Welcome to my little blog full of all of my little thoughts. I somewhat swore to myself that I would never write one of these insipid and self-serving journals, but with the addition of Star Wars and a community that in SOME part shares the same experiences, I think it's time I weighed in.

Contents:
1. Psychology of the fan: Early Explorations
2. Peek into the future of the blog
3. Contact Info


1. Psychology of the Fan: Early Explorations

Last night I was trying to set up my blog, in the course of which I started searching for any other names the early Jedi had gone by, when they were still an order primarily of philosophers. I kept running into primarily political sites or review sites. This link will send you to an article that is both, from "Suburban Chicago Newspapers"

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/entertainment/movies/e19brewwars.htm

I'm going to set the political issues aside for the moment, other than to offer you the reader this tidbit of my personality: I am thoroughly disillusioned with modern politics and politicians. I adhere to neither of the American parties and I'm not all that fond of what parties I know from other nations (or for that matter, American third parties). I DO have a political allignment, which can only be defined as idealist and stupid.

Right now my focus is on fandom. I truly, deeply enjoyed Episode III and with the exception of a couple nit-picky problems, there wasn't anything wrong with it. Allow me to clarify. Episodes I and II had systematic errors running throughout the films. Episode III had no such problems, just a couple rough spots that failed to ruin a film that exceeded my admittedly cynical expectations.

I knew, bedrock knew, that some (or most) critics would come out bashing the film, as they always have. In the past 6 years I have capitulated to them, despite the fact that it hurt (yes, I'm enough of a fan that people bashing Star Wars DOES hurt my little feelings) but now that we have a product which succeeds, it's even worse. So one would think "well since it hurts he will stop searching out these reviews." Not so, noble reader. I kept seeking them out, reading them obsessively. I don't think I'm the only one who does this either.

The REASON behind this continues to elude me. Is it some self-loathing desire? Is it some attempt to escape the fandom that has, in fact, helped me keep myself seperate from others? I don't have an answer yet, this is yet another of the mysteries of fan psychology I have to unravel.

2. Peek into the future of the blog

Well, I think my next entry shall probably kick off a series of what I really hope to do with this blog. Unfortunately, I'm in an apartment near my College/University and the majority of my books are at home, so my ruminations will be pretty much limited to what I have on the shelves until I can go home. I'll examine some of the best novels from the Expanded Universe, or rather those heavy in philosophy, be that good or bad. In this way I can provide both philosophical discussion and also pure reviews of what's good and not so good in the explorations of the Galaxy Far, Far Away.

3. Contact Info

You are welcome to contact me at
e-mail: knnos@comcast.net
AIM: Cmndr KnnOs
ICQ: (I'm on rarely) 2912165

IF I think you provide an interesting analysis or insightful commentary on whatever article you speak about, I'll post it here (with full credit to you of course, I'm not the Wachowski's)

Thanks for reading!