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A wannabe author with big goals and little talent, James spends most of his waking hours dealing Blackjack, crushing gamblers' dreams and robbing them of their mortgage payments.

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YODA'S HOUSE OF PANCAKES--The Force Awakens the Mystery Star Wars News & Info

YODA'S HOUSE OF PANCAKES--The Force Awakens the Mystery

December 10th, 20147200 Note: This Blog features speculation and possible spoilers. About a year ago I came across a video on YouTube that fascinated me. It was a presentation that J.J. Abrams gave at the TED Talks in 2008. In the speech, Mr. Abrams discusses the relevance of mystery in great storytelling, using an old, unopened box of magic tricks his...
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YODA'S HOUSE OF PANCAKES-- You're A Weirdo

Imagine, if you will, a fictional human being. Let’s call him Bob. Bob is in his mid forties. He is overweight. Bob is a huge Star Wars fan and last Sunday he drove down to a local convention center. He dressed up in some cosplay attire and spent the morning talking about Mandalorians to some people he just met. Afterward he found...
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YODA'S HOUSE OF PANCAKES-- Eventually You Lose

There is a scene in Attack of the Clones where Anakin visits Watto, his former master, and finds the Toydarian junk dealer in a state of poverty. The years following Skywalker’s emancipation have not been kind to the creature, who appears to have lost everything he owned due to some bad gambling losses that started with the Boonta...
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YODA'S HOUSE OF PANCAKES-- Truth, Justice and the Obi-Wan Way

Luke, you will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. The above line of dialogue is from the scene in Return of the Jedi when Luke confronts the spirit of Obi-Wan after learning that his former mentor lied about the fate of his father. Obi-Wan has clearly been caught being dishonest, but...
YODA'S HOUSE OF PANCAKES--May the 4th Be With You Star Wars News & Info

YODA'S HOUSE OF PANCAKES--May the 4th Be With You

June 10th, 20145253 If you are reading this blog then there is a fairly high probability that you are already aware that May 4th has become an unofficial holiday. Star Wars Day--May the 4th be with you--has been building up steam for the past few years, to the point where it has garnered attention outside of fan circles and into the mainstream...
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YODA'S HOUSE OF PANCAKES--The Colony

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.” ―Milan Kundera, Ignorance The world is in a continuous state of flux. The things that are here today have a tendency to be gone tomorrow. Nations rise and fall, babies are born and...
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Yoda's House of Pancakes- Sleazy Peazy Lemon Squeezy

It was a chance encounter in a crowded nightclub. A young looking alien, down on his luck, spotted the man sitting at the bar and approached him. Maybe the man looked a little tense and needed something to help him relax. Or perhaps the alien was just desperate to make a sale. Regardless, he approached the man and made clear...
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Yoda's House of Pancakes- Going Out on a Limb(s)

Arms and legs. Most humans rarely give any thought to those four appendages that stick out from their torsos in a mostly symmetrical fashion. We use them constantly but the only time we really tend to notice that they are there is when they are injured, and even then we never stop to consider just how complex and wonderful these...
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YODA'S HOUSE OF PANCAKES-My First Step Into a Larger World

Recently, the Jim Henson Company sponsored a contest that would grant one unknown, aspiring author the prize of a lifetime: A contract to write the very first novel based off of the film THE DARK CRYSTAL. Being an unknown aspiring author myself, my heart raced with excitement at the opportunity, and I knew I had to submit a...
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