tolkhan's recap: "As You Were" (wha? so i'm a couple weeks behind. and still missing "Older and Far Away," "Dead Things," "DoubleMeat Palace," "Smashed," and "Wrecked. i'll get them up some day)

they put Angel on a five week vacation for this?

note to self: if you happen to stumble upon it, do not read Angel/Spike slash at work.

if anyone's interested (and i know you all are), Rilgoran (my EQ character) completed his Occultist Skullcap quest last night. afterward, rather than doing anything productive (in an In-game sense, because playing Everquest isn't really all that productive), he used his invisibility spell on himself, then went around bonking people on the head and tickling monks.

my life is so fulfilling.

tonight, i probably won't do anything productive either. Nephew #1 is coming over for a few hours.


funny story about my nephew (part of it's funny. most of it not so much): my sister was called into an after school meeting with my nephew's kindergarten teacher. he's not paying attention in class, and (my sister said the teacher really said this) he's scribbling rather than coloring within the lines so he can finish quickly and go play. also, the teacher was concerned that he's not keeping up with the other kids. the teacher handed my sister a list of words that says the kids should be able to read by this point, but, she said my nephew can't read them. as my sister is looking over the list, my nephew leaned over and read the words to his mom. it seems that he's just refusing to read them by saying that he can't. i laughed when my sister told me the tale, but she didn't think it was so funny.


last night, i had nightmares about Kendra (the Slayer called after Buffy died in season one) returning as a vampire. she had a huge vampire coterie under her command, and they were trying to capture me because i knew where the Gem of Amara was. they didn't catch me (came close a few times), but they did slaughter most of the people i work with (still trying to decide if that last part is a bad thing).

speaking of, Was Angel Right to Destroy the Gem of Amara?

Scooby Doo trailer.

Now who's the damsel in distress?

anyone watch Celebrity Boxing last night? anyone doubt that Tonya and Todd would win? anyone else wish this show was Live Action Celebrity Death Match?

a few live-action Scooby Doo stills. Buffy's looking cute in the Grape Ape/Barney colors, but i don't remember the original Daphne Blake showing that much cleavage.

why does the name Scoobysnack.net crack me up so much? why does Animated Lust have nothing to do with lust?

Everquest is becoming a table top, pen and paper game. this is a good thing.

in case anyone's missed it, TVGuide print's current issue is "TV's Top MVPs 2002." named are James Marsters in Supporting Players and Joss Whedon in Writers (one of many sections absent from the Online article). listed in Faces to Watch are V'ulcan B'abe Jolene Blalock (with a *really* unflattering photo) and Kryptonian hottie Tom Welling.

also, there's an article commemorating the 25th anniversary of the debut of Three's Company, which i only mention to again say 'Joyce DeWitt for President in 2004!'

Crossroads and Crossroads, both films starring whores.

James Marsters is appearing on the cover of two magazines this month: Cinescape (scroll down) and Starburst.

been sick the last couple of days. yesterday, i had trouble breathing, like an all day asthma attack. my boss helpfully suggests that it's bronchitis. i'm hoping for something more exotic.

i'm going back to bed now.

the Evil Dead: Special Edition DVD comes out today (according to Dark Horizons. i've not seen mention of it anywhere else), and it has a kick-ass looking cover. i'd get it just for that, but come on, it's Evil Dead! the DVD also has commentary by Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.

i'm really quite worried for Wesley now. everything bad seems to happen to him, and he never catches a break. poor guy.

and eww, please, Fred and Gunn… too much sweetness rots! stop with the cutesy stuff, please, before i retch.

i miss Cordy.

i've been discussing "The Time Machine" with my DEQ friend, and we've decided that it'll probably be adapted into a bad series for television, starring Carmen Electra and a Pierce Brosnan look-and-sound-alike, and maybe a couple of plucky kids and a wise-cracking minority person with strange "customs". bleh.

in celebration of this glum possibility, here's some of my favorite time travelling television serieseses (in which time travel is an integral part of the premise):

Quantum Leap
The Time Tunnel
Voyagers!
Seven Days

honorable mentions:
Sliders
Farscape
X-Files episode "Monday"

action/adventure programmes i like that feature chesty/skin-suit-clad/scantily clad women-babe-things:
Mutant X
Relic Hunter
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
Wonder Woman

"Sergi said Kulhanek was put in a barbershop type chair where liquor was poured down her throat." Before she knew it, she was dead drunk."

and she was absolutely powerless to stop them!

whore. take some responsibility for your actions. feh.
[via Max, whose Buffy the SimVampire Slayer photos in the photo album somehow leave out Spike. oh, it's also a good thing that Alias post was at the very bottom.]

the nominees for Nebula Awards have been announced. "The Body" [spoilery, if you haven't seen the ep] has been nominated! hooray!

i've been invited! i'm so special!

i'm clickable fun!

i was thinking of having a small reception after the wedding, inviting a few friends, having wedding type foods and decorations and crap. but then i remembered that i'm broke and i hate weddings, so scratch that.

hmm… "Inside Hollywood's Greatest," a show featuring celebrity autopsies. it's my idea. don't steal it.

heck, why wait for autopsies? vivisection, anyone? first episode: Britney Spears (to quell any rumor of her starring in any Dazzler movie).

saw Artificial Intelligence: AI last night. never really had any interest or disinterest in it before. it was just kind of there. my thoughts on it now: Haley Joel Osment is a little creepy, in a 'I'm gonna star in the next remake of a Cape Fear' kind of way. after his 'mommy' dumped him off in the woods, and he's running from the Flesh Fair hounds, i kept thinking "where's Rick Deckard when you need him?" i also kept thinking "where can i get my own Jude Lawbot?"

the real unexamined story, though, is why William Hurt is building himself an army of Haley Joel Osments. can you imagine them marching across the planet? how terrifying would that be? no wonder humans are extinct in that future (which really should have been cut. blech. unnecessary sugary sappiness).

my rating (1 to 10):
base value: 6 (hey, any movie with William Hurt starts out a little higher than most)

modifiers: Jude Law +1; creepy little boy -3; cute teddy bear that i really want +2; sugary ending -2; half litre of rum i consumed while watching +2

final tally = 6 (or probably wouldn't choose to watch it again)