still sick. not working today. feel guilty that i called in. i always feel like the boss doesn't believe me.

anyway, enjoy a brief read about Andromeda, which starts out talkig about James Marsters guest appearance this week (not spoilery).

even worster than snow, i hate being sick.

tonight on the syndiBuffy double feature, "Wild At Heart," which is the very first Buffy episode i ever saw, though i didn't realize what it was at the time. i only stopped to watch because of Seth Green (grrr!) the Werewolf (grrr! bark!).

the second ep tonight is "The Initiative". muscly millitary commandos and Spike. oh yeah!


also tonight, on UPN is Enterprise.

it's time to clean up my Favorites List. i can't find anything, though everything's sorted into folders. current count: 55 blogs (i only read about 20 daily), 26 Buffy sites, 21 news sources, 18 politic related sites, episode guides to 11 television programs, 9 dictionaries, 8 law related websites, 8 state and federal agencies, 6 gaming sites, 5 map/atlas sites, 4 cartoon related sites, 2 periodic tables of elements, and 51 assorted "junk links" (individual news stories, blog posts, dead and unidentifiable links, and this cow thing)? there are no porn links (those are all on my computer at home). i am a packrat. usually, i enjoy clutter, but there comes a time when it becomes too much for me.

so, goodbye to The Times (London, India, Hindustan, and Canberra).

so long, Buffy's Domain of Delight, CHUD, and Socio-Political Themes in The Smurfs.

farewell, Chad Slacker diaries, Ethnologue, History of the Federal Judiciary, FBI, White House, and Oklahoma Department of Environmental Qualilty.

adios, oneballjay (whoever you are).

Demon Kitties From Hell: The Movie

from Zap2it, 'Buffy' Sex Scene Had to Be Trimmed

David Boreanaz is married now.

this guy is in talks to play the villain in the next Trek movie, according to Trek Web. if he gets it, i'm hoping the villains are the Edo.

i hate snow.

tonight on the syndiBuffy double feature: the fourth season Hallowe'en episode "Fear, Itself" and "Beer Bad"

a note: if'n your wanting to discuss Buffy with me, get over your B/A 'shipperness, and quit talking about how the Spike/Buffy thing has ruined everything and that it'll take a lot to save this season. i don't want to hear it and i won't talk to you for the rest of the afternoon if you don't.

"hey, what's that?"

"it is, i believe, a dead horse."

ack. during it's 'Publishing Unavailable" Phase this morning, Blogger must have eaten my first two posts of the day. that bites.

Buffy's Swearing Keyboard. bizarre little wtf that's interesting at all for only 27 keystrokes.

heh.

an interview with Sarah Michelle Gellar about Scooby Doo (there are two parts to it). [via Dark Horizons]

tonight on the syndiBuffy double feature: "Living Conditions" -- an exposition on substandard dorm life

and "The Harsh Light of Day" investigates the effect of natural lighting on the skin.

also, i'd like to say that i fucking hate people who have their cell phone set to play 'Jingle Bells' instead of having a nice, normal, annoying ring.

i just had a sudden flashback to that episode of 7th Heaven that i hate so much, the one with the tear streaking down Dad's face at the end, the one that pisses me off so much that i slip into this autonomic response of shaking my fists in the air and shouting 'i fucking hate that show!!'

i don't know why i thought of that episode now, but it's really pissed me off again. fucking crappy programming. i'm waiting for the episode where one of kids snaps (and it will happen eventually. they all can't survive with that family for too long) and takes out the family with a shot gun, or a Lizie Borden style axing, or just fucking strangles them one by one as they sleep.

i really hate that show.

the Guardian UK article about Buffy that Max linked to started out really well, goes through a weak vampires-as-sex section, then builds back up to a Who's Who that expends more copy talking about Giles than Buffy, praises English vampires for being better dressers than American vamps, makes a few errors and omissions (Faith's not dead, Joyce is; Anya was a demon, not a goddess), says Giles gives the UK "a reputation for independent thought and irreverent behaviour" (irreverent behavior? Giles?) and lists Ted, but not Oz or Jenny or Jonathan or any of the many other characters who, unlike Ted, have appeared in more than one episode (what? is John Ritter the same thing to the British that Jerry Lewis is to the French?). also, i could have done without the rug-munching line.

kiss the kitty.

"LA BOUCHE SINGER DIES: Former La Bouche singer Melanie Thornton, 34, was among those who perished in that Swiss plane crash on Saturday near Zurich. Of the 33 passengers on board the Crossair jet, only nine survived. Thornton was on tour promoting her solo album, eerily titled Ready to Fly. "

my first thought was "a plane crashed?" news coverage around here really sucks.

had a strange dream last night in which Maggie Walsh and the alien chick from Species invaded my nephew's birthday party. they were capturing people to use as food for the Visitors. luckily, i was very skilled in the magickal arts, which i only used to leap to the top of a tree so i could hurl fruit at the invaders. it wasn't a very effective defense.