"At the risk of losing ALL cool points, tonight's (Sunday, October 17) episode of the ABC drama "Brothers and Sisters" had a SW reference in the last fifteen minutes of the show. When the character Justin finds his mother making a large batch of peanut butter cookies, he asks why she is "making enough peanut butter cookies to feed the Grand Army of the Republic."'
Continuing with pop culture references, Chuck continued to add to its ever-growing list of nods to Star Wars in last Monday's episode titled, "Chuck Versus the Couch Lock". At about 25:00 minutes into the episode, Chuck's friend Morgan uses a Stormtrooper helmet to hide a temporarily paralyzed Colonel Casey.
It should also be noted that the new Hawaii Five-0 series on ABC has had a couple of Star Wars references within episodes 3 and 4; one referring to a lawyer as Darth Vader and the other referencing the Jedi Mind Trick.
Star Wars makes it's way into the American League playoffs as the Texas Rangers (Rebel Alliance) are compared with the New York Yankees (The Empire) at Star-Telegram.com.
Our good friend Justin LaSalata spotted the Star Wars / USA-loving truck above and was nice enough to send over a picture. Click on the image for the full view. (Thanks Justin!)
R2-D2 and Vader swimsuits! Fashion designer Mr. Lillis is some sort of genius! (via 9News)
I thought you'd be interested in the resume that I sent to Lucasfilm along with my REAL resume and cover letter. Unfortunately I never heard back from them, but hey, what are you gonna do? I blurred out sensitive information because I know there are people out there that can translate this, and yes, it is fully translatable.
I based the text and layout off of the OT movies and Dark Forces games. I really liked how they had a glowing red, white, and blue on black motif rather than the yellow on brown that the Clone Wars has. The datapad was loosely based on the KOTOR datapads, NOT the prequel ones (which I think look like silver Nokia N-Gages).
An article at MSNBC.com discusses binary systems in response to the discovery of a new Jupiter-sized exoplanet dubbed, "Inrakluk."
Our new friend HappyToast spreads the word on some of his Halloween themed Star Wars creations...
I'm celebrating Halloween with a dozen Star Wars themed images. I'll be uploading one a day for the next 10 days with print res card layouts available for free download, printing, sharing, whatever.
Star Wars lands at #7 on Zagat's surveyed list of the top 20 films based on "overall quality" and also shows up in a couple other categories. (Thanks Dustin!)
ForceCast listener Abraham from Texas sent over the following...
"There is an Apple event going on now (Back to the Mac) and during the iMovie presentation, there was a kid incorrectly quoting Darth Vader (Luke, I am your father!) to demonstrate new audio effects a la the I Am Vader app."
You can check out coverage of that event at TheAppleBlog.com. (Thanks Abraham!)
Collider.com displays a number of fun alternative movie posters and Star Wars is highly represented. We've seen a few of these before, but I do believe there are some creative new ones.
As per usual, here are some links to the Official Starwarsw.com Blog where you can always find good Star Wars is Everywhere fun!
Rebelscum Breast Cancer Awareness Charity Patch Posted By Philip on November 25, 2014: Thanks to everybody that ordered patches. I sent a check for $1,600.00 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation on Monday. While it's not as much as I hoped for, it's still very much appreciated. They will remain for sale in the store for anybody that still wishes to purchase them. Details after the jump.