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.