Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
One last reminder of the Secret Santa project:
Are you interested in giving some worthy Buffista a small holiday gift, and getting one in return?
Email your Buffista handle and a snail-mail address to me at canlibrarian@yahoo.com by midnight PST tomorrow, October 27.
I will match people up by Oct. 31, in order to allow lots of time for present buying/making and mailing.
Okay, I was just made aware of this Buffy scholarly research survey.
We can delete this post if it turns out to be bogus, but it seems ok:
Stompyfoots: feel free to delete if I am duplicating efforts.
I hope everyone set back their clocks last night. But don't forget about resetting your VCR's too!
Since we have so many writers here:
NaNoWriMo 2002 - National Novel Writing Month 2002.
The goal - write a 50,000 word novel in one month - the month of November. [link]
This'll be xposted in Press. Firefly is sort of in a precarious place. Waiting until the show reaches a critical level on the cancellation front isn't so wise. There's a postcard campaign in the works to get the word to the network that yo, we don't have Neilson boxes, but we're watching.
Send a postcard or two, simply stating that you're watching, and want the show to stay on the air.
FOX BROADCASTING CO
ATTN: SANDY GRUSHOW
CHAIRMAN, FOX ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
10201 WEST PICO BLVD
LOS ANGELES CA 90035
There's also a plan in the works for a Variety ad. Cost will be about 1700. It's important to act in time for sweeps. We're at Code Yellow, so let's get the word out before we reach Red.
For more info, visit JossWhedon.net.
This is an important time for fandom, the net makes it possible for fans to organize, and be heard. Postcards are cheap, and are something that can be counted.
Possibly too trivial for Press, but definitely not apocalyptic enough for Beep Me:
I'm kind of feverish and can't remember which LAista it was who was out searching for actual pink gingham. I found some, two bolts of average pink gingham and one of genuinely pretty rose gingham, for less than $3/yard. If said LAista still wants pink gingham, she can email me at my Yahoo address, j_zahas@yahoo.com, to let me know how much and I'll go out and grab it.
October 24 was Kate P's birthday.
Happy Belated Birthday, Kate P., from all the Buffistas!!!
Okay, gifter/giftee matching has been done by a highly scientific process (slips of paper drawn out of a hat), and email has been sent to everyone that told me they wanted to participate in Buffista Secret Santa 2002.
We had a great response this year - almost forty Buffistas signed up. Thanks, everyone!
Several people asked if there were any formal guidelines, so here is a completely unofficial statement by me:
For mailing dates:
USAir Parcel Post Surface Australia/New Zealand DEC 16 DEC 16 Nov 6 Canada DEC 16 DEC 16 Nov 23
And finally, in the immortal words of Krusty the Klown, let me wish you all a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, a Kwazy Kwanzaa, a tip-top Tet, and a solemn, dignified Ramadan.
Unsure if this should go here or Apocalypse, since I've never posted in either before, but here goes.
Somervillistas (and surroundings), I'm proposing a Sunday (tentative, or Saturday evening if more people can make it) get-together for, most likely, a viewing of Men With Brooms. If I haven't gotten it yet, then Hard Core Logo instead. I can tentatively invite people to my place, but it's a mess and there aren't many places for people to sit, so counteroffers are welcomed. Profile address good.