Tag: Star Wars

• Statues and ‘Star Wars’

  In an email thread about the controversies surrounding the removal of statues, I suggested we relocate all statues to museums and use the space for parks and Little Free Libraries. But that’s destroying history! First Amendment! Statues aren’t history, as this Twitter thread by Elle Maruska articulates well: Statues are mythology. Statues are hagiography. If…

  Jun 26, 2020

  # America, film, history, movies, Star Wars, statues, The Last Jedi, Theodore Roosevelt

• Obi-What Can I Be

  I took the Statistical “Which Character” Personality Quiz from the Open-Source Psychometrics Project, which they describe as a “slightly more scientific but still silly” version of those Buzzfeed “Which Character Are You?” tests I mostly avoid. Here are my top five results, with the percentage of overlap in perceived personality traits: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars…

  Apr 5, 2020

  # film, lists, movies, Obi-Wan Kenobi, personality tests, Star Wars, television

• There’s always money in the Death Star

  I don’t know who made this mashup of Arrested Development and Star Wars, but it captures the show’s tone so perfectly, and not only because Ron Howard himself provided the narration: This might even make me want to see Solo: A Star Wars Story. [*Ron Howard Arrested Development voice*] It won’t.

  May 3, 2018

  # Arrested Development, film, movies, Star Wars, television