For all you Serenity fans out there, apologies if this has been posted, but I wasn't sure, and why not?

free press screenings in several cities

I assume this was posted in one of the threads, but it seems important enough for Press:

Universal Pictures has paid seven figures for Goner, a supernatural thriller spec script that Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) wrote and will direct, Variety reported.

Mary Parent and Scott Stuber will produce. The studio premiered Whedon's directorial debut, Serenity, on Sept. 22 at Universal City Walk, and the movie opens to the public on Sept. 30.

Whedon was cryptic in describing the project. "It's the story of a young woman's journey that involves a great deal of horror and some heroics," Whedon told the trade paper. "It's certainly darker than Serenity, and there are a lot of left turns along the way. It is something I had in mind for a while, and it just poured out of me when I finished my film."

Whedon is writing and will direct a Wonder Woman movie for Warner Brothers.

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Short notice, but...

Seattle peeps, I have a pass for two people for a screening of Serenity at Oak Tree at 7pm tomorrow.

Sadly, I will be doing Other Things, and cannot use it.

Profile address good, if anyone wants it. Think it's visable. Let me know ASAP, first person who wants, gets.

ETA, I've found a taker.

Err... Just got off the phone with -t, and between her DH being in town and -t not feeling well, I didn't get to meet with her today. However, she and maybe her DH will be available next week, so I and others will see her then.

Again, if anyone wants a tally/accounting beyond we did good (which we did), please let me know.

R.I.P. Don Adams

Hi all. I hope that folks in the New England area can make this, because it's Lea's (Thessaly's) last show hosting the series.

PAUL CURRERI & DOC BROWN'S TRAVELING POETRY SHOW RAISE MONEY FOR WORCESTER ARTIST GROUP:

When: Thursday, September 29th, 2005, 8PM (doors open at 7:30PM) Who: Paul Curreri (music) & Doc Brown's Traveling Road Show (poetry & theater) Where: 16 Greenwood St., Worcester, MA 01605 (QVCC) $15.00 minimum donation $10.00 with Student ID or donation to QVCC Food Pantry All profits benefit Worcester Artist Group

September 29, 2005, the series will feature music by Virginia guitarist/songwriter Paul Curreri and performance poetry by Doc Brown's Traveling Poetry Show. All profits benefit the Worcester Artist Group. Directions are available on our web site : www.whereyourmouthis.com.

PERFORMER BIOS:

Paul Curreri Raised in Richmond, Virginia, Paul now makes his home in Charlottesville. He grew up playing music but ended up enrolling at Rhode Island School of Design to pursue painting and film. While Curreri credits his experiences at art school with developing his ability to observe and record the visual world, soon his true passion soon began to rise to the surface. By the time Paul graduated from RISD, he'd composed over 200 songs on guitar and piano. Turning down a job at MTV, he set to work carving out a life as a musician.

His third album, The Spirit Of The Staircase was released in December 2004 on City Salvage Records.

More information about Paul Curreri can be found on his web site at www.paulcurreri.com.

Doc Brown's Traveling Poetry Show Following the success of Def Poetry Jam on HBO and Broadway, fourteen successful years of slams and shows in Boston, eight months of shows at Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway Theater, and a continuing upsurge in the life of poetry on stage, Doctor Brown's Traveling Poetry Show brings together an ensemble about as various as poets can be. Different poets perform each show, including occasional out-of-towners.

Directed by professor and poet Michael Brown, the troupe includes individual and collaborative poems by chemistry specialist Mala Radhakrishnan, madman Ryk McIntyre, reading advocate Valerie Lawson, the elusive Jeff Taylor, wry raconteur Simone Beaubien, musician and salesman Alex Charalambides, lyrical Laura Yan, teacher Douglas Bishop, and, as they say, more.

This is a fast-paced, 90-minute stage show with no dead air, no dead ideas, and no dead poets.

Worcester Artist Group (www.worcesterartistgroup.org) A longstanding member of the Worcester arts community, WAG is dedicated to promoting visual and performing arts in the greater Worcester area, and the non-profit sponsor of the "Where Your Mouth Is" series.

NEW YORK PEOPLES!

My band, Secret Crush Society (sorry but I think the music comes on automatically), is making our New York debut! We are very, very excited about it and would love it if you all came!!!

When?

Friday, Sept. 30th 9 pm (we go on first--don't miss us!)

Where?

169 Bar

169 E. Broadway -- Chinatown

with

Black Tie Revue

The Nightrats

and (our new best friends) HOY!

Door is $7

Hope to see you there!

Due to a new office layout, I really shouldn't indulge in much web-surfing. So, I'm not going to be around much. If you need to get in touch w/ me, use the profile addy.

On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. Recent estimates have placed the death toll in the thousands. More than 1 million people and over a thousand pets were displaced when Katrina devastated much of the Gulf Coast.

Here's how you can help.

Starting October 1, 2005 for 10 days, a 10 or 15 minute (determined by the celebrity) phone call will be auctioned off to raise money for the Red Cross & American Kennel Club Canine Support. If yours is the winning bid, at the end of the auction you will be contacted by us to schedule the phone call. The actual call will be scheduled between October 28 - November 4, 2005. We will contact you with 3 dates and times given to us by the celebrity and you can choose one of those. However, if they do not work with your schedule we will try to schedule a time within those dates that would work best for both sides. We will need the phone number where you will be able to be reached, once the date and time is set. We will forward this information to the celebrity. As an added way to donate to the families left displaced by Katrina, the celebrity will be making the call via a pre-paid phone card and after the call is complete, the remaining time on the card will be donated to the Red Cross to be given to displaced families so they can call their family and friends and keep in touch.

Some of the people donating a bit of time to call you up and tell you you're the greatest fan ever: Joss Whedon, Tim Minear, David Fury, Stephanie Romanov.

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For those who haven't been paying attention to the Firefly thread and all the links...

Time: The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth. >[link]

Just ask two of the ringleaders of this bloodless, prom-dateless coup: archgeek Joss Whedon, the man behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the science-fiction movie Serenity, which opens this Friday; and Neil Gaiman, creator of the classic comic book Sandman and author of the fantasy novel Anansi Boys, which comes out this month. Gaiman also has a movie opening this Friday, the Dark Crystal--flavored fantasy Mirrormask. "It will be national geek day!" he says.

May be spoilery. I'm not looking. But Hey, Time magazine. Geek chic.

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