Excellence in Journalism -- Lucas & Reeces Pieces Man oh man, the press is on a roll lately.

Internet Kills UFOs Like every otherwise powerless online pundit, I'm happiest when the Internet proves a point for me.

How Good or Bad were Movies This Year? So what do critics know? Well, actually, quite a bit.

Chicken Little: An Argument for the Bird Flu "Oooo SNAP! SomeONE got up on the wrong side of the bed. Why don't you tell us how you REALLY feel?" -- The Chicken Little school of comedy.

Not Going To A Theater Near You... ? I somehow doubt I'm gonna see 10 or more movies in the next few months, so I will likely cap off the year around 22 or so.

The Falcon's speculative voyage from Hoth to Bespin In surfing around the net, I found an old email that I sent to the Star Wars Roleplaying Game ListServer in 1998.

Regression: Real American Hero-Style If I had managed to do this all in one weekend, that'd be reason for concern. But I paced myself and went through 12 years of my childhood.

That Crazy Shmi Theory Wasn't So Crazy I'll let you in on a little secret about Darth Plagueis.

Weighing in on the Numbers Game This was originally posted in response to Ryan Kaufman's blog about the dangers of hard numbers and how they're interpreted within the framework of a mythological story....

Serenity Now! It's great... but too bad about the jungle gym.