Is Kevin J. Anderson a Scientologist? Is he? Isn’t he? Doesn’t really matter. But the thread title caused me to laugh maniacally, and that’s more than enough reason to link.
Turn to the Yarn Side
More with the yarn! If you like crochet, patterns for afghan squares, including the Alliance logo, an X-wing, A-wing, TIE, and AT-ST. These are graphed out, so they could also be used for anything else worked from “square” graphs.
Scroll *aaaaallllll* the way down the very long page to get to the pattern links.
Fall to the Craft Side
Club Jade is fully stocked with crafty types, but we’re so not alone. I promised Dunc a year ago that I’d post some about craft sources/ideas/what have you. Even on my schedule it’s time to get started!
Over at LiveJournal, onelittlestar has posted graphed Leia. Scroll down, because she’s in the comments to the original post. If you look carefully, you’ll see that the individual squares are actually squashy little rectangles. That means that this chart is designed for knitting rather than cross-stitch or needlepoint.
Sarah Bradberry at knitting-and.com has a page of Star Wars knitting charts that I really like. Hers are designed to be knit using fair isle technique. I’ve used some of these for socks, with great results.
Bossk Haiku
File under WTF
New member of Parliament claims to be a Jedi. I have trouble believing people are actually serious about this kind of thing. The census thing was a joke, folks. Joke. Not serious.
Oh well. As long as he doesn’t start ranting off about pharmaceutical drugs Tom Cruise wacko-style, I think the U.K. will survive.
Review: TFN Podcast on Upcoming Book Releases
Let me say this is my first podcast, and only third (I think) venture into the world of fan audio. But with the latest version of iTunes, getting a podcast has become a no-brainer, so I thought I’d give it a try.
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It’s love, baby!
Even Jedi turn to Dr Love to help sort out their pathetic love lives.
Things don’t look too good for Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon…
… Siri Tachi and Obi-Wan might do all right…
… Mace and Obi sitting in a tree…
… but, booyah, Obi-Wan and Padme rock the house. Scandal!
This entry brought to you by Liz and Yav and a whole lot of caffeine.
Simple tricks and nonsense
An intriguing, if overly fanboy, look at how the prequel and original trilogies could be connected. Features R2-D2 as a Rebel field agent, Qui-Gon Jinn as undead method of communication, and Chewbacca as the Rebellion’s top-line spy. Reads more as a fanfic outline than garden-variety speculation – as far-fetched as it may be, there’s enough out-of-nowhere connections to make George Lucas proud. (via Cinematical.)
Keeping up with the Joneses
Life is too short to keep up with all of blogs.starwars.com, but here are few recent gems from the VIP section:
Tasty Taste’s (Leland Chee) Death Star timeline
Dan Wallace on whether Star Wars is science fiction or space fantasy and an unofficial list of Grand Admirals.
Halagard (Abel G. Pena) has a lengthy discourse on Mace Windu and the Jedi Order.
Ghent (Paul Ens) on how Leia remembers Padme.
And last but certainly not least, JessaJediB (Mary Franklin) on Leia and Bail in the Radio Drama.
And comments are now enabled! I’m not sure if you have to be a Hypespace member to comment as you do to have a blog, but a starwars.com account is required. You can check up on all the lastest VIP postings here.
The new sound of fandom?
I’ve always been a bit perplexed by the concept of internet and fan audio (what’s wrong with text, now?) but The SciFi Podcast Network looks like it could be pretty neat. According to Nathan Butler, Mike Stackpole is one of the forces behind the site, and several fandom audio shows have or will soon be joining.