If you have a problem with this - contact Sci-Fi and MGM and express your thoughts. My recommendation is that it’s wise to be polite and while you may be angry, swearing and throwing threats at them won’t help.

MGM Television
10250 Constellation Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90067
USA
Phn: 310-449-3000
Fax: 310-449-8750
comments@mgm.com

Sci-Fi
30 Rockefeller Center
21st Floor
New York, NY 10112
USA
Phn: 212-664-4444
Fax: 212-703-8533
feedback@scifi.com

Many years have passed since that change began and I’ve changed in a lot of ways and become more than I could have ever imagined. Faith is what has brought me through the many difficulties I’ve faced in my life, especially the chronic illness that has been my constant companion for the past 13 years. Faith has brought me through the times that I could see no future and the times I began once again to question my purpose, I found the strength to keep going, even when I felt most abandoned.

Not long after becoming a Christian, I discovered the music of Steven Curtis Chapman. He was one of the artists that touched me and taught me about life and about faith. In May this year, a terrible tragedy struck the Chapman family when their 5 year old daughter was accidentally killed in the driveway of their home.

When I heard the news I felt great pain for the family and today I watched a family share with real strength and grace what faith really is. I was so touched by it I felt I needed to share it here.

Life is full of difficulty but trusting in God, even when your heart just wants to scream out “Why!?” is what faith is all about.

Here’s a news article about the story followed by the family’s appearance on Larry King Live last week.

Unimaginable tragedy struck the Chapman family the evening of May 21 when their 5-year-old daughter Maria Sue was accidentally killed by an SUV driven by her 17-year-old brother, Will Franklin.

“At first you don’t even know if you can breathe. You don’t know if you are going to survive the grief and the deep, deep, deep sadness,” says Grammy-winning Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman, who sat down with his family for an emotional interview with PEOPLE at their Franklin, Tenn., home. “You just want to lay down and die.”

Wrestling with the pain of his daughter’s death and the anguish of the son who was at the wheel, Chapman says, “every lyric I’ve ever written has been tested beyond what I ever imagined.”

But the deeply religious family says the loss of Maria, who was adopted from China in 2004 (two more daughters, Shaoey, 9 next week, and Stevey Joy, 5, were also adopted from that country), served to strengthen their belief. “Faith is the only way I can tell myself she’s okay. She’s safe in the arms of Jesus and she’s flyin’ around,” says Will, who continues, along with other family members, to see a counselor.

Steven’s wife Mary Beth admits that healing is slow: “I’m broken and I would give anything to have my baby girl back. But that’s not going to happen. So I wake up in the morning and make a choice. You can wallow in the deep end or you say, ‘God, show me what you want me to be about today and how can I honor you, and in turn honor Maria.’”

Steven, Mary Beth, Will and oldest son Caleb, 18, all have gotten tattoos in honor of the little girl they called ‘our laughter’. A photo of Mary Beth’s tattoo and more from the family can be found in this week’s PEOPLE.

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Password:

Anyone regular to digg probably knows this isn’t the first time something like this has happened - but what gives? Is there some conspiracy against Joss Whedon here?

I’ve just gotta ask what’s the point of digg if the popular stuff doesn’t get to be popular?

Before anyone says it, this isn’t about a bunch of Whedon fans getting their knickers in a twist - Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is attracting the interest of mainstream media, not just Whedon fans. Dr Horrible is as much about changing the face of entertainment as we know it today as it is about merely entertaining a few fans.

io9.com reports:

If online video is ever going to become a medium that challenges network TV, that challenge is going to start with shows like Dr. Horrible. Shows that aren’t afraid to be what they are. You know, blogs. Where people sing and wear rubber gloves and take over the world.

Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is without a doubt worthy of being called popular all over the internet, appearing on the front page of the LA Times, TIME, MSN.com, Google News - Entertainment, Cinema Blend, MeeVee and many others. Perhaps most importantly - because it involves people parting with hard earned cash - after only a few hours of being listed on iTunes it shot to #1 TV season and within 24 hours of being listed was #1 TV episode downloaded. So, is this proof of a digg conspiracy?

• Digg Link 1 (more than 1600 votes) http://digg.com/television/Official_Website_for_Dr_Horrible_s_Sing_Along_Blog
  
• Digg Link 2 (more than 300 votes)
  http://digg.com/television/Dr_Horrible_s_Sing_Along_Blog_Act_1
  
• Digg link for this article
  http://digg.com/world_news/Digg_Should_Be_Burried
  
• Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
  http://www.drhorrible.com

Note: I was watching both these items and they had many many votes within 24 hours of being posted

UPDATE: it’s interesting to note that a representitive of digg? posted this comment on the Dr Horrible website where reference to this article was made.

“There is no conspiracy. We love Dr. Horrible.”

It’s also interesting to note that we were neither banned nor “burried” for this particular digg (good news) however it didn’t make popular receiving only around 90 votes.

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Password:

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Password:

At first I thought this was kinda like poetry.com where pretty much everything that’s submitted gets published and they tell you how great you are to make you buy their books and stuff..so I checked the Personal category to see what other ratings were like.  Turns out that out of the 15,000 personal blogs that have been rated, an 8.3 puts me in the top 140-350 blogs.  I was quite surprised that it didn’t seem like some scam to get me to drive up their search engine ranking.

Kinda cool!  You can even rate my blog yourself by clicking on the banner thingy in the bar over there on the right

• Part 1 - Tuesday July 15
  
• Part 2 - Thursday July 17
  
• Part 3 - Saturday July 19

These episodes will “air” online only until July 20.

Following that they will be made available for download at a “nominal fee” and in the near future available to buy on a very special DVD “with the finest and bravest extras in all the land”.

Now it’s time to spread the word far and wide to all the corners of the interweb. Grab some banners from the official site and post them everywhere you go - and be sure to cover those places people wouldn’t normally hear about this.

This is your chance to play a part in changing the face of the entertainment industry forever.

Joss Whedon: “[Do] What you always do, peeps! What you’re already doing. Spread the word. Rock some banners, widgets, diggs… let people know who wouldn’t ordinarily know. It wouldn’t hurt if this really was an event. Good for the business, good for the community – communitIES: Hollywood, internet, artists around the world, comic-book fans, musical fans (and even the rather vocal community of people who hate both but will still dig on this). Proving we can turn Dr Horrible into a viable economic proposition as well as an awesome goof will only inspire more people to lay themselves out in the same way. It’s time for the dissemination of the artistic process. Create more for less. You are the ones that can make that happen.”

• Digg This
• Joss Whedon Post on Whedonesque
• The Official Website & “Air” Location

Teaser from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.