I am all for holidays, especially those having to do with movies. But they should have some sort of meaning, whether they honor an anniversary or birthday (real or fictional person’s), inception date (remember when people celebrated HAL’s birthday on January 12, 1997?) or similarly significant event. They shouldn’t just exist to exist. Star Wars Day, which is apparently today (interestingly, mere days before Star Trek hits theaters), is nothing more than a joke turned into a pseudo-holiday, for which the only purpose is to be able to say that it’s Star Wars Day. You don’t get a free comic book out of it, you don’t get off from work to hold a Jedi-based mass and you certainly don’t get to wear your Star Wars costumes around town without getting beat up. Especially not if your only reasoning for being in droid-garb is the silly pun “May the 4th be with you.”

Don’t get me wrong, I love puns, I love Star Wars (some of the movies, at least) and I do appreciate the joke from which the thing originates. But actually trying to turn the date into an officially recognized holiday — for members of the Jedi church, of course — is just plain silly. Geeks, feel free to watch a marathon of Star Wars movies today if you wish, but please stop with the “Happy Star Wars Day” greetings already. Bah humbug!

Check out some of the bloggers who annoyed me with this nonsense today, after the jump:

• Rodney at The Movie Blog suggests you celebrate by being a total dork and integrating Star Wars references/quotes throughout your workday:
  

  Mix your grammar you should, sound like Yoda you will.

  If someone states their profession reply with “You look a little short for a Stormtrooper”

  Refer to any location as a “wretched hive of scum and villainy”

  Answer in the positive by saying “YubChubb”

  Curse by saying “Poodoo”

• Rob Bricken at Topless Robot thinks the best way to celebrate is by watching a clip of William Shatner serenading George Lucas at the latter’s induction into the American Film Institute. He also doesn’t see the point of the ‘holiday’ when you’re as geeky as he is:
  

  Today is apparently Star Wars Day. I did not know that…Frankly, about 6000 of my 11680 days on this planet have more or less been Star Wars Days, so I feel I’ve yubbed my nubs appropriately.

• Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo points out that this is only Star Wars Day for people outside L.A.:
  

  The Los Angeles City Council says that May 25th 2007 is Star Wars Day in that city—in honor of the release date of A New Hope: May 25, 1977. The rest of the Earthlings are happy to celebrate today.

• Paul Lester at Deadline USA claims today is when you can utter the pun and not get laughed at “like Han Solo was after Princess Leia called him ‘laser brain.’” I disagree, of course. He also shares his favorite scene:
  

  In the spirit of the day, the clip above is my pick for the best scene in Star Wars Episode IV: a New Hope when Solo blasted Gredo at Mos Eisley Cantina.

• Neil Miller at Film School Rejects passes on word that, coincidentally on this non-holiday, the alleged new Star Wars production shooting in West Hollywood last week has turned out to be nothing of note:
  

  So what was it? A new movie? Another special edition of the original trilogy? Not exactly. It turns out that LucasFilm was shooting new footage for Disney’s Star Tours ride. Please feel free to take a moment and let whatever emotion you were feeling about a potential new Star Wars movie subside.

• Also at Film School Rejects, Bethany Perryman shares some episode-themed sexual positions from “The Star Wars Kama Sutra.” Here are the simple steps for Episode II:
  

  So, you’ve made it to Date #2. Congratulations. “Attack of the Clones” works one of two ways: either she has a twin sister (you lucky Padawan, you), or do it in a room with strategically placed mirrors.

• Margaret Lyons at Entertainment Weekly’s PopWatch sees this as primarily a prep-day for tomorrow’s holiday:
  

  I’m celebrating by daydreaming about building this Death Star pinata (I guess it’s for Cinco de Mayo, but…I think every day is a good day for DSP [Death Star pinata]) and rewatching my favorite fan-made Star Wars videos

• Whitney Matheson at Pop Candy at least acknowledges that it’s not serious and admits she’s actually just “counting down until Top Gun Day.”
  

  The only reason it even started is because it’s the one day of the year we can go around saying — get ready for this — “May the fourth be with you.”

  It’s a terrible joke, but that’s why we only tell it once a year. Spend the day debating Ewoks, speaking like  R2-D2 or re-enacting your favorite scene from Empire

• I Heart Chaos had nothing better to do to celebrate than spotlight trailers for the six Star Wars installments, plus some bonus mash-up trailers. Fark.com is also on my shitlist today for linking to this useless post. And yes, I guess that means I’m on my own shit list for doing the same.
• “Jesus Christ. Nerds are the worst,” writes Tyler at Too Much Awesome. Obviously his comment didn’t annoy me, since he’s not buying into the whole thing, but I had to include his acknowledgment anyway.