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One year ago today, I was marching in a circle with many of my television heroes and an awful lot of people I had previously only known as screennames. Me and some friends managed to organize a gathering of 450+ people to picket FOX Studios during the writers strike, and Joss Whedon and Jane Espenson helped make it a themed strike by inviting writers (and stars) from their various shows to come out. Here's what I posted at SerenityStuff afterward.

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Sorry for the delay in reporting. I've been recuperating from being, in QuoterGal's perfect phrase, "blissed out."

So. When last we left our hero, he was taking off for Los Angeles to attend Mutant Enemy Day when fans from the four corners of the globe would be gathering to show their support for the writers' strike by marching along with writers and actors from Mutant Enemy, Joss Whedon's former TV production company. Oh, and some Joss fellow.

The flight was uneventful, aside from the med student in the seat next to me who spent the time studying descriptions and full color images of surgeries and some extremely unfortunate man with a rather spectacular genital-based disorder.

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Gonna have to wait for tomorrow for a detailed description of the day – not near a computer for long enough – but you can see my photos of the strike here – http://flickr.com/photos/cabridges/sets/72157603406521671/

More to come!

Updates will be spotty for the next few days, as I'm off to LA for Mutant Enemy Day, where tons of fans will show up to picket FOX Studios for the writers' strike, accompanied by tons of ME writers and actors and some Joss guy who keeps hanging around.

If you can make it, look for me wandering around with a camera and a glazed expression, much like this one. Be forewarned I take no responsibility for any amount of money you've spent on Serenity items on my say-so. Mostly I talk about this stuff because I've already bought it myself.

Speaking of which, look for a review of BenBella Books newest versy release, "The Psychology of Joss Whedon," by Joy Davidson. Just came out this week, and I'm taking my copy along on the plane to study my prey, so a review will be forthcoming when I get back. In the meantime you can get it at Amazon and at BenBella Books.

Below is the press release for Mutant Enemy Day. You can get more up to date information at the Fans4Writers.com forums under "Joss Whedon fans".

MUTANT FANS DESCEND ON FOX
Fans of writer/creator Joss Whedon come together to show their support for the WGA.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. – Joss Whedon's fans have become legendary for their enthusiasm, activism and outspoken support. This Friday they'll exhibit all three as they gather together to join the picket lines of the writers' strike.

From the very first day of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, fans of writer/creator Joss Whedon have been supporting the writers in their struggle for fair compensation. Within the first week Fans4Writers (F4W), an outreach program for fans of all movies and shows, was created to coordinate efforts to support WGA writers with "Food 4 Thought" food drops to strike lines and morale-boosting campaigns.

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The fourth and fifth entries in my eBay sale: one of the rare misprint Blue Sun Travel Poster sets from QMx, the one with the original "Londinum" poster that was later changed after Joss himself pointed it out, and a resin Firefly communicator replica prop I realized I was never going to actually build.

These items join the QMx Serenity Blueprints and the Serenity comics I've already put on auction. You can find all my Serenity auctions here. Bid high, and bid often!

(Many thanks to everyone who bid on the autograph cards, and congratulations to the winners!)

Recap: there’s a Mutant Enemy Fan Day coming up this Friday with Joss and Jane and Tim Minear and Marti Noxon and Steven DeKnight and more writers from Buffy, Angel, and Firefly getting together with about a hundred fans (so far) and striking in front of FOX studios. Come and join us! More details.

The third entry in my eBay sale: a hard-to-find set of QMx's Official Serenity Blueprints. This is the original set of 10 18"x24" heavyweight prints. Only 750 were made, and they sold out quickly. Bid on this one now!

This set joins the Serenity comics and Inkworks autograph cards I've already put on auction. You can find all my Serenity auctions here. Bid high, and bid often!

Recap: there’s a Mutant Enemy Fan Day coming up next Friday with Joss and Jane and Tim Minear and Marti Noxon and Steven DeKnight and more writers from Buffy, Angel, and Firefly getting together with about a hundred fans (so far) and striking in front of FOX studios. Come and join us! More details.

The next item in my Mutant Enemy Day event personal fundraiser is up: four of the Dark Horse Serenity comics, all first printing: Mal cover, Inara cover, River cover, Book cover.

My auctions will all be three days long. Short notice, I know, but the event is next Friday. Still up for grabs are some hard-to-find autographed cards from the sold out Inkworks Firefly and Serenity sets.

Check back, more items will be added in the next couple days. Bid high, and bid often!

Recap: there’s a Mutant Enemy Fan Day coming up next Friday with Joss and Jane and Tim Minear and Marti Noxon and Steven DeKnight and more writers from Buffy, Angel, and Firefly getting together with about a hundred fans (so far) and striking in front of FOX studios. Come and join us! More details.

As I mentioned, there's a Mutant Enemy Fan Day coming up next Friday with Joss and Jane and Tim Minear and Marti Noxon and Steven DeKnight and more writers from Buffy, Angel, and Firefly getting together with about a hundred fans (so far) and striking in front of FOX studios. And I'm hopping on a plane to join in.

Problem is, I ain't got a lot of extra cash for something like this, especially before the holidays. So to raise a few bucks, I'm digging through my horde of Serenity Stuff and offering it up on eBay. First up, just posted, are some hard-to-find autographed cards from the sold out Inkworks Firefly and Serenity sets.

Check back, more items will be added in the next couple days. Bid high, and bid often!

It's official! Joss and his Mutant Enemy buddies are planning a Mutant Enemy Fan Day. Many of the ME people have been contacted and reportedly so far Jane Espenson, Doug Petrie, Amber Benson, and Adam Busch will definitely be there on the strike line picketing at FOX with Joss, and, hopefully, you. Come pick up a picket sign and march to show your support of our favoite writers. Best of all, Joss has promised that in the unlikely (but welcome) event of a concluded strike, some sort of celebration will happen anyway.

The event will be at the FOX studios (20th Century Fox Studios, 10201 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles) , Dec. 7, from 10 am to 2 pm. More details — and a lot of woo hooing, hotel information, directions and rapid plan-making – are available here.

And, in a display of utter cosmic rightness, the Nuart Theater in West LA will have a midnight showing of "Serenity" that same night. Click here for tickets.

I'll be there myself, in my first-ever West Coast visit. Don't let that keep you from attending.

Stop by the Joss Whedon fans forum at Fans4Writers.com to get the latest news and developments.