One More First Time

One More First Time

STAR WARS is not about the movies themselves. Hasn’t been, for a long while. We will go on and on about the other movies in the series. “Franchise.” Whatever. In my mind, the thing that makes the films so special is almost irrelevant to the actual...
The Vinegar Of 21st Century Fandom

The Vinegar Of 21st Century Fandom

Finally got caught up on last week’s STAR TREK: DISCOVERY episode, while recovering from whatever errant rhinovirus I brought back from Gallifrey One. Over the last couple of years, I have been repeating a mantra: “All art is subjective.” I was saying it A LOT during...
Rebel, Rebel

Rebel, Rebel

The most ridiculous thing about the way I found out about David Bowie’s death was the first notice, where a notorious death hoax site published a note saying not that he had passed, but that it was a hoax that he had died. Instead, we learned within the hour that the...
The Day I Made Harrison Ford Laugh

The Day I Made Harrison Ford Laugh

My last regular writing gig was for a site I co-founded called Red Carpet Crash, in 2009. In the three years I wrote for the site as its editor, I did hundreds of interviews, but the one I enjoyed the most was in the environment I liked the least: the roundtable...
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