This week’s featured filk is inspired by events in the Heir to the Empire trilogy, the book series that brought a group of online fans together and resulted in the inception of Club Jade. I Wanna Clone Your Hand by Echo was one of Club Jade’s first filks, and remains a classic. Every now and then, one finds a song and matching parody idea just begging to be filked, and I have to imagine this was one of those times. I’m not sure what I find more amusing: the clever twist on the original Beatles lyrics, or the mental image of Joruus C’Boath singing them!
It’s Photoshop Phriday
Something Awful takes on Trek. (Thanks, Bonnie!)
Mary Gets Serenaded
It’s a rare thing for us to see Mary Franklin flustered.
It only lasts a few minutes, but you can see her just a wee bit flumoxed as she is serenaded by some very talented members of the Grambling State Band, as seen in this video.
She, of course, gets over it quickly and appears to be quite enjoying it. Lucky Mary!
Thanks to Jimmy from GA501st for the tip that this was finally posted.
L.A. fans, your day has come
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination is headed to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, and they’re asking for volunteers. From theForce.net. Someone’s going to find their inbox full this morning…
They have jobs, Bob
Starwars.com sets the record straight. They’re also cycling video greetings from 501st garrisons around the world.
Luke, I am your carburetor
Citroén HY modified to look like Darth Vader. One question – is that the front or the back?
Rose Parade Recap
Video Monday
Tonight, on Baltar’s Basestar… the Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Gag Reel. Waaaatttccch iiitttt. (Warning: Language above and beyond ‘frak’.)
Two more Star Wars PSAs: Candy Wagon and Podracers.
Rose Parade humor: Stormtrooper gets dressed down by drill instructor, Jimmy Kimmel mocks.
Yoda Spears. I… I… I don’t know. But it’s brilliant anyway.
Dancing stormtrooper action
- Imperial Dance Off. (As linked previously; somehow I had missed all the videos before that one.)
- Peanut Butter Jelly Time!
- Hey Ya!
- Numa Numa Stormtrooper. (The original, if you’ve been living in a cave.)
- Getting down. (No music.)
- Stormtrooper girl dances.
- Stormtrooper ballet.
- Trooper Bop. Kind of a ‘greatest hits’ with clips from many of the above set to ‘Sexyback.’
Fan Art: Things go boom!
To keep things from getting too cute around here, have some violence and explosions from Mathew W. Waggle and Nathaniel Anderson. (However, I should note that the screamy guy’s pose is adorable.)
30th Anniversary contest
The premiere Star Wars art community on Livejournal, Darth Artsy, is having an A New Hope fan art contest.