Just wanted to take a second and sound the trumpets for the many men and women of the 501st, and and their amazing costumes and pageantry during the Star Wars Weekends and of course Celebration IV.

I've got to also take a very selfish moment and post pix of our own MandoSniper (aka Ram Zerimar), who gave a tour de force performance at the costume contest. Why "selfish"? Well, Ray asked me to write a Mandalorian poem to inscribe on his armor, and I was incredibly honored to do so. So now every time Ray shows up somewhere in his armor, I will squee a little squee of joy at how cool his armor and weaponry are and have a little vicarious Mando pride. Oya manda, ner vod!

Check out the pix here and here.