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The audition yesterday was eh. I have too many things to do today, including a deadline at work, a lot of critical, but smallish things for my other job and an audition for a major skincare campaign (that I feel like I got through the most unlikely of sources -- another agency I freelance with, who sounded as surprised as I did -- all they ever have gotten me is one promo gig ever, years ago -- I'd totally forgotten about them).

Meanwhile, last night Megan had a hot tip that the Pope was dead and the Vatican just wouldn't be announcing it until midnight. I emailed a bunch of people, and the Pope it seems is still very much alive. Clearly, after all these years, I'm still all about the scoop. Or something.

fandom at its worst, and I hope also best

http://www.livejournal.com/users/guede_mazaka/352550.html

I am now linking to guede_mazaka on this one as her post is the most neutral explication of the situation I can currently find. No doubt, it will still offend someone, and there's not a lot I can do about that, as I don't have the time or energy to read the entire thread, develop friendships with everyone involved, or otherwise divine the truth in a situation where absolute truth probably doesn't exist (as is the case in all situatios involving humans).

Every fandom is fucked up. And every online community has its dramas. And as we've seen (including on this journal in recent weeks) net "events" of this nature have a startling level of momentum. I'm not going to go on and on about it today, because you all _know_ how it works. I'll never be a BNF, and perhaps in all aspects of my life, fannish and not, the stories I have to tell may be too particular to make me the locus of any sort of stuff like this. Even so, a lot of people read this journal, and a lot of you are also well-read and great at disseminating information. I'm not asking anyone to do anything really, other than to read the linked to post above, consider it and if you have something to say, say it.

EDITED TO ADD:

( to clarify my position )

I'll write later about the Internet instigation of the changing definition of "public figure", and the dilemmas of comporting oneself as such.