The whole earth may be sucked into Hell, and you want my help 'cause your girlfriend's a big ho?

Buffy ,'Chosen'


Sunnydale Press

Having a party? Organizing a local F2F? Know something that we all really need to know? Announce it! Want to discuss anything posted here? Take it to Natter. Any natter here will be deleted.


Steph L. - Jul 12, 2004 3:50:33 pm PDT #1421 of 4091
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Hey folks --

Congress is going to vote within the next 48 hours on the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would amend the Constitution to deny homosexuals the right to marry.

In addition to being hateful and divisive, this amendment would, for the first time, alter the Constitution to *deny* rights to US citizens.

MoveOn.org has made it easy for you to e-mail your Reps. and Senators, as well as King George, in one fell swoop, here. There is a space where you can add your own message into their boilerplate text, which I urge you to do, if you decide to participate.


Nilly - Jul 12, 2004 9:35:10 pm PDT #1422 of 4091
Swouncing

Voting results on Wolfram's proposal, with 100 voters:

YES: 68 votes (68%)

NO: 22 vote (22%)

NO PREFERENCE: 10 vote (10%)

So I guess there is going to be a Book Club thread. Good luck!


megan walker - Jul 15, 2004 9:30:04 am PDT #1423 of 4091
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

NYistas: Anyone interested in checking out Buster Keaton's The General in Prospect Park tonight at 7:30pm, drop me a line. Complete details are below. Profile addy is good.

The renowned ALLOY ORCHESTRA performs its newest original score to THE GENERAL (1927), a wild train chase/love story starring Buster Keaton set during Civil War that is one of the great accomplishments of the silent era (1hr19min @ 8:40). Come early to catch INVERT, a maverick Brooklyn based string quartet that confounds expectations by folding jazz, rock, and world music flourishes into its new music repertoire.


Wolfram - Jul 15, 2004 10:41:50 am PDT #1424 of 4091
Visilurking

Through various sundry methods and illicit schemes, we have settled on a genre-busting book to kick off the action.

The first selection for The Buffista Book Club will be:

The Intuitionist, by Whitehead, Colson.

Discussion begins August 15, 2004.


TomW - Jul 16, 2004 4:11:25 am PDT #1425 of 4091
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

Job posting:

My company is in the market to hire one Java developer.

If you're a Java developer in the Boston area (we're based on the North Shore, about 25 miles up the coast from Boston), and you think you might be interested drop me a line at my profile address (add 'Buffistas:' to the subject line to avoid my harsh spam-filtering).


Tam - Jul 19, 2004 11:23:51 am PDT #1426 of 4091
"...Singing their heads off, protected by the holy ghosts, flying in from the ocean, driving with their eyes closed." - Patty Griffin "Florida"

A little ways up thread I posted that Amber Benson's Chance will be the feature presentation at this year's Trinoc*coN speculative fiction con in Durham, NC. I just learned the times and thought I'd post em': 1AM Saturday, 1AM and 1:30PM Sunday. Original post: Tam "Sunnydale Press" Jun 30, 2004 1:41:44 pm PDT


erinaceous - Jul 21, 2004 6:43:12 am PDT #1427 of 4091
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.

I've just realized that I was over-efficient in setting up my spam filter, and that anything sent to my profile address has been getting reduced to its constituent electrons, for oh, months now.

So if you were trying to reach me, I wasn't ignoring you! I was just really, really dumb.


lisah - Jul 21, 2004 9:18:21 am PDT #1428 of 4091
Punishingly Intricate

I'm helping to organize (and my band is playing in) a great fundraising event happening Friday, July 30th in Baltimore.

WHAT--Estrofest, an all-ages, estrogen-fueled night of rock and roll to benefit House of Ruth.

WHEN--July 30, 8PM-2AM (FREE BEER at the downstairs bar from 8-9)

WHERE--The Ottobar, 2549 N. Howard Street, Baltimore

HOW MUCH--$7/$8 (for the under 21s)

WHO--Vestal Vermin, Secret Crush Society, Egyptian Sun Belly Dancers The Sirens (Northern Virginia, punk), Dawn of Man (DC, New New Wave)

WHY--House of Ruth provides thousands of battered women and their children with a safe haven and gives them needed resources to escape from domestic violence situations. In addition to offering emergency shelter, House of Ruth Maryland offers such programs as job training and legal counseling to help women end the cycle of domestic violence.

WHAT ELSE--A $2 a ticket raffle featuring prizes from Atomic Books, A Cleansing Touch (day spa), In Watermelon Sugar, Oh! Said Rose/Ma Petite Shoe, Fat Elvis, Trixie's Palace, Stickky Fingers, the Children's Bookstore, and the Baltimore Tattoo Museum.


Allyson - Jul 22, 2004 5:49:57 am PDT #1429 of 4091
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

It's really really real!

I'm purchasing Nilly's North American Tour ticket, today. For those who contributed, I'll be sending an accounting and Nilly's tour dates, so you can come and visit with our Nilly in one of the cities she'll be visiting.

There's more info in the F2F thread.

Many thanks to all who contributed!


Hayden - Jul 22, 2004 7:17:10 pm PDT #1430 of 4091
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

The new High Hat, she is online. Watch for our own Lyra Jane in the Labor Day supplement.