From Feministing:
Our crush of the week is Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after seeing a recent speech he made at an event for Equality Now. Check it out. So hot.
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The speech itself was top-notch. What I think should be the take-home part is,
- "Why do you write these strong female characters?"
-"This is ridiculous... why don't you ask a hundred other guys why they don't?"
or the final answer, "Because you're still asking me this question."
I haven't actually watched the interview yet....
It's not an interview. It's a speech. His central theme is that people keep asking him why he writes strong female characters (dozens of times a day during press tours), and his speech is primarily made up of answers to that question.
It's 8 minutes and five seconds including the titles. You can forward through Streep's intro and save yourself a few seconds, if you want.
It's prime Joss, who I don't really want to love on account of his abandoning me, but he made me love him. He always does.
Yes. Love.And he likes the fans, unlike Fontana, say, who made a big point of saying that it was his show and he'd do whatever he wanted to it.
Poor H:LOTS.
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear fight over Pooh's honeypot
Was that another "I know when I see it" case?
I'm hoping it was a
a) It's
hunny
b) You all have already desecrated the poor thing beyond recognition anyhow, out of our sight, you sicken us
...type of thing.
I always wondered how Disney ended up with Pooh. Sounds like a sad story.
Happy birthday, JZ!
Work is weird.
I can't decide if I should take the third of July off. I don't have anything in particular to do with it, and it can be nice to come into work on a low-traffic low-interruption low-expectation day.
On the other hand, sleeping past 5:45 is
always
nice.
Smart Cars are coming! [link] They were in one of the eraly TARs and somebody (was it the original frat boys TAR?) said, "It's like driving a Swatch watch!" They are so funny to see on the streets - I used to see them often in Athens.
