June 22nd, 20161329Almost a year ago, I was at a convention and had to have my picture taken for a directory, which I resisted for 6 years. It could be put off no longer. A few of my buddies and I got in line and had a ton of fun trying to look professional. A week or so later, the picture came back and I was confronted with something that I had...
June 8th, 2016199 I've seen Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens about one dozen times in the theater, and a couple more times at home. As I've viewed the film, there have been little things that stood out to me. Spoilers ahead! One thing that has been mentioned before is that the comedic elements are back. The writers didn't wait...
March 13th, 20162382 There is much on my mind as the burgeoning spoils of spring emerge. I’m restless, antsy, ready for change. Full of new hope. Here in Western Pennsylvania, USA, the change of seasons can be dramatic, but even years like this one in which the winter is barely existent, the coming of spring has this effect. (WARNING! Major Deadpool...
February 13th, 20165205 You know the saying: “It’s the little things.” It’s difficult to imagine anything “little” about a saga as colossal as Star Wars, but it is truly the non-monumental moments that made me fall in love with Star Wars so many years ago and keep me as big a fan today. These moments are in no short supply in Star Wars: Episode...
January 20th, 20166127 **This blog contains speculation concerning characters in The Force Awakens** So I’m assuming that everyone reading this has seen Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. If you haven’t, then you need to quietly turn around and pretend this never happened. Alrighty then, now we can proceed. There have been theories up...
January 13th, 20162136 This review of the novelization for Star Wars: The Force Awakens contains SPOILERS for the book and movie. Written by Alan Dean Foster, the official novelization for Star Wars: The Force Awakens works well fleshing out certain characters, while filling in some of the blanks the audience is left with after viewing the film. Most...
December 10th, 20150101 We live in an interesting era. In exactly one week a new Star Wars movie will be unleashed upon the world. And this isn’t any ordinary Star Wars movie, this is a Star Wars movie with Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo and Chewbacca! We haven’t seen these guys in action for over three decades (Okay we’ve seen Chewie,...
December 5th, 2015375 Duel of the Choices -- A Guest Blog by Brandon Boylan “I had no choice!” --Lando Calrissian To some, Star Wars is nothing more than blasters and lightsabers. While that is perfectly okay, for some of us Star Wars is so much more. It is a lifestyle and a fandom that defines our very existence. At some point in our lives, we made...
October 21st, 2015157 Just shy of a day and a half, approximately 34 hours time, we had a plethora of new Star Wars imagery to explode our wildest of geeked-out imaginations. As if the Official Movie Poster reveal wasn’t enough, we now have words, actual phrases, to pair with our newest Star Wars characters. Those snippets of dialogue are momentous to...
October 7th, 20152119 Hey Coffee With Kenobi readers, Joe2-D2 here. Sorry for such a long time between blogs. I’ve spent the last seven months recovering from a stroke that I suffered in February. So for my first blog back, I decided to pull something from the archives. A few years ago, a group of bloggers, including a few of our very own here at...
