I’m a lapsed Star Wars fan. They lost me when the franchise returned. I dutifully went to the last wave of releases and promptly forgot them. That and the whole George Lucas tinkering with the magic of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back thing lost me. In short, you won’t see me in the pen at a local movie theatre this weekend.

One thing I cannot blame my lapsed fandom on is this craptacular 1980 Christmas elpee: