Star Wars Day! Yay! Episode III Procrastination of the Procrastination

(episode one, the procrastination menace) (episode two, attack of the procrastination)

* Secrets of a lonely childhood revealed!

* A Brief Visual History of People Waiting in Line for Star Wars.

* The Tides of Lust: Samuel Delany reviews the first Star Wars movie, 1977. In the Butler archives there’s a ton of her thoughts on the Star Wars franchise, including her class notes for the Clarion classes where she discussed it. Really interesting stuff.

* And speaking of which: a CFP for a Butler essay collection.

@hoodedu She loved EMPIRE, thought Lando was a bad joke, didn’t like the Ewoks.

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) November 6, 2015

@hoodedu Lando “played painfully self-consciously, written poorly”; she preferred the Yaphet Kotto part in ALIEN.

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) November 6, 2015

@hoodedu What I have written down is from her Clarion notebook, where she gave a story lecture using SW: “Sugary cute Ewoks < Wookies”

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) November 6, 2015

* Evacuate? In my moment of triumph? J.J. Abrams also apologizes for Star Trek Into Darkness.

SMASH CUT TO: LATER THAT NIGHT https://t.co/H6VxKdHvdy

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) December 17, 2015

* Apropos of this New Yorker cartoon, this profile of Ahmed Best is one of the best things I’ve read about Phantom Menace.

* People are still arguing in the mentions of this Tumblr post on jury nullification, over two years later.

* There’s No College P.C. Crisis: In Defense of Student Protesters.

* Rewind: How the U.S. Military Turned Santa Claus Into a Cold War Icon.

* Out today: Adam Roberts’s The Thing Itself.

* Low Pay, Long Commutes: The Plight Of The Adjunct Professor.

* I expected to find at least a couple prisons within a mile of a toxic site — after all 89 percent of all New Jersey residents live within a mile of a toxic site. What I didn’t expect is that over half of New Jersey’s state prisons would be toxic sites. The WNYC map, using information from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection website, identifies seven out of the 13 New Jersey state prisons as toxic sites. Plus, these toxic prison sites are often surrounded by more contaminated sites.

* In US, poverty dampens genetic influence on IQ.

* The Silent Collapse Of The Death Penalty In The United States.

* The Convoluted Profits of Academic Publishing.

* The Disaster Most Likely to Cause Global Famine Is Not an Earthquake, Storm, Tsunami, or Flood. I knew it, it’s capitali–oh, no, drought, it’s drought.

* And Streaming TV Isn’t Just a New Way to Watch. It’s a New Genre.