Patrick Cassels’ ill-conceived junior high love letter. Because nothing pulls at the heartstrings of your average teenage girl like talk of Boba Fett and S-Dub canon.
LFL for tech geeks
For you hardcore alpha geeks just dying to know about things like Lucasfilm’s render farm, Computer World interviews some of their IT staff for ‘IT optimization the Lucasfilm way.’ (via TOSblog)
Jar-Jar I could understand, but this…
Fan freezes himself in carbonite. Not literally. Well, sort of literally. Slashdot isn’t that impressed, and honestly I’m finding it kinda creepy. Why would you do that to Han? (via TOSblog)
Fished in!
Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin admits he was only joking about J.K. Rowling working on a crime novel.
“This is a joke that got out of hand,” said Rankin, describing how the remark was made on stage during the course of a [Edinburgh] festival event.
“There were 600 people in the audience, and only one person didn’t laugh,” he added.
The AP and other wire services picked up the story, and it was all over the news last weekend. Good one, Ian, but you should have gone for romance novel!
Ring her Bell for Heroes
TVGuide‘s Ausiello has scored a two-part interview with CJ-favorite Kristen Bell, regarding her upcoming turn on Heroes, rumors of a return to Broadway and other rumors about a Veronica Mars movie.
Out this week
Awaiting Star Wars fans at the comic store on Wednesday should be Knights of the Old Republic #19 and the Darklighter Anniversary Collection.
One week until Inferno…
Lust for Puppets: Seth Green interviewed!
Robot Chicken: Star Wars on DVD? It’s more likely than you think! Most of the SW stuff is on the second and third pages. (via TOSblog)
The haps of GenCon
Now, we sometimes forget this in our pursuit of booze and parties, but GenCon is actually a gaming convention. Over at the TOS blogs, Sterling Hershey has the reports on the Star Wars and general RPG announcements.
For the EU fans, looks like WOTC will be making Legacy of the Force, Knights of the Old Republic, and The Force Unleashed minis.
Is there anything an astromech can’t do?
R2-Beer2 is a must for the next JadeCon picnic. Not as cool as making bootleg beer inside company property, but it’ll do.