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.