i haven't had a chance to ask, but what did everyone think of the series finales of Roswell and The X-Files?

to those who've sent email to me in the last seven days (and to the one who sent it two weeks ago), i'll get back to you soon. i was lazier than normal last week.


the Boyfriend rented the season three dvds of Sex and the City last week. i'd never watched the show before, and i spent a lot of my time yelling at the screen "dammit, just go talk with him about it!" it's not a bad show though i have no interest in seeing the first two seasons.

i do adore Kim Cattrall.

as payback for the three-evening Sarah-Jessica-Parker-athon, i rented Hair and bought My Fair Lady. i still have to shake my head and say 'Why, Eliza?" 'enry 'iggins is an ass'ole.

woo hoo! jury duty is over! i want never to have to serve my county again. anyone who's ever been a party in a jury trial, you have my pity. there are some real dumbasses in the jury pool.

ack, i was chosen for a civil suit. business contract. boooooring! you can't have an exciting trial when it's about contracts! where are the Kato Kaelins and Anna Nicole Smiths? where's the guest appearance by James Garner and Eva Gabor? where's the passionate confession of conscience from the gallery by the elderly matriach who was only trying to protect her grandson and didn't mean to do it? feh, Matlock this is not.

i have jury duty this week. hooray for me! i'll probably get a lot of reading done this week.

should i be selected for a jury though, it is my full intention to vote for the conviction of the innocent and for the acquittal of the obviously guilty.

man, there are some people pissed off by the ending of "Seeing Red." of course, all most of them can say is "You lied to us! You betrayed us! Fuck you! I'm not watching this show ever again! The ratings are slipping anyway!" (that last one, as i linked a couple of weeks ago, is very untrue)

also, i had a nice long response ready to post there, but it won't let me. it seems that someone is trying to steal my identity by already registering my name. bastard. if i find you, whomever ye may be, i'll flog you visciously.

vote for your favorite Enterprise alien episode (out of the five they list!) and see the poll pick after the season finale! [via Sci Fi Wire]

i've got that stupid Mooby song from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back stuck in my head.

would it be blasphemous of me to wonder whether Spike could take down Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter?

SF Gate on Eliza Dushku: Give this young actress a 'V' for versatility.

No one's writing articles about me for being versatile

still sad.

The Essense of Amber

i am so broken up right now. i fell off the Buffy spoiler-wagon a few days ago, and i knew what was coming, but i still blubbered.

clarifying my "Gabriel Byrne is a man!" exclamation, i don't think his gender was in doubt for most people. there are just some actors that i can't ever remember for some reason. Mr. Byrne is one of them. i've seen a few of his films, but for some reason i just can't keep in my mind an association of his face with his name. they may as well be two distinct entities.

much like Juliette Binoche. know the name. can never remember who she is. same with Juliette Lewis. Cate Blanchett? i know i like her. don't know who she is unless i'm watching one of her films. Angelina Jolie and Catherine Zeta-Jones are the same person in my mind (and have they ever been seen together? hmm...)

i've made some progress though. i can now keep Uma Thurman and Nicole Kidman straight, and when it comes to Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Willa Ford, i know who Britney is (the one who looks artificial; also she's the one who exudes 'Whore'), and i can usually distinguish Willa from Christina because i don't get Willa confused with Shakira.

so you see, it wasn't a personal slight against Mr. Byrne.

you know, when you read that James Doohan is in a coma and not expected to recover, you feel a little cheated when, less than two minutes later, you read that he's not comatose. not that i want him to be in a coma. it's just that, when you read the first one, and you start getting all sad and doing the whole "All my childhood heros are going!" thing, but the next moment you know he's ok, that it was just a rumor, you feel like you've been manipulated.

was it really so important to report it before, say, talking to his manager? i enjoy celebrity rumors, of the type concerning who's sleeping with whom, who's been crossdressing, who Prince William has been spotted with, the whole Affleck-Damon rumor that won't go away and things of that nature. they're fun. and they're meaningless (despite Tom Cruise's civil suit). geez, a little fact checking would be nice before you go putting me in a deep melancholy for the day.

on a totally unrelated note, my sisters dropped by on Sunday and told me that Steve from Blue's Clues had died of a drug overdose last week. poor guy. he didn't learn his lesson the first time he died.

my sisters crack me up. i'm glad they didn't tell my nephews.

Giles, BBC, Tony Head thing. concerning the proposed Giles spin off. or if you prefer, read the same thing here.

Gabriel Byrne is a man! why am i just now finding out about this?

Joss, on Buffy and Angel: "What I always say is: Guys, they're on two different networks. There's no way. Buffy and Angel physically could not exist. If they were on the same network, we would have done the Buffy-Spike thing anyway. But we probably would have had a crossover moment when they would go, "You're sleeping with whom?!" It became difficult in the third year to truly bring change to Buffy and Angel. People want to watch change. Growth. They want climax." [from a Wanda Q&A. i don't think it's spoilery, but don't trust me. stay away!]

damn my parents for not being British.

a misprint on the source information here at TVGuide has substituted the cast of Iron Monkey for that of Serendipity. would have made Serendipity a much more interesting film. you know, swords and martial arts and all.

David Boreanaz's wife gave birth Wednesday by shoving a piece of wood through her heart and poofing into dust, but a supsicious anachronously-dressed man quickly scooped up the baby and ran off.

it's such a touching and tragic story, someone should write that into a television series or something.

Variety reports that Halle Berry has signed on to star in the studio's remake of the '74 classic Pam Grier blaxploitation flick "Foxy Brown"

this isn't right. it's gonna turn into something Shaft-like or Charlie's Angels-like. the feel will be all wrong. it may be an enjoyable movie (i like seeing women kick ass), but i just don't think it'll be Foxy enough. or it may turn out to be just right and my love of '70s Pam Grier will be quelled. we'll see.

yay for erotic dreams about Tim Daly.

ack! i have no time to do anything! haven't even been able to respond to email properly. this whole "Job" concept sucks, and i'd like to ninja-kick the person who came up with it.

"Three generations of imbeciles are enough." --the warcry of the AntiBush factions.

eh, not really (though it could be). since the entertainment world has decided to suck and not have any real news today, i'm forced to find other things to read (and i do need other things to read, 'cause, after the previews for next week's Buffy, i'm really itching to read some spoilers). so, today's selection goes into the "Today In Supreme Court History" catagory:

Buck v. Bell. eugenics. our future depends on it.
Kolender v. Lawson.

i've never been clear on whether it's suppose to be April 30, May 1 or May 2, but i choose today to say Happy Beltane! today's the day the Seelie Court returns to power and all the Unseelies return to whatever it is they do during the warmer times of the year (probably vacationing in the West Indies or something).

this has been one of those days that starts off with the one person who irritates you daily outdoing himself INSTANTLY and causing all kinds of homicidal thoughts in my noggin. remember folks, if i tell you that i don't feel like talking to you and that i need some time to cool off, it's not a good idea to call me repeatedly and bombard me with email. that doesn't make it better. seriously, it doesn't.

yay! new Buffy tonight!

[via Dark Horizons and Sci Fi Wire] "The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Kate Beckinsale will star in Underworld, a "Romeo and Juliet"-esque love story between a vampire and a werewolf - sworn enemies who become lovers."

ick. you know i must be bored if i'm reading and linking to CNN articles. it's tough waiting for all the Buffy and entertainment websites to update for the day.

Transformers came in the form of die-cast toys, comic books and an after-school cartoon series

dude, i must have been buying the cheap transformers, 'cause mine were all made of plastic. i feel like redneck trash now.

also, imagine the cartoon trying today to get away with Megatron being a handgun. all kinds of advocacy groups would be (heh) up in arms about it.

i only link to the article to remind folks that the Transformers DVD was released last week.

"It's a bittersweet day, to say the least," said Anthony H. Guerino, an attorney who represented 10 workers [who said they pooled their money together to have a coworker buy lottery tickets, and claimed that he had the winning ticket and wouldn't tell them]. "They've always been a spiritual group. I could see them deflate."

i'm not sure what their spirituality had to do with their greed. a strange comment to make on the subject.


Several workers said they were disappointed, but wished the winner well and said they held no bad feelings for Marquez.

"We never really claimed the ticket. We just wanted to know," said Ida Davis.


"We never claimed the ticket. That's why we hired a lawyer." i think they'd know he had it if Marquez suddenly quit his job and moved to some tropical paradise.

ah well, doesn't matter. they didn't win anyway.

Richard Morgan, representing Christie's, said McCartney wrote the lyrics for "Hey Jude" in 1967 and 1968 but had provided no evidence that he had ever owned the piece of paper on which they were written. -- a disagreement about who properly owns the handwritten lyrics to "Hey Jude"

incentive to retain the receipts for every ream of paper you've ever bought, just so you can one day prove you owned the paper.

Jean's redesigned again. why didn't she go with the pink kitties?

Buffy links all in one post:

Buffy named one of TVGuide's Top 50 shows.

the voice cast list for Buffy Animated is up at IMDb.

What's your most irrational fear?
Dying and having no one to find me for two weeks. And when they did, my dogs, Daisy, Alex and Zippy, were eating my tongue. Apparantly that's what dogs go for first.
Alyson Hannigan Q&A from Teen People.

the Nebula Award winners were announced on Saturday. "The Body," which was nominated for best script, lost to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. once again, swords and martial arts rule.

syndicated shows are gaining in the ratings. don't care about any of them except (of course) syndiBuffy, which is up 18%.

ASH on Hollywood Squares.

R2 The Young Ones DVD release in May. anxiously awaiting an R1 release.

a Congressional candidate in Alabama is proposing a one cent "Nasa Tax" on science fiction and space-related literature, toys and games. [more]

so what'd everyone think of the preview to next week's Buffy?

been having a lot of dreams lately featuring lots of really mean rhinos chasing me or jumping out of trees at me. each time i have the dream, there are more rhinos than before. i'm not sure why the rhinos frighten me so badly.

season one of Red Dwarf coming (well, 'coming' as in 'to the UK') to DVD in November.

Angel is a vampire. he's stong and fast. he killed people for pleasure for over a century. and the best way he could come up with to try to kill Wesley was to put a pillow over his face to smother him? Angel could have killed Wes quickly, in a blink. he didn't though. he also didn't need to shout and bring the orderlies and the rest of the gang running in. deep down, Angel didn't want to kill Wesley.

ack. i received a jury summons thingie at my old address. i'll have to pick it up after work to see what it says.

i saw Blade 2 this weekend. i wish i hadn't.

swords, vampires and martial arts. you'd think it had to be a good movie (or am i the only person who thinks that way?), but it wasn't. there were good things about it, but the story was weak, the focus was on the special effects ("dazzle them with special effects and hope they don't notice that the story sucks!"), and that GODDAMNED "LOVE INTEREST" THING they had to throw in. and what was with the Smackdown moves? bah! the first Blade wasn't exactly spectacular, but it was much better than the sequel.

the good things: swords. vampires. martial arts. the soundtrack wasn't bad either.

overall, it reenforced my usual desire to wait for the dvd.

why is it that after taking a cough suppressant i'm coughing more? stupid pharmaceutical companies.

i think someone didn't like the way last night's X-Files ended. i'm still undecided.

three items removed from my wishlist. thanks, DEQ Guy!

i'm sad. bye, guys.

ok, should be working. if not, let me know.

in happy news, the nominees (link changed 4/29/02) for the Hugo Awards were announced. "Once More, With Feeling" was nominated in the Best Dramatic Presentation catagory.

::segue:: the sorely missed Tinman sent to me a link to a transcript of BUFFY CONTRE LES VAMPIRES episode "Encore une fois, avec des sentiments". unfortunately, je ne parle pas français (bless the delightfully humorous Babelfish. here's a bit of the beginning of the episode Babelfished to English.).

no, wait, something's wrong. that means i'm a bigger numbskull than i thought.

woo hoo! fixed it! woo hoo!

(this is not a "Go, terrence!" woo hoo! it's a "Woo Hoo! Blogger's simple enough for a fucking numbskull like me to figure out!")

permalinks aren't working. archives aren't publishing. what's up with that?

continuing:

Oh, and there are others: Joyce Summers, the only woman with a hairstyle older than the vampires, comes with . . . yep, you guessed it: That same damn hairstyle. Angel comes with clothing from Kleptomaniac.com and International Male. Cordelia comes in both classic uber-tan and the new 'Angel' version, it looks like there's nothing in the box but you have to wait a few weeks for her to show up again.

Joyce also comes with small ACE bandages and an assortment of burial shrouds :(

Angel comes with lots of hair gel. no two Cordelias come with the same outfit. Wesley comes with a tweed suit, but a year later the charcoal grey sweater will arrive, along with some little rubby stuff you can put on his face to make him look unshaven and disheveled. Gunn comes naked :P

someone needs to mass produce a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Style and Stake Center. i want one. my DEQ friend says:

You could style her hair and do her make up and get her out of that awkward and ugly skirt phase from last season. Plus there's a matching Willow with increasingly tacky clothes including a whole set of t-shirts with obscure and bizarre screenprints. And hats. Sorta the color-blind pagan hobo look. Tres chic! Xander comes with a recliner and a beer. Spike comes with only one outfit and Dawn comes with issues . . . Oh, and a naughty school girl outfit for the dads to play with.

i think the Willow add-on should also contain big fuzzy sweaters and coats and fur collar shirts. the Giles set will be a dazzling array of tweed suits.

happy birthday, Travis, wherever you are.

today's a good day. i don't know why. nothing particularly good happened today (so far), but it's still a good day.

made a minor change to the navigation bar, just below the link to email me. yeah, it's a desperate attempt to get people to buy me things.

FOX has cancelled Ally McBeal. woo hoo! if only we could get FX to stop showing it, i'd be a happy terrence. especially if they'd move M*A*S*H to the former Ally timeslot and go back to showing two eps of Buffy each weeknight.

speaking of Buffy, i flipped over to FX last night to watch, saw which episode it was, and said "Ah, "Band Candy." Mikey, who professes a strong dislike for the show, happened to be walking through the room and he said "Ooh! I like this one!" as he plopped onto the couch and settled in. closeted Buffy lover!

he really does sing. i thought it was one of those internet hoax/joke things, but it really happens. [via Biggerhand, which i'm not sure how i found, but i did, and the photo in the upper left scares me for some reason]

these people irritate me.

give it up. Lorne Greene is dead. unless you're thinking of this one.

"Twentieth Century Fox is in final negotiations to ink producers Gil Netter and Wayne Rice and original scribe Philip Stark for a sequel to "Dude, Where's My Car?", the 2000 comedy about two sophomoric underachievers."

woo hoo!

all through Angel, the boyfriends kept saying "Wesley's gonna diiiieeee! Wesley's gonna diiiieeee!" my lamoid comeback was "Nuh uh! Shut up!" but he didn't. he even woke me in the middle of the night: "Wesley's gonna diiiieeee!" bah!

How is Spike so much worse than Angel? because Angel has a soul? where was that soul while Angel was trying to kill Wesley, huh? did it go on vacation with Cordelia? Angel is nearly as monstrous as Angelus.


still waiting for April 30 and new Buffy.

James Marsters, John de Lancie and Bruce Campbell scheduled to make appearances during season 3 of Andromeda

the Boyfriend and i watched Behind Enemy Lines this weekend. its runtime is only supposed to be 106 minutes, but it felt like three hours, probably because three quarters of the film is Owen Wilson running. Owen runs through a forest! Owen runs through a field! Own runs through a muddy field! Owen runs through yet another forest! Owen runs through a field, over a hill and into a forest! bah. the DVD special features include 90 minutes of deleted footage, all of it Owen Wilson running somewhere.

i thought i'd never see Jimmy Bond again! unfortunately, it means i have to see that skank Yves Harlow again. ok, i actually got all excited during the preview for next week's X-Files when i saw Langly, Byers and Frohike, and i even cheered when i saw Yves. yeah, she's a skank who put her skank hands on my Jimmy, but i missed her

someone's grouchy.

this sent me into a coughing fit.

segue: i found this at Best Buy yesterday (what? you think i stay cooped up while sick?). it was a tough decision, but i decided instead on the memory upgrade for the computer. still, i'll have to go back for it sometime.

bronchitis. strep throat. sinus infection. asthma triggered by afore mentioned bronchitis. i feel worse than doo doo right now. i blame the Girl Scouts. Mikey brought home some of their diabolical confections recently, and i gave in to the tempation. now i'm diseased. eeevil little girls.

the only thing the doctor gave me is antibiotics. if i were a doctor, everyone, no matter what ailment they seek treated, would get some Rx that causes hallucinations, or severe loopiness in the least. what's the fun of prescription medicine if it doesn't come with "Warning! Do not operate heavy machinery!"?

there's a bluejay building a nest in the redbud tree just off my balcony. the nest will be less than five feet from the railing. it's fascinating to watch the little bugger tearing twigs from other parts of the tree and pulling grass from the ground below, then spending what feels (to me) like hours positioning that one little piece properly.

you know what movie sucked? Black Knight. i'm not talking about historical inaccuracies. i just mean that Martin Lawrence sucks. suuuuuucks!

i've decided that i want a bird that can learn to talk, and i'll teach it to say "If I ever get out of this cage, I'll eat your eyes out!"

Confessions of a Spoiler Whore, though really, she didn't confess much, and it's not really about her being a spoiler whore. the subtitle ("The pleasures of participatory TV") would have made a better title. and hey! it's nonspoilery!

To read makes my speaking English good.


:::sigh::: i'll try to proofread better.

things that make you pause for a moment and say "what the…?"

The Price Is Right was playing in the lounge as i was getting coffee. Richard, a member of the USMC, has just bid the closest (without going over) on an appliance or furniture or something. Bob Barker, walking him across the stage to the next game, says "Come on up, Richard. Richard the Marine. Richard, I've got something that'll make any marine smile..." Bob was then interrupted by the announcer guy shouting "A new car!" and the audience cheering, but i'm really wondering what Bob would have said if he'd had the chance. did he not know his microphone was on? maybe it'll end up on one of those blooper shows that Dick Clark likes to host.

but can you imagine Bob Barker naked with his marine boy toy?

last night's syndiBuffy was "Ted." while watching, i suddenly realized that Ted's behavior is close to that of my mom's husband, with the whole seemingly the most pleasant and nice man he could be, except secretly to that one person he's a total psycho.

so, anyone want to help me take down a psychotic android?

On the SCI FI Channel:

Susan Sarandon will headline the cast of the upcoming miniseries sequel Frank Herbert's Children of Dune [more]

SCI FI has acquired the rights to air reruns of all nine seasons of The X-Files and all three seasons of Roswell. [more]

Kevin Smith (the Dogma guy, not the dead Xena guy, 'cause dead people are dead, and can't be the host, unless this is a crossover... ha!... with John Edward's show) will host a SCI FI Channel original special on the Star Wars saga. [more]

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new eps of Farscape start Friday.

i had the Farscape Best of Season One DVDs last week. we had trouble getting them to work. our DVD player kept saying 'no disc' while we screamed back 'fuck you!' eventually, the little devil-machine let us watch the first disc, with the Premiere ep and "DNA Mad Scientist." good eps. wish i could have seen what was on the other two discs.

in other Farscape news, Sci Fi Channel has scheduled a 23 hour marathon for May 31, beginning at 7am EDT.

yes, in fact, i am a six year old girl. and besides kitties, i like bunnies and puppies and cows, and i skip rope and play jacks and wear knee high socks, and do all kinds of other girlie stuff. frogs are slimy. boys are icky. i want an E-Z Bake Oven for my birthday.

i am so getting an XBox.

new host. new, pre-made cute-kitty type template. i'm cheap and lazy.

uh, yeah. busy day. a busy weekend coming up. and all i seem to do now is sleep. i take naps at lunch. i nap for a couple of hours after work. i oversleep every morning lately. on my days off, i go to be early. i can't decide if there's something wrong, or if i'm just getting old.

did anyone watch Greg the Bunny?

the only reason i'd return to console gaming.

have you ever realized suddenly that you haven't seen in years a particular CD that you know you owned? i haven't seen it since i moved back to Tulsa four years ago, and only now realized it.

the WB is dropping Glory Days. i don't know if the show sucked that badly, as i've never seen an episode and had no interest in doing so. besides, they put Angel on vacation to show that last few eps of Glory Days, which is a bad way to keep viewers like me who watch only Angel on Mondays. and it pissed me off too, so i wouldn't watch GD out of spite anyway.

speaking of pissing me off, the WB still won't be bringing Angel back until April 15. between now and then, they'll be showing repeats of the makes-me-want-to-vomit-because-i-hate-that-fraking-show-that-much Seventh Heaven. this means that here in Tulsa, our local WB affiliate, which has syndicated SHit on at 9pm, will be showing three straight hours of SHit (i mean besides the three hours of shit shown on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays). i can't wait until that show ends up on ABC Family. you know it will.

in other Gets The Axe news, the WB also cut No Boundaries and My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star. i'm so broken up by this. feh, not really. i'd never heard of either until now.

can anyone tell me why "Chuckles Bites the Dust" is considered the best episode of any series ever? i watched. i "heh"ed a few times. i didn't think it was all that great. the friend who made me watch it thinks it's hilarious, but MTM is to him what Buffy is to me, so i can't trust his judgement. or his stupid answer. me: "why's this the best episode ever?" him: "because!" me: "no, really, explain it to me." him: "because, she laughed, then she cried!" ok.

it hasn't been bad so far. i went back to bed for more sleep. later called my sister and asked her to give me a ride to the tire place, which means i got to spend the morning and have lunch with her. we also planned for dinner at her house, which she just moved into, on Friday. the tire place took forever, but they did it for free, so i'm happy about that. and lastly, i finally get to work, and i'm the only one in my department here! yip! a half day of not listening to my departmentmates inanities! yay!

yay! getting into my car this morning, i noticed that i have a flat tire! today's going to be a good day!

nothing happening today. everyone, please return to your homes and go back to bed until tomorrow. thank you, that is all.

need some Buffy characters for your desktop? go here. [via Schmuchbait, who has moved]

before i get too deep into a He-man theme for the day: the Greg the Bunny series is finally going to air! yay! Seth Green's yummy shaven-headed or not.

neither this nor that's the Seth Green i'm interested in.


just because i need a sentence for links to assorted Seth.

eating cereal.

Angel comforts a distraught Oz.

wtf?

part two of an interview with He-Man, but that's not why i posted this. scroll down near the bottom to see something disturbing. no one ever put that on the cute kitten sites.

The History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (the concept itself, not a history of Eternia).

Mad Monkey Kung Fu! Monkey Madness! Sock Monkeys! Monkeys vs. Robots! Barrel of Monkeys Keychain! Monkey loving man! Monkees loving man! Sea Monkeys! Mr. Monkey's Home Page! Steel Monkeys! Steal Monkeys! Law Monkeys! Snow Monkeys? Snow monkeys! Lawn snow monkeys! Texan snow monkeys! Instant Monkeys Online! Suckling monkeys! Grease Monkeys!

all this because Jean wanted to know the title of the film with evil monkeys.

why do they tempt me with Buffy spoilers? it's so hard not to click when you see "info on upcoming Buffy episodes that you just can't believe but must because they're all true! really!"

saw Donnie Darko. Frank the Bunny scared me.

(on Andy Hallett [just in case, beware reading past the "choosing between acting and singing" paragraph. may be spoilery]): There may even be a way to combine his talents. "Joss and I have been talking about doing a Host CD," Hallett says. "We're working on it. I'm all for it, make it kind of Las Vegas, lounge songs. We're in talks about it right now. Hopefully it will materialize."

The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Britain's Prince William is the subject of a new TV Movie for ABC. probably one of those teen angst dramas. feh. if it does well in the ratings, ABC will probably turn it into a weekly series. if it does poorly, ABC will probably turn it into a weekly series. i know i'd tune in each week to hear William whine about being heir to the crown of the UK. "Harry, you twit! Give me back my septre or I shall tell Grandmum Gloriana Regina that it was YOU who started the fire at Windsor!"