Ok, clearly my kids I need to get a bit more creative with my Lego-play, because I never would have conjured up anything close to this level of wonderawesomeness:(image via Sad Old Biker on Flickr; found on the awesome Distracted by Star Wars)
Of course, there are eighteen dozen movies coming out this summer, and some [...]

Yeah I know this is very old, but Tom Hagen and Sonny Corleone and I recently finished up both Empire and Jedi, so this seemed relevant again.

The boys were quite amused.

Absolutely go visit the Dads in Media Blog-a-thon going on throughout the weekend over at RC’s terrific Strange Culture site. Plenty of fatherly advice, classic cinematic dad remembrances and more to be found there!
It’s impossible to separate the practice of fatherhood from the frequent and consistent dispensing of advice. Every day I make a [...]

This recent article on the Vanity Fair website about the creation of the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Xbox and PlayStation game has a lot of ground to cover, and makes as its primary focus the game’s revolutionary special effects and lifelike physics. But buried deep in the middle of the piece (scroll down [...]

I’m hopelessly conflicted over the self-sustaining nature of the Chad Vader phenomenon.
On one hand, each new installment, blog, vlog, YouTube video and other Web-flotsam related to Chad Vader is fresh and new and bizarre and just brings me such a smile, such a bright spot to my otherwise gray and mundane corporate existence. They [...]

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the original film, today begins the Star Wars Blog-A-Thon hosted over at the great Edward Copeland On Film blog. Head over there all weekend for what will no doubt be a galaxy-sized treasure trove of rants, reviews, reveries and other spectacular writings on all things Force-related.
You may recall [...]