One other smart thing Lucas did was to have these beautiful sets built and then draw no special attention to them. He mainly uses mid-shots and close shots rather than spectacular wides. Fox was pressing him for the latter, feeling that he was wasting the potential of the sets. He insisted that for the sense of…

The sequel trilogy was doomed from the outset. By choosing to make a direct sequel to the events of the OT set only thirty years later, you’ve already lost the battle. There is no way to do it without retconning the narrative universe to undo/diminish the achievements of the heroes in the previous story. This…

West End’s Star Wars RPG and the various Lucasarts starfighter sim games also started to cement the codified nerdiness of the IP. 

It was actually off most people’s radars for the best part of a decade. Interest started to spike up again in the mid 90s. 

The sideburns sported by the likes of Tagge and Bast (and the suited pilot seen briefly at the Mos Eisley cantina) are fairly 70s in their look.

I have to say the one day Gavilyte cleanse definitely worked for me.

No way am I making this if Michael Jackson is going to serve it to me. 

They only got to interview the women who hadn’t fainted. 

Gervais has never been cancelled, except by a small group of professionally-offended attention seekers who appear to hold a genuine belief that Johnathan Yaniv is a trans woman.

Correct. 

He’s not imitating being black. He’s imitating being Jamaican. They are not the same thing. 

Gen Y and Millennials are the same thing.
Millennials = Gen Y

Presumably Kurt Kobain is the deadly rival of Kurt Cobain. 

I really don’t know why this elaborate design is necessary when a simple system of mirrors and lenses would do the job.

With the US Bank prepaid visa I had, there was actually an online facility to register your name and address with the card. This wasn’t made clear in the card instructions but it turned out to be necessary to use it on Amazon.com.

One caveat to this. I did the same thing with a $100 prepaid visa-> Amazon conversion a week or so ago. Only problem is that the prepaid visa hadn’t been set up with my name and address. Took me three attempts to work out why the transaction wasn’t going through and fix the problem.

For some reason I associate boneless chicken with dryness and toughness. Maybe the pieces cook faster so I tend to end up overcooking a little?

At any rate, I always buy bone-in. With all my pressure cooker meals the meat just falls off the bone anyway.

Yeah, fuck that. I’ve used “they” for decades in this manner. It’s a natural fit and has never felt wrong. 

“Don’t go to France. The French are annoying. Come to Greece instead; we’re nicer.”

These people are morons.