While we were drinking…

Here’s some of what’s been going on in the outside world.

Revenge of the Sith won two DVD awards. Also on the official site, November 2006 Comics.

Speaking of comics, don’t bother looking for Legacy #3 in stores. It was supposed to come out today (the schedule even said so until this morning) but it’s… not. Word on the boards is that last week’s books didn’t ship either. (I don’t know: I only buy Legacy.) Dark Horse isn’t the only one: Something is rotten in the comics industry.

“May the force be with you” tops online quote poll. And I don’t think TFN linked the poll, which means it might actually have won fair and square. Cool.

Some new Star Wars miniatures debuted at GenCon. The set includes a “Mystral” Shadow Guard, but unless they came with booze and/or naked men, I don’t think any of us noticed. Also, it seems they’re restarting the RPG.

Colleen Doran witnesses The Fan From Hell. I think we’ve found one that beats the Woodtick, folks.

Those damn Harry Potter plagiarists made it all the way up the fannish blog chain to John Scalzi. Twice.

Other stuff I would have blogged:
NASA has misplaced the original moon landing tapes. Our tax dollars at work!
Daniel Radcliffe is down with Harry Potter dying.
Crazy mofo has “temporary” Wolverine piercing. My hand hurts just looking at it.
Hayden Christensen making some movie.
Things writers have no control over. (Add to the list: Killing Chewbacca.)
The Top 8 Shows For SF Myth Busters.
11 Things in Fantasy/That I Don’t Promise Not to Use (or Keep Using) in My Writing and 6 More Things I Could do Without in Fantastic Literature & I don’t plan to use except to make fun of.

News of the Day

Okay, I lied. Here are a few interesting Star Wars items on the net today:

The Lucas Effect, a great piece from Popular Mechanics on George Lucas and his effects on moviemaking.

Lucasfilm Consolidates IT for Animation, Movies, Video Games, an article from TechWeb about Lucasfilm’s IT.

And finally, from the starwars.com boards, a survey for Star Wars fans from John Tenuto, a sociology instructor at College of Lake County. I took the survey, but I must admit I found the questions asked rather limiting. I’d like to see him asking more asked about fan attitudes and perceptions of the different aspects of the fandom…

Video Monday

Human Ping Pong. Impressive… Most impressive.

Star Wars One Man Show on Conan O’Brian. Feathered hair!

Pride & Prejudice, Harry Potter style. Delightfully bizarre!

Stand-up comic Matt Geiler talks about Star Wars and girls. Goes on a bit too long, but it’s pretty funny.

Bloopers from The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith (Thanks, Kat!) and the original trilogy, Probably a direct rip from the DVD, so watch them now if you want to watch them at all.

Tennis on Tatooine
Reel Big Fish Star Wars intro
Jedi Pi

This week at StarWars.com

Tonight we get our first official look at Star Wars Insider #89, and the cover for A Practical Man, Karen Traviss’ Boba Fett e-novella. The Insider is on it’s way out to subscribers now, and word is that this very site gets a mention. Hmm…

Also featured this week:
– Hyperspace: Old-School Star Wars. Remember mimeographs?
Featured Blog: Mando’ade and Their Toys
Star Wars exhibit opens in Korea
– Hyperspace: The latest issue of Bantha Tracks.