Star Wars Stuff

Since looking at the article about how schools used to have Star Wars worksheets and comic books to help the kids learn it hurts me to see that the kids of today don’t all share one common interest and that the school can’t use something like Star Wars

For all who understand compact living!

Audio Adventures in Time and Space! Or… at least space.

Photos of costumes, props and models from Star Wars and other Lucasfilm projects.

I really want to go to Celebration V in 2010, but I’ve got some questions that I need cleared up before I start begging my parents to let me go. It would be great if you could help me out.

It’s literally been months since I have blogged here. I have returned to college…20+ years later… and it has been a challenge. When I was in college, ROTJ was still at the theatre (the first run). Wow.

Black velvet paintings usually depict bullfighters in action, sad clowns and of course the one and only Elvis. But this is the first time we’ve ever seen a black velvet portrait of a baby dressed as Princess Leia.

This one-of-a-kind custom painting was done by artist Zenon Jimenez for Indignico Inc.

Check out this velvet painting and others here:
Indignico Velvet Paintings (via Flickr)

What makes adorable critters even cuter? When you give them lightsabers to take their battles to the next level, that’s what!

See kittens, prairie dogs, puppies, bats, squirrels, and more on the blog Animals With Lightsabers!

A loathsome slug of a gangster, Jabba the Hutt was the preeminent kingpin of crime in the Outer Rim Territories. But did you also know he’s a hermaphrodite?

In Star Wars, fictional alien race The Hutts are a hermaphrodite species. The most famous of the Hutts, is of course, Jabba who captures and enslaves Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi.

Read the full article here:
Top 10 hermaphrodite facts and famous hermaphrodites
(via The Mirror)

If you couldn’t make it to Dragon*Con this year, you can at least see some of the many costumed attendees in the best way possible — as they dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

WATCH VIDEO: Star Wars Thriller DragonCon 2009

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SOURCE: Thanks @jenthefangirl