All dressed up and wearing pants... I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. Weather here is typically sunny, and warm. I grew up in places like North Dakota where the snow piles up to a wampa's bottom, so I never get cold in Vegas. As an archaeologist, I spend most of my time walking around the

Set sail for the swashbuckling adventure of 1982!! Okay, a few entries ago I posted about talk like a pirate day (mark your calendarrrs for next year ya bilge rats!). Well, the pirate speak carried over to the message board of Star Wars illustrator extraordinare Jan Duursema (check out Jan's message

Get Ready Browncoats, It's Firefly Friday For all of us who like sci-fi across the board, even if it isn't lucky enough to start with "Star" and end in "Wars"

Scans from the sketchbook You've seen the commercial right? The one where the guy pitches the art institute where you copy the picture of the turtle wearing the hat, or the picture of the sailboat into the empty box on the mail away brochure. Well, I've always been able to look

Star Tours (Plus Some of that Other Stuff in Anaheim) Why read about the expanded universe when you can walk right into it? One of the reasons the posts have been slow or missing is my wife and I took a trip to Disneyland for

Arrr! It be "Talk Like a Pirate Day" Ay, to be honoring today as Talk Like a Pirate Day, I wish to parlay this here chanty tune to be sung in and around ye office this afternoon.... yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!! And what be Quinlan Vos' ties to Talk Like a Pirate Day you ask laddy?

Star Wars Survey 20 fun questions for all Star Wars fans -- Copy and paste them into your own blog and fill them out yourself!

Brock Peters Passes (1927-2005) Brock Peters may be best remembered for his heartbreaking performance in "To Kill a Mockingbird," but his distinctive bass voice also played a vital role in his career. Peters voiced the role of Darth Vader in the NPR radio adaptation of the original

Last man standing, or screens showing Attention fellow Vegas residents! As of this weekend, Revenge of the Sith is down to just two locations - Sam's Town and the Orleans.

Did Elvis See Star Wars? A lot happened in 1977. Jimmy Carter became the 39th President of the United States. The New York City Blackout lasted for 25 straight hours in July of that year. NASA launched the Voyager missions. A little movie called Star Wars premiered.