Felicia Day

Fun was had by all at the rally this morning. Near 500 people were there! It was a huge turnout, and testament to the great love Joss Whedon engenders in his fans (and his actors and writers too, so many of them were there!) It was really inspiring, and generally, the fans had much more energy than the typical writers at the picket line. There was more “whooping” to honking cars than I’ve heard in a while I got a cool “Potential” pin from the button lady (that’s what people call her!) and met quite a few interesting people, including Flog reader Paul! Hi Paul! Walking in circles is much easier when you’re chatting with people you haven’t seen in years, or meeting new people for the first time. I’ll have to draft more people to come march with me

Here’s proof I was there, care of actor Tom Lenk, who’s photography blows me away. And not just because he makes me look good Thanks Tommy! XOXOXO

Edit: Here are a few others from Flikr ppl have been linking me.

Care of egaudier.

Care of CABridges.

Care of Flog reader Paul! That’s him and me!

Me and Summer! Two Summers, one event. Fab!

I have no idea what I was saying to her. Probably naughty gossip. She’s such an innocent lovely girl.

EDIT: Ok, LAST EDIT ON THIS THREAD! My friend Jeff took this, and a lot of other great pictures here. Love it love it! I need to protest more often, it makes me comb my hair that day

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I couldn’t help a link to these pictures. Maybe I should change my headshot!

Link care of my brother.  He made me give him a credit.

I had given up tonight on having anything to blog about.  I’m in a really stressed out mood lately and decided to pass an hour before bed web surfing.  One of my favorite places to waste five minutes is cuteoverload.com home of cutie kitties and puppies and other adorable animals.  There was a video linked there: YouTube – pretty please.  It’s a tiny kitten begging to get inside the house, and a woman talking to her.  Now, admittedly, there’s something heartbreaking about this video.   The little kitty wants in so bad, and there’s a sadness in this woman’s voice, they grey video, it all adds up to something a little depressing.  By the end of the video you’re like, screaming at the screen “LET HER IN LADY!!”  Out of curiousity, I wanted to see if other people had this irrational reaction to the video, and went to the actual YouTube page.  In the description of the video, a looooong essay was written, starting with:

  PLEASE READ FIRST!

hi..
i would love to explain about my kitties to someone.. as i have received so much hate in the last 24 hours since someone posted my youtube up at cuteoverload.. i can’t keep up with it.. and it honestly is very hard, very hurtful.. so thanks to those who asked about tabitha & sabrina.. i’ve tried posting in the comments but no one reads them and there’s a space limit..in 2000 i was very ill with anorexia and my husband said for mother’s day we’d get what i wanted most.. 2 kitten….

It goes on from there.  Basically this woman writes a tome defending herself from the horrible things that people have written about her with regards to the kitten.  From what I gather, this woman has gone through a lot, and clearly all the hate mail has affected her badly.   I felt horrible for her, because in part, I reacted the same way those haters did emotionally, I just didn’t give a personal voice to it.

Starting with that girl who killed herself from being harassed on MySpace, up to the small things I receive about my own web show in YouTube comments and other places, I’ve been very philosophical about the internet lately.  It’s strange how small it makes the world, how 20 comments can seem like an avalanche if they are strangers saying them.   I mean, if Citizen Kane were on the internet today, what would the comments say?

That dude is fat and ugly!  WTF, GET OFF THE SCREEN!

or

HAHHAAHA Rosebud is her vajayz!  ROFLZ!

I guess it’s just realizing that making the web your community,  because our own communities are too big to really feel a part of anymore, is great if you remember that just because people are vocal, doesn’t make them right.  Good or bad comments

I try to be sparing about linking posts just for the sake of linking, but sometimes a juicy nugget comes along I’d love to share with people.  The blog  Skelliwag is one I just added on my Google homepage under the column of “self-help”.  I really like it (the layout is posh!)  The articles are really well written, but this list of crazy lovely links around the internet to inspire creation was one I had to link to.

110+ Resources For Creative Minds

I hope you enjoy!  Oh, and here, look at this.  I can’t stop giggling!