With only 26 sites reporting so far, the current global take of this year’s Can’t Stop The Serenity screenings stands at an estimated $69,338.84 — meaning we have already surpassed last year’s final total.
At last, pictures of our intrepid Browncoat astronaut and his precious cargo of Firefly and Serenity DVDs in orbit.
It would appear that ‘Lie Boyles (nee Emilie Oy) has removed from her website the reference to her perpetually-forthcoming book, The Pendulum Swings, which she had hinted would include her response to her controversial tenure here in Portland as a politician, scofflaw, and deadbeat.
“‘Plagiarist-gate’ revisited” is a story about a weekly newspaper stuck in a hole. One which it is determinedly digging for itself. In the item, posted to the “it’s not a blog!” published by Willamette Weak, web editor and copy chief Ian Gillingham serves up another helping of evidence that the paper’s staff is devoid of any sense of professional ethics.
I’ve not been told what it is. But at tonight’s charity Serenity screening here in the Portland of Oregon, Scott Allie (Joss Whedon’s editor at Dark Horse) told the crowd that they and Joss have something planned regarding Equality Now. We’ve been told to watch the “interweb” this coming Monday for an announcement.
This evening at the historic Hollywood Theatre, we present the first of our two screenings of Serenity comprising this year’s second annual fundraiser for Equality Now (and, this year, the Women’s Film Initiative). We haven’t seen the updated ticket sales since yesterday’s burst of press coverage, but the standard warnings apply: Buy your tickets now so you don’t miss out! Bring some extra cash because you’ll want to try to win one or more of our raffle goodies. And we will have t-shirts and posters, no longer available for pre-order, for sale at the shows.
If you don’t kick Ben Waterhouse out on his ass by the end of the week, I hope you take another credibility hit. Tossing out accusations of plagiarism that are blatantly false on their face should be a firing offense for any journalism operation that considers the act of journalism to have any meaning. It is not a charge to be made lightly, but Waterhouse did so anyway. Kick him to the curb.
The Oregonian says that the Portland of Oregon is “still wild for Whedon”. In this case, the newspaper is correct, so buy your tickets today.
In case you’re one of those in need of reminding that it’s almost time for this year’s charity Serenity screenings, tomorrow’s The Portland Mercury offers not one, but two reminders. To make it easy, here’s where you buy tickets.