Stormtrooper Jumbo Machinder
RogerRemember those two-foot tall Shogun Warrior toys from the 70s? Remember your old neckless Kenner Stormtrooper figure? Well, they've been off making babies, and you'll be able to adopt them…
Star Whores: The Complete Saga
A long time ago, on a web site called Deja News, I was doing a search for "Zuckuss" and stumbled across a little series called "Star Whores" by Jefferson Morris.…
Indiana Jones Community Discussion (SPOILERS)
So by now, everyone knows what the MacGuffin is for the next Indy film. If you don't, and you don't want to, don't continue reading. The eponymous crystal skulls of…
I can’t be the first person to notice this…
...recently I was watching Return of the Jedi with my 3 year old niece ("Look, robots!"), and during the scene where Leia takes off her bounty hunter disguise, I came…
Roger’s Diary of the Dead Review
Tonight I saw a preview screening of Diary of the Dead. What follows is a review containing very mild spoilers and a strong bitter taste. This review was brought to…
Roger’s Grand Unified Cylon Theory
This is hopefully the final revision of this entry before Battlestar Galactica Season 4 gets here. It includes all of my observations regarding Razor, and the latest (last?) round of…
Plush Apocalypse
Don't remember exactly how long ago it was, or who posted it, but this was a contest entry on fark.com a while back.
Satellite of Love
I will be appearing on Chris Meadows' Space Station Liberty call-in show on Thursday, February 8 at 10 PM EST to discuss the MOSPEADA and Southern Cross art I mentioned…
James Luceno Call-In Show
Author James Luceno is well known for his novels set in the Star Wars Expanded Universe such as Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader and the New Jedi Order:…
Do you like robots?
Forgive me, gentle EG readers, for I have sinned against you. I haven't been spending enough quality time here, but there are good reasons for it. I've been toiling away…
Greetings from Nebula M-78
I just wrote a guest blog entry for my friends at AltJapan, all about my fanboy journey to meet my childhood heroes. Read all about it here. - Roger
ARR!!!
Tomorrow is International Talk Like A Pirate Day: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ So if you see anyone talking like a pirate, slap them across the face and tell them that the joke's over.…
[BLANKS] on a [BLANK]
Yes, I know, in the year 2006, when you say something in the "blogosphere," it has credibility for some reason. I'm a little old fashioned, though, and in my world,…
Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit…
Open thread time! Everybody please post your experiences at San Diego Comic Con in the comments section. - Roger
Review: A Scanner Darkly
The year is 2013, and America's "War on Drugs" has entered a new and dramatically different phase with the introduction of Substance D. Deep cover agents like Bob Arctor seem…
Encyclopedia Dramatica
You already know about Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that covers the significant accomplishments of the human race like science, history, and art. You've probably visited wikis devoted to somewhat less…
Our Prisoner
Kieran Vogel is the closest you could ever come to meeting a living, breathing cartoon character. Bake Snaker and I graduated high school with him, and according to Kieran he…
Spider-Man 3 Footage.
Check it out on YouTube, before the lawyers have it taken down: UPDATE: Info on the source material here, torrent here. - Roger
The Important Stuff.
Now that Deadwood is starting up again, it's time for a recap. Courtesy of WFMU, Seven Minutes In Deadwood, or for those of you with really short attention spans, 30…
Why I Hate Fandom, Case Study #1
I've always felt that Star Wars fans deserved a higher ranking in the Geek Hierarchy, far above the lower groups such as Transformers fans and self-styled American otaku. But then…