Club Jade

StarWars.com has the obligatory updated episode guide and a video commentary. Also, a very pretty screenshot of that slug-thing, seen above.

• Interviews: Lightsabre talks to Kevin Rubio.

• Reviews: io9 recaps, and also suggests suggestions for a Clone Wars Thanksgiving episode. Come on guys, this is Star Wars – we have quite enough turkeys, thank you.
  
• For a good cause: Jedi News and pals are celebrating the U.K. launch of the show by throwing a fund-raiser/giveaway for the Make a Wish Foundation.

Just in time for Life Day!  The official Star Wars blog gives a heads up that there are a bunch of Clone Wars figures up for auction and signed by Lucasfilm staffers to benefit The Heiffer Foundation.

Not only will it grab you a nifty little collection of figures, but a cow.  You could buy a cow, people.

Terri Hodges is spearheading a project with the 501st to support the the Make A Wish Foundation. The first quilt is being auctioned off on eBay right now! Learn more on the project’s MySpace or Terri’s Flickr.

A group of British Lego employees assembled an army of 35,310 Lego Star Wars Clone Troopers mini-figs to raise awareness (and cash) for The National Autistic Society.

J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter prequel – and the 12 other notecard works from authors such as Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood – are now online for all to read.

UPDATE: Reading Rowling’s handwriting is a bit of a chore, but thankfully there’s something of a transcription over at SnitchSeeker.com. (via)

A special R2-KT collectible coin is now available, commemorating Katie Johnson, the 7-year-old daughter of 501st founder Albin Johnson, who died after a long batte with cancer in 2005. (R2-KT is Katie’s namesake.) All proceeds from the sale of the coin will go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

The short, handwritten prequel that JK Rowling penned for charity will be auctioned off today in London. The story features the misadventures of the Marauders and is set three years before the birth of Harry Potter. According to the BBC, the story ends with the words: “From the prequel I am not working on – but that was fun!”

The money from JKR’s story, plus those of Nick Hornby, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Lauren Child, Sebastian Faulks, Tom Stoppard and Irvine Welsh will go to two charities — English PEN (an “international fellowship of writers, working together to promote literature and defend the freedom to write”) and Dyslexia Action.

In other news, Warwick Davis talks about his role as Professor Filius Flitwick.

• Media: Civilian Alice Bradley’s account of life with two hard-core Star Wars fans.

• Fanzines: FF Portugal has released the first full issue of their zine, Undercity #1.
• 501st: Vader’s finest inducted comic writer John Ostrander as an honorary member at ICON earlier this month.
• Video: Cartoonist Adam Koford draws Yoda on Sketchcast. (via)
• Charity: The Washington DC Metro Area Star Wars Collecting Club is selling a Boba Fett pin to raise funds for young burn survivors.

J.K. Rowling is only one of the 13 authors and illustrators that Waterstone’s Booksellers tapped to help raise funds for a British writer’s association and dyslexia charity. Rowling’s contribution is a hand-written Harry Potter prequel outline.

Or good guys.

OK, Firefly fans, this is your last chance to buy the shirt off Jayne Cobb’s back. The California Browncoats are assisting Adam Baldwin in an auction to benefit the Marine Corps – Law Enforcement Foundation.

“Shepherd Book once said to me, ‘If you can’t do something smart, do something right.’” — Jayne Cobb