With my rl friends, nearly every attempt to have a fun night of silly mindlessness turns into a serious debate about something or another.  Not complaining, I love this about my friends.  We are people who talk about Important Things.  I'd have it no other way.

So I was explaining why I think Avatar is racist and why I'm not interested in ever ( Read more... )

I fired up Wikipedia to do a little demographic research on the fair state of Virginia - pertaining to my displeasure with the CW and The Vampire Diaries from a previous evening - only to discover my hypothesis didn't quite pan out.

( demographics and representation )

help_haiti is kicking so much ass, oh my lord.  $15,000 in donations tallied as of 7 am, with more than half of the auctions left to tally.  FANDOM, YOU ARE FUCKING AMAZING AND I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.

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Jenn and I had lunch today and I cut her a check for Dragon*Con.  OMG CON.  The check is for the room because we have to pay the whole thing upfront, which le ( Read more... )

Yup, you've heard about it all before, probs all over your flist. But there are only so many hours left of bidding on this round of help_haiti auctions. If you're uncertain of the procedures, you can go read all about them here. Basically, you bid a donation amount, then when you win, you donate that amount to charity, screencap your receipt, black out ( Read more... )

Posted with the following disclaimer: I absolutely (obviously, see previous posts) encourage donating money to disaster relief as soon as possible.  The first 72 hours of a crisis are the most important, when the most possible aid is needed.  But I also think it is helpful to have a reminder of the bigger picture.

Peter Hallward, expert on Haiti and ( Read more... )

Decided to also offer up a puppet/Muppet goodie box in the auction.  BID HERE.  This box will be super cool, all stuff from the Center for Puppetry Arts, plus free tickets to anyone living in or visiting Atlanta.

Hey dudes!  Here's my help_haiti  post: bid on me!

Here's the details:

I am offering: One fanmix (with cd mailed to you, if you like) for each of the three top bidders

Fandoms: SPN, Star Trek reboot, bandom, Skins, Sherlock Holmes, Chuck, Leverage, Firefly, Buffy, Dollhouse, comics (DCU, Marvel, will research pretty much anything I don't know), Gossip Girl, ( Read more... )

Quick Burma update: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty of attempting to violate the terms of her house arrest, and was sentenced to 3 years hard labor. However, the military junta immediately lessened the sentence to 18 months, to be served under house arrest. This most likely serves the following two purposes: (1) she will continue to be ( Read more... )