I was rewatching Star Wars because… I realized I actually have not sat down and watched Star Wars in years and years.  And by Star Wars I mean New Hope and then Empire and then Jedi.  When I was a kid I used to watch them so often it was ridiculous but you know… something happened to cool my passion.  We’ll not mention those though, I am sure there are people with fond memories of such things.  Anyway, watching it got me thinking about Carrie Fisher because… I mean do I have to explain it?  She’s in the movies. Little role called Princess Leia.  You may have noticed all of these pictures are of her as Leia.  Leia who is all kinds of cool because she was the fairy tale damsel in distress of course but she was also a badass who would grab a gun and shoot and managed to not flinch when staring down Space Nazis.  So that’s pretty cool.  But Carrie Fisher is like 10 kinds of cool as well in part because she was no Princess Leia.  It turns out that the late 70’s were a bad time to become hyper famous and starting hanging out in apartments made of actual cocaine with Saturday Night Live cast members if you were an undiagnosed bipolar.  But you know, things may have gotten derailed somewhere along the way but she faced down her demons and lived to tell the tale.  That’s pretty fucking badass, too, especially when you realized no magical old men, Wookies, or twin brothers were going to show up to bail her out of this one.  The result is now she is pretty hilarious and interesting to listen to and to read.  She is funny, she is interesting, she is pretty cool.  And man, in the early 1980’s when I walked into a movie theater with my dad?  I thought she was maybe the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.  So today I want to fuck Carrie Fisher.