Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
This week’s featured filk is a classic from one of Club Jade’s earliest and most prolific filkers, Echo. Inspired by the events in Tim Zahn’s “The Last Command”, I Wanna Clone Your Hand is sung to Luke by the crazy clone Jedi Master C’Baoth.
Read more from Echo’s body of work in the archive here.
David Campbell coins the much-needed term fandamentalism.
As with any social movement or sub-culture, there is an extreme fringe whose views are not shared by the majority, or at the very least not shared with fanatic intensity. Fans are no different. A common and recurring theme in fandom is a rigid devotion to a “classic” model of their obsession. Any deviation from that model, any disruption of the status quo, is a personal attack against the fandumentalist.
Yup. Sounds about right. (via Fanthropology)
Sock Monkey, I Think I Love You. (via bonnie)
Not as purely awesome as Ewok Muppets, but pretty close.
Steve Irwin’s spirit lives on… (Thanks, Broox!)
I really kinda sorta want this shirt for C4. But I fear it may be too geeky (and rude) even for me
Spotted on Wikipedia’s Lamest Edit Wars page: “Death Star: Is it 120km or 160km in diameter? Who cares?” Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Bonus lameness: A big chunk on Revenge of the Sith and (teehee) Shadows of the Empire. Requires scrolling.
And they ask him about Wes and Hobbie’s ‘relationship’ at DragonCon. (Note Helen to the right of Mike!)
But wait, there’s more beneath the cut! (Watch the video first.)
The Endor Holocaust, the theory (theory!) that Ewoks Go Boom. Fanboys, I swear…Well, at least it makes for a funny Metafilter thread.
LAist finds Star Wars Fans On Attack At Hollywood Bowl. With video!
Tutorials from Lightsabers from the Big Yellow Box and Imperial Outfitters. Warning – the first link is on Tripod (evil!) and will send a ton of popups your way.