Just a Sci-Fi Kid Like Me

Pencils, that is. A while back I posted on how you too could support the WGA Strike by buying boxes of sustainable pencils for $1 and delivering them to the PTB. Well people did, and lo, there were boxes and boxes of them, which Joss Whedon (Buffy, Firefly etc.) and Ron D. Moore (BSG) did pour into a tub.

Whedonesque did report on the hypnotic effect of this video.

ETA: Ron Moore posts on his blog about the whole thing.

I know I should be constructive. I just can't seem to manage it.

Over at Whedonesque, Joss encourages us all to arise and seize pencils--or at least buy them in tandem with a hella lot of other fanbases so execs get the message. The pencils in question are from a company that uses sustainable farming techniques and cost around $1 a box. Go forth and purchase ye pencils!

Meanwhile, the Daily Kos features a video clip of Jason Ross, one of the 14 Daily Show writers, who provides a Daily Show-like report on what's going on, or at least until James Oliver interrupts. Awesome as hell.

Go forth and support the WGA!

Joss Whedon has been posting about the WGA strike over at Whedonesque all week. I particularly love his latest post on the best strike movies of all time. My particular favorite:

#2: NEWSIES. Oh, you knew this was coming. The wonderful irony of Disney making a children’s fable about the power of workers’ unions was lost on me when I first saw it (it was not lost on the L.A Weekly). The politics of this film are clear, intelligent and uplifting. And the songs are catchy. And Batman’s in it. (And hearing my children walking around the house singing “No one can make us give our rights away” makes all of this a lot easier.) Is it dorky? YOU’RE dorky! Dork.

I really loved that movie as a kid, along with White Fang. Mostly because of the adolescent Christian Bale singing. I still remember a fair number of lyrics.

Right, fighting now the overwhelming urge to netflix this and/or go to Santa Fe.

Carry on.