke Skywalker is a complete idiot. Way harsh, Tai.

• Cake: Great White Snark found a great Darth Maul.
• Blog: ICANHASFORCE. Yes, it’s exactly what you’d expect.

We got a look at a Millennium Falcon from Charm City Cakes back in July, and it seems that the Ace of Cakes episode featuring it has finally aired! Alas, none of us got word of it beforehand, but Food Network isn’t exactly skimping on the reruns: Look for it tonight at 10pm. (via)

Internet cakemaster Great White Snark was on the scene for the unveiling of a Death Star birthday cake.

• TV: Tina Fey was spotted wearing a Leia ’08 t-shirt on Saturday Night Live’s season premiere this weekend. On that note, io9′s list of SNL’s best sci-fi sketches contains bonus Mark Hamill.

• Food: Star Wars bento boxes? Wacky!
• List: Yoda (though not in cake form) is one of Great White Snark’s top five unexpectedly bad-ass geek heroes.

• Food: Han in Carbonite… The cake! Is that icing nontoxic? (via)

• The blogside: SF Signal’s JP Frantz claims that Star Wars needs to take a break to save the future of the franchise, and I’m not sure I entirely disagree… Meanwhile, Time’s Matt Selman calls for an end to easy Star Wars parodies.
• Collecting: Pete Vilmur looks at saving ticket stubs.
• Space: The European Space Agency takes inspiration from Star Wars for a new spacecraft. It looks like it would fit right in with the Rebel fleet! (via)
• Lists: The prequel trilogy gets a spot on io9′s worst fake accents of science fiction; Return of the Jedi is one of Cracked’s six most depressing happy endings.
• Random: Going through life with the last name of Yoda.