I'm not saying Ted Cruz would have been exactly the kind of kid to look for Tarkin merchandise…but I'm not not saying that, either.

Welcome to loyal family of Palpatinians, Death Troopers. You will now go out to your home planets and do civilian executions, destroy minor rebel bases, and all the other piddling crap I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot Sith pole.

It's mostly about Luke teaching Jess and Dead to become more devout in their faith.

He'll shave his sideburns, okay!

White Girl Rose is poised to supplant Donaghy Estates as the next major player in the novelty, faux-upscale, urban wine market.

And The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor goes to…George C. Scott, in Bro Getting Hit With Football!

In retrospect, making that public declaration that he could outsell Kanye's album wasn't the best move…Well, that and him generally sucking.

We are going to grab the Rebel by his nose, and we're gonna kick him in the ass!

"Up In Here" fits in pretty well with Darth Vader's general mentality.

Dispatches is an amazing book, you can probably argue that every subsequent Vietnam movie and Vietnam War trope is just an increasingly poor distillation of what Herr wrote. I kind of wish more people would associate him with his book rather than the Apocalypse Now script.

Local news is the best. If it's in a smaller town, especially, it's like catching up on the local gossip.

Look, A.V. Club, you're my friend, so don't take this the wrong way…But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I open up my computer to when I pull up this site, 'cause I think maybe I'll get there and Boston fans will just shut up about Deflategate. No goodbye, no see ya' later,…

You just know Vader is Bcc'ing the Emperor on every message he sends this guy…

"A relationship between a Padawan and his master, I think, is like a space-shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think, Obi-Wan, what we got on our hands is a dead space-shark."

I've started reading The Executioner's Song. I really like it, you can just feel the tension building during every day that Gary Gilmore reveals himself to be sociopathic criminal taking advantage of his extended family.

My father had a similar diagnoses—no radiation therapy, just surgery to remove it— about five years ago and is doing quite well today, so best of luck!

…why isn't Andrew W.K. crashing this event, Caddyshack style?

Dammit, now I'm going to be picturing an alternate cut of Schindler's List starring Robin Williams instead of Ralph Fiennes…

I really like James Jones' books about the war. Very honest without any hagiography. For all the endless literature about WWII, there isn't that much written from the perspective of people who were in the military beforehand. And, as someone who was in the Army, I find it amusing that some tropes of the professional…

Somehow, I've strained my achilles tendon in my right leg. It's making it exceptionally hard to run, which means I'm getting less exercise, which means I can feel myself getting flabbier, which is personally frustrating, and so on…Also, does anyone know how to 'stretch out' a strained achilles?