Ahh, victory!

After raising heck yesterday on Twitter and on SWPAS about starwars.com's Twitter re-tweet of a PT-bashing cartoon, starwars.com deleted the retweet and today there seems to be a curious uptick in PT-related tweets.

Just a coincidence, right ;)?

I'll have more posted on SWPAS later but thanks to any and all who helped score this victory for fair-minded, saga-lovin' fans everywhere!

Power to the people!

OT: R.I.P. Miep Gies 1909-2010

Anyone who has read Anne Frank: Diary Of A Young Girl knows who Miep Gies was. The last surviving person who helped eight Dutch Jews hide from the Nazis in Amsterdam during WWII, including Frank and her family, was frequently mentioned in the diary. Then a young bride, she and several others risked their own lives as they saw to the safety and daily needs of those hidden away in that small attic. Gies avoided arrest after the hiding place was raided. She found Frank's writings in the attic and presented them to the only surviving member of the Frank family, Anne's father Otto, after to the war. He had the diary published and the rest is history.

As media fans, we talk a lot about heroes but Gies was the real thing, even though she shunned the label herself. She did the right thing at the right time, when it really mattered.