a June 2001 Q&A with ASH and Amber Benson:

Charlie_Angel - if you could play any other character on the show who would it be and why?

Amber - Actually I wanna be on Angel and I wanna be the host - the karaoke singing demon

Tony - I always wanted to be Cordelia!

the Sarah Kuhn review of "Once More, With Feeling," which is also where i found this:

been in an foul mood since yesterday evening. found something to cheer me up: Nicholas Gonzalez

and to connect this post with the one one immediately preceding, here's Nestor Carbonell, and a TVGuide article about his role as Bat Manuel.

tonight is the premiere of

here's what TVGuide Online has to say about it.

we'll call it "Part One" for now, but the "Once More, With Feeling" review is up on my Buffy blog.

forgive any errors for now. i'll clean it up later.

here's Jean's take on "Once More, With Feeling"

from an email with Jean:

"[name omitted] theory is that Willow didn't have a song to sing because Willow has no truth to tell. Interesting."

indeed. hadn't thought of that.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Enterprise have helped propel UPN in the first six weeks of the season to the largest year-to-year ratings growth of any broadcast network, the network announced. UPN has seen its prime-time ratings grow in all key demographics, including a 19 percent hike among persons aged 12-34, 26 percent among adults 18-34 and 21 percent among adults 18-49.

Sarah Kuhn's review of this week's Angel, "Offspring."

"Hey, look at me! I'm dancing crazy!" i love Anya.

so, Mikey and i were watching last night, and Tara was singing a song that was sort of funny in that "Oh, but you are!" kind of ways, and Willow and Tara embrace and twirl together, and suddenly they're back in the bedroom, and...

Mikey and i both stared with slackjawed 'ewww!' "Are they..?" "Did she just.." anyone else come away from the scene thinking that, uh, Willow was 'kissing the kitty'? will that be one of the deleted scenes for future airings?

Dawn's in trouble? It must be Tuesday. heh.

"Bunnies aren't just cute, like everyone supposes.
They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.
and what's with all the carrots?
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies! Bunnies! It must be bunnies!

...Or maybe midgets."

i'm going to be cutting out early today. i have many things to do before "Once More, With Feeling" airs tonight. let's all watch and we'll sing the songs together tomorrow.

before Musical Buffy tonight, FX still has the syndiBuffy double feature. tonight's episodes: "Dead Man's Party," initiating Joyce into the Sunnydale supernatural scene, and "Faith, Hope and Trick", the first appearance of the ultracool Mr. Trick.

tonight, folks, is the night. it's difficult to contain my excitement.

ah, the Tara love aria, available at the official Buffy musical site. can't download it though, dammit. Amber Benson does well.

downloading more clips of tonight's musical Buffy (less than 9 hours away!). it's gonna focking ruck! i love the dancers during the Tara love song.

ya know, i watch syndiBuffy, and i see Cordelia throwing herself at Angel, but he never pays much attention to her, and Xander tells her that there's no way she can come between Angel and Buffy.

all i have to say to that is that patience pays off. go Cordy!

i miss quoted yesterday. it should have been "Have we met?" "You hit me with an ax one time."

tonight on the syndiBuffy double feature: "Becoming, part 2" my favorite conversation in ... uh... this episode "Have we met?" "You hit me with an ax one time."

and the first episode of the third season "Anne," which, if you think about it, makes you wonder how intentional is Buffy's failure at the whole job thing in "Life Serial" this season?

also tonight on Angel: "Offspring," featuring Gunn guest vocalling for a band singing to Angel the perennial classic, "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)"

before i go today, some final Buffy related links:

Buffy Faces Music On UPN

Buffy Musical Premiered

The publicity poster for "Once More, With Feeling."

i told my roommates that i wanted to have Buffy wallpaper in the apartment. they said no. surely, they'd let me have one little poster up.
[thanks, Jean!]

my review of "All the Way" is up. yeah, so what if it's late.

i just had my annual performance review. the boss had many good things to say, and only one negative: i don't communicate enough. heh. in light of all the crap i spew here every day, it's funny.

the company has gifted me with a Shiny Pen-in-a-Box to commemorate my Employment Anniversary, and a hand signed Letter of Congratulations from the VP of Human Resources. they seem really happy with my performance, and encourage a long career at TVGuide. i, however, am a firm believer in the "Money Talks" Method of Employment. i'm waiting to hear how much my raise is.

Jason Bates' review of "The Andorian Incident," last week's Enterprise. by the time i reached the middle of the article, i was asking "does this guy even watch the show?" he asks questions that have been answered in the same episode!. he does crap like that every week.

They ought to have dozens of little smart "grenades" that fly themselves around corners and follow the enemy and go boom with a big blast of stun energy that knocks out the tentacle-headed opposition without punching a bunch of holes in some old Vulcan masonry.

they've just developed phase pistols, but they should have flying guided stun grenades? also (this may be a bit picky, or just insignificant, but...), there is a difference between a tentacle and an antenna.

C'mon, having antennae on your heads is so Marvin-the-Martian/Stan Lee it's not even funny. It's just bad camp.

other ST shows have had species descended from non-mammalian (and non-primate) lineages, and they have features of their repitilian, canid, feline, and ickthoid ancestors (and for god's sake, some are rocks! cf. the original seies "Devil in the Dark." or puddles of Quaker State 10W-30 [TNG "Skin of Evil"]! or gaseous entities! or electrical clouds!), and he complains of an insectoid species having antennae (or maybe they're gastropods. snails have antennae like the Andorians. have they been established in canon as insectoid?).

Spying on other societies that could be a threat to you is as logical as watching space for potentially large asteroids that could hit your planet.

is it logical for a race that doesn't lie to violate a treaty they made willingly, and to lie about doing it?

And letting Archer give away the location of the Vulcan listening post -- and thus end the protection to Vulcan created by that spying -- to the Andorians is a broach of every single diplomatic and military directive a starship captain presumably would be given before he sets out that I can only shake my head in disgust.

hmm.. the Vulcans, who Archer (and many other humans) believe held back humanity's progress, who withholds information from the humans, who look down on the humans as childlike and blah blah blah, who also have an enclave near Starfleet headquarters, are lying about spying on the Andorians, and he doesn't think Archer would believe them to be doing the same to the humans? he doesn't think Archer would be really pissed and vindicated in his mistrust? Mr. Bates needs to forget about all the Original Series crap and everything set in years after Kirk. Humans and Vulcans are barely friends, and some people on both sides wouldn't even go that far. They don't go skipping around the galaxy hand in hand preaching love for other species yet. there's a working relationship, but very little trust. and the hypocritical Vulcans are violating a treaty they signed! they deserve to have their listening post revealed. and diplomatically, it was a good move by Archer. he earned a boon, and possibly a willingness to trust, from the Andorians.

Later, the Vulcans and Andorians are all part of the Federation, so presumably they're pretty close together

do the words "neighboring system" mean nothing? why presume? it's stated clearly!

And yes, I am still completely and totally against that cheesy song... Anything would be better than that 80s reject trash.

it's been six weeks. it's been talked about to death. get over the friggin' theme song already.

threat of four, yes four Andorian guards armed with phasers and bad attitudes -- something Kirk, Picard, Sisko, or Janeway could've gotten past in five minutes.

suck it up, geek boy. this isn't TOS, TNG, DS9 or Voyager. besides, i'd like to see him escape from room guarded by four guys with guns.

if the guy doesn't want to review Enterprise (does he even want to watch it? "if I wasn't writing these reviews, I don't think it would hold my attention all that well"), he shouldn't be the one doing it. his disinterest shows.

heh. sloth is admirable.

-----Original Message-----
From: XXXXXX, XXXXX [SMTP:OKCFriend@deq.state.ok.us]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 9:15 AM
To: Terrence
Subject: RE:


IT'S AN ART. YOU CAN'T JUST PERFECT IT OVERNIGHT. BTW, I AM NOT SCREAMING
- JUST LAZY. HAVEN'T TAKEN CAPS OFF.

so we've heard Anthony Head and James Marsters singing elsewhere. how about some Amber Benson singing "Toucha Toucha Touch Me"? makes you think there's something a little Freaky seething under Tara's surface.
[via Jean, who always comes away with the coolest Buffy links]

so much chaos this weekend in celebrating the annual marker in the march toward death, it's good to be back to routine for no other reason than Buffy: the Musical stuff, like this EW spread that Max found. with everything going on the last few days, i'd let the musical ep fall from it's obsession-prime position as the foremost thought in my mind. once i opened up that link, i was stunned at all the Buffilicious feelings that flooded back to occupy my mind once again. Buffy is a neuropharmacological-addictive substance.

tonight on the syndiBuffy double feature: "Killed By Death". better than being lightly wounded by Death, i guess.

and "I Only Have Eyes For You." -- a really great ghost story, and even has a "Aww, poor Giles" scene.

with yesterday being Halloween, and because i'm taking the rest of the week off for my birthday, my review of "All The Way" won't be posted until Monday, mainly because i haven't written it yet (Halloween's a very busy day for me. no time to write it).

on the bright side, i'll should have a review of "Once More, With Feeling" posted by Wednesday morning instead of my usual Thursday afternoon since i'll probably be up all night next Tuesday watching it over and over again.

Sarah Kuhn's reviews of this week's Angel ("Billy") and Buffy ("All the Way").

today is my birthday, today is my birthday, today is my birthday! yay me!

being 27 isn't all that different than being 10: i play with toys. i watch cartoons. i read comic books. i like to play in the rain and ride my bike through puddles. i have a 10pm bedtime. i still ocassionally imagine myself as a supervillain out fighting superheroes and plotting to take over the world. my allowance isn't big enough. i don't clean my room. i sleep with a stuffed animal. i have a "b-b" (a special blanket). i have to get up every morning and go spend all day somewhere i don't want to be, but while there, i pass notes to others in the same situation and don't pay attention to the things i should be focusing on. i still have sleepovers with the other boys. places like Chucky Cheese's are the coolest place to have a birthday party, and roly-polies are still the coolest bugs.

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).
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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?

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