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Fan club president race runs close

As we reported earlier, Lucasfilm is running a recruiting contest for the next Star Wars Fan Club president. Whoever gets the most referrals from people signing or renewing Hyperspace wins. The winner gets to be Fan Club president and an expense-paid trip to San Diego Comic-Con International, among other things.

It looks like it’s between Dustin Roberts and Tom ‘Uscwannabe’ Costabile. According to the leaderboard, Costabile is currently in the lead, having 29 bounties to Robert’s 26.

Costabile’s lead is all the more impressive since he doesn’t have two major fansites pimping him out several times a day. Or maybe Rebelscum and TFN readers are so annoyed with the Roberts news-flood they’re throwing votes to the competition? Hmm…

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From the Blogside

Reads of the week: Oninobara on her conception of Padme Amidala in the light of V for Vendetta’s Evie and a Fanthropology discussion of whether Mary Sue has evolved into fandom’s boogiewoman.

Modillian considers the role of Anakin’s visions in the prequel trilogy.

The Infinite Force documents coming to terms with Darth Vader.

Selphish posts her impression of Heirs to the Force, aka the first in the Young Jedi Knight series. It’s, ahh, not favorable.

In Time, You Will Learn is the third part of Sarnjasra’s Revisionist History series.

Charlie_and_aj ponder how different fandoms deal with and percieve canon.

Lazypadawan wrote about how Palpatine lured Anakin to join the Sith.

Find a post that you thinks deserves a place in the next edition of From the Blogside? Email Dunc at simpletricks@gmail.com with the URL.

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What’s up with TFN? Not much…

In the past week, it seems that TheForce.net, Star Wars fandom’s most popular fansite, has been down. And up. And down. A lot. Their message boards are working, though most of the time all the graphics and styles appear stripped away. (I actually find this much easier on the eyes than the usual design chaos, but it seems most don’t agree.) I ventured into the boards seeking answers, but found little but vagueness and confused users. So is it an April Fools joke? Did Philip Wise forget to pay the server bill? Trekkie DOS attack? Sister site Rebelscum (which seems to be running just fine) eating its own? Only time will tell. Until then, I shrug.

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From the Blogside

The biggest discovery this week is Sarn Jasra and his excellent Revisionist History essays. Only two of a planned six are up so far, focusing on The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones – but these explorations of his reaction and opinion regarding the films is a good read and top-notch stuff.

Citizenjess gets her rant on about Star Wars canon. Yes folks, sometimes you just have to suck it up and realize that Star Wars is not perfect.

The folks at the X-Entertainment blog play with Star Wars Transformers.

Sabrina Fried explores shifting storylines in Star Wars.

Lee Kottner blogerates in defense of fanfic.

Hesychasm on what fandom is; Shoiryu’s take, for cynics.

Imadra-blue gives into the Obidala side of the Force.

RJ-1 Kenobi is puzzled by fans who want to rewrite the prequels.

Averii has some thoughts on Jedi in the Expanded Universe.