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I’m Eric Geller, a cybersecurity journalist living in the Washington, D.C., area. This is my personal blog. All opinions here are my own and do not represent the views of my employer.

  • When I was six years old, I drew a picture of a house. I wouldn’t call it a particularly magnificent house, but someone at Highlights for Children magazine evidently liked it, because my drawing appeared in a 1997 issue of the magazine. That was a pretty big deal for me. You never forget the first…

  • Hollywood.com’s Christian Blauvelt and I hosted our second “Get Thee to the Geek” Google Hangout last night, this time discussing the latest Star Trek movie. Anthony Pascale, editor-in-chief of TrekMovie.com, and Bonnie Burton, all-around geek extraordinaire, joined us to talk about the ups and downs (but mostly the downs). Check out the discussion embedded below:…

  • I’m really excited to be starting a new project this summer along with my friend Christian Blauvelt of Hollywood.com. A few weeks ago, Christian asked me to co-host Hollywood.com’s summer Google Hangout series, “Get Thee to the Geek,” with him. Even if the subject matter — weekly discussions about geek culture – hadn’t appealed to…

  • I put together a list of original and, dare I say it, clever Star Wars puns for The Official Star Wars Blog, as part of their pre-game festivities for May the Fourth, a.k.a. Star Wars Day. Anyone who knows me can tell you that puns are a specialty of mine, and since Star Wars is…

  • Lucasfilm announced today that its animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars is not getting a sixth season. It’s not completely done and over with, because Lucasfilm Animation still plans to release “bonus content” based on the episodes they produced for Season 6. As a big fan of the series, I wanted to share…

  • Hello, mainstream media. It’s me, Eric. Since you’ve already started writing a lot of stories about Star Wars, I thought it would be a good idea for us to clarify a few things. Some of your reporters may have never seen a Star Wars movie, but they still ought to employ proper journalistic skills in…

  • The biggest news in Star Wars since Disney bought Lucasfilm broke early Saturday morning: J. J. Abrams, who directed the 2009 Star Trek film and this year’s sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, will direct Star Wars: Episode VII, based on a screenplay by Michael Arndt. Predictably, several people have asked me what I think of…