UPDATE: They did use a little bit of what I said- in the first minute or so of the program. You can listen here

I might be on BBC World Service today on a program called “The World” The World Today . They’re doing a special on 30 years of Star Wars and I just spoke with a producer for the show. They’ve recorded my comments, but I’m not sure if they will use them. I was speaking quite naturally until they said “We’re recording now” at which point I became nervous and incoherent!

• To find out if you can listen where you are in the world.
• If nothing else, it will be online here tomorrow.

Of course, if

Star Wars on the internet has been calm, lately. There is no news, nothing to report and all content is old. The community that was once vibrant- almost agressive- is has now been relegated to the outer rim of the galaxy.

We want to change that here at GalaxyFarAway.com. It will be hard and until the television show is in full swing, there will be nothing to root for. But we are Star Wars fans- we lived from 1983 to 1996 with nothing but a growing expanded universe and our fandom.

So what next? I want to bring back new content to the web site and revitalize Star Wars on the internet, but I cannot do it alone. I am going to

GalaxyFarAway.com is 7 years old this week. Back in 1998 I set it up on a Tripod.com location that is still active; I used to call it TGFFA for The Galaxy Far, Far Away and it used to look something like this. In the summer of 1999, the summer of Episode I, I bought this domain name and set up the site around it. I gained a staff most of whom are no longer in touch. I also set up Pod Race Arena as a Star Wars magazine- a GFA spin-off. On the first birthday of GFA, we had this funky, fake, bizarre Star Wars party. Or at least we said we did!

Over the years, the amount of time I

First up, I’m sorry. I have been absent from the site for 3 years now and I’m sorry. Three years can cause a lot of site rot (and it has), so bear with the broken parts and rough edges as I get the web site on its feet again. [...]