Category Archives: Star Wars
George Takei is Our New Nerd King
Some of you may be following the sci-fi spat between William Shatner and Carrie Fisher, or respectively, Capt. Kirk from Star Trek and Princess Leia from Star Wars. I haven’t been, because I don’t like to indulge in celebrity BS. A new chapter of the spat has unfolded, however, one that I have to share. But to set the scene, Shatner started the whole mess in an interview by saying Star Wars was derivative of Star Trek. Then Carrie Fisher did her own interview refuting him. Then Shatner made a personal video message to Fisher. Good-natured snarky fun was hard by all.
Well Star Trek’s George Takei has stepped forward to try and broker peace in a video that must be viewed by all science fiction fans.
The Henchman-4-Hire hereby pledges himself to George Takei’s cause! We must unite, my brothers and sisters in nerd!
Christmas elves, lightsabers and holiday cheer 4 Hire
The elves of Father Christmas bring a bit of holiday magic to the season. And by holiday magic, I mean the Force. But is hokey religion any match for a good blaster? Find out!
The 6 Geekiest Things I Own
This may not come as a big surprise to some people, but I am a huge dork. The condition was really bad in high school, seemed to mellow slightly in college and has now settled into a nice, acceptable level of being a geek. And I’m happy with that. I’ve made my peace with my awkward, dorky state of mind, and an adulthood that’s heavily influenced by video games and Spider-Man. This life clearly doesn’t appeal to everybody, but damned if I’m not loving it. So this list will be a celebration of my geekitude.
And you will never find a more wretched hive of nerd and geekery than my apartment.
No, it's not that bad, and has less Chewbacca
That is to say, my apartment in Rome, New York is filled with all manner of geeky artifacts and memorabilia. Some of it has been collected over the years, and some items were spontaneous purchases that I couldn’t pass up. I’ve got a lot of the items on display just for the sheer geeky thrill of it. I love every scrap of nerdy crap and I thought it would be funny to share The 6 Geekiest Things I Own with everybody.
And yes, I don’t get many female visitors to my apartment. The place could probably use a woman’s touch.
A Star Wars Change We Can All Agree On: More Porkins!
I found this hilarious Star Wars video online today (thank you, Topless Robot) and I wanted to share. Everybody’s been grousing about the changes they keep making to Star Wars (damn you Hayden Christiansen ghost!), but I think here are some changes we can all agree to. The video is made by comedy team Hey Killer.
Darth Vader’s “NOOOOOO!” is the New Wilhelm Scream!
Just a funny bit of Internety discovered by Alyssa wherein the new and very stupid “NOOOOOO!” scream from Darth Vader is not only inserted into the end of Return of the Jedi, but into other movies as well. I need to learn how to make these sorts of videos so that I can create some original comedy for put on this site. Anybody know how it’s done?
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