Carrie Fisher died this morning.

I am heartbroken. Ever since I heard about her heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles, I’ve been checking the news a couple of times a day, hoping to hear that she was out of danger, hoping to hear that she’d been released from the hospital.

I saw Star Wars when I was eleven. I saw it eight times ( Read more... )

Well, Rogue One holds up for a second viewing. I'm writing a longer review, but I'm going to hold off posting it probably until I go on vacation. Partly because I don't want to spoil the movie for anyone, and partly because I'm still chewing over how I feel about this movie. Lots to think about....

Going to see Rogue One again tonight after work.

I'm curious to see how it holds up to a second viewing. I suspect it's going to grow on me.

It’s been a rough week for 69 year old British celebrities with cancer. I woke up Monday morning to find out that we’d lost David Bowie, and woke up Thursday morning to the news that Alan Rickman had decided to join him for a drink in Heaven. Well bugger all. Fuck Cancer. Yes, I know I keep repeating myself, but I'm BUMMED about this ( Read more... )

The other day, over on Facebook, marrus posted a link to an article that I’d read before. It was a Huffington Post article about how college Fine Arts programs actually try to force students not to learn the artistic skills like anatomy, perspective, and painting technique.

I wish I could say this academic prejudice against skill was a thing of the ( Read more... )

A couple more thoughts on The Force Awakens.
[Minor Spoilers Ahoy]
The first Star Wars movie came out 38 years ago, presumably Han and Chewie have been together longer than that, so probably forty years? How is this the first time that Han ever shot Chewbacca’s bowcaster?!? Surely the big furball has gone down and Han has picked up his weapon before? Not once in ( Read more... )

This morning I headed off to the movie theater to see if I could get tickets for the 11:30 a.m. showing of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The only seats they had left were in the very front row, and I’m not fond of a cricked neck, so I bought tickets for the 12:30 show and then went to Starbucks to get a nibble and write down a great story idea I ( Read more... )

SO MANY FEELS RIGHT NOW!

Curse you JJ Abrams, you bastard.

Hmmm, it occurs to me that (d'oh!) I'm not working and it might be possible to sneak into a matinee today. Which means I won't have to spend the entire weekend trying to avoid spoilers on the Internets.

I'm headed off to the theater to see if there are any seats available...

With the upcoming new Star Wars movie, Princess Leia and Carrie Fisher have been in the news lately.
Link parking for a couple of articles that I wanted to save/share.

Can we talk about why we really love Princess Leia?
Notice that before the Battle of Hoth, when Leia’s instructing the pilots on their escape plan, not one of the rebels in the ( Read more... )