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.

also from Slayage.com, vote for Joss Whedon as EW's Entertainer of the Year. no, you're not allowed to vote for anyone else, and yes, please vote, because L. Ron Hubbard is listed as number 8 and he shouldn't be anywhere on the list. especially because he's dead.

OH MY FUCKING GOD!! MadTV had a skit with Bunny (Swan) the Vampire Slayer! with Michelle Trachtenberg!

here's a transcript of the David Boreanaz chat on AOL.
[via Slayage.com]

feh.

so, because of this accursed holiday (shoulda let the Pilgrims starve!), there will be no syndiBuffy. sad, i know, but tomorrow, instead of watching another boring football game, you can watch the 14 hour Buffy the Vampire Slayer marathon on FX! yay!

yip! Dark Horizons says "The classic episodes [of Buffy the Vampire Slayer] "Hush" and "The Body" will air December 11th and 18th on UPN."

yesterday, i was bitching to Jean about how "Hush" and three other episodes were missing from FX's syndicated run, and she'd told me UPN would be showing them during reruns months, so yay for her!

anyone else having trouble working today?

on tonight's syndiBuffy double feature: wrapping up season 3 (and high school) with "Graduation Day, part two" and getting a start at university with "The Freshman."

then, on UPN, tonight's new Buffy is "Smashed."

response to the question (concerning last night's Angel) "what about that hunter-guy?"

Holtz tracked Angel down, captured him, wanted to use him as bait to lure Darla, was saying things along the lines of "I'm gonna kill you so much!" but Lilah showed up, said, "Kill him. Like I care.'" Hoyt said, "Angelus has changed... somehow" and Lilah said "Yeah, yeah, gypsy curse, got a soul, eternal torment and penance for his evils, yadda yadda, hurry up and kill him." Hoyt was like "Whoa! Dude's got a soul?" but he didn't have a chance to do anything cuz Angel made a pretty cool escape.

we're nearing the time for "Tales of the Slayer". yay!

just because i haven't said it this week:

kiss the kitty.

so, FX has posted their schedule for Buffy for the rest of this week, including the 14 hour marathon on Thursday, the schedule for the remainder of November and for the month of December. it looks as though FX will be changing their schedule again, adding a morning showing of the syndiBuffy double feature.

it also looks that they'll reach "Weight of the World", the episode immediately preceding the season 5 finale, a few days before Christmas, but there are some glaring omissions. no "Hush," no "Buffy vs. Dracula," no "The Body" and no "The Gift." i think that's going to make me grouchy.

this can't be good:

i'm in the mood to sing today. not in a "I'm Happy and I Want To Twirl On the Mountaintops" kind of way, just a "I Don't Feel Like Being Quiet Today" way.

in other news, for some reason, last night's Angel gave me nightmares. the episode, "Lullaby," wasn't scary, but i dreamed of demons moving about my apartment all night long while i, Wesley, Cordy, Fred and Gunn all hung out on my bed. we were safe as long as we stayed on the bed and didn't hang our feet off for the demons to grab or anything.

Gamespot has a favorable review of The Sims: Hot Date.

on tonight's syndiBuffy double feature: "The Prom" and "Graduation Day, part one."

maybe tomorrow i'll have more to say.

coming next month, the first issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Haunted, a four-issue miniseries published by Dark Horse Comics and written by Jane Espenson.

The Internet's Cheese Information Resource with an exhaustive World Cheese Index. also check out some of the cheese poetry and prose.

today on the syndiBuffy double feature, "Earshot" and "Choices"

yay for word games! last Monday, my boss decided to have a contest to see who could find the greatest number of words hidden within the word "Veterans." thanks to Inge's Anagram Generator, our group won. we get to go home early today. yay!

happy birthday, Oklahoma! in celebration, here's a variety of links:

the Travel OK Infocenter with touristy-type information, or for those who intend never to visit this great state, few short facts (for those with short attention spans), or maybe you'd rather look at a pretty, colorful
shaded relief map or satellite image.

Betty's and Jim's Cool Data Page with buttloads of links on all sorts of topics, like Agriculture, Drugs, Education, Media, Politics, the State Budget and Weather, all focused around the Oklahoma City area because OKC is the only city in Oklahoma. really.

and here's a site that's not pretty and can't be considered exhaustive by any standard, but it does say "Oklahoma, during prehistoric times, as evidenced by the fossil record, was part of the great sea that covered it, Kansas, and Texas. Thankfully, God saw fit to uplift the land. It was a close vote but He also lifted up Texas too." anyone who recognizes Texas for the shite hole it is deserves a link on my blog.

not to give anyone the impression that i think Oklahoma is all hugs and puppies, i point out a letter concerning the "Joklahoma Legislatures" (Watts and Inhofe, specifically). and, just because i enjoy disliking the corrupt asshole so much, here's The Religious Freedom Coalition's "Two Faces of J.C. Watts Page"

the official Jason X website (Jason X: Evil Gets an Upgrade). there's a trailer there, but i can't watch it 'cause i'm not allowed to download quicktime. someone tell me if it's any good, please.

i think Oz was digging the leather clad Willow last night.

tonight on FX's syndiBuffy double feature: "Doppelgangland", the first appearance of lesbian(esque) Willow, and "Enemies"

recap of "Tabula Rasa" is up. review comes tomorrow.

i have to say, i like the little pop up "In Season X, Buffy [did this]" promo thing at Buffy.com

go vote for the musical soundtrack to be released on CD, and while you're there, time's almost up to register for a chance to win a limited edition poster (eh, it's just more spam).

sometimes people just totally miss the point. (it's an Angel link).

because i already had last night's syndiBuffies on video, VSG and i watched movies all night. first up, A Knight's Tale. it spent a large portion of it's time trying to make you care. still, i couldn't. and what a pansy boy! a woman treats him the way Jocelyn does and he just takes it? co-dependent much, buddy? she isn't worth it. if she truly loved you, she wouldn't ask you to do something you don't want to do (more ABC After School Special stuff). my rating: i'd need a liter of rum to watch it again.

second: Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes. this one left me cold. nothing exciting, nothing 'Oh cool!' about it, the story caused much confusion and i'd get pissed everytime someone called them monkeys instead of apes (including my roommates). didn't even get a half-bare Mark Wahlberg to make it better. i definitely prefer the original. Cornelius could kick Ari's ass easily, though Insane Chimp Possee Thade was frightening. plus, how can you not have Dr. Zaius?

also, the DVD extras sucked. yeah, there was all that behind-the-scenes stuff, and the interface was actually kind of cool, but the extended scenes weren't very interesting and talks with the stunt people alternated between nifty stuff and 'man, you think too much of yourself'. my ratings: film- though i give it no thumbs in either direction, i'd definitely choose this movie over "Seventh Heaven" or the "Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!". DVD extras: not worth the cost of the extra disc.

third movie: How the Grinch Stole Christmas. i liked the costuming, the hair, and the sets. i was even able to tolerate Jim Carrey for most of it, but it ran too long. it felt like things were added in just to pad the film's running time. it's not a good thing to wonder for the third time "Is it almost over yet?" and Whos are annoying! how can anyone be that chipper all the time? to hell with the Whos!

DVD extras: children's games and sing-alongs. bleh. my ratings: film- it's Jim Carrey. i can't stand him usually. he's tolerable in this, so i'll rate this a "Buy it to occupy the nephews when they come to visit." DVD extras- i'd need illegal street drugs to keep me awake. boring. all digits down.

enjoy "Seventh Heaven meets the Taliban."

so tonight on the syndiBuffy double feature, we have "Bad Girls" (which i believe is the name of a popular webcam site) and "Consequences". taken together, those titles sound like something from the ABC After School Special library.

it's a good thing i have episode guides from two different sources. the FX guide is full of errors. it caused great confusion to see it list "Homecoming" tonight.

tomorrow, i'm hoping to feel less disease-ridden and more chatty.

good night everybody!

after watching "Helpless" last night on syndiBuffy, i have to say that i can't stand to see Buffy screaming and running like a girl when the vamp jumped her.

my employer offered it's minions free flu vaccinations (actually, it only offered them to one-third of us. the others will just have to take their chances). this was my first flu shot. it made my head hurt and caused me to feel nauseated. the nurse who administered the injection said it's nothing to worry about, but managed to take up half an hour of my time checking my pulse, my breathing, asking questions about my health, reminding me how pale i was looking, and a bunch of other things that make me a little nervous about this vaccine. i think that this will be my last flu shot. i'd rather suffer the flu.

welcome aboard!

did anyone else laugh so hard at the Scoobies-opening-the-door-and-screaming scene last night that, after the ep was over, you had to rewind because you laughed all the way through the rest of the scene and missed out on what happened? anyone else rewind and watch the screams a dozen times like me? god, that was funny.

here's a poster for the Scooby Doo movie.

tonight on the syndiBuffy double feature: "Amends" and "Gingerbread"

and later, Darla continues her maternal visit to Big n' Broody Angel, which, i'm sure, will be great fun for everyone on Angel!

yeah, i like saying "kissing the kitty." i prefer that imagry to what was actually .. uh... fictionally .. going on.

the referral logs made me laugh way too hard today: "willow and tara what where they doing when tara was singing."

i think most people already have an idea, but if you don't know, you're probably too young to be asking that question. i can imagine, though, someone coming to my blog,, trying to get that question answered, and leaving wondering what i meant by "kissing the kitty."

next in the "Things That Keep Me Up At Night" series: what happened to Joyce's gallery? i thought she owned it, but it hasn't been mentioned since her death. does that mean she was just an employee? i must have missed that part somewhere.

bring on the speculation!

tonight on the syndiBuffy double feature: the Spikelicious "Lover's Walk" and the debut of our favorite Vengeance Demon in "The Wish".

scarcely recalled memory.... only a snippet, and fuzzy at that... focused on one thing, everything around it is there but i can't see it. someone help me out here.

ninjas are coming, right? a television program that i watch is having ninjas on it soon, right? oooh! is it Angel? something to do with Darla's baby perhaps? ack! that's the only show i can think of that would have them (though i can't remember the teaser for next week's Enterprise, so i guess there could be Space Ninjas coming).

TVGuide likes to do their silly little Collectible Cover thing. people must buy up multiple copies, or there wouldn't be anymore multicover weeks, right? i think it's time i cashed in on this and made a little money myself, so i'm offering a tolkhan exclusive third Michael Jackson cover. send me $$ and it's yours! quantities are limited! don't miss out!

i'm getting a lot of hits looking for the FX X-Ballot Marathon. if you've come for that, i suggest the FX website. makes more sense, don't you think?

tonight on the syndiBuffy double feature: watch Giles be a tough guy! see Joyce become a tramp! it's "Band Candy"!

followed by "Revelations". is this another apocalypse episode? is Buffy battling four guys on horses? tune in and see!

tonight is also the series premiere of The Tick. watch it.

also from Sci Fi Wire (and i'm reposting the whole thing because i think it's worth more than just a link):

The special musical episode of UPN's Buffy the Vampire Slayer rated well in its Nov. 6 airing, the network reported. The all-singing, all-dancing episode, "Once More With Feeling," ranked No. 3 among persons 12-34, adults 18-34, teens and female teens, UPN reported.

The Buffy episode also ranked No. 2 in its 8-9 p.m. timeslot among males 12-34, men 18-34 and male teens, beating The WB's Gilmore Girls, ABC's Spin City, CBS' Jag and NBC's Three Sisters, UPN reported.

Apple has posted a streaming version of the soundtrack to the first Lord of the Rings film, The Fellowship of the Ring.
[from Sci Fi Wire]

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.

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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.