tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54377866651651475912011-08-14T19:05:38.651-07:00The Force is strong with this site.Gorillamydreamzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004614151140587409noreply@blogger.comBlogger791100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5437786665165147591.post-57827223980356429962011-06-04T19:07:00.000-07:002011-06-04T20:07:52.373-07:00

Welcome to the rebellion. Sometimes you've just gotta let go of fear and all those excuses and just do it.NASA's Mars Rover Spirit made it all the way to the red planet to search for signs of life and showed remarkable signs of life itself. Spirit and its twin, Opportunity, were only expected to last 90 days and cover oh, a few hundred yards. Instead, Rover covered almost five miles and even

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Divert more power to the pattern buffer, Mr. Scott. Welcome to the rebellion. This year has been a filled with much creative turmoil. I haven’t been satisfied with the status quo and have been trying to make things happen by exploring new directions and long-ignored dreams and ideas. The result? Predictably it's been chaos. I’ve spent of the year feeling scattered as I lurched from project to

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Welcome to the Rebellion.The evil Sith have used their dark powers to bring this rebel down with Vertigo so my blogging has been stopped dead in it's dizzy tracks. But with Fan Expo Sci-fi/Horror/comic Book/Gaming and Anime Convention is coming to Toronto this weekend I must offer something.So here are few sci-fi themed, music videos for your enjoymentFirst up, James Marsters (Spike from Buffy

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Welcome to the rebellion.Former proto-punk queen turned occasional film star, sci-fi geek, dominatrix pin-up, MTV Surreal Life participant and eternal pop rocker has been kidnapped by aliens. We'll find out what happens soon when the first issue of "Jane Wieldin's Lady Robotika" comes out from Image Comics. We here at rebel base are big fans of Jane so we can promise you this...Those rebel

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Welcome to the rebellion.This weekend I will be appearing as the Animation Guest of Honour at Ad-Astra.Not only is it my first time as a Guest, but it's also my first official sci-fi convention... ever!! (Not counting Fan Expo, which I have attended for the comics side). I hope you are all gentle with me and my non-sci-fi wife!In addition to guesting on several panels and helping to judge

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Welcome to the rebellion. The Winter World Oly*p*cs have taken our little Canadian corner of the universe by storm. I’ve been trying to post about the dang opening ceremonies but Darth Vader’s Imperial Oly*p*c Commitee has such a lockdown on their brand even Google limits your searches for images. A lot of brave, digitally animated rebels gave their lives for this inside look at the opening

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Welcome to the rebellion.  For your weekend viewing pleasure we have hacked into Imperial databases and retrieved this weekend's Yellow Channel, Pay-Per-Holo movie schedule. Enjoy. YELLOW CHANNEL: Vader Classics Friday 5:00pm    Bridge On the Comet Kwai (drama, 2 hrs) 7:00 pm   The Droid Who Knew Too Much (thriller, 2 hrs) 9:00pm    Anakin Presley Double Feature:                          

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"Where am I?" "In the Village." "What do you want?" "Information." "Whose side are you on?" "That would be telling." "We want information... Information... Information..." "You won't get it." "By hook or by crook, we will." "Who are you?" "The new number Two." "Who is Number One?" "You are Number Six."

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Welcome to the rebellion.According to the Huffington Post and NASA’s website (by way of Jonathan Llyr at hardcorenerdity.com) the space agency’s LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) project designed to confirm or disprove the presence of water reaches it final stage today. The shepherding spacecraft is now in an elongated orbit, positioned to separate with an Atlas V’S Centaur

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Welcome to the rebellion.I have been remiss in my posting and have much catching up to do. Joe O'Brien over at my one-stop shop for sci-fi news and discussion, hardcorenerdity.com, reported weeks ago that construction on the giant Gundam robot in Odaiba that led to my Gundam World post, is now complete. And apparently it's open for weddings, bar mitzvahs, proms and graduation ceremonies.The

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Welcome to the rebellion.Zombie flicks are so passe. Especially since our poor little Milky Way is due for a deadly cannibal galaxy attack!!!!!!According to the Calgary Herald, the Andromeda galaxy has developed a taste for the galactic flesh of its fellow star systems!! Researchers at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) have discovered:"...the "semi-digested remains of dwarf galaxies" and

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Welcome to the rebellion.First they shared a batch of clone DNA. Then they shared combat duty against rebel assaults across the universe. But when the blaster fuel cells are depleted and the battle is over, they share camaraderie over pints of blue milk.END TRANSMISSIONThanks to Jonathan Llyr at Hardcorenerdity for the heads up on this.

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Welcome to the rebellion.Thanks to rebel leader Simon Evans at HardcoreNerdity.com, we have finally completed our menu for the Rebel BBQ at our base on Yavin 4 this weekend.We'll round it out with the Empire's new Darth Chop!The comments on the post are even more hilarious than the picture if you can believe it. Jonathan Lyre scores my two favourites with "I'm afraid I'm altering the meal. Pray I

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"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." - President John F. Kennedy in a speech before a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961."It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably

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Welcome to the rebellion.When the work piles up, deadlines loom and second act woes howl at the door, I long for those long-promised future days where we all fly to work in saucers, learn from glowing boxes and eat out of squeeze tubes and pills (okay we're already in some of that future).But what I really need is my robotic screenwriter.I'm not talking about plot software. I'm talking about "

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Welcome to the rebellion.In keeping with the last post about a giant colony spanning the globe, we suggest taking a little time to enjoy one of the greatest, short, action stories ever written, Leiningen versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson.Just under 9000 words of pure adrenaline first published in the December, 1938 issue of Esquire magazine.Most of Stephenson's books were non-fiction works on

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Welcome to the rebellion.Thanks to our friends at the newly revamped Hardcore Nerdity, we've learned that the BBC has at last confirmed what paranoid sci-fi fans the world over have suspected for years.Giant Ants colonies are taking over the Earth!According to the BBC online a single mega-colony has inhabited much of the world and mankind is responsible.Argentine ants living in vast numbers

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Welcome to the rebellion.It's a Gundam world. Or at least, we're heading in that direction.Thanks to rebel general Joe O'Brien's Hardcore Nerdity blog, we've received a tip that a new force is entering the fray for control of the galaxy.After years of testing through intense animated adventures, Japan is at last ready to build their first, 18-metre tall, Mobile Suit Gundam to "guard" Odaiba's

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Welcome to the rebellion.A long, long time ago, in a galaxy yada yada... Darryl Gold, the mad mind behind the unique filmmaking challenge that is Darryl's Hard Liquor and Porn Film Festival (A short film comedy festival that challenges filmmakers the world over to make funny films on sex) and related event, The 69-Hour Challenge, made a fun little Star Wars fan film years ago called "Death Star

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Welcome to the rebellion.Our beloved rebel general seems to be distracted from her strategic planning lately. We hope she gets it together before the Death Star gets within firing range.This smuggled Sunday Comic from the Imperial News may shed some light on the issue. Enjoy this week's Leia.With thanks and apologies to Cathy creator, Cathy Guisewite.For more Imperial News, click here.Enjoy more

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Welcome to the rebellion.Finally... the ultra-stars you love. The colossal talents you've been dying to see share the big screen. But can it ever be big enough for... ...Deborah Gibson and Lorenzo Lamas? Feast your eyes on the wonder that is Asylum Film's MEGA SHARK VS. GIANT OCTOPUS!! Who are you rooting for? Take the poll at EW.com!I love this crazy world. Deborah

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Welcome to the rebellion.You can't trust bounty hunter scum. Especially ones on the Empire's payroll.  That's why we can't help giggling at the latest Star Wars Sunday Comic from the Imperial News: Dengar the Horrible.Silly Dengar hates going to fancy stuff with his wife... Hee hee. With thanks and apologies to Hagar The Horrible creators, Dik and Chris Browne. For more Imperial News, click here.

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The Simpsons explain the universe once and for all.Welcome to the rebellion.Last time out we discussed the discovery that the universe, or at least parts of it, tastes like raspberries and smells of rum. We then touched on a seemingly innocent Simpsons episode in which Homer posited to Stephen Hawking that the universe was a vast donut, intriguing the animated cosmologist enough to contemplate

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Welcome to the rebellion.To all you space-faring, would-be conquerors out there, it’s finally official; the way to the universe’s heart may through its stomach.While I’ve been in orbit on the event horizon of the collapsed black hole my hard drive has become, attempting to coax my lost files from the ether, galactic foodies everywhere were treated to the news that portions of our beloved Milky

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Welcome to the rebellion.Our trusted wookiee spy arrived with sensitive information stolen from the Emperor's private computer console, the Imperial News latest Sunday Comic: Chewie and Han.  Our big, hairy pal also brought several limbs covered in blood and broken pieces of stormtrooper armor and truthfully, we were afraid to ask about them.  With thanks and apologies to the amazing creator of

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Welcome to the rebellion.As rebels fight off the angst of our uphill battle to free the universe from tyranny, our inner and outer battles are captured perfectly by this week's smuggled Sunday Comic from the Imperial News: Jedi Brown.With thanks and apologies to the master, Charles "Sparky" Schulz, creator of the immortal Peanuts. For more Star Wars comics, check out the Imperial News.  And while

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Welcome to the rebellion.Rebel commander Pincro Mator here (A fantastic Star Wars name if ever I heard one thanks to the handy Jedi name generator at blueharvest.net).A surprise assault by devious, imperial forces (in the form of a sudden hard drive crash) have shut down this base's computer systems. A replacement system has been purchased from the Hutt and is being smuggled here under the noses

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Welcome to the rebellion.The Chandra X-Ray Observatory is making a few waves around the globe right now with one of its latest, spectacular, deep-space pictures.Launched by the Space Shuttle Columbia July 23, 1999, Chandra is one of the most incredible pieces of astronomy equipment ever constructed (and the largest payload ever delivered by the Space Shuttle). With Earth's atmosphere absorbing

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Welcome to the rebellion.Working in television affords me many moments of having my various entertainment interests cross-over.I was at a meeting last week in the production offices of Heroic Film's coming YTV sitcom, How To Be Indie, starring Degrassi's Melinda Shankar in the title role. The show looks really funny and well-paced. It's quite beautifully shot and the sets are terrific. As we

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Welcome to the rebellion.As the Death Star moves like a slow juggernaut into firing range of our rebel base, take a moment to laugh at the lighter side of interstellar war with the latest smuggled Sunday Comic from the Imperial News: Dengar the Horrible.With thanks and apologies to Hagar The Horrible creators, Dik and Chris Browne. For more Imperial News comics click here. For Chris Browne's

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Welcome to the rebellion.Our last two stops took us from the Australian Phoenix 5 series, which battled mightily against its down-under budget, to Germany's mighty entertaining Raumpatrouille, whose budget was so big it only lasted seven episodes.This time out we find ourselves somewhere in low orbit between Germany and Great Britain as we enjoy a bizarre co-production between these two countries

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Welcome to the rebellion.Though our first stop on our Sci-Fi World Tour, Australia's Phoenix 5, has yet to be collected on DVD, you can check a small review of it here at Black Hole DVD Reviews. They also have a review of the long-awaited DVD release of a show created in the next stop of our tour, Germany! Raumpatrouille (Space Patrol), the fantastic adventures of the Spaceship Orion is a show

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Welcome to the rebellion.An Imperial informant has brought Micheal Pinto's Fanboy.com to our attention. This spy droid is proving to be a reliable, if extremely opinionated, source for dang funny and fascinating intel from the world of sci-fi and animation going back back decades. He writes well too and I suspect, can fluently make funny, snarky comments in over six million intergalactic

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Welcome to the rebellion.Before we return to our regularly scheduled genre programming, here is a follow-post on creative copyright issues from my writing blog, starkravingadventure.com. This time it's the writers who should beware!Leave it to Google to fight a War on several fronts.As my last post on the U.S. Orphan Works Bill discussed, Google is one of the many companies eager to leap over

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Welcome to the rebellion.We rebels must be ever watchful of the Empire's quest for dominance over the universe. This is a mirror post from my television writing blog, starkravingadventure.com.The Writers Guild of Canada presented before the CRTC Board on New Media this week. They articulated their points in as clear a manner as we've seen so far (other presenters should take notes). And they were

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Welcome to the rebellion.We've talked about cosplay before in posts like this one. Cosplay is often the thing most pointed to by outsiders as an excuse to diss the fan experience in general. Trekkers are always pictured in their Spock ears, Star Fleet tights or Klingon uniforms. Star Wars fans are all pictured carrying lightsabers, hair styled in Leia buns or breathing heavily out of Vader

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Welcome to the rebellion.We wish it weren't so, but Darth Vader, despite six movies in which to build on his early badass promise, has failed to live up to his evil potential.Whole lot of choking going on.In the first post on this topic, we discussed Darth Vader's initial, awe-inspiring appearance in Star Wars and his subsequent development from brutal, galactic overlord to a truly memorable and

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Welcome to the rebellion. I went absolutely bonkers for this cartoon as a kid, when it aired as part of the infamous Star Wars Christmas Special. The first screen appearance of Boba Fett was easily the best part of the show.The animated short was like nothing I'd ever seen. The designs are part ILM/part fairground caricature artist/70's underground comix and it was our first ever look at badass

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Welcome to the rebellion.Our rebel entertainment spies have the straight scoop on upcoming Holo Transmissions from the Imperial Networks.It gets pretty cold out in space. Makes a Hutt want to curl up with his favourite, dancing, slave girl by a roaring, nuclear furnace and chillax a while. If you want to get your fetching, fettered thrall into the mood why not skip the will-dominating cocktails

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Welcome to the rebellion. Over at Kung Fu Monkey, writers Mark Waid and John Rogers agree: Young Sherlock Holmes is worth a second look. They are so right. This Spielberg-produced, much overlooked film is a lovely gem and even has a clever sequence utilizing early computer effects more seamlessly than many of today's bloated CGI monstrosities. Taking advantage of the flatness of early computer

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Welcome to the rebellion.With a New Year comes New Hope for the coming light year. Despite all the darkness that resides in the world, we can go forth with a real desire for change, large and small. You can give yourself a positive, low-stress jump start on that by following this advice:For the next month avoid embracing the Dark Side. When you are confronted with a choice, any choice, that may

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Welcome to the rebellion.As the Empire negotiates a controversial bailout of the Commerce Guild and the very shady Intergalactic Banking clan, we all tighten our belts and settle in for a sombre holiday season. I say, let go of that negativity, you gloomy Gus, and do what we’re all meant to do on the holidays; blindly cling to the hope that the better nature of all sentient beings will lead us

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Welcome to the rebellion. Geek Quote of the Week! From The Big Bang Theory, Season Two, Episode 25. Sheldon isn't pleased to find Leonard watching the animated Clone Wars TV series." I want to watch the Clone Wars movie before I see the Clone Wars series. I prefer to be disappointed in the order George Lucas intended." Booyah! In one, pithy line a generation of discontent is encapsulated!

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Welcome to the rebellion.I think it’s safe to say from my first experience with the Canadian Gemini Awards, (our equivalent of the Emmy Awards) that the true north strong and free has it all over our southern neighbours and their Emmys. I can say that with some confidence because my wife was nominated for a News and Documentary Craft Emmy this year and I was nominated for a writing Gemini. This

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Welcome to the rebellion.The clock is ticking quickly down to the start of another NaNoMo and for once I've remembered it before it began. NaNoMo isn't baby talk for no more milk, it's National Novel Writing Month. Though truly, it has grown into an international event. You can learn more about the event at its website here. The gist of it is this... Thousands of people across the globe gather

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Welcome to the rebellion. Here is the latest Sunday Comic from the Imperial News: Leia. With thanks and apologies to Cathy creator, Cathy Guisewite. She put her finger on that Sex And The City pulse (minus the sex) long before Candace Bushnell's original book came out.It's funny to think of such a powerful woman as Leia concerned with the minutia of Cathy's day to day travails. The mix really

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Welcome to the rebellion. Here is the latest Sunday Comic from the Imperial News: Chewie and Han.With thanks and apologies to Calvin And Hobbes creator, Bill Watterson, who is a complete comic God. So far I have only come up with one or two potential gags that seem to fit his precise comedic style. The first three Calvin and Hobbes pastiches I have done are his gags.This star Wars comic thing

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Welcome to the rebellion. As the countdown ticks down to moving out of my apartment and then shuttling my fantastic wife up from Coruscant System to join me for actual in-person, cohabitational, long overdue, matrimonial bliss at last, I find myself failing to transmit at regular intervals a second consecutive week.Take heart, though postings over the next few weeks will be more sporadic, I am

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Welcome to the rebellion. The Toronto Fan Expo Sci-Fi /Horror/Anime/Gaming and Comicon started yesterday. Here are few things that stood out to me:10. The 501st Canadian Legion. The Canadian garrison of the self-proclaimed "world's premier Imperial Star Wars costuming fan club", made their presence felt with a table right outside the entrance to the hall. You may or may not know that the 501st

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Welcome to the rebellion. I tend to do the Imperial News' Star Wars Sunday Comics in batches. That way I can immerse myself in a specific creator's approach and get a few comics written and drawn while I'm in the right head space. So for the next few Sundays we'll be seeing some familiar faces. Enjoy.With thanks and apologies to Dennis The Menace creator, Hank Ketcham. For more Imperial News

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Welcome to the rebellion. Darryl Gold, the peerless creator of Death Star Repairmen, the film and website that inspired all this Imperial News and Rebel Alert madness, is working on yet another edition of Darryl's Hard Liquor and Porn Film Festival.While that horrified-yet-slightly-intrigued look crosses your face, I should tell you it's a comedy film festival with a theme of sex and porn. You

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Welcome to the rebellion. Word has reached our deep-space listening posts that Lord Darth Vader has summoned mercenaries from across the galaxy to help him capture Han Solo, thereby luring Luke Skywalker into a deadly confrontation. Six of the fiercest bounty hunters were assembled: Dengar, 4-LOM, Zuckass, Bossk, IG-88, and the legendary Boba Fett. But before the stalking and corralling

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Welcome to the rebellion. For your weekend viewing pleasure we have hacked into Imperial databases and retrieved this weekend's Pay-Per-Holo movie schedule. Enjoy.RED CHANNEL: Home Box HoloFriday 5:00pm Wag The Dianoga 7:00pm Pretty Wookie8:30pm Team Empire: Space Police 10:00pm Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sithhood Saturday 12:00am The Neverending Sequels1:30am Rancor

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Welcome to the rebellion. We've officially reached Hothgust, our second month of transmitting this rebel signal. There is little evidence our voice is being heard but we trust in the Force to get the word out.Since we struggle to finance the resistance any way we can, we've pooled our resources to buy up Imperial Lottery tickets. Today's Imperial Lotto Number is:

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Welcome to the rebellion. The slave boy from the dome next door was in my Funnel Flower bushes again. I laid in wait with our hose to give him a good dunking but he squeezed the hose to keep it from splashing him until I foolishly looked in the end to see if something was blocking it. Then he let go and splash! I was one soaked Moisture Farmer.Sigh. How does that brat keep getting away with

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Welcome to the rebellion. Caught an article in last weekend's National Post on a Star Wars, Mandalorian-themed wedding ceremony held outside the this year's San Diego Comic Con.So often people view fan-themed events with this image of overgrown children with no social skills refusing to be responsible adults and dressing up in crazy costumes. People like to dismiss the fannish enthusiasm as

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Welcome to the rebellion. Itis aperiod of culinary inertia. Rebelchefs, cooking ata Coco Town restaurant,have won their first victoryover oppressive Imperial food critics.During anEmpire dinnerrush in which thefull hunger of ImperialForces was unleashed on thebrave rebels, Jedi souse chefs smuggledin banned spices and use the Force (and wicked-sharplightsaber, ginsu knives) to create sumptuous

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Welcome to the rebellion. We have intercepted this week's Imperial News' Sunday Comic; Fett Trot. Enjoy.With thanks and apologies to Foxtrot creator, Bill Amend. For more Imperial News comics click here.END TRANSMISSION

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Welcome to the rebellion. And now a word from our rebel sponsor..."THE POWER WITHOUT"EMPEROR TONY PALPATINE’S7-STEPS TO PERSONAL,ALL CONSUMING POWER!Now there is "A New Hope" for all those who thought the Force had passed them by. Experience THE POWER WITHOUT; a powerful, 7-day program, in which best-selling intergalactic author and dictator, Emperor Tony Palpatine provides you with the cutting

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Welcome to the rebellion. In yet another post inspired by Spike TV's recent airing of all six Star Wars films for the summer, I have been thinking about the music of the original movie.Let's take a moment to remember John Williams and his unforgettable score to the original Star Wars film, A New Hope. The incredible impact of the movie on the public consciousness owed much to his now-classic

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Welcome to the rebellion. We have intercepted the debut of the Imperial News' latest Sunday comic, the Amazing Spider-Wookiee. Enjoy.With thanks and apologies to Stan Lee, Steve Ditko and the current keepers of the Spider-Man comic strip flame, Larry Leiber, Alex Saviuk and Joe Sinnot. For more Imperial News comics click here.END TRANSMISSION

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Welcome to the rebellion.It's a night for musing by moonlight as random thoughts flow from my mind to my fingertips through my keyboard to you. I have no idea what I'm about to type but I'm in a thoughtful, meandering mood so precisely calculating where my gathering thoughts will take us is unlikely until we actually arrive where we're going.I'll have to rely on my internal navigation computer

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Welcome to the rebellion. After a desperate escape from a vindictive interrogation droid who loves his job way too much and a squad of overzealous stormtroopers, I have been on the hunt for a two-bedroom rebel base for my new wife and I. Hence the delayed updating this week as I met with various Hutt landlords. The Empire has made finding living accomodations our own personal Star Wars but we

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Welcome to the rebellion. Once again, we can blame Spike TV's endless Star Wars summer for my new insights into formerly unnoticed, dusty corners of the Star Wars universe. It's been a while since I've immersed myself so consistently in Lucas' on-screen universe.I'm afraid I've come to the conclusion that Darth Vader is not a creative thinker.It's too bad too. We all had high hopes for the

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Welcome to the rebellion. A plucky, laser-burned droid has supplied us with inside information on the Empire's cable, holo-movie schedule for this weekend. Enjoy.BLUE CHANNEL Your Propaganda and Indoctrination DestinationFriday5:00pm Lethal Wattoo 6:30pm Space Slickers II 8:00pm Lost In Translation Protocol & Droid’s Data Matrix 9:30pm Sex, Lies And Holograms 11:00pm Under

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Welcome to the rebellion. With Spike TV in the US becoming the 24 hour Star Wars channel lately, I've had the extended opportunity to have the revised, revamped and recycled trilogy prequel and the original three movies playing as I sat with my mucho delayed tax calculations. With the dialogue failing to hold my attention and the actors so awestruck by being in a Star Wars movie they fail to

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Welcome to the rebellion. We have intercepted advance notice of this week's space opera plot lines.(*Spoiler Alert!) ALL MY TROOPERS – Trooper 551 covers up Trooper 613’s murderous rampage but his laser burns are too accurate to have been left by a Tusken Raider. Sy Snootle’s severed hand forces him to leave the Cantina Band for good.AS THE DEATH STAR TURNS – Sasha is shocked to learn armaments

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Welcome to the rebellion. Are you ready to ROCK? Death Star Repairmen has been immortalized in rock and roll history! Rockabilly fan band Death Star Repairmen has released a CD of Star Wars inspired, rhythmic rock and roll to showcase their brief but storied history. According to bandleader Captain Zorikh, the self-proclaimed Time-Traveling Bard and Three Chord Monte..."The Death Star

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Welcome to the rebellion. The following book article was smuggled out of an Empire newspaper and cost the lives of eight valued rebels. We hope it helps you make wiser summer reading choices.SPACE CAPSULE REVIEWSAiwha Soup For The Soul by Depak Chewbacca - Another warm fuzzy, love yourself hug from the universe’s most centered creature. If all of us could go through life with the faith and love

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Welcome to the rebellion. They don't come any smoother thanGeneral Lando Calrissian, from the Star System of Suave. Feet on the dance floor. Head in the cloud city, baby. Work it, superstar!Mmm hmmm!END TRANSMISSION

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Welcome to the rebellion. This Rebel Alert post from Tatooine was just intercepted and decoded:Yo fellow rebels! We had another Death Star Survivor's reunion here on Mos Eisley Cantina and Wedge Antilles brought his DHD (Digital Holo-disc) of season one of the Skywalkers. Hilarious! Here are some of our favourite moments and quotes from the first season...“30, 800 degrees and cloudy? Who cares

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Welcome to the rebellion. This dispatch just in from the Imperial News Subspace channel:Reality Shows Rule Roost In Upcoming Fall Holo-SeasonDespite cries of foul play from rebel drama producers, reality shows continue to dominate the fall schedules of all the major networks. Troops, the grand-daddy of reality programs, continues to patrol the airwaves on SBS (the Solar Broadcasting Service)

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Welcome to the rebellion. Much of the feedback we received on the Death Star Repairmen website centered on a particular aspect of the original Imperial News: the comics. Obsessed with celebrating the mundane aspects of life in the Star Wars universe I was determined to parody today's comics as they might appear in a galaxy far, far away, complete with the philosophical underpinnings of both the

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“Hey Rob. I have an idea.” When I hear those words come from my friend Darryl Gold, he of the immensely inspiring and very funny Hard Liquor and Porn Film Festival, I always feel a tingling in my scalp.Am I implying that Darryl gives me a rash? I don’t think so, though I really should get that checked out so I can cross it off my irrational fears list. No… Darryl and I share a synergy around

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