Over at New Scientist, a fascinating article on a fascinating Tate Gallery, London, exhibition about the effect of pop culture–particularly Star Wars–on the late Saddam Hussein. At first, you chuckle. Then you hear some of the parallels–and you may still chuckle. Saddam had an unpublished fantasy novel (which I’m dying to read now! Can you [...]
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Saddam as Darth Vader: New Scientist and Tate Gallery Ponder Connections 3 comments
Bringing Star Wars to the Research Station: Part I Leave a comment
Part I: A New Thought “And now you will witness the full power of this station….” General Tarkington, Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope As a science fiction writer embedded now as a science writer at a northern research station, [...]
Star Wars Barbershop: Moosebutter and Corey Vidal 5 comments
And for Contrast: The Empire Goes Slack 1 comment
In my blog entry/movie review “On Clones and The Clone Wars” I try to make the argument that the movie fails as an adult product–of which Star Wars had amassed millions of fans (not just sci-fi fans, but folks who grew up with the series as a defining part of their childhood, and a cultural [...]
