OK, if Jaba was marooned on present-day Earth, what job would he take?

I vote commentator for Fox.

Lucas is a hack.

and we're done. Nothing else need be said.

Radio talk-show host.

I vote commentator for Fox.

That almost warrants COMMing. I had my mouth full of coffee.

IOcrankypantsN: Pigface's "Sick Asp F*ck" is perfect for this morning:

"I hate everything I hate everything I hate everything I hate everything"

Repeat.

Oh yeah:

Shop cat is making it difficult to do work. He flops on the desk and demands, DEMANDS to be pet. The nerve! Who am I to say no. Especially when he purrs so readily.

The cat is saying to you, "It's like a tide; give in to it, boy. It's society's crime, not ours!"

Wow, this is a plate of shrimp.

I was one of several recipients of an e-mail on Friday that had "network" in the subject line, except the sender left out the "w". There was an immediate Reply All, saying "What's a netork?" Then two Reply Alls to that - "A dork with a net" and "An orc with a net". The last one was mine.

The Reply All to mine was some dude saying "Did you know 'orc' was a real word, and it meant fearsome enemy? This is because Tolkein was a professor of Anglo-Saxon."

So I geek-slammed him in email.

if Jaba was marooned on present-day Earth, what job would he take?

Vice President? Talk radio personality? My (ex)boss?

Or maybe he's already here, and using the name Karl Rove.

ETA: great-minding with -t

Lucas is a hack.

I remember the first two Star Wars movies (by release date, not episode number) having some good lines. After that, not so much.

I remember the first two Star Wars movies (by release date, not episode number) having some good lines.

Yeah, well...I have very strong opinions about storytelling and Lucas' legacy to scifi/fantasy *and* film.

I love Irvin Kershner, who directed "Empire Strikes Back" - and I lay all of its success at his feet - and Leigh Brackett who took Lucas' wackadoodle notions and turned them into a script.

I think "Star Wars" (bah - "episode 4 - A New Hope" was NOT in the credits when I saw it 4 times in 1977) is remembered and loved so much because it was NEW. Now, in contrast to "Empire..." and some other well-done space opera films (and TV shows), it's a little thin.

But does have some very good lines. :)

bah - "episode 4 - A New Hope" was NOT in the credits when I saw it 4 times in 1977

Hah! I've had long arguments with SW fans about this issue - no one seems to remember this.

And I saw it four times in 1977 as well. Plus once in 1978, at a theater where I'd seen it in 1977 (it played for more than a year there).

I've had long arguments with SW fans about this issue - no one seems to remember this.

Seriously? I despair.