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Team Rocket Race Places Second!

Club Jade’s very own SirDan and JawaJames, who in addition to the Kessel Run at Celebration IV, organize the annual San Diego Rocket Race, actually participated in an urban challenge over the weekend rather than just taking pride in torturing others. They won second place at the Urban Dare in San Diego on Saturday, out of a field of 45 teams.

They had a great time and brains definitely won out over brawn. Dan said that they were surrounded by “beautiful San Diego people” at the starting line, but the two of them cranked through the clues fast enough to make up for the fact that…well, as Dan put it, “we were the two most out of shape people there.”

James’ fun account of the event (complete with pictures!) can be found in two parts in his blog. Congratulations, guys!

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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.

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Trek Goes On a Cruise?

Or that would be Cruise goes on Trek… As in Tom Cruise. Granted, the role would be little more than a cameo, but it still caused a bit of barf in my mouth when I came across this bit of news today on the internets. I’m counting on the fact that this “news” is little more than rumor at this point.