The Star Wars Kid. Wow.

I still haven't watched this (damn corporate firewalls!), but I can't wait to get home an see it. For those who haven't heard about him yet, the Star Wars Kid is a 15-year-old from Quebec who was goofing off at a school video studio and recorded himself fighting a two minute mock battle using a golf ball retriever as a lightsaber. He even makes his own sound effects. Some of his "friends" put the video up on the internet, and now he's famous. People have juiced up his video, and newspapers all over the world are talking about him. Here's the Toronto Star, the Age from Australia, the Guardian, the AP, and even the Raleigh News & Observer. A couple of bloggers raised $4,000 on his behalf, and there's even a petition to get him into the next Star Wars movie (which I have already signed, and suggest you do the same). Currently 64,000 people have signed it.

The pathetic part of the story, however, is that his parents have filed a lawsuit against the parents of the Kid's (that's right, Captial Letters for the Kid) "friends" for $160,000.

Star Wars Kid - AWESOME.
Star Wars Kid's parents - not awesome.

- posted by Tom Sawyer @ 11:41 AM