Alston Grove

I’m surprised the Star Wars kid hasn’t been on CNN by now. Or maybe I just missed it. If you haven’t heard of this, read an introduction to the story here. Basically, some 15-year-old kid made a private movie of himself pretending to wield a light sabre, and it got posted to the web and downloaded by millions. The movie has been edited to add special effects, music, and graphics.

Imagine the embarrassment for this kid. People have started funds to send him money, and there’s even a petition to get him a cameo in Episode III. Geez, in my days, if you did something stupid in high school, you only had the student body to contend with. Nowadays, your distress can be made known throughout the world in Internet time.

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