Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Calling Geek Crafters: We Want To Interview Joss Whedon and We Need Your Help!

Kids, CrochetMe.com—nay, the entire online crafts community—needs your help with something that could be so much fun, I can’t even find words for it. We need you to help us get Joss Whedon’s attention.

Who’s Joss Whedon? We know many of you already know, because you’ve chatted here about your love for his work, like the TV shows he created: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. And the movie Serenity. And the Astonishing X-Men comics and the Buffy comics, too.

And it’s possible that this week you watched Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (and if you haven’t yet, you should; it’s free for a limited time!). And maybe you read Whedonesque, the massive and wonderful site about all the people and projects remotely related to Joss Whedon’s work.

See, Joss Whedon is a wicked creative guy, and he entertains us. And last week, in a tongue-in-cheek response to an interview question on the Wired blog, he practically begged for a crochet publication to interview him*. And CrochetMe.com simply must be that pub. Why? A bulleted list will tell you:

* Just the thought of this makes me giggle. And as we all should know by now, absurdity is a big and special part of the internets.
* He’s trying something new on the internet with Dr. Horrible, and we love trying new things on the internet, too. If we knew people like Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion and Felicia Day, we’d want to do fun things like crochet with them, too.
* Tons of crafty types are geeks who love to combine crafts with their geekiness. And tons are geeks who never thought to combine their loves. And some aren’t geeks at all, but would be thoroughly entertained by an interview with Joss, too.
* Holy crap, have you seen Geek Central Station?
* There are hundreds of crocheted or knitted Jayne hats posted on Ravelry, alone.
* Speaking of Ravelry, there are over 900 members in a group on there that’s devoted just to Whedon’s work.
* Loads of crafters don’t have any idea who Joss Whedon is and have never known his work. We can’t just sit around and not seize this speck of an opportunity to try to remedy that.