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Sat - September 15, 2007

That's it. We're moving.

After nearly four years of that horrifying lime-green header at the top of the page, I'm changing the look of this site.

This is the last post at the iBlog-powered CulturePulp.com. New posts will appear on a more versatile TypePad site.

This site will stay up -- but I'm planning to eventally duplicate the archives at the new location. There are 514 posts under this one. It will take a while.

THE NEW SITE: culturepulp.typepad.com

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Thu - July 5, 2007

Joss Whedon's 'Firefly' on the big screen (with beer!) starting July 10

Thanks to KUFO and McMenamins, Joss Whedon's cult TV series "Firefly"
is playing on the big screen in Portland, Oregon.

In a theater that serves a beer called "Firefly Kolsch."

The full details are here.
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FireflyMission.com

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Fri - June 22, 2007

The 'Weekend of Whedon' begins tonight!

Nerd Christmas is upon us!

Joss Whedon's sci-fi cult fave "Serenity" (or, as I like to call it, "Han Solo: The Movie") plays tonight, June 22 and Saturday afternoon, June 23 at Portland's Hollywood Theatre.

Dark Horse Comics editor Scott Allie will be at tonight's screening, answering questions about the Whedonverse comics he edits. (Will he spill any details about the forthcoming "Serenity" comic miniseries "Better Days"?)

Proceeds go to Equality Now and the Women's Film Initiative.

Details -- and tickets -- are here.

For more press coverage of the weekend's events -- which also include a midnight "Buffy Sing-A-Long" at Cinema 21 -- check out these stories in The Oregonian and the Portland Mercury.
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Can't Stop the Serenity: Portland, OR screenings
"Buffy" Musical Sing-A-Long

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Tue - June 12, 2007

Come to the 'Serenity' charity screenings! But first, help avert the organizers' poster crisis!

This post was going to be a simple promotion of the event, but that will have to wait ....

So I'm involved in the planning of the June 22-23 'Serenity' charity screenings at the Hollywood Theatre. They benefit Equality Now and the Women's Film Initiative. And the organizers had a pretty sweet deal where they were getting posters and flyers printed for free.

Well, now they very suddenly don't.

Quoting b!X -- the main organizer of the local screening effort -- in his web post on the matter at Furious Nads!:
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Urgent: Own A Print Shop? Friendly With A Print Shop?

(12 Jun 2007) -- Here's how it is. Our source of free printing for this year's charity screenings of Joss Whedon's Serenity had a family emergency pretty much right when the print job would have happened, and (quite understandably, of course) needs to deal with that.

So that leaves our event -- with only 10 days to go -- with no posters, flyers, or handbills. So I'm poking my network of people. What we need right now is a print shop which will, if not outright donate printing costs (always preferred, obviously) then at least either give a huge break on those costs, or be willing to delay payment until after the event when we will actually be able to pay.

We're talking color, and a rush-job. We're talking 8.5x11 flyers and 8.5x11 four-up handbills. And possibly at least a handful of 11x17s. [You can view and download these beauts right here, BTW. -- ed.] If you own a print shop, or are very friendly with one, and can hook us up, I and all the other organizers would be greatly appreciative. Just email me if you can help.
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This could not have happened at a worse time. If anyone on this mailing list has some advice for b!X, feel free to drop me a line ASAP and I'll pass it along to him. Cheers.

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Mon - January 1, 2007

Fish. Bicycle.

High-rez

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Fri - November 10, 2006

'Hot Dog Cookout' — now in living color

Careful readers may recall that, last month, I posted a cartoon I drew for my stepdaughter -- and promised that if anyone colored it and e-mailed me their effort, I would "totally" reproduce it here.

Well, Chris Stewart has answered the call. (I particularly enjoy the disturbing inner-hot-dog-meat color of the arms.)

EARLIER: COLORING FUN: 'Hot Dog Cookout'

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Mon - October 16, 2006

COLORING FUN: 'Hot Dog Cookout'

A while back, my stepdaughter asked me to draw a poster for her high school's wiener roast.

There's a high-rez JPEG here. If anyone colors it digitally or with crayons or whatever and e-mails me the results, I'll totally post it.

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Wed - June 21, 2006

UPDATED! Last-minute giveaway! Get two free tickets to June 23 'Serenity' screening! Like, right now!

UPDATE: I still have one pair of tickets left. I'll be giving those away on Cort and Fatboy's show this Friday (a few minutes after 6 p.m.)

So here's the deal:

Last night, the organizers of Friday's Serenity Now/Equality Now screening in Portland, OR handed me two pairs of tickets.

"Give 'em away," they said. They didn't specify how.

I actually have a cool idea for a reader contest, but there's no time for anyone to compose a decent entry for it. And I'm on a terrifying deadline for the Boston Globe anyway -- so I'll save my contest idea for some future date.

But I do need to get rid of these tickets.

So here's the deal:

Starting at about 2 p.m. today (Wendesday), I'll be sitting in one of the best coffee shops in Portland, The Bipartisan Cafe (7901 SE Stark St., Portland). I'll be wearing a "Serenity" t-shirt and frantically transcribing an interview. I'm leaving around 5:30 p.m.

The first two people to show up and say howdy each get a pair of tickets to the June 23 screening.

I can't update the site from the coffee shop, so I'll live-blog the ticket pick-ups and announce the end of the giveaway in the comments section for this entry.

If no one shows up -- a distinct possibility, given the hour -- I'll probably give the tickets away on the air during "Cort and Fatboy" Friday night around 6 p.m.

The Portland screening has pre-sold over 300 tickets at this point, and Cinema 21 only seats a little over 500. This screening is totally going to sell out on Friday night. Come and get 'em while you can.

Can't Stop the Serenity (nationwide charity-screening list)

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Tue - June 6, 2006

David Stroup rockets into the 21st century: 'Yossarian' finally online!

My friend, former co-worker, and "Jaxxon's 11" collaborator David Stroup has written and drawn his own comic strip, "Yossarian," for over two decades.

It appeared in his high-school and college newspapers. Then, over a decade later, he resurrected it for the Clackamas Review -- the community paper we worked at together -- where it ran weekly for about five years. (It's probably the only thing that kept him sane between bouts of writing about the same quilting bee year after year.)

At this point, David's drawn hundreds of these strips -- developing rich characters and a totally unique line in the process. He draws the funniest Bigfoot I've ever seen. And he works in weird details from Oregon history and his own life where you'd least expect them. (Both of us have an unhealthy fascination with John McLoughlin, for example, and I believe the newspaper-editor character "Russ" is modeled ever-so-slightly on yours truly.)

Anyway. I'm delighted to report that David is finally putting "Yossarian" online at Webcomics Nation.

He's thowing up a new (well, new to you) "Yos" five days a week. He launched the online version of the strip from somewhere midway through his backlog -- so I'm pretty sure he can update the strip five days a week for a couple of years without having to draw a single new installment. (Though I'm told he'll continue the comic once he catches up.) And he's putting up other, older "Yos" installments as stand-alone mini-stories to compliment the main strip.

By all means check it out. It's a great way to pass the time until David and I finally get around to finishing "Jaxxon's 11."

Yossarian by David Stroup

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Mon - June 5, 2006

'Serenity' back on the big screen - for charity - June 23

[ Poster design by "lono" ]

Here's some wonderful news for "Firefly" and "Serenity" fans:

There are something like 37 charity screenings of "Serenity" all over the world this month.

Here's the scoop on the June 23 screening in Portland, OR.

Here's a roundup of the screenings all over the U.S., Canada, and Australia (and possibly Scotland).

(Oh, and in unrelated news: Seems like good a time as any to quietly mention this.)

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Posted at 11:15 AM

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