Picked up my Buffy season 4. Looks slick! If you need me tonight, I'll be in Sunnydale.

I'll flog myself later for letting this slip my mind, but Buffy season 4 dvd set hits shelves tomorrow!

I just realize that I have only 4 weeks at TV Guide before the layoff. Hooray summer vacation!


for those who may care but don't really want any detail: TiVo And Gemstar-TV Guide Announce New Business Relationship. I post this mainly becase I've lately been thunkulating on getting a TiVo, despite only turning on the television once since Buffy's finale (and that was to watch syndiBuffy). Perhaps, with my involuntary summer vacation coming up, I should wait on the TiVo decision.

via WHEDONesque: Buffy was nominated for the Television Critics Association Heritage Award, which, according to its website, "recognizes a long-standing program whose positive cultural and social impact extends beyond television." BtVS appears in good company, alongside Reading Rainbow and 60 Minutes. The 2002 winner was The Simpsons.



It's been just over two weeks. I still get emotional.

via Dark Horizons:

One woman who is definitely not in the running [for the role of Wonder Woman] is singer Jessica Simpson. But she is managing to keep tight-lipped about playing the lead in the next big movie based on a popular Marvel Comics series. "I don't know if your everyday person would know it," she recently told reporters, "but I can tell you this -- it's not Wonder Woman." [source, scroll down. also a some SMG there]

::prays to Stan Lee that it not be Dazzler::

not that there's a huge chance that Dazzler will ever make it to the silver screen, but evertime they mention a "singer" up for a role as a Marvel Comics character, I get nervous. and psychotic.

Comfort food toys.

"Three alternate universes have come together to form one, now one ship and crew have to fix it."

Those three universes are the Whedonverse, Star Trek and the X-Men. . Posted as a "Look what's out there!" kind of thing, it may cause cringing.

Me: Very satisfied. Very sad.

Made even better by FX airing Welcome to the Hellmouth and The Harvest tonight also.


"The Earth is DEFINITELY doomed."

Woot! Got my Kindred: the Embraced dvds! (Amazon link)

New Buffy game out in August! Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds. You can play as Buffy, Faith, Willow, Xander, Spike and Sid the Dummy(!), but no Giles.

The game's storyline seems topical, if you take Pure Evil as First Evil (if they are two different things, do they get along, or do they fight over who gets to destroy the world?): "Developed as a "lost episode" from season five of the television show, Chaos Bleeds involves an unraveling tale in which a dimensional bleed has been enabled by Pure Evil to consume humanity once and for all."

A good weekend for me:

Saw X2. Gah! If you haven't, GO SEE IT!

I received my Dazzler: the Movie.

Bought Fray #7, though I'll have to reread before commenting too much. It's like a companion piece to the current Buffy arc.

Bought the Star Trek: the Next Generation - The Complete Seventh Season. I was going to buy the second season, but then I had this wacky notion that I didn't have to buy them in order! After that, it was tough to choose between the fifth (which I missed most of) or the seventh (which had so many episodes that I liked).

Jason bought me this.

For Jason, I bought Xena: Season One (though for much less than the website's price). Best thing about it is that everytime you open up the little foldy box thing, it says "Yiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyi!" (ok, not really, but it'd be fun if it did).

Saw Equilibrium. It's 1984 with many gun battles, some martial arts and a sword. Also Christian Bale and Taye Diggs. This and The Transporter are now on my Must Have list.

A map of the orignal area code boundaries established in 1947. I'm enough of a goob to have pulled up a current map to switch back-and-forth between the two ("They've added one there... and there... and there....").

Management here at TV Gourd has their collective heads up their ass. Or their heads up their collective ass. I'm not sure which.

We're working on a huge project (one of those "We know this isn't really what your group does, but we could really use the help because, instead of using the last 6 months to work on it, we put it off until the last minute!" -type things^†).

Problems include:
• Forcing us to use proprietary programs that we've never used or been trained on, and no, they're not going to train us to use them.
• Those same programs actually being of no use to us.
• The one program that is useful (and almost necessary) is one that can't be installed on our group's computers because our software is out-of-date.
• The single, most useful database resource available to us (as in, 80% of the information we need is there) is also a single user resource. Only one person at a time can be logged in to it!
• The reports from which we're working: There are two different versions of the first half of the first report, no one seems to know what happened to the second half, while the second report is being given to more and more people who all try to start on the first page. When it is divided, it's by "I'll take the third page!" instead of dividing it up by subcatagory, so we'll have multiple people working on the same subcatagory.
• No standardized method of keeping track of our progress. I was the first to begin working on the report and I use a apparently complex system involving colored highlighters and a pen. When the others were brought on, Dumbass_Manager_01 asked me to explain my system, then suggested the others use whatever will work for them. Which, of course, will be great fun when all the reports are given to one person to be compiled.

^† Even better is when they say "If you do well on this, maybe they'll keep you around instead of laying you off!" when we've already been told by several management-types several months ago (including the one who said that) that the layoff dates were finalized and that there is nothing, short of a Jedi mind trick and the blessing of an Incan mummy girl, that will alter the fact that we're being laid off.


edited, because it's harmonious when your corresponding nouns and verbs agree in number.

Odd Place Names: Meat Camp, NC

An interesting site that I've missed until today: EyeWitness, "history through the eyes of those who lived it." I haven't had a lot of time to explore it yet and only read of a few events in which I have a particular interest: The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906, The British Burn Washington, DC, 1814, The Destruction of Pompeii, 79 AD, and Doomed Expedition to the South Pole, 1912.

At the bottom of this page is an audio clip of a very cranky Orson Welles during a voiceover recording session that wasn't going well.

He doesn't sound much like The Brain (except for that "Yes!" part about one minute in). Compare to The Brain's voiceover in his commercial for his new fragrance, Subjugation.

Oh, and wasn't last night's Angel great? I LOVED it! The season is building up a lot of excitement and tension, and now I can hardly wait for Wednesdays.

Is Wes getting hotter with each episode?

One episode from each Joss series nominated for a Hugo in the same category (plus two Enterprise eps I'm not concerned with):

Nominations for the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form Category:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Conversations With Dead People"
Firefly, "Serenity"
Angel, "Waiting in the Wings"


Do they ever have three-way ties, 'cause I can't pick just one (though I am leaning toward "Serenity," but I think that has more to do with everything that happened to the series and the general feeling of FOX FUCKING SUCKS that I still have).

Some people need to be thoroughly flogged.

Clock spider.

Spiders don't really bother me, but if I saw this one, I'd probably freak and wet myself.