Star Wars is great! "May the 4th Be With You"—today's fan-made, Disney-approved faux holiday that "celebrates" a pop culture phenomenon that's pretty much already celebrated all the time—is fucking obnoxious. But nerds are gonna do what nerds are gonna do, and if that's spending an entire day repeating a horrible pun and flooding everyone's feeds with Star Wars memes and basically working as unpaid interns for Disney's marketing department? So be it, I guess.
ALL THAT SAID: I'm a hypocrite, because I just spent 10 minutes poring over these Annie Leibovitz pictures from Vanity Fair, shot on the set of The Force Awakens, that probably were not coincidentally released today. As annoying as all this other May the 4th Be With You stuff is, Annie Leibovitz Star Wars photos are always going to be welcome. Especially when they look like this:
AND ALL THAT SAID, I'm now going to walk over to Voodoo Donuts with Dirk because we heard they have Star Wars-shaped donuts today! So whatever, I guess? God bless you, stupid Star Wars Day.*
*REVISION: Fuck you, stupid Star Wars Day. "That's not for sale," the Voodoo guy said when Dirk and I tried to order the cock-and-balls donut, frosted to look like an X-Wing, that slowly spun in Voodoo's donut case. "That's just for display. For Star Wars Day. I can get you an R2-D2 donut, though. Oh... wait. We... I guess we are out of those." And... scene. Star Wars Day, everybody!**
**UPDATE: Okay, Star Wars Day is okay again. I can be bought; behold my price.
