It’s almost time. Have you bought your tickets yet? If not, get to it. Two shows. Two charities. In the founding city of the charity Serenity screenings movement. Go.
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She crashes, you crashed her! Well, okay, that’s a lie. You didn’t crash our event site last week. The server just stopped responding. But now we’re all moved over to a hosting provider, so all is well, and should remain so. Which is good, because there are only four days left before the Portland of Oregon, founding city of Can’t Stop the Serenity, brings you the first of two charity screenings of Serenity to benefit Equality Now and the Women’s Film Initiative. So buy your tickets today. On the day of show, prices rise. And remember, last year’s screening sold out and we had to turn people away. So you want to make sure you don’t miss out.
The other day I got a card in the mail from my father. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why, but then I remembered it was June. Time to commemorate my brief and not-quite-illustrious criminal career. My mother tells the story from her perspective. I can’t recall if I’ve ever posted the story from mine. Right now, I’m stuck on the fact that if this incident was twenty years ago, so was graduating from high school, the last place from which I ever graduated.
“American and Canadian scientists reignited the debate over whether there was ever a giant ocean of liquid water on Mars,” reports The Independent. “According to a study published in the journal Nature, an ocean several miles deep once covered a third of the surface of Mars - easily enough water to support the origin and evolution of life. The red planet, they said, had once been a deep blue, just like Earth.”
So, wonder of wonders, City Council today actually had the balls to delay enforcement of the sit/lie law until and unless various homeless services actually are put into place first. But in the process, some of the stupidest things ever were uttered from behind the Council dais.
Continue reading ‘Mayor Dumb And Commissioner Dumber (Or Vice Versa?)’
Here’s how it is. Our source of free printing for this year’s charity screenings of Joss Whedon’s Serenity had a family emergency pretty much right when the print job would have happened, and (quite understandably, of course) needs to deal with that. So that leaves our event — with only 10 days to go — with no posters, flyers, or handbills. So I’m poking my network of people. What we need right now is a print shop which will, if not outright donate printing costs (always preferred, obviously) then at least either give a huge break on those costs, or be willing to delay payment until after the event when we will actually be able to pay. We’re talking color, and a rush-job. We’re talking 8.5×11 flyers and 8.5×11 four-up handbills. And possibly at least a handful of 11×17s. If you own a print shop, or are very friendly with one, and can hook us up, I and all the other organizers would be greatly appreciative. Just email me if you can help.
Want to help promote the charity Serenity screenings now that we’re in the home stretch? All of the various iterations of our promotional material now are available for download. That means handbills, flyers, and posters. While we’re going to be establishing a number of locations around town where interested “street team” members can pick up copies to distribute, if you work somplace, or frequent someplace, that you know would put up a flyer or poster and/or set out handbills, feel free to download this material and print up just what you need. If you do put any of our material up and about somewhere, please email us and let us know where, so we can keep track of what’s been covered.
Anyone have any idea why “Emmy Award-winning political editor” Hank Plante down in the Bay Area thinks that the military’s “gay bomb” is news when the story is at least two years old?
“The man who plays Adam in a video aired at a Bible-based creationist museum has led a different life outside the Garden of Eden, flaunting his sexual exploits online and modeling for a clothing line that promotes free love,” reports the AP. “After learning about his activities Thursday, the Creation Museum in Kentucky pulled the 40-second video in which he appears.”