It comes around every year: Star Wars Day, otherwise known as (and also totally due to the Dad-joke pun) May the Fourth Be With You Day.
While it’s certainly true that Star Wars, as a phenomenon, isn’t the exclusive bailiwick of Dads in general, it’s arguably still the Hutts-share of the fan population. Whether or not that’s true — specifically, whether or not this particular holiday will die off with the GenX folks that remember standing in lines back in 1977, 1980, and 1983 — will be a story told some decades in the future.
For now, we’re celebrating one of the great American obsessions, a story from long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away. And make a note, young Jedi: some of the celebrating for May the 4th will happen in the days leading up to May 4…because sometimes celebrating on a Monday is as problematic as serving a droid in a Mos Eisley cantina…