King Rat wants YOU!

"Disneyland is Hiring Stormtroopers." The Star Wars kind. What else do you need to know?

Fencing for the Masses

Certain BBCers may find this decision by the French Fencing Federation of interest.

Star Wars at the Library of Congress

Here's the video (with closed captioning available!) of the panel discussion I did in September on the politics of Star Wars at the Library of Congress. Definitely a career peak.

Greatest headline ever?

The New Yorker spotted this one a while back in one of its local rivals; I’ve just taken a while to post it. But I think we can all agree that this is timeless. And now that I think about it, the first sentence is even better than the headline: “A former meerkat expert at London Zoo has been ordered to pay compensation to a monkey handler she attacked with a wine glass in a love spat over a llama-keeper.”

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

“It’s time to remake the Star Wars Holiday Special.”

McSweeney's has a hilarious historical review of the NYT's tweeting habits dating well into the 19th Century. It's not that the NYT and its reporters and editors have failed to realize and thus call out that the Republican party has become a pack of radicalized hyenas lacking any coherent moral or political world view, it's that both-sides have always done it that way.

Chewbaquaman

I'm not really sure what to say about this.