Ellen Page/Writers Guild of America Solidarity Beard Update #5

Consider today's post a membership drive effort. You just tuned in to NPR for This American Life, and Ira Glass is asking you to pledge five bucks. Except I'm not asking for cash, and I won't be able to lure you with Sarah Vowell's lovely speaking voice.

Since David Letterman resumed The Late Show Wednesday night, Rider's Block has been viewed by no fewer than 40 unique hits in 36 hours due to Google searches for "writer's guild strike beard." My blog seems to be the top search result for that phrase.* (There's also the troubling visit I got from a branch of the U.S. Government, viewable here, but I won't get into that.)

And last week's searches for quotes from Hard Candy, detailed here, continue to bring in multiple hits a day.

I'd be a world-class idiot to not use these searches to attract readers, wouldn't I?

So here's Ellen Page, star of Hard Candy and Juno, with a Writers Guild of America solidarity beard.


My request of you, O Wise Searcher of Blogs: If you were amused by this post, stick around and read more. Bookmark it. Come back tomorrow. If you've never read a blog before, this is what Rider's Block is about. If the mood strikes, leave a comment. If you have a blog, I will link to it and read it. And if you roll your cursor above most of the images here, you're rewarded with hidden caption-treasures that tickle the spirit.

I'm trying to network, you see, for reasons I'll explain at the end of January.

Thanks for stopping by.

* I'm not among the top search results anymore. It dropped off overnight. But still.

Your Hard Candy Quote Blog

Beginning Christmas morning, Google searches for quotes from Hard Candy started directing surfers to Rider's Block. It hasn't been a week yet, and the number of those visitors has reached a dozen.

Aside from not understanding why a movie about a girl confronting a pedophile is on people's minds on little Baby Jebus' birthday, I'm concerned about another matter. I feel like I short-changed the folks who read my original post and found just one quote.

Here are three more quotes from Hard Candy. But first, a fun (made up) fact about Ellen Page.

Didja know™ Ellen Page will only appear in a film, or help promote it, if she's allowed to wear Chuck Taylors? That's because she was born wearing them! It should be true!

"Well, four out of five doctors agree that I am actually insane."

"Honor student, remember? Nothing I can't do when I put my mind to it."

"Was I born a cute, vindictive, little bitch or...did society make me that way?"

Best Movie Quote from Hard Candy

At least one other blogger has written a comprehensive study of actress Ellen Page and her performance in the 2005 independent movie Hard Candy, so I'll just limit this post to one quote.

"I guess they, uh, weren't brass." *

Add this to your Netflix queue and watch it with a guy. He'll wriggle uncomfortably for 103 minutes.


* I so called the disposal.