December 31st, 20180141Wow! Sitting here this evening, looking back over 2018, I can’t help but grin at what a Star Wars studded year this was! It began riding the high of The Last Jedi still in theaters. The wave continued with the May release of Solo: A Star Wars Story. While I was sad to see it come to a close, the last season of Rebels was a fitting end...
December 3rd, 20184427With the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story new characters were introduced to us that will forever be a part of the Star Wars galaxy. There was also an old character that took on a new appearance: the Millennium Falcon. But from the vast amount of characters in Star Wars, the unsung hero of that group, in my opinion, is the Falcon. The...
July 21st, 20183401Star Wars has always been about family and values. It tests the limits, relating to our everyday lives. Star Wars is for everyone: kids, adults, and families of all kinds. That's what makes it so powerfully beautiful. Relatability. Yes, pick a character, any character. Now, look closely. Find it. Find the characteristic or situation...
March 13th, 20181224 Well we were patient, waiting for the novelization of Star Wars: The Last Jedi to release, and it is finally here! The audiobook is eleven hours of content but this “expanded edition” has a bunch of new content! By the way, there is no such thing as the un-expanded version. The publishers are just using that term to explain...
January 21st, 20183421Star Wars means a great many things to all of us. To the late (and dearly missed) Carrie Fisher, "It's about family, and that's what's so powerful about it." And I, for one, couldn't agree more with her sentiment. Indeed it is about family and very powerfully relatable too. To be quite blunt, a dysfunctional one, but a family...
January 18th, 20182675What did you think of Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo when you first met her in Star Wars: The Last Jedi? I knew only that Laura Dern would be in the film, but I had no idea whom she would play or what she would look like. I didn’t even know the character’s first name, didn’t know it until I started research for this blog entry after...
January 3rd, 20182575Typically in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey (monomyth), the hero is called upon to embark on a life-altering quest. After accomplishing each feat of the journey--accepting the call, crossing the threshold, encountering the shadow presence (in Luke Skywalker's case; his aunt and uncle and the Tusken Raiders). Once the hero...
December 9th, 20170822Core Worlds Couture with Jay Krebs Welcome back, Core Worlders! Recently, I was fortunate enough to receive a pair of Sperry Topsider’s new Darth Vader A/O boat shoes. These shoes are truly exquisite. The attention to detail is impressive (most impressive), and the quality is exactly what one would expect from a pair of Sperry...
November 3rd, 20170338“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Episode VIII!” Since director Rian Johnson uttered those words, Star Wars fandom has been anticipating and speculating where he will bring the next story. As Mark Hamill said, “It’s a real journey of discovery.” However, before we take the next step into a new larger world, let’s...
October 22nd, 20172180Some very fun and creative parody accounts are on Twitter, spoofing Kylo Ren’s maudlin behavior, or the loneliness that Luke must be feeling. Whichever comic geniuses were behind them, they had me laughing many times. (And I make no endorsement of any blue material I may be overlooking). They took these iconic characters and...
