I just finished watching Youtube videos of a) music from Titanic and b) Star Wars, and I got to thinking: What would it be like to use the theme song from Titanic with the visuals from that scene in Revenge of the Sith in which Anakin Skywalker, a.k.a. Darth Vader, learns that his wife, Amydala, has died . . .

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Several years ago, before I moved to my current apartment building, I had a dream in which I went as a passenger in a boat operated by my former student, George Bryson, into a sea-cave; the sea-cave was in the side of a great rock or mountain jutting up from a serene blue ocean that seemed to stretch out forever in every direction; the day was ( Read more... )

Harold Camping predicted this particular apocalypse would start with an earthquake, but that's not the only option.

The PR department of the Death Star (yes, that Death Star) has created a handy-dandy flowchart to help explain all the possible mass destruction options.

What we appreciate most is the tersely worded form letter.

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http://www.galacticempiretimes.com/2011/05/09/galaxy/outer-rim/obi-wan-kenobi-is-killed.html

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One can take this any way one wants: as a clever satire on the way the mainstream media spin anything, a ( Read more... )

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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPFxBzlFe94)

And see YouTube - Godzilla vs. Darth Vader, YouTube - Kool Aid Killer, YouTube - The Angry Cloud, and YouTube - Two Scoops of Destruction

http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/03/23/in-defense-of-george-lucas/

On March 22, 1976, director George Lucas began filming in the Tunisian desert for what would become a little film called 'Star Wars.' At the time, no one could have predicted the effect ( Read more... )

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