Month: May 2005

Saturday Night Live aired the Robert Smigel cartoon Conspiracy Theory Rock during the March 14, 1998 broadcast, but it has since been edited out of reruns. Coincidence? I think not…

Check out Grocery Store Wars, a hilarious video satire of Star Wars. May the Farm be with you!

Yahoo has a trailer for the upcoming Dukes of Hazzard movie. I can’t imagine this being all that good, but then again the TV show wasn’t exactly high art. Still, it’s a fond childhood memory for me, and I hope that it isn’t sullied like others have been by recent crappy adapatations…

Strong Bad of Homestar Runner fame is the star of a profile on NPR. Cool…

A teaser trailer for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is available for viewing at Apple.com. Not much to see yet, but here’s hoping it’s as good as the others in the series…

With Star Wars: Episode III only nine days away, there’s plenty of buzz floating around the Interweb to share with you. First of all, I came across a piece of merchandising that actually makes Darth Tater not look too bad: the Darth Vader sprinkler.

How Stuff Works has a thorough article on the lightsaber in case you feel like building one for yourself:

Chances are that you have seen a lightsaber at one time or another, whether on the evening news or down at the local cantina. Therefore you know that a lightsaber is an amazing and versatile device that is able to cut through nearly anything in a matter of milliseconds. Have you ever wondered how these remarkable weapons work? Where does the energy come from, and how are they able to contain that energy in a rod-like column of glowing power?

Finally (for now), I came across a pretty good George Lucas rant that I couldn’t have written better myself… ;-P

Chicken Ticketed for Crossing the Road.

b3ta.com presents the disturbing but funny Barbie USB Drive.

Michael Ian Black has a great post on McSweeney’s titled What I Would Be Thinking About If I Were Billy Joel Driving Toward a Holiday Party Where I Knew There Was Going to Be a Piano. Hilarious…

Check out Parrots, The Universe and Everything, an 87-minute talk that Douglas Adams (one of my favorite authors) gave at the University of California-Santa Barbara a month before his death in 2001. The speech is about the environment and his book Last Chance to See [amazon link]. A link to streaming RealVideo of the talk is available near the bottom of the page…

By the way, has anyone seen The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy yet? I’ve heard wildly varying reviews of the movie, and although Douglas Adams supposedly had a major hand in writing the movie script, one of the main criticisms I’ve heard about the movie is that it butchers some of his funniest ideas and lines from the book. I guess I should see for myself, but I’m curious to hear from other fans…