I've banged on enough recently about freaky geeks, you know, people with a pain-staking passion for Popular Culture, including yours truly, so, er, here's a little bit more. It's when geeking gets that little bit too detective and nit-picky - slightly worrying - check out some of these letters to editors:

From last month's Word:

WRONG DAY IN THE LIFE
A fantastic photo of The Beatles in this month's issue but, as your article asks the question, 'Could there be any questions left unanswered?', the answer has to be: yes, when you get the information wrong. The photo cannot have been taken on the 15/2/67 as The Beatles did not have a studio session on that day. The photograph was actually taken on the 10/2/67 in the afternoon or early evening before the commencement of the orchestra overdub for A Day In The Life, which began at 8PM. How can I tell? Just watch the film which was made of the recording session and which accompanies the track in the Anthology video and DVDs. You will see John and Ringo are wearing the same clothes. The person impersonating "Paul being Dead" over Ringo's shoulder is not William Campbell but Michael Nesmith of the Monkees who was staying with the Lennons (and who is also in the film clip). But keep up the good work.
Richard Kennedy

Keep up the good work? Mate, you keep up the good Sherlock Holmes-stylee work. I mean, any idea what colour pants the sound engineer not in the picture was wearing? Were they fresh on that day? People like this need help or work with the FEDS/CIA etc. - whatever, their intricacy gets props.

Then, couple of 'complaints' about April Vanity Fair's Star Wars fold-out cover:

GREAT COVER, BUT…
THE AMBITIOUS and well-produced cover photo of the Star Wars cast is on most counts an amazing achievement, but I am afraid that it falls short. As a die-hard Star Wars fan since 1977, I feel compelled to write and express my profound disappointment with the glaring omissions from this ensemble. While Ray Park as Darth Maul and Temuera Morrison as Jango Fett are unfortunate absentees, the failure to include Jeremy Bulloch as Boba Fett is unforgivable. True, Boba Fett enjoys minimal screen time and speaks only a few lines in the films, but he has arguably achieved permanent status as a pop-culture icon beyond cultism. Given your commendable devotion to the Star Wars legacy, the failure to include such an essential figure on your cover is a grievous error. In addition, giving a detested character such as Jar Jar Binks a place of prominence just adds insult to this injury
MORGAN PHILLIPS
New York New York

HOW IN THIS GALAXY could you publish a Star Wars cover without the inclusion of the inimitable James Earl Jones? Darth Vader would be nothing without That Voice.
KIM MCKEGGIE
Nottinghamshire, England

Anyway, great to have lunch yesterday with Simone (below) at regular fave Soho snackerie, Yo! Sushi where we didn't talk Star Wars,

....instead catching up on some past MTV peeps' whereabouts & recent rants like how her beautiful son Lucas was, ebay, digital cameras (P-pppp-pixel P-p-p-ppower!!!!) & life in general etc.

Then a quick scoot round the corner to 'Church' (pic. above) for some DVDs that I bought her on the condition she buy a region-free DVD-Player to watch them on out in Belize!!!

Off to bed, then off to Cannes...

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