Chad Vader covers Chocolate Rain. (Apparently a hip thing to do these days.) Oh, the humanity!
Won’t somebody think of the children?
I suppose it was inevitable: Sci-Fi Baby Names: 500 Out-of-This-World Baby Names from Anakin to Zardoz. Like geeks need the encouragement. (via SF Signal)
Georgia Requires Fig Leaves
Gordon Lee, a comic book shop owner in Rome, Georgia is going on trial this week for supposedly distributing lewd images to minors. He gave away free comic books at a Halloween event in 2004 and in the assortment were a few copies of “Alternative Comics #2”, which included an apparently historically accurate story about Pablo Picasso, including the cubist master in the buff. Mr. Lee has apologized numerous times for his mistake, but to no avail.
Fortunately for Mr. Lee, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has picked up the $80,000 his defense has cost so far and will be paying the expected additional $20,000. Remind me to stop by their booth next year at San Diego Comic Con and give them a hug and a donation.
Oh, and WARNING: The first link contains the offending image of Picasso’s wang. Don’t click if you have an issue with historically accurate comic wangs.
“Say what again. SAY. WHAT. AGAIN!”
Surprisingly, there’s no Star Wars on QuigSpot’s list of the ten most obnoxiously over-quoted movies, unless one counts the whole ‘Anything with Samuel L. Jackson’ thing.
Now, maybe I hang out with too many geeks, but there are a few movies missing from this list: What about The Princess Bride? Spaceballs? The Big Lebowski? The collected works of Kevin Smith? What overused movie quotes could you live without?
It’s not a quote exactly, but one thing I don’t miss about scavenging for the weekly video posts is getting blasted with the motherbleeping Main Theme every other video. It’s practically an instant back-buttoner for me these days.
Trek is Full of Heroes
Heroes fans were fairly universal in their love of George Takei‘s performance during the first season as Hiro‘s father.
Now comes word that, in addition to Dominic Keating, Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) will be yet another Star Trek alum joining the cast of Heroes in Season 2.
Pro Art – Silkscreens by Eelus
Star Wars stencils and silkscreens by Eelus. You may have seen these before – I know Bonnie is using the first as an icon on Livejournal, and it was probably in the street art article in the Insider. (Be sure to click through – the last image at the link is something I can’t recall ever seeing before.) But now you can buy them… Although I gather the price is higher than you may imagine. Hipsters.
(As for where the pro part comes in – Eelus was one of the artists on the Vader Project. More pro art is coming!)
Run fanboys, run!
Behind the Tantive IV corridor at Celebration Europe. Hopefully they can get something like that over here for the next Celebration!
Rumor mill: Raimi and Jackson for Hobbit?
Video update for Indiana Jones
There’s a new video up on IndianaJones.com, titled “Reuniting the Family”, with new interviews with Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.
Hop over to IndianaJones.com and check it out.
Did the Jar-Jar tongue suckers make it?
Be sure to nab the latest issue of Toyfare to see which eight Star Wars toys grace their list of the 100 best toys of the last decade.