i've begun thinning the herd. i've dropped Special Unit 2 and Roswell from my Required Weekly Viewing list. i just don't have the time, with the 13 hours of Buffy on every week, but, more than that, they just aren't holding my interest. Smallville still has a chance, though it may be on a Viewing hiatus for a couple of weeks.

i've also decided that i need somewhere to focus my burning fury, so i'm thinking of taking up Seventh Heaven viewing. man, that show pisses me off, and if i have an outlet for all of my pent up anger and frustration, i may become a nicer person.

Jean points out that there's a new 60 second teaser for "Once More, With Feeling" (the Buffy musical episode) up here (the same place for the two minute teaser). more ensemble, more Spike, and Tara! also, a dancing demon! i was hoping there was no dancing demon, that Anya's theory for the cause of the singing was the right one.

tonight, it's four hours of spooky syndiBuffy fun! "Halloween," "Teacher's Pet," "Dead Man's Party," and "Fear, Itself", beginning at 5pm CST.

Hunter: The Reckoning is coming for Xbox. now i have to get one.

tonight is the night that, in an ancient power-sharing agreement, the Seelie Court gives over the reigns to the Unseelie Court.

Get to know your new masters: Unseelie faeries of the British Isle.

just got back from the stupid company costume contest. none of the contestants knows what "Most Original or Creative" means. almost everyone who got up there had a store bought costume (Winnie the Pooh is original?). there were a few good ideas that were poorly executed, and then a couple of good, original and creative ideas. the winner of that catagory was a guy from the mailroom wearing what i thought at first to be a Christmas gift. he was "God's Gift to Women."

the partiotic catagory sucked. 4 contestants: Raggedy Ann holding an American Flag, a woman in army fatigues and face paint, a mediocre looking Statue of Liberty, and "Aunt Samantha" (female Uncle Sam, i.e., red, white & blue striped and starred clothing and hat) who played the national anthem on the violin. the judges picked Aunt Sam to win, as long as she played the national anthem again, so she did. people stood up and acted like they actually gave a f*ck. she sounded like a junior high school orchestra student, but everyone cheered for her like she was Yitzhak f*cking Perlman.

my idea for a costume: wear a very boring looking jacket and tie, and keep an inflatable woman in my cubicle, along with a plastic baby doll and a plush stuffed dog. every once in a while, reach over and punch the inflatowoman and scream "Where's my dinner, woman!" what am i? heterosexual.

feh. these people have ruined Halloween for me. no one remembers the true meaning of Halloween.

You Call It Hallowe'en... We Call It Samhain and other articles.

tonight is a three hour Buffy night!

first syndiBuffy: "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" -- alliteration is fun for the entire family.

second syndiBuffy: "Passion" -- a great episode, one that made me hate Angel for a looong time.

and the brand spankin' new UPN Buffy is "All The Way" -- considering this episode seems to be about Dawn, i don't think i care much for this title.

an email from Jean, about the two minute Buffy Musical Episode promo:

Something else that's interesting about WDWGFH is the juxtaposition when they're all lined up holding hands. Buffy's got Spike, Dawn and Giles in between her and the people who raised her, and Willow is the farthest away from Buffy. Also, when the song starts out there's a clear split in the stage blocking, with Spike & Buffy apart from the core group, and Anya and Dawn both off by themselves. I wonder if that's significant.

The hand holding positioning is interesting in light of Restless, though, especially if you theorize that Buffy playing in the sandbox was supposed to represent both herself and Dawn. So in that scene in Restless, you had Buffy, Giles, Spike & Dawn in one group on the playground, and the people who raised Buffy in the ice cream truck. Xander starts out torn between them, but then ends up in the ice cream truck.

some people watch television. others *watch* television. many of the things Jean has said about the promo have made me sit back and nod my head in awed contemplation.

i'm a penguin. you?
[via 8leggeddj]

why no new Slayer over the summer? (we've known this for a long time. why's TVGuide so slow in keeping up? maybe they laid off too many non-executive people)(my pH > 12).

and speaking of new Slayers, i didn't realize Bianca Lawson (Kendra) was in the Snoop Dogg movie Bones or in the had-no-desire-to-see Save the Last Dance.

football is boring. baseball is not.

"One time, I was at the grocery store, walking through the doors in a wistful attempt to recapture the magic, and I was attacked by some Girl Scouts. Apparently, they were trying to sell those damn cookies (which are Soylent Green, by the way. You heard it here, first), and I was scaring off the potential customers. Those Girl Scouts are very territorial, and they'll stab you in the neck if you don't watch it."

girl scouts are evil. even Wil Wheaton says so.

i like this photo of James Marsters.

last night's Angel (maybe spoilery, yada yada blah blah): Misogynist Wesley was scarey. afterward, i had a scarey dream of him stalking me through halls of my old high school, which was much bigger than i remember. also, i guess he wouldn't be Misogynist Wesley if he chased me. he'd just be Axe-Wielding Wesley.

Weeping Wesley made me sad. poor guy.

Gunn rocks! he took it on the noggin twice for the team. he didn't get much screen time this episode though.

Fred's getting better. no more hanging out in her room for weeks at a time, which is good. there are only so many episodes you can get out of her in her room.

yay for Wes/Cordy tenderness moments! these two spent all that time in Sunnydale making googly eyes at each other. there should be something deeper (though platonic) between them. plus, i like Cordy being the one they all go to when they need advice.

yay for Cordy empowerment episode! yay for Lilah growing some of whatever it is women grow that makes them brave! yay for Cordelia/Lilah talk! yay for Lilah taking down the baddie and just walking away! yay! yay! yay!

i wish/hope that Billy isn't dead. i thought he was going to be more of a baddie this season (even though i reeeaaallly hate him. he did do that cool "slam the fists on the ground thing and make it ripple and glow" thing though).

next week: the return of everyone's favorite syph-ridden Whore vampire, Darla!

tonight, the syndiBuffy double feature is: first -- "Innocence" -- Luke, who was dusted by Buffy in 'The Harvest' is reincarnated as a big smurf with a bad attitude, and to deal with him, Buffy brings in the big guns: Gargamel and Azrael!

followed by (Jeopardy! style) answer:"Phases." the question: What were the Xander and Oz thing for Willow?

on tonight's Angel: "Billy"

i've been thinking: if you've had the desire to buy something for me and send it to me (or just send large denominations of cash) but thought that sending something out of the blue would put you into Stalkerville, you can safely do so this week and next without anyone thinking you're a freak. my birthday is on Thursday.

i offer my thanks to you now for your gifts. Buffy memorabilia would be great, but cash is always welcomed and probably would save you on postage.

so i go to the FX website to cast my votes for the Buffy X-Ballot marathon on Thanksgiving Day (sorry, Grandma, i can't make it. there's a Buffy marathon on today), and they let you choose three episodes as your favorite. it goes up through the fifth season, which i didn't know (i thought FX would only have the first four seasons). it excludes the episodes "Hush," "Buffy vs. Dracula," "The Body," "The Weight of the World," and "The Gift." i don't know why. i hope it means they have something special planned for those eps, and not that FX won't be showing them.

ha! i got out of being Dead Guy in our group's Halloween decoration contest entry. instead, i get to be Guy Who Makes Cardboard Tombstones. my choices include:

•Dedicated Employee -- Worked Herself To Death
•Beloved Friend Count Chocula -- Death By Chocolate
•Rest In Pieces -- Andrew and Abby Borden followed by the Lizzie kiddie rhyme (Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks... and so on).
•Bloody Mary -- followed by a recipe for a Bloody Mary

egad! a two minute promo for Buffy: The Musical can be found here. there are also the shorter teasers, plus some for other episodes of Buffy and Angel.

the two minute promo is great. watch it. i burst out laughing at Anya.
[bravo! to Jean for emailing the link, though i don't know why she doesn't blog it herself]

she also says (don't hold me to it. consider it rumor for now) that a posting over at MBTV says the episode will run 10 or 15 minutes long, be in widescreen format, and that a soundtrack release is planned.

tonight's syndiBuffy: Jenny Calendar's true loyalties begin to show in "Surprise"

spacekitty
[via Mefi at this thread, where are more kitties and other stuff to look at.]

my "Life Serial" review is up. finally (damned job keeps getting in the way).

bloody hell!!!!!!! is this friggin show ever going to make to the air?

Sci Fi Wire says "Fox will delay the series premiere of The Tick one week, to Nov. 8 from Nov. 1. The Tick, starring Patrick Warburton, will air Thursdays at 8:30 p.m."

wanna hear some singing Spike or Giles but can't wait for the musical episode? or maybe you're in the mood for the crooning of Darla or Lindsay? the Host? how about Angel's rendition of "Mandy"? then you gots ta check this out.

tonight's syndiBuffy is "Bad Eggs", the Evil Easter Bunny episode.

TVGuide Online says "Crossing Over" host John Edward will attempt to communicate with victims of the Sept. 11 attacks during several November sweeps episodes, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Steve Rosenberg, president of Studios USA, which syndicates Crossing Over, says the shows "will be done tastefully... and won't be exploitative."

also, CBS News anchor Dan Rather is refusing to get tested for anthrax or take antibiotics — despite the fact that his assistant was infected with the disease and traces of the bacteria were found in his office. "We're not going to run scared and we're not going to work scared," he told The Associated Press.

is it me, or does it seem like something's happening inside Dan's head that we should be worried about?

ok, there's some talk about numbers over at the IGN Buffy boards, and i've been wondering the same thing they're asking. what's with all the characters wearing shirts with numbers prominently displayed on them? is it some sort of new fashion trend that's about (re)explode across the country? or are the numbers hidden clues about something? or are they total Cheeseman in nature and mean absolutely nothing?

my review of "Life Serial" will be delayed a day. a co-worker sent me one of those "If you're a TRUE AMERICAN, you wave the flag and KNOW that the Founding Fathers wanted a Christian nation" email things, which pissed me off, so I had to write a big, long denunciation of such unthinkingly false (and poorly written) religio-patriotic pieces of shit-talk. i'm not going to be very popular around here for a while. anyway, "Life Serial" review on Friday, i promise.

there's another positive point to the FX schedule change: Ally McBeal is being moved to much early and much later times. that means i don't have to see Calista Flockhart just before and after Buffy (Buffy was sandwhiched between two eps of Ally)(and Sarah Michelle Gellar could soooo kick Calista Flockhart's ass that it's not even funny, but Sarah should do it anyway, just to show she can).

FX has made a change to their schedule (several, actually, but only a couple concern us):

beginning Monday, Oct 29, the afternoon repeat of the previous evening's Buffy will no longer be shown. instead, two episodes of Buffy will be shown back-to-back (but you knew that part, because you've been watching syndiBuffy and saw the commercial, right?), but neither will be a repeat, i.e., Monday's first episode will be "Innocence", followed by "Phases."

Tuesday's episodes will be "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" and "Passion."

next Wednesday is Halloween (the holiday, not the episode, although...), and the Buffy-in-sequence thing goes out the window as one episode from each of the first four seasons is shown ("Halloween," "Teacher's Pet," "Dead Man's Party," and "Fear, Itself").

Thursday returns to the proper sequence with "Killed By Death" and "I Only Have Eyes For You."

Friday finishes up the week with "Go Fish" and "Becoming, part 1."

i'll miss the afternoon repeat. it was the one chance for me to catch an episode if something when wrong and i missed it the night before. but, this means we'll go through them much faster, and i'll get to see them all much sooner than before and Jean will get "Lover's Walk" sooner too (Nov. 9).

who knew Jack Tripper could be so menacing? "Ted" must have been a good episode. Mike walked through the room just as it came on, sat down for a few minutes, and ended up watching the entire episode with me. it's been close to a year since that's happened. he wasn't impressed by the teasers for the musical episode (though *i* nearly wet myself everytime one came on).

tonight on syndiBuffy: "Ted," which i'm a little anxious to see because Dawn made a reference to this ep in one of the season five episodes (i'm not telling which, 'cause then someone would say i didn't warn them and ruined tonight's syndiBuffy for them. wankers).

a review of Monday's Angel ep "Fredless"

Dark Horizons reports that "there's rumour that much like the upcoming "The Scorpion King" spin-off from "The Mummy Returns", Universal is also considering doing a spin-off movie of "American Pie 2" surrounding the famous 'Band Camp' scene."

i didn't care for either American Pie movie, but if they want to give Alyson Hannigan a lead role in a movie, i'm all for it.

in case you ran to the kitchen or had to go potty every commercial during Buffy last night, Schmuck Bait has posted links to two of the Buffy the Musical Teasers (here and here). i'm looking for the two new teasers, one focused on SMG and the other with full cast and back up dancers and Spike! good god! Spike! that one three second portion gave me goose bumps!

i'm thinking that i should have a watch party for the musical episode and invite over everyone i know, but i live with two of them (what? i didn't tell you that i moved last weekend?) and i think Jean will want to stay home to watch. it wouldn't be much of a party without her :) everyone else i know i don't think i could stand to have over during Buffy. they'd talk all through it, or keep asking questions, and when i'm watching Buffy, i wear a big "Do Not Disturb" sign on my chest (and have a Big Knife nearby, in case i need it).

tonight is doubly Buffilious night! first, on tonight's syndiBuffy, "What's My Line, Part 2," featuring my third favorite Slayer (after Buffy and Nikki).

then, on UPN Buffy: "Life Serial". Mikey likes it!

"The best change [in the Angel series], however, may be the maturation of Buffy's former spoiled brat Cordelia, played with increasing depth and dexterity by Charisma Carpenter. With Buffy out of the picture, Cordelia may even serve as a romantic interest for her vampire boss — though if so, Greenwalt promises not to string out the story."--USAToday

yay! i LERV Cordy! Charisma deserves the adulation.

Everyone will be amazed by Sarah Michelle - the lady can sing!" announces costar James Marsters.

hooray for the coming musical episode!

mycathatesyou.com
[via megarad]

i've been volunteered to participate in my workgroup's Halloween decoration thing for a stupid contest. i hate my job. these people can't get it through their thick heads that i don't like to participate in crap like this. and it doesn't matter that i tell them i don't want to be a part of it. they ignore me.

no sleep, no sleep. didn't feel well last night. anthrax kept me awake (i'm blaming every symptom i exhibit on anthrax, especially the feline dander related anthrax i'm experiencing).

even the great and powerful coffee gods can't help me right now.

tonight on syndiBuffy: "What's My Line, Part 1"

i'm gonna skip over the cocaine jokes that spring to mind. actually, i hadn't given much thought to that title before, but now, i suddenly see how appropriate it is for this episode. clever titler, and yay for Buffy epiphanies (Buffiphanies? say that word out loud. it's fun!).

heh. last post i said i wanted more J. August Richards stuff to link to. if i'd looked a little harder, i would have had something.

since today is Angel day, i'll throw out a couple more Angel-related links: Alexis Denisof interview (one i may have linked before. it felt familiar, but i couldn't find a previous link) and "The Art of Being Charisma Carpenter." they really need to do more with J. August Richards. i want to link more often to things about him.

tonight's Angel ep is "Fredless": Angel (David Boreanaz) goes into full detective mode when Fred's (Amy Acker) parents unexpectedly arrive in Los Angeles to bring Fred home, but their appearance inexplicably sends her into a tailspin and on the run.

the Charisma Carpenter fansite says "Charisma stars in an episode [of VH-1's Strange Frequency series] called "Don't Fear the Reaper," where she plays a goth singer obsessed with death -- that is, until the Grim Reaper shows up at one of her shows! The air date is listed as Saturday, November 10, 2001 at 10pm."

also from the CC fansite, here's Charisma with wings, and i didn't realize that CC's hair was so important to the WB (i couldn't decide which way i preferred).

Fray #4 is out (finally! after taking September off). it had a nice little twist at the end that was foreseeable, but not in one of those 'oh, that's soooo obvious' kind of ways. still liking the art, still liking the story, and still eagerly anticipating the next issue.

TVGuide online article : "The Bite Stuff" (har) about Angel.

and from (minor casting spoilers in link)"Insider": "Alas, other former favorites are less likely to drop in. Now that Buffy again has a pulse, a visit with the heartthrob who always made it race — Riley — is a no-brainer. However, sighs Noxon, "that's a big, big maybe. It depends on if Marc Blucas is available. He's turning into a big, fancy movie guy.

"Between him and Seth Green [who played Willow's beau, Oz], we're stuck," she adds. "And forget about Eliza Dushku [aka rogue Slayer Faith] — we can't get her back."

the TVGuide "Insider" article is summarized here at Sci Fi Wire, but they also include some spoilery info about the Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Musical episode, and it would have really been nice for SciFi Wire to have put some sort of warning in the title, or at least in the article before you get to that part. bloody bastards).

because 5 just weren't enough, Sly Stallone says something about "Rocky 6" and that Rocky may be going to Broadway. (audio clip). he also said a bunch of other stuff, but it's really hard listening to his voice, ya know?
[via Dark Horizons and the Sylvester Stallone website]

wanna see some cute kitties? (it gave me a headache).
[via Comatose]

hey, i'd watch. there are a few reasons i don't want Cordelia to get her own spin off series, but the biggest is: if Cordelia's on a separate series, then she and Angel can't get together and fall in love and have little fashionable vampire babies (hey, if Darla can have Angel's baby, why can't Cordy?).

the second biggerst reason i don't want Cordy to get her own show is that i already spend too much time in front of the television. i watch Angel, UPN Buffy, Roswell, Smallville, Enterprise, Special Unit 2, Mutant X, syndiBuffy five nights a week, and weekend syndiBuffy on the local WB affiliate. and think about what's coming up! X-Files (eeg. was that last night?), 24 and The Tick. plus, James Marsters is guest starring on Andromeda for an ep next month (i already like the show. i'm afraid to watch or i may become interested enough to be a regular viewer), Ab Fab is coming back, and QAF starts up again in January.

i think it's time i started doing some tv viewage trimming. still, even if i just watch Buffyverse, that's 8 hours of tv a week, almost twice what i watched last spring.

shootings at a downtown club here in Tulsa last night. one of my coworkers was there with family and friends celebrating her birthday. her cousin was the guy shot in the back and the guy who was shot in the head was the cousin's friend. dozens of people witnessed the shooting. many know the shooter by name. no one told the police who he was.

tonight on syndiBuffy: "The Dark Ages" which applies aptly to us, if the things i've been reading in the news lately are true.

American Jedi. the only good parts are the lacrosse scenes.

great title: Some Dirt Ass, Perverted, Truly Dispared Individual, Locked Me In This Hellhole And All They Left Me Was This Fu*king Video Camera

the Jason Bates' review of this week's Enterprise and Natalie Lyon's review of the premiere of Smallville.

i have to agree with Natalie about one thing. wasn't Bo Duke as Pa Kent kinda sexy? do you think that, when he's feeling all frisky, he makes Ma Kent dress up like Daisy? hey, when he said to superlicious son Clark, 'It's time you knew the truth," maybe he was actually going to show him what he keeps locked away in the other barn, the General Lee(!), but changed his mind 'cause he ain't sharing the General with no one.

personally, i think they should have tapped Tom Wopat to play Lex's father. hell, while we're at it, they should have cast Catherine Bach as Ma Kent (the Dukes are from Georgia. incest is ok there).

two hours at work and i still haven't done anything. reminds me of the good old days, when i could goof off for half the day with no problem, no expectation of 'work'. that all changed after my old boss was reorganized out of a job. the new boss, in re-evaluating what we do, decided to have some work created to fill in all the Fun Time we used to have. work created for the sake of working is pointless. and boring. and makes me unhappy. and my work suffers. now, i work almost twice as much (timewise) as before but my production numbers have fallen to just over half of what they were. no Fun Time = Grumpy Terrence. Grumpy Terrence doesn't focus well (terrence has trouble focusing anyway. Grumpy Terrence even moreso). Grumpy Terrence drinks a lot of coffee, which makes him jittery, and the whole concept of "Focus" dissipates in the creamered Columbian haze.

i miss my old job. i miss my pointless and nonproductive existence.

GameSpot has a review of "Sid Meier's Civilization III". it sounds like a big improvement over Civ II (which i really couldn't get into. too cumbersome) and may be what reintroduces me to the 20 hour Civ marathons i used to pull regularly. we'll see if it can replace my old favorite turn-based strategy game, "Alpha Centauri" (i love the Planetbusters).

tonight on syndiBuffy: "Lie To Me" in which Joyce asks Buffy, for the thousandth time, is everything ok?

my review of "Flooded" is up.

VSG and i watched Dr. Dolittle 2 last night. while i enjoy talking racoons and beavers as much as the next guy, i believe that i could have enjoyed a long and happy life without ever seeing this movie.

last night's syndiBuffy was a yay! event. besides such great things as Sexy Xander, "Who's That Girl?" Oz, and Catsuit Cordelia (for some reason it just cracks me up. they should make that an action figure), we also get Ripper! he took on Ethan, and i shouted "kick him! kick him again! kick him harder!" yay, Ripper!

my only thoughts on Enterprise: Cmdr Trip... spandex... Cmdr Trip... spandex... (oh.. and that the theme song is starting to grow on me).

*sniff* heading home for anthrax treatment *cough*: tonight's syndiBuffy! this episode is "Halloween" in which Xander gets butch in that sexy way that Nick Brendon seems to be really good at (think "The Pack").

Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween

Sci Fi Wire says: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Anthony Stewart Head will appear on a Halloween edition of Hollywood Squares, Oct. 29-31. Head will be dressed as Robin Hood."

hey, he could've gone as Frank-n-Furter.

also, Alexis Denisof talks about Wesley (briefly).

i'm coming down with something. at first, i thought it was just my allergies. this is the time of year they usually kick in full force. now though, i can feel the congestion in my chest, i have a slight headache, a light fever, and the lymph nodes in my neck and axillary area are swollen. it's apparent that i have inhalation anthrax. i haven't opened any suspicious mail or, to my knowledge, been exposed to an unknown white powder (that kilo of cocaine i received last month doesn't count), but, in these frightening (and hysteric) times, what else could it be?

so i pledge to everyone that i will continue to blog as the infection grows ("last of the great tolkhans: the Anthrax Series"), relaying first hand accounts of the terrible toll the microorganism takes on my body, posting photos of any mucilaginous discharges, until i either succumb or am cured. or if the doctor tells me it's just a cold. or until the weekend, when i don't blog anyway.

in case you left the room during the commercials while watching Buffy last night, or taped it to watch later and ff'd through them, you missed the commercials for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the Musical. it's an episode that's coming up quickly. see the Buffster sing! i think we'll be in a bigger treat to see Giles and Spike do some singing. i've been told that Anthony Head and James Marsters are actually very good. you can catch a little of Singing Giles in the fourth season episode "Restless" (and he is quite good. i should actually call him Rockin' Giles), or maybe you were lucky enough to hear "ASH in the 1990 London revival of "The Rocky Horror Show" (follow the link to hear some clips), and James is said to have sung often at a Santa Monica club.

Giles came back! Jonathan! yay, Buffy!

tonight on syndiBuffy: "Reptile Boy". hmm. nothing snarky to add to that. off day.

later gators.

odd. i didn't have much to say to-day, i guess. i'm sure that'll change tomorrow. Buffy's on tonight (on UPN), followed by Roswell, which is opposite the series premiere of Smallville. maybe i should have made a bigger deal out of the Smallville thing. eh.

ho! i found something i posted 5 years ago: an old AD&D character's "Poof!" spell.

Angel alternately cracked me up and made me sad. it made me sad for Fred that she has her thing for Angel, because i know it'll never work. Angel and Cordy are destined to be together. and since Gunn and Wesley obviously have something going on between them, where's Fred going to find love? the Host? i don't think so. Doyle's dead (and maybe a ghost living in Cordy's apartment). Merle's dead. Lindsay left. there just aren't any good candidates right now. we need a new character introduced. hey! what about Skip? he's sorta out of job right now, though i guess he may have some issues with Angel.

tonight on syndiBuffy: "Inca Mummy Girl" in which Xander continues his trend of pursuing women who are only out to kill him.

i forgot to mention last Friday that the syndiBuffy showing was "School Hard," the first Spike episode. if you didn't get to see it, you can drop by and watch it with me sometime.

that scum sucking, bribe taking, lying, hypocritical son of a motherfriggin' bitca J.C. Watts Jr. (R - OK) used the word "bomb" in an outburst at an officer who had just given Watts a ticket for violating new security rules at the OKC airport. he also stuffed the ticket under the badge of the officer. i think that's assault. should have arrested the bastard who would have then had a taste of what awaits his sorry ass (he's corrupt. he'll be caught one day).

do i make it too obvious that i loathe that hemorrhoid of a man with a passion that burns hotter than the fusion furnace core of a star?

"At Gemstar - TV Guide, safety is always a priority. In light of recent events, all persons handling company mail will have rubber gloves made available to them. Your regional HR staff will have gloves and can provide you with additional information."

oy.

"Variety reported that syndicated reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer staked out the highest debut for an off-network weekly hour since the premiere of ER in 1998, according to Nielsen Media Research data for the week ending Sept. 30. Buffy reruns debuted with a 2.7 in household ratings, the trade paper reported."

yay!

in discussing my cryptozoological favorite, the Tasmanian Tiger, with a friend at the DEQ, he said that he saw a documentary last year claiming that one had been found or video taped. anyone else seen this documentary, or heard of one being filmed? any confirmed reports of sightings? i found this, but it's four years old now.

today's Cryptozoological beastie is: the mokele-mbembe!

was a mokele-mbembe killed in 1960? is it a living sauropod?

ooooh! spoooooky!

with all this talk about anthrax, and all the ways that folks are trying to blame these sudden multiple appearances of the bacterium in NY and FL on terrorism and various Middle Eastern and South Asian nations, i'd like to take this opportunity to repost a link to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and remind everyone that a biological weapons program, possibly including anthrax, once (and probably still does) existed in the nation oft-considered the greatest threat to world security and peace: Canada.

had a new nightmare last night, which is interesting, since i usually dream variations on the same nightmares i've been having for a decade. this one actually startled me out of sleep, and i ended up falling out of bed. clocked myself but good on the wall and now i have a little bruising along the jawline.

i think my co-workers are beginning to suspect that i'm a Batmanish-type superhero in my off time. i'm always coming to work with new cuts and bruises, i walk like i'm sore, and i never seem to be getting enough sleep. as much as i wish it was true (it'd be fun throwing down with Evil Doers, i think), it's not, which is a good thing. i don't own a codpiece and i don't look good in spandex. i do love a good cape though.

anyway, i'm not a superhero. just a klutz.

bloody hell.

i think the permalinks are working again. for some reason, the problem only affected last week's posts. if there are still any troubles with them, please let me know.

remember the Fourth grade competition thing i talked of earlier this week? my boss's boss's boss called me personally and guilted me into going (i'd decided not to participate). turns out it was a good thing i did. my idea for the design of the balloon tower and my vast knowledge of American history won the day. the team I was on (Team Liberty. i didn't name us) won, and we get to go home now. yay! so i'm off!

eh, shit. just noticed my permalinks aren't working. i'll fix that next week.

Disconnecting for the weekend....

....

more Enterprise stuff: Braga Talks Enterprise Theme

Brannon Braga told the Calgary Sun that he's aware of some fans' unhappiness with the UPN series' opening theme song, Faith of the Heart, by Dianne Warren. [He said] "There are some people who love the song."

someone should tell him that his wife and Dianne Warren don't count.

Jason Bates' review of "Strange New Worlds" (this week's Enterprise ep); it has a couple of points, but really isn't a good review, and it actually miffs me off because of this:

"You'd think this would be a tremendous moment in human history, equivalent to Columbus' landing in America -- Earth is nothing if not horribly overcrowded, and a brand new, unclaimed planet with no inhabitants would be a panacea. Or is whatever government that exists at this early stage of the Federation so efficient that is has solved world hunger, poverty, etc. Or does Earth have colonies outside its system already, which is sort of implied by the 'boomers' they keep mentioning. These are important question that never seem to get addressed and whatever has been printed in some interview does NOT count since this is a review of the show, not what you read in a magazine somewhere. "

i say, dude, watch the pilot episode again and get over your (literal) masturbatory detox rub down scene fantasies and your (figurative) masturbatory "What I'd like to see in this series/what I don't want to see in this series" review. it's made quite clear in "Broken Bow" that Earth has taken care of it's poverty-war-disease-hunger thing.

what the heck do you expect? for Archer and crew take the shuttlecraft down and immediately begin surveying a location for the capitol of New Earth (they were there for less than two days)? or do you do a cursory exploration of the planet surface to compile a report to send back to Earth and let the bigwigs back home make the decision about further exploration and colonization while you continue your mission of exploration of space?

i think Mr Bates just didn't do his homework, like he threw something together at the last minute hoping teacher would go easy on him since he's done well before.

of course, i'm the lamoid asshole who's reviewing someone's review of a television program.

Sarah Kuhn's review of Monday's Angel episode "That Old Gang of Mine". she had the same likes and dislikes about the ep that i did.

if ever i needed a reason to start watching baseball again...

time to go home.

tonight on syndiBuffy: "Some Assembly Required." see the excitement of Joyce buying a new vacuum cleaner and trying to figure out those damned instructions.

quote of the day:

My dear child, religion is a wonderful thing. It sustains us, brings us joy, and helps in everyday life. But so do your genitals. Keep them both to yourself and don't flop them around in polite company. There is a time and place to let them both out freely."

Sarah Kuhn's reviews of Tuesday night's Roswell (subtitled "Born to be miiiiiiiild!" heh.): "First of all, I understand the rationale behind putting flashbacks and present day events on different film stock, but aren't the flashbacks supposed to be on the grainy, Homicide-esque stock?"

and

Buffy: "Buffy's back, and busily acting like the main character in a Lifetime TV movie. She's near-catatonic, she barely speaks, and gazes upon everyone with empty, deadened eyes."

" My only big beef is Anya's post-possession outfit (frilly flowered shirt paired with pin-striped pants), which can only be described as "Hawaiian go-go dancer meets business casual." "

ok, been considering something this morning that threatens to become one of those 'Things That Keep Me Up At Night.' if Vulcans mate only every seventh year, how is it that a Vulcan couple gets their mating cycle synchronized? do young Vulcans put ads in the the Pon Farr Times: "SVM seeking logical, detached and efficient female who mates during late August/early September of 2006, 2013, etc. I am a logical, detached and efficient male who enjoys lifting my eyebrow, saying 'fascinating' and being condescending to humans. ISO same. include photo with reply."

tonight begins Season Two on FX's syndiBuffy: "When She Was Bad," she was still Very good.

sometimes, i really hate my job. they're trying to make me participate in some silly little intra-corporate competition on Friday where we have teams and we do things like race while balancing eggs on spoons.

um... hello? fourth grade, anyone?

ok. geocities is giving me crap, so i've had to put this off site over at blogspot: finally, my Buffy reviews. forgive the appearance of the page, but i was rushed. eventually, i set up something of my own on-site, but until then, it's there.

work in progress. eventually, i'll get more than just the current episodes up, and probably an index of some time, and maybe make the page look snazzier (if i ever have the time).

i watched the season premiere of Roswell last night. i'd only seen two episodes before, and i've been told they weren't particularly good episodes, but i liked last night's. that's a good thing, considering i didn't know what was going on. the acting was good, and Jason Behr looked hot. what more do i need to know?

i was in a minor car accident last night. this is the second in about three months. i've only owned my car for six months. in the nine years of driving before i bought this car, i'd been involved in two accidents (i was at fault in neither). leads me to believe that there's something about this car that attracts other vehicles, or maybe vehicles with dumbass drivers. however, having been hit twice now, i know that my car can take a good hit. the 17-or-so year old girl who sideswiped me did so with a good solid impact, and the only damage to my car was some scratching on the side of the front bumper to complement that scratching on the rear bumper from the last accident.

the girl was terrified. it was her first accident. she was fortunate that it happened with someone who like me who didn't scream and yell at her. the poor girl could barely write her name down for me. i did my best to soothe her. i told her it was no big deal, explained what she was required to do, explained what her options were and told her that, because there really wasn't any damage to my car, i won't report it to the insurance company.

i lied of course. i'm going to milk this for every single penny i can get out of it. hey, she looked to have wealthy parents. what can i say?

for those who don't know, i'm kidding.

anyway, if you're in the market for a new car, go with a Ford. they can take a hit (do you think Ford would want to use that as a slogan?).

the slaughter begins...

The Daniel Stern sitcom has become the first casualty of the new season - CBS has yanked the show after two episodes. [Dark Horizons]

an interesting tidbit in the Pokemon article linked by Jonno:

"In 1991, an American woman named Dianne Neale suffered seizures from hearing Entertainment Tonight co-host Mary Hart's eerily perky voice. Her doctors said Hart's electronically transmitted voice triggered Neale's epilepsy by creating abnormal electrical charges in her brain (MSNBC 1997)."

this isn't news. she does the same thing to me and millions of other people.

i've always thought that Spike was cool, but i can't stop praising him to everyone. Spike rocks.

finally, this (work)day ends.

with Blogger being up and down for fixin', i didn't get the chance to add Roswell to the Tonight on TV on the sidebar. it's third season premiere is tonight after Buffy.

tonight's new Buffy is "After Life"

and on tonight's syndiBuffy: "Prophecy Girl" -- Buffy faces her deadliest enemy to date: Miss Cleo!

today is my best mate's birthday.

isn't he a cutie?
happy birthday, buddy.

the Key explores the supernatural without big sis.

"The Might of Minear
Angel scribe Tim Minear talks cameos, directing Joss Whedon, and what it means to be The Darla Guy."

chimney cheese! it's only 11 fucking 20! i asked the boss to shift my schedule up from 9 to 6, to a more syndiBuffy-accessable (i'm pathetic, i know) 7 to 4. that two hours makes a big difference. not only is it still dark when i awaken, but the day draaaaaags by. it feels like it's been 3 weeks since i got here this morning. my coffee buzz has already worn off!