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From Alphatone

A plan now is in motion for local rallies in support of the WGA strike, in conjunction with local Guild members in various cities. Interested and able Fan Organizers in a given city will be put into communication with the local Guild contact for their area. Please see this Fans4Writers thread for the details and for the process for stepping up to be the local Fan Organizer for your city.

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News:

Nicholas Brendon Supercat Info

BBC Torchwood Site

Brian Lynch Interview

Tabz on CNN with Joss Whedon

Joss’ Toy Box:

Tooned Up Buffy and Willow

Quantum Mechanix- Serenity Merch

Serenity Dark Horse Swag

FanFic:

Whose the Doctor? by missmurchison

Fan Interview:
Rev Kate’s Theme of the Week

Looks like Spike’s Head Tilts site is gone, but here’s a YouTube video from the site.

Geeky Ink Community

Tabz and Kim:

The Psychology of Joss book

Thanks to SerenityStuff.com for the link.

Geoff Mandel, graphic designer for Serenity, is having a Writers Strike sale on eBay and there are some tasty items indeed:

Auctions end Sunday.

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZthomemslie

A wonderful set of photos from the LA Comic Book Convention that Summer Glau attended.

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Snagged from SerenityMovie.net forums.

What is Operation Full Burn?: Operation Full Burn is an operation designed to support the ‘Verse and a Sequel to the BDM.

How does it work?: Simple, between now and the start of the re-airing of the BDS on the Universal HD channel we get as many Browncoats as have ears to sign up to these Universal HD Firefly Fan Forums as we can. It don’t cost nobody a nickle yet it lets Universal (makers of Serenity) know that we are still here and we still want more of the ‘Verse. It’s as easy as lyin’.

Why? How will this help?: As of right now there are 1,738 folks signed up to these here forums and of them I’m going to low ball and say only 1,500 are Browncoats. None the less it’s a micro fraction of the total number of Browncoats out there. Basically, the number of unique users on a website or on a particular forum is a form of ratings all it’s own. We all know that it’s all about ratings and numbers right? So with the Universal HD channel scheduling the BDS again starting in March it would be wise notion and a real display of our love and dedication for the show, the movie, the ‘Verse in general, as well as the sequel that ought be made, if those website ratings jumped up more than a bit before the show starts to re-air. We get enough Browncoats here it would say a powerful lot about us and what we want.

How you can help: Help spread the Signal! I can’t go every place in the ‘Verse, I just don’t know where they are. Most folks are members of 1 or more boards so please feel free to re-post this in some of your other boards. Dig it if your a Digger. Blog it if you’re a blogger. I don’t have a Myspace account so it could go up there. Facebook too. Where ever you can think of really. The OB’s. Sci-Fi boards. Doesn’t matter, it’s all good so long as we let every Browncoat on every world spinnin’ know about it. Below I’ve made a few banners. Feel free to use them if you like or make your own if you’re more artistic than me (I won’t be offended in the least).

Jayne said it best I think – “If wishes were horses we’d all be eatin’ steak.” I’m not one to just “wish” something to happen. I want to at least “DO” a little something. Maybe it’s because I missed it all before. I missed “Doing the Impossible” and feeling like I was a part of getting the BDM made because I’m a newer Browncoat, so I guess I feel like I have to at least TRY to help get it done again. Kind of my own little labor of love perhaps.

LINK: http://boards.nbcuni.com/universalHD/index.php?showforum=4

In response to the United Hollywood post that the WGA began an informal dialogue with one of the conglom bosses.

Joss had this to say:

 I’d actually like to be the guy that rains on this parade. The use of the word “Endgame” is very dangerous. Even if these back-channel discussions are the route to serious negotiations, it could be weeks — months — before anything is resolved. And that’s assuming the AMPTP isn’t about to unveil yet another bullying tactic to draw this out even more. “Endgame” sends the wrong message to the WGA members. We need, now as much as ever, to act as if the strike is NEVER going to end. We need the rage that sends us out onto the picket lines, the passion that makes us look for alternate methods of financing and developing content, and the unity that reminds us how much the studios have taken from the community already by forcing this strike. As far as the WGA is concerned, the studios have not made one decision based on fair business practices. (Funny side-note: they’ve also abused writers as long as there has been filmed entertainment.) Some of the things that have been broken in these last months can never be fixed, some truths about the studios’ power-grubbing inhumanity that can never be forgotten, or laughed over (as they have been for decades).

This is not the end. And it was never a game.

From Whedonesque.

http://www.mylifetime.com

Amber stars in the Lifetime original movie 7 Things to Do Before I’m 30, airing on Saturday, January 26.

Pretty, charming, and weight-challenged (at least as she sees it) Lori Madison is a month shy of the big ‘3-0′ when her life implodes. Losing her job, her New York apartment, and her boyfriend in a single day, she goes home to a Colorado resort town to stay with her bigger-than-life mother and supportive brother until she finds some direction. In her childhood bedroom, Lori discovers a list she made as a kid — “7 Things to Do Before I’m 30″ — and realizes she hasn’t accomplished a single item.

Also stars Julia Duffy, Haig Sutherland and Christopher Jacot.

Summer Glau will be on The Radio Happy Hour tonight on BlogTalkRadio at 6pm PST. There is aa call-in number listed on the site.