Fandom, Social Media, etc..

1. So I was tooling about on Youtube last night, mainly listening to various vocalizations of Pilat's Dream, and hunting info on Ben Daniels...when I accidentally hit an an old Dragon Con Buffy Panel from 2011. The odd bit about it -- is in the middle, a fan gets up and apologizes to the panel for the behavior of certain fans at the Friday Panel, two nights previous to that one. The people who weren't at the Friday Panel, which is basically just two people, are understandably confused. "Okay," says James Marsters, "What the hell happened at the Friday panel?" The fan gets nervous and says, oh, let them tell you. Then Brendan jokingly pretends to get up and leave the room. So, I get curious, and waste half an hour hunting down what happened. Surprisingly enough, I find it. It's over about a quarter of the way through Part I of the Dragon Con 2011 Buffy Panel with Eliza Dusku, Nicholas Brendan, Mercedes McNab, Julie Benze, and Claire Kramer.

What happened?

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2. Out of curiosity is anyone watching Roseanne? Or rather, are you watching and just scared to admit it online? (Totally understand. I'm not, but have been tempted once or twice by the promos, which admittedly have some good one-liners. But hey, that's why they are promos. But I've got too many tv shows, too little time, hated the last two seasons of that series, and despise Roseanne for some of the same reasons I despise the Doofus. But if you are? Is it any good? Does it normalize the Doofus?)

3. The problem with social media is you can't always avoid people who will post things that will cause a spike in blood pressure.
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