Get your buns on and your boobs taped, tomorrow is the last day to submit your Princess Leia filk!
It all began with with the Star Trek Wars…
There’s a Church of Spock. Like you’re surprised. (via SF Signal)
Time for another fanfic article!
This one is from The Guardian and covers pretty much the same ground (right down to the authorial examples) as the Wall Street Journal article from a month or so back. And where the hell are they getting the idea of Long Island as a fanfic hotbed?
Best Tee Ever (for Today)
What has Dracula, aliens, dinosaurs and zombies? This awesome new shirt from, Threadless, of course.
Weird Things on the Wookieepedia
List of references to Star Wars in television. Whenever I find myself wandering around a Wiki, the ‘list of references’ is my favorite part. Now, there’s no way in hell this list is complete, but it’s still pretty sizable.
Or something
Weird Al interview at starwars.com. You knew it had to happen eventually.
Video Monday: Halloween!
The Life and Death of a Pumpkin, from the folks who bring you Chad Vader. Fan-freaking-tastic.
Old-School Daily Show: Steve Carell teaches Stephen Colbert the true meaning of Halloween. It’s heartwarming. In a way.
Robot Chicken takes on The Great Pumpkin. And yes, it’s flagged as mature content for good reason, but pretty damn funny.
Have a scary Christmas. I’m a big grouch, so this is the closest you’ll ever get to a Christmas-themed video post from me. (The Holiday Special doesn’t count.)
Okay, fine – one more. Your requisite Nightmare Before Christmas clip: This is Halloween. There’s also a new Marilyn Manson version for the 3-D re-release.
Backstreet’s back! I am so, so sorry. Here, have some Ghostbusters instead. Or Dead Man’s Party, an awesome Army of Darkness fanvid.
And of course, it’s just not Halloween without The Rocky Horror Picture Show: It’s just a jump to the left / And then a step to the right / With your hands on your hips / You bring your knees in tight / But it’s the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane / Let’s do the Time Warp again!
Any of you guys know how to Madison?
- Numfar! Do the dance of joy!
- Indian Thriller. This is just… bizarre.
- Clips from Roseanne Halloween episodes.
- The Simpsons do Edgar Allen Poe.
From the Blogside
The Movie Blog’s John Campea on why we aren’t swimming in fantasy films in the wake of Lord of the Rings.
Apprentice of Wisdom does some digging and finds a possible origin for Palpatine’s name.; RJ Peters considers hope and redemption; Kenobi-fan on the Force; Abel G. Peña continues his Emperor’s Pawns endnotes with a look at the retconning of Lumiya; Leland Chee on continuty, cross-platform storytelling and non-SW terms.
Jedinet was only mostly dead
For the last week or so, venerable fansite Jedinet has been forwarding to a GoDaddy park page. Well today it’s back – and it’s gone blog. Ha!