Stan Winston (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008)

I just can't really picture HIM not coming back to life as a gruesome Zombie.



Yet another sad sad loss.

Celebrating a Holiday Train-Wreck

This year marks the twenty ninth anniversary of George Lucas' epic disaster THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL.

It was broadcast in its entirety in the United States only once on Friday, November 17, 1978 on CBS-TV from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Though Lucas claims not to have been involved, and not pleased with the end result. He was later responsible for Jar Jar, The Ewoks, and 2 Ewok Movies. You be the Judge.

The film is sprinkled with Cameos, including (Embarassingly enough) most of the leads from the original feature.

Mark Hamill- Luke Skywalker
Harrison Ford- Han Solo
Carrie Fishe-r Princess Leia Organa
Anthony Daniels- C-3PO
Kenny Baker- R2-D2
Peter Mayhew- Chewbacca
James Earl Jones- Darth Vader (voice)
Bea Arthur - Ackmena
Art Carney -Trader Saun Dann
Diahann Carroll - Mermeia Holographic Wow
Jefferson Starship
Harvey Korman- Krelman/Chef Gormaanda/Amorphian instructor

Art Carney and Harvey Korman are the only two that seem to understand what a fucked-up piece of bantha shit this whole thing is, and their odd little comedy bits make it almost watchable. Almost. I'm not sure what happened with casting on this, but the Imeprial guards sportin' the stache and the oddly gesticulating Imperial officers make me think no one involved had ever seen Satr Wars. Bea Aruthr's Cantina song and dance routine is one of TV's biggest WTF moments, though Greedo proves to be no Gene Kelly. I had to pause it just to keep the bile down my throat. Incredibly, Carrie Fisher's song at the end makes the whole mess SO worthwhile, but only if you've suffered the entirety of the nearly 2 hr horror. Also of note, is the super seventies animated short that introduces Boba Fett to the world, conveniently located between hr 1 and hr 2.

Enjoy.

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The Star Wars Holiday Fiasco does not end with the TV horrors. A mostly unbearable Holiday album entitled CHRISTMAS IN THE STARS also made it onto store shelves.

With hits like :

THE ODDS AGAINST CHRISTMAS
WHAT DO YOU GET A WOOKIE FOR CHRISTMAS? (IF HE ALREADY OWNS A COMB)
**Available on LP
BELLS BELLS BELLS

You can sample an audio taste of the acoustically unnerving hell HERE

Happy Life day to all!

Let the nerdery begin!

Tomorrow morning I leave for San Diego ComicCon. The biggest gathering of dorks in this side of the Federation of Planets, and Above Middle Earth. As always I will be bringing along my camera to highlight the more horrific moments.

Please, oh please check back in on Monday.

The War In Iraq/The Battle for Minastirith

Wonkette has made some interesting comparisons between LOTR and the most recent developments in Iraq


There are massive desert battlegrounds covered in bodies.

The dead are mostly part of an evil cult.

The cult is trying to get the 12th wizard, Al Mahdi, to come back.

He became the Magical 12th Imam when he was 5 years old.

He vanished down a well in Mordor Sammara in the 9th Century.

Only an occult combination of spells and chaos magick and horrible fear will bring back the wizard.

Ahmed Hassani al-Yemeni is the current “vanguard of the messiah,” or wizard.

His warrior cult is Sunni and Shia, united in common cause to bring about the End of Days.

Luckily, other Sunnis and Shia are still fighting the Sectarian War and are now bombing each other’s schools, to kill all the children.

Nearly 300 of the warrior cultists were slaughtered by the broadswords of the American warriors, yesterday.

A chief goal of the Soldiers of Heaven is to murder the “Shia Pope.”

Another main goal is to slaughter all the tens of thousands of religious pilgrims traveling to various holy sites, because more blood & horror = more chaos magic.

“There are no safe havens for Sunnis” anywhere in Iraq now, meaning that those Sunnis who don’t escape to Syria or Jordan will soon be murdered.

Bombing continues as usual in Baghdad, with a couple of hundred people killed in the past few days.

The “Shia Pope” is the Grand Ayatollah Sistani, otherwise known as Saruman the White, Chief of the Istari.

Oh, and the U.S. Army is now aggressively recruiting people who speak elvish.

Via Wonkette

Nerdery in the The House of Representatives

Rep. David Wu (D- Nerdville)