a couple of photos from the The Music Man television movie.

hooray! more new Buffy tonight!


update: all right, anyone who was worried about quality this season can now officially go f*** themselves. JM was incredible as a loon. he and SMG were perfect in that final scene.

watched this weekend:

Brotherhood of the Wolf. death, betrayal, swords, the supernatural, kick-ass fight scenes. excellent just for these bits alone, i reeeaaallly liked this one. French with subtitles, i swear they were calling him Prozac throughout the film.

The Devil's Backbone. death, betrayal, the supernatural, and scandal. no swords, but there is a good fight scene. i liked the sets and the way the film looked visually as a whole. Spanish with subtitles, this film is a good way to brush up on your foreign language profanity skills. One recap and review (meaning it be spoilery).

also watched the most recent installment in a series of comedy films: Jason X. no sudden make-you-jump scares, no suspense. lots of gore. the characters kindly set themselves up at the beginning of the film to let you know which would die. the android kicking ass was cool, and Jason killing the holo-camper-babes cracked me up, the rest of it is fairly forgettable. mostly. the scene in which the Thawed Chick went back, jeopardizing her life, and lives of Tech Geek and Valient Space Rescuer/Deus Ex Machina Candidate for rescue the head of Tech Geek's sexbot? kind of pissed me off. at the point, i began cheering for Mr. Voorhees. expectedly disappointing, i yearn for the time when Jason wasn't so much the invulnerable, immortal killing machine, and was just the creepy, waterlogged kid who returned from his aquatic grave to avenge his mother (and himself, i suppose).

How Big of a Buffy Fan Are You?
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swiped link from Jean, who swiped it from elsewhere

this result cracked me up though:

Joss talks about the OMWF soundtrack [contains SPOILER in last (two?) paragraph(s)];

Amazon.com says the Buffy season three DVD set will be available January 7. (yippie!)

"New Line Cinema will premiere the new trailer for its upcoming sequel film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers on America Online at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 30. The trailer will then move to the official Web site. Two Towers opens Dec. 18." [source: SciFi Wire sidebar]


i don't understand this. is this supposed to be some sort of "bonus" AOL gives it's customers? "Join AOL and get exclusive looks at movie trailers a few minutes before they're available to the general public!" will people be bragging about it? "I got to see LotR:T^3 trailer five minutes before you did!"

<chime> You've got Lame!

my employer will be passing out pledge cards for the Tulsa Area United Way. reading the accompanying email, it occurs to me that every year, they say the same thing: the United Way needs your assistance more than ever!

if year after year it's always a more than ever! thing, doesn't that mean that world keep getting worse and worse? who needs a Doomsday Clock? there's the perfect Hell In a Handbasket Indicator.

for the record, i already knew the world was going to shit:

Moviehole reports that an insider at Paramount Pictures has confirmed that John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John are indeed in talks to reprise their roles of Danny and Sandy for an update of "Grease". The story follows all the original film's stars who'll we'll be catching up with years later and finding out what's going on in their lives post high school. Stockard Channing is apparently going to reprise Rizzo. Randal Kleiser, the original director, is rumoured to be handling the new one.

Fun With Referrals (or, Skip This Post):

wtf? i mean, i know why it comes here. i just don't understand the search.

also listed in the results is this, which feels like (because it is like) you walked in on the middle of a conversation, but is interesting nonetheless.

hooray! i've been useful to someone!

kinky or in need of therapy?

oh look! my employer Posts Early Loss of $954 Million.

All this finance stuff tends to go over my head a little. Anyone want to read up on this then let me know if I'll still have a job come year end?

a quick five-question Q&A with James B. South, associate professor of philosophy at Marquette University: Buffy has more to teach than just killing vampires


i should do better with attribution. this link and the one immediately above are from Slayage.com, which is a great source for BtVS (and other Joss creations, plus any news about the cast and crew of the shows) related news. they're kind enough to put a (SPOILERS) notice with each link that needs it.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Theologian of the Year.

an interesting read with some good points and interpretations here, though at times it felt a little like the fict-facts were being a little manipulated to make a point or to stay within the thesis.

woot! a second full night of good solid sleep! a guy could get used to this.

i could have figured it out on my own (really, i could have. two hands, one foot) if i'd given any thought to it: ST:TNG debuted 15 years ago.

updated 2:45pm - planned on talking about Buffy here. some Buffy talk would be nice. i've been trying all day to get the time to talk about it. bah! whenever i get a little bit of freetime, something else comes up and i'm stuck sitting here keeping all my thoughts to myself. i will cross my fingers and hope for it.

a list of Firefly reviews, including an unfavorable one from someone who is now on my list of people to flog soundly 'round the shoulders and head.

this is Banned Books Week. go out and ban some books today!

Farscape: Animated Series: Looks like the show will live on in one way, in an official press release by ADV Films they confirmed 26 episodes of an animated version is in active production

anything good on tv tonight?

yeah, you know there is! Buffy is back, starting tonight! woo hoo! the long, horrible, rerun-hell summer is over!

everyone watch tonight, 'cause we're gonna have lots to talk about tomorrow.

on the subject of ratings, Firefly, Fox and such, my two posts over at Whedonesque involve a little more research. why clutter my blog when i can use someone else's and just link to it?

obligatory =) to indicate that i am not serious about that. please do not ban me from Whedonesque!

Enterprise's premiere ratings lukewarm.

i don't really buy into ratings (much as i don't buy into polls. come on! you called 750 people out 3.5 million?). the ratings game is a scam, but unfortunately one that can cause the cancellation of a beloved program. not that i worry that cancellation will happen to Enterprise. Voyager stayed on the air with lukewarm ratings (because lukewarm = very good for UPN).

however, Firefly pulled a 4.1 according to Zap2it, even lower than Enterprise (TVtracker says a 4.9, which would tie Enterprise). Fox is cancellation happy, and the 8pm Friday timeslot is like Death to any show anyway. though Firefly won its timeslot among adults 18 - 49, i fear for the crew of Serenity.

Nu Shortcuts in School R 2 Much 4 Teachers.

i say "flunk 'em."

a quick scan of Dark Horizons today is sequel miasma:

Legally Blonde 2. The Mothman Lives. Police Academy...Yet Again. Three Men and a Baby 3. Bad Boys 2. Bridget Jones' Diary 2. Hellraiser VII: Deader. Star Trek: Nemesis. The Amazing Spider-Man.

guess which ones i'm sobbing "why, god, why!" about.

Firefly debuts tonight on Fox.

so, the series debut of the new The Twilight Zone. i'm a little indifferent towards it. both of the two stories they had were too expected. i'm certain that the teasers for the show gave away most of the goods on the second story (the Death retires one), and its Final Twist didn't have the punch i think they wanted. on the sunny side, i do think there's some real potential behind it. the stories were good ideas that probably suffered from the half-hour per story format.

um, duh. i work at TV Guide. i can actually look up when those programs premiere on WGN this season:

all on October 6 (all times CDT):

Mutant X at 6pm
Andromeda at 7pm.
Adventure Inc. at 8pm.

not much in the way of interesting television or film news today. that could be a good thing though.


today, though, is a big day: it's the first of the premiere days for shows i'll watch this season (not counting 7th Heaven's premiere on Monday. i don't watch that for entertainment so much as using it as a way to build myself into a frothing mass of indignation). this seems like a good time to recap this season's important premieres:

tonight (being Wednesday, September 18 and all):

Enterprise kicks off its second season with "Shockwave pt 2" (7pm CDT on UPN). i missed many of the first season's eps, but i hope that i haven't missed too many that i'm lost.

following Enterprise is the debut of the remake of "The Twilight Zone" (8pm CDT on UPN), hosted by Forest Whitaker. originally, i thought he was an unusual choice. he doesn't exude the same kind of menace that Rod Serling did, but after seeing some of the teasers, i've decided Forest's shaven head, wonky eye and slightly pointed ears make him look a little like hellhounds in Buffy (thus, he's a creepy-looking fellow). it just may work.


on Friday, Sept 20, we have the debut of Firefly, the next thought-child of Joss Whedon to hit the boob tube (7pm CDT on Fox). i'm looking forward to seeing Joss' take on the space western comedic drama genre.

next up is (the big one) September 24th: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (7pm on UPN)! don't need to say why i'll watch. check any other day's posts and you'll see.

i'll probably also take a look at Smallville again (8pm CDT on WB). the first two episodes were shown again earlier this week, and i remembered that, Hey! i do like that show! i don't remember why i didn't watch it last season. only problem could be that it's opposite the debut season of UPN's new Buffy companion, Haunted (i want to give it a look), then in late October, against Fox's second season of 24. Tuesdays are a busy night, and a very strong argument in favor of multiple televisions, VCRs and TiVo.

the week of September 30th sees the season premieres of two syndicated shows, Andromeda and Mutant X (you have to check your local listings for these. me, i watch 'em on WGN). both are shows i watch occasionally, usually the infrequent times i actually watch television on the weekend, and both are decent. Andromeda is actually pretty good, but i'm kind of getting lost on the metaplot (because i don't watch it each week).

from the eps that i do catch, Mutant X seems to be getting its tv legs. i thought the show simplifies its theme and plots too much, reducing it to little more than flashy effects, pretty characters, and sometimes predictibility. the second season is supposed to begin with the team learning more control over their respective abilities, a maturation of sorts, so i'm hopeful the show itself will mature, dealing less with Good Guys vs. Bad Guys of the Week and more with the personal struggles these mutant go through, not only in controlling and mastering their abilities, but also conflicts they face by being mutant freaks in the first place.

the week of Sept 30 is also the week of the series premiere of the syndicated program Adventure Inc. i haven't heard much about it, other than starring the Aliens hottie Michael Biehn. that alone is reason to watch. i have a feeling this show will have the same quality as Relic Hunter, which i also enjoy, but this one has Michael Biehn. anyway, i'm kind of hoping this goes beyond Relic Hunter and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in the feel of the pulp fiction action worlds. i sort of envision it to be something like White Wolf's game Adventure! i'll probably be disappointed in that aspect, but still, it has Michael Biehn.

lastly (until late Oct./early Nov., anyway) on October 6th, Angel debuts its fourth season (WB Sundays, at 8pm). Cordelia. Lorne. some Wesley/Gunn action. what's not to love?

the only news worth passing along today is the Buffy Yearbook Special available today.

this won't mean anything to most people. if not, please ignore it and look for an informative or fascinating post. let me know if you find one of those here. i will delete it immediately.

anyway:

it finally clicked for me. i now understand how to quad-kite! did a bang up job of it for a few hours last night. snow bunnies will never be safe from me now!

another brief review of the Buffy Xbox game.

i realize that there are financial and PR benefits (are those one and the same?) to this, but i still think it's a cool thing to do.

summary: WHSL, a St Louis area station affiliated with the Home Shopping Network is set to become a UPN affiliate on April first next year. KPLR, a primary WB affiliate, had been broadcasting Buffy and other UPN shows as a secondary UPN affiliate (dual affiliation for UPN and WB is common). KPLR decided that it's schedule was too crowded with both network's shows and local professional sports broadcasts, and opted not to continue showing UPN programing this season*, leaving the area UPN-free through most of this season (there's even more history of UPN bouncing around in the St. Louis area, at the end of the linked article).

WHSL stepped up and worked out a deal with HSN (who stands to lose money) and UPN to broadcast two hours of this season's UPN programming a week, Buffy and Enterprise. the only downside to the deal (though still in the Upside column over all, i think) is that the WHSL won't be broadcasting them until Friday of each week.

* (through my corporate overlord, i have been seeing a lot of stations dropping to single affiliation lately. i've also noticed that UPN is picking up more affiliates, with WB remaining about the same).

someone on this Save Farscape board says that TV Guide is to have an article in next week's print edition about their efforts to save the show.

woo hoo!

i should not let the boyfriend talk me into drinking when i have to work the next morning.

Two-headed turtle found in Florida , and they released it into the gulf! this thing is a mutant. it could grow to gargantuan size and eat cruise liners and Cuba. have we forgotten about the Godzilla movies?

Kim Hunter, Dr. Zira in the original Planet of the Apes films as well as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, died yesterday. the link also contains a biographic and filmographic overview.

Five reasons Buffy gets snubbed by the Emmys

if anyone's interested, tomorrow's Buffy ep on FX will be "This Year's Girl," the fourth season return of Faith.

oh boy! i've just been informed that Rupert Murdoch himself "will be transmitting a letter directly" to me "to express his sentiments [about today]"

blech

uh, i didn't mean the booby photo. i meant the one up top.

an interview with Stephanie Romanov. there's also a magazine on the stands at Blockbuster that has interviews with Stephanie Romanov, David Boreanaz, and (i'm kinda-sorta-mostly certain) Sarah Michelle Gellar also. i don' t remember the name of the magazine nor had a chance to read the interviews (i was in a hurry).

and really, she looks good in the photo in the link above.

transcript of a Dallas Morning News article, 'Buffy' creator brings new meaning to prolific (yeah, yeah, another 'Joss is doing a lot!' article. i have to have something to hold me through the next 15 days).

Sci Fi Wire's blurb on the end of Farscape.

it seems that the Sci Fi Channel has decided not to pick up Farscape for a fifth season. if you don't like that, and want to do something about it that doesn't involve leaving your computer, try this Save Farscape website.

we here at TV Squid have received two hundred or so emails about it so far, many demanding or begging that we not cancel it. which we have nothing to do with, of course (except for those Big Cheeses who are members of the Stonecutters, i'd wager).

the cubical of the woman who goes through all that email is not too far from mine. she's been waving me over, "Look at this one!" and "You HAVE to see this!" truly, there are some morons out there.

if you want to save Farscape, write someone who can actually do something about it. don't email us. we're just laughing at you (and possibly putting you on a list of your email addresses to have some fun with, but i can't confirm that).

the Xbox Buffy game continues to receive good reveiws('Buffy' game is worth sinking your teeth into).

TrekWeb says the first season Star Trek: Deep Space Nine may be released as early as late February of next year. although there's been no official word on the release dates of the DS9 dvds, it's expected to be similiar to ST:TNG's All-Seven-Seasons-In-One-Year.

i know this is a (relatively) long way off and could change at any time between now and then, but according to the information we have, Toon Disney will be airing the entire Gargoyles series in large blocks from 3pm to midnight on October 28 through 30, with the final block on October 31 running from 3pm to 3am.

for anyone keeping track of such things, my Hotspam box is too overwhelming, averaging 150 piece of junk mail a day (i have good reason to keep the box. otherwise i'd abandon it like a litter of puppies). i'm changing it to the "exclusive" setting to allow only those on my contact list to get through (we'll see if that works. i upped the filter setting before and all of the junk mail started going to my inbox).

if you've been in regular contact with me, you'll be on the list. if not, all is not lost. you may still benefit from my juvenile sense of humor and incoherently incomplete thoughts wisdom by using the new address listed on the left sidebar.

you'll still be able to get regular Buffy-obsessed spewings and my Marc Blucas and Jeff Corwin lustings (egad! Marc and Jeff together! /drool) right here.

da Bossman just came over and gave me a "Buffy Lives" temporary tattoo. i'm a happy terrence. now i gotta think of the perfect time and place to wear it.

i rarely visit my own blog from home, but i did last night and noticed some... aesthetic issues in Netscape. if i was a more motivated person, i'd work on fixing it, but i'm not. sorry for the ugliness, folks.

start getting prepared now, folks. we only have three weeks until new season of Buffy! summer has flown by!

a tiny bit of Buffy comics news, accompanied by the cover art for Buffy #53, a really good rendering of Angel (head down, i think, to downplay the height of his hair and make sure it all fits on the cover).

(totally off-topic, i kept misspelling the word 'height' as 'heighth.' i knew it didn't look right, so i looked it up at dictionary.com. it seems that i keep trying to spell the word the way that i pronounce it. i've never noticed if others pronounce it differently. anyone care to dash off a quick note and let me know how they pronounce it?)

and some more grrr! from Dark Horizons:

Those wondering about the pseudo-cameo from 'Gambit' [in X2] can now find out more by checking out Stunts Canada where Banana Republic model-looking stuntman James Bamford has confirmed on his resume that he's scored the role. Thanks to 'Tyler Durden'.

some photos from the filming of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Max Ryan as Dante. grrrr!

i really want some boots like his (last pic).

Tim Burton to direct Batman: the Musical.

i'm sad. that probably means no plastic nipple-suits and no homoeroticism.


on a less homoerotic front, here's the new Romulan Warbird from Star Trek: Nemesis.

Buffy Casualties: Dead and Loving It! (may contain a casting spoiler).

this would be a better article if they'd gone through and listed every regular and guest star that had died over the course of the series. i'd like to know what Robia La Morte is up to.

commentary on "Real Me," "Fool For Love," "I Was Made to Love You," and "The Body."

see what's on the Region 2 Buffy season 5 DVDs that is being released in October and wish the British still ruled the world.

the company that owns my apartment building has decided to build a ramp from the handicapped-accessible parking to the building. it has taken a crew of six men four days to build the concrete ramp. during that time, they've had three equipment trucks, a trailor and a big monstrosity-machine taking up eight parking spaces, in addition to the four handicapped-accessible spaces and the two regular spaces bookending them that they've closed off.

speaking as someone whose father and grandfather were/are masons, carpenters, and worked extensively with concrete, and as someone who spent way too many summers in junior high and high school working on their crews, the ramp should have buildable by a one- or two-man crew, and it should have taken no more than two days to build it.

all this so i can bitch about having to park across the street last night because there were no parking spaces at my apartment.

samples from the "Once More, With Feeling" soundtrack, including the bonus tracks.

didn't think before clicking on the track from "The Gift." duh. it's the Buffy-death track. had to close the window quickly before i started sobbing.

i went into this thread knowing there'd be quotes and one-liners, but really, the first post takes it. no need to read beyond it.

Eliza Dushku is scheduled to appear on CBS' The Late Show With David Letterman tomorrow (Aug 27) night.

review of the Buffy Xbox game.

the boyfriend doesn't believe the Xbox will be around long, so he's resisting my demand to buy one. he says there aren't enough games available for it. i counter with 'But the Buffy game is the only one i'm gonna get anyway.' somehow, it's not convincing him.

The Parents Television Council rated UPN's Buffy the Vampire Slayer the worst show in prime time for graphic violence and sex and an element of the occult.

all reasons i watch the show.

“It appears that the networks are finally starting to listen to the collective voice of parents who want to sit down with their children and enjoy high quality, family-friendly programming in prime-time.”

to this i say, seek out the shows you wanna watch with your rugrats and stop expecting networks to show only what you want to see. hell, turn on PAX or Fox Family. they have networks for people like you.

and stop referring to any part of Prime Time as "Family Hour." if you're really so concerned about spending a quality hour with your children, i don't think that staring at the television is the way to go.

“The PTC’s Best/Worst rankings clearly show that the networks have a long way to go before parents can be assured that their children will not be bombarded with filth during prime-time”

kill your tv. or turn it off. or parent your children and keep an eye on their viewing habits.

by the way, 7th Heaven should not be considered good family programming. everytime i see more than five minutes of it, i fly into a near-murderous, ranting-at-the-television rage. if you don't want your children doing the same, demand that the show be cancelled before we end up with children gunning down their families.

Rounder Records has posted the track list for the OWWF soundtrack.

for those of us into such things (and i am), here's the press release for the Buffy roleplaying game. it'll include a guide to Buffyspeak! as any good non-rules-lawyering-bastard geek gamer will do, i'll end up adapting the rules to bring the Buffyverse together with the World of Darkness's Vampire: the Masquerade. i wanna see Buffy taking out [warning: Gamespeak ahead] some Methuselahs and eventually go up against an Antedeluvian.

woo hoo! Governor Frank has added the Cockfighting Ban question to the November ballot. we finally get to vote to make this barbaric act illegal!

i shouldn't get too excited though. the electorate of Oklahoma has consistently disappointed me in elections.

i do, however, finally have a reason to give Frank a thumbs up. go go, Frank!

hrmph

"You have found the RYO Corporate Home Page. Welcome. Please view the next three pages as well as they are irrevocably linked. You would be a wise person indeed to follow this suggestion. "

"The RYO Lodge was a 2200 acre facility offering guided hunting and fishing, as well as a world class enema spa and pizzeria. Norm's Famous All You Can Eat No Crap Chitlin Pizza was a traditional favorite among the guests"

Hamfest.

Understand every word with English translations projected above the stage!

i've never been, so i'm wondering, is that something commonly done at the Opera?

The One Ring staffer Arathorn got confirmation direct from Tim Minear himself, who told us exclusively that Sean Astin is a lock in this season's schedule to direct an episode of Angel.

also, from Wolfram and Hart to Enron: Christian Kane can't stay away from monolithic, demon-controlled companies to another (probably explaining the reason he works in Hollywood).

Buffy stuff:

press release on the "Once More, With Feeling" soundtrack.

Misrepresentations, Misunderstandings, Slurs and Allegations. a rebuttal to three editorials accusing Joss and ME of being bad people for killing Tara (yeah, the whining is still going on).

from the season seven premiere (supposedly), two photos. i just really like the way first one looks (the 'vibe' of the interaction between the characters, who i won't name to prevent anyone from crying "You didn't warn me about spoilers!") (i'm a little gun shy about that now, aren't i?).

copied from Dark Horizons : In truly disturbing news, Fangoria has filed a detailed story about how it appears Kane Hodder may in fact be out of this movie as Jason Voorhees is "re-invented" and possibly taken over by "Halloween: Resurrection's" Brad Loree, the actor who played the Shape (fueling rumors that they needed to fill a "Canadian" top-liner cast quota). Apparently, the characters are being re-designed by Bill Terezakis of WTC Productions who did the effects work for "Final Destination 2" and "Willard," two other recent New Line projects. Jason Voorhees is being re-invented to a point where they're looking for an actor "who can emote pain and anguish over the loss of a loved one."

that *is* what i look for in preternatural serial killers.


another tidbit from Dark Horizons:

The Hollywood Reporter indicates USA Network plans to remake the 70's series "The Bionic Woman."

is that a good or a bad thing?

if you're not watching Rocko's Modern Life, you should be. last night, Nick showed the ep with "Zanzibar" (the musical Recycling episode) and "Fatal Contraption" (a dialogue-less tale of a Wallaby and his new appliance) both right up there in quality with Animaniacs musicals ["Dot's Entertainment," (with the song "Cats of Phantom Boulevard") and "Les Miseranimals" (the whole fucking thing was great)].

murder is wrong, no doubt about it, but why isn't it acceptable to send hordes of ninjas after people?

New York Times link. registration required: News Corp. Posts a Loss, Mostly in Gemstar Mess. no wondering the company is laying off everyone and screwing us on our raises.

He-Man.org has posted the -one- -two- -three- commercials that Cartoon Network is running for the new He-Man animated movie/new series pilot. the movie will be broadcast tomorrow at 3pm CDT, then rebroadcast Saturday at 6pm and Sunday at 9am (both CDT).

[via Dark Horizons]

Babylon 5 DVDs tentatively scheduled to released April '03 (season 2) and Noveber '03 (season 3).

new guy at work = dreamy, furry-chested, goofy lopsided smile = new workplace crush

from Dark Horizons: According to Fangoria, this long-delayed Nicholas Brendon/Jamie Pressly-starring horror film about a demonic pinata (which originally was entitled "Pinata: Survival Island") will be released regionally in theaters starting August 30th.

demonic piñata. why didn't i think of that? damn, i hope this movie plays somewhere around here.

so, what do you think about (movie) Storm's new hairdo?

you can personalize and send Jeff Corwin e-cards! i'm sending them all to myself (especially the strangely appealing 'Lying on the ground with a big snake wrapped around him' one).

"Got adventure on your mind? Click here to win an appearance on Animal Planet with Jeff Corwin and drive home in a new 2002 Suzuki Aerio SX!" it's the Win a Date with Jeff contest! you can enter daily (and i will), and as an added bonus you can also win a year of free cable from your local provider. free cable and an evening (or ten minutes and a handshake) on the <enter biome of choice> with Jeff? this is what being an American is about!

anyone have some extra cash laying around that they'd like to send me? there's a house i reeeeally want, but it's about $1900/month more than i could possibly afford.

"Whedon also said the long-awaited soundtrack for "Once More With Feeling," last fall's all-musical episode, will be out by Sept. 24, the day "Buffy" begins its seventh season on UPN. "

hooray! finally, i've seen a second source saying OMWF soundtrack is coming soon! from this article, which has many spoilers, mostly casting but some plot, mostly for Buffy and some for Angel.

i've been avoiding Buffydom this summer (except when my sister or nephew come over and want to watch it, but that's been all season two). it's a way to pass through the way-too-long rerun season without scouring the internet for spoilers, but i kind of slipped last week and watched Doppelgangland on FX. now i'm all excited again. forty-four days left!

failing to conquer earth militarily, the Collective has decided to take a more democratic approach.

Buffy Xbox game street date bumped back up to August 19. i want i want i want i want

not that i meant anything at all disparaging to the people who call New Orleans home. i'm sure you're not all pirates, drunks and/or whores.

New Orleans!
Home of pirates, drunks and whores
New Orleans!
Tacky, overpriced souvenir stores
If you want to go to hell, you should take a trip
To the Sodom and Gomorrah of the Mississip'
New Orleans!
Stinking, rotten, vomiting, vile
New Orleans!
Putrid, brackish, maggotty, foul
New Orleans!
Crummy, lousy, rancid and rank
New Orleans!

because i can't get the season two DVDs yet, i'm listening to my 'Songs In the Key of Springfield,' which reminded me that my sister is planning a return trip to New Orleans sometime soon. she says she loves the city for what amounts to its historicity, but with the attributes listed above, who wouldn't love it?

Court upholds man's use of eagle feathers for religious practices.

an interesting part of the article: Government attorneys have said the demand for eagle feathers exceeds the government's supply in a repository in the Denver area.

a Fort Knox for eagle feathers!

dreamed last night of frogs in my apartment. it started with just a few, but more kept appearing. somehow, i knew that, once all the frogs had appeared and taken predetermined locations, something momentous would happen.

it didn't happen though. instead, i woke up. i went out to find the boyfriend, who was still up watching a movie. though awake, i could still see the frogs but the boyfriend didn't know what i was talking about when i asked him where they'd all come from.

i'm hypothesizing that the frogs were somehow magical in nature and usually invisible, but that i, due to some previously unknown invisible-magical-frog birthright, was able to see them.

i'd like anyone to try to disprove this.

should i be worried that there were only 49 messages in my Hotmail spambox this morning when there are usually 150 or more every other morning?

Seth Green has recorded a commentary track (with Joss and Marti) for the Buffy season four DVD set.

also, Amber Benson, with a little on Tara's death, a little about her film Chance, and a passing mention of work on The Enforcers (also with Andy Hallett and James Marsters).

Ricardo Montalban speaks on his role as Khan for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

as Max has pointed out, The Simpsons - The Complete Second Season will be out tomorrow. i received a Friendly Reminder Call from the DVD store yesterday (while i was standing in their store, coincidentally). it'd have been better if they'd called me last week. i'd forgotten that it was coming out, so i spent every extra dollar i had on various gifts for the boyfriend. i'll have to wait a week or so before i get to pick up my copy.

humorous porn title of the day: Panty Hoes: Nylon Nymphos

watched The New Guy last night.

movie: silly, but not silly enough to watch again.

best part: she's great at playing the 'tough grrl,' and Eliza Dushku is getting better at playing the soft side of her roles.

the boyfriend brought home the Fellowship of the Rings dvd last week, but didn't tell me until Saturday. i didn't get to watch it.

his birthday was yesterday, and the entire weekend was taken up with various birthday events planned by family and some birthday shenanigans by his friends. all that, together with copious quantities of alchohol, left me nearly exhausted. i turned in a little early last night and actually slept the entire night through, something i rarely do.

hold up a sec.

overall, this is, of course, a good thing. it's a little preposterous to think that a kid creating a painting of himself killing the police officer who cited him would be a threat.

"Without question, it was intemperate and demonstrated extremely poor judgment," presiding Justice Arthur Scotland wrote in his opinion. what's wrong with teens today, being all intemperate and demonstrating extremely poor judgement? when i was a teen (and the same applies to my parents' and grandparents' generations. heck, i'm pretty sure it goes all the way back into antiquity) we never excercised poor judgement.

anyway, i don't care about Justices stating the obvious, but i do think this part is interesting

"The appeals court dismissed a finding by Butte County Superior Court Judge Ann Rutherford that the teenager had made a terrorist threat against MacPhail "

what, in the mind of Judge Rutherford, distinguished the painting as a terrorist threat and not just a plain, everyday kind of threat (well, i guess "terrorist threats" are kind of everyday things now)?

glad to see that our law enforcement officials are keeping these horrible, dangerous criminals off the street.

yet another article on the evils of Tara's death (and i don't mean 'evils' as in murder. it's 'evils' as in Joss-has-fallen-into-the-evil-and-death-lesbian-cliche). nothing in the article is original, and, in fact, seems to be nothing more than a rewrite of any of the previous articles, only this one came two months after all the others. the author seems to think that he's the only one who's said any of this ("plot turns as fitting into what I will label the "dead/evil lesbian cliché." yeah, because no one else has thought to label it that), and also, he irritates the hell out of me with the "it doesn't take a PhD" line, because, ya know, he's Rodger Streitmatter, Ph.D. and this whole cliche concept is so simple that even we who aren't as educated should recognize it.

while i'm linking to TV Guide Magazine, i'll also link to their truncated online version of the print article 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time. i thumbed through an archive copy of the magazine (i won't get my copy until today. i think we just get the left overs) and the small part of me that's not a half-wit is wondering what criteria they used to select these particular toons. Arthur? Bobby Hill?? Josie and the friggin' Pussycats??? but no Darkwing Duck? neither of the Warner brothers or their sister? bah!

and please, Beavis and Butt-head? feh.

i've been so disconnected from television during the last month or two that i didn't even know The Rerun Show existed. i'll have to take a look tonight.