The U.S. Postal Service released the Jedi Master all by his lonesome yesterday. They’re just the thing to adorn your holiday cards!
Wait, what?
You’ll never believe what Star Wars character New York Magazine‘s Vulture blog picked for their list of Ten Other Fictional Characters Whose Outings Won’t Shock Us That Much. Or maybe you will.
ETA: Entertainment Weekly’s Popwatch also comes up with a Star Wars name, one which will surprise no one in any way familiar with certain areas of the fandom.
Sabershuttle blasts off!
The Discovery launched right on time this morning. The shuttle is carrying the Return of the Jedi lightsaber, and George Lucas himself was in attendance at the launch. For the NASA geeks, the AP has plenty of details.
In a interesting sidebar, this mission also marks the first time that there are two women commanding spacecraft at the same time.
Another outpost in the wilds
There’s just not enough Star Wars out here on the internets, so Yahoo has partnered up with LFL to bring us The World of Star Wars. Hrm.
The catchup: Monday morning reading list
GENERAL
SWTV: A Day in the Life of Clone Wars while Jimmy Kimmel addresses live-action show in monologue and MSNBC’s Mary Beth Ellis asks if “Lucas be trusted with ‘Star Wars’ universe?”
- Pablo eviscerates sloppy journalism.
- Preview Insider #97, on sale tomorrow.
- More CE stuff for sale.
SWTV: EVENTS
FANDOM
- New England Garrison has a Jabba puppet!
- Meet the Dune Sea Garrison
- New York Jedi in the news again.
- Tina Fey Geeks out.
HYPERSPACE
- Bantha Tracks: Best Worst Costumes.
- Source archive: Whiskers, Command Performance, and Pantolomin Halfback
- NewsNet: Tarkin, Staff Die in Tragic Shuttle Crash
Lightsaber to launch Tuesday
The saber is loaded and ready for the trip to space; Fans can leave messages for the space shuttle astronauts.
Tuesday morning reading list
Building notes and video of the X-Wing rocket.
Can Matt Sloan and Aaron Yonda move beyond Chad Vader?
ABC News featured the Wilhelm scream Sunday night.
Drew Struzan’s original paintings on display at Oregon gallery.
Roleplaying jokes meet Star Wars in the Darths & Droids webcomic.
Friday morning reading list
Could Obi-Wan bring peace to Iraq? Okay, that’s a little beyond the scope of this blog, but Ewan McGregor was in Basra to present an award to Staff Sgt Michelle Cunningham, a British bomb disposal expert.
Elsewhere…
- SWTV news! George Lucas interviewing writers in Los Angeles next week.
- Darth Vader hot air balloon comes to America.
- Father shows his daughter Star Wars for the first time.
- Behind the scenes with George in Chicago.
- Lynn Cheney brought John Stewart a Darth Vader figure on The Daily Show Wednesday night.
Financial planning the Jedi way
Alan Haft’s six things Star Wars teaches us about our money. That’s the magic of pseudo-Eastern platitudes!
Via SF Signal, who also found the Jedi Workout. Umm… yeah. Okay.
The midweek catchup
Battlefront: Renegade Squadron came out yesterday. TOS keeps on trucking with a look at the game’s weapons and more Q&As
Also…
- Fandom: Brooklyn fan builds Sandcrawler to action figure scale. (via)
- Expanded Universe: Dan Wallace talks up co-author Jason Fry’s planet database.
- Events: Second Annual DCSWCC Roadshow this Saturday.
- Crafts: Motorcycle safety the Mandolorian way
- Pretties: More sketch card madness from Topps.
- People: Dave Prowse manages rock band. (via)