The Star Wars Kid: Unwittingly, Unwillingly famous.

He should have used a red light saber. Red looks more menacing. Oh, somebody added that later... nemmind. Should have worn black instead of khaki's from The Gap(tm). Black looks more menacing.

I'm not sure if I could do better, but it'd be fun to try.

Kids these days! If I had something illegal to do, I'd just hire a kid. They can do anything and start over with a clean slate when they turn 18. Hardly seems just, but the parents lawsuit seems fair yet impossible.

He's living in a psych ward now. Hope it wasn't all from the video.


=== MORE INFO ===
7/24/03 - Star Wars Kid Files Lawsuit (Wired.com)

5/19/03 - 'Star Wars Kid' Gets Bucks From Blogs (Wired.com)

The original video, plus some are here:
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jaforde/starwars/starwars.html

Many more available here:
http://www.jedimaster.net/swk_videos.htm


People are signing the petition to get the Star Wars Kid a cameo role in the next movie. 81,028 people so far.
http://www.petitiononline.com/Ghyslain/petition.html

SWK has his own three-letter-acronym now, and a slick website all to himself. There are over 80 spoofs of him produced! People download the original version, edit it into a different mix, then post it back on the site.
http://starwarskid.com

Some of the remixes are highly professional and impressive:
- A New Hope
- Matrix Reloaded Spoof
- The Last Samurai
- Lord of the Onion Rings

There are a SWK newsletter, screensaver, wallpaper, video games, and action doll are in the works (at cost, by a non-profit website).

Some would say his only problem now is to Capitalize on it. Convert social energy into cash.
If *I* was so successful I'd be in a psych ward too!

The petition is kind of a nice twist. I mean, presumably he would like that.

CNN picked up the story last week, with comments.
http://us.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/08/21/starwars.kid.ap/