O Rly?

Non, je ne regretsy rien...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:47:30 GMT

http://www.regretsy.com/

This is my new favourite website. Tears of laughter, guaranteed or your money back.

They call me Polyphonte - a BtVS Greekmythpastiche!drabble (no warnings, no spoilers)

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:14:20 GMT

Troy, many years BC...

In the midst of battle I fought, but I did not fight the Greeks. Lamia, hissing their poisonous calls, were my foe. Their glinting fangs were bared in the moonlight. I sliced cruel heads from scrawny shoulders. Blood on my hands; my own, or theirs? I cannot tell.

I saw many men die that day, but men are not my world. They call me polyphonte, slayer of many. All I know is death and fleeting love. Dark hands in the night, of god or man. I am the dark. I am the barrier against the dark.

Why's it called a plot bunny?

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:21:22 GMT

Why do people call plot ideas plot bunnies? Where did all that start? What does it mean, exactly?

La la la I skip through the streets singing la la la (Dollhouse spoilers)

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:33:06 GMT

For I have a spoiler, and it is mighty. Ok, it's not exactly a top secret one, but I haven't been made this happy by a spoiler for a loooong time.

Laura Palmer's dad is going to be on Dollhouse! Bob! Arrrrrgh! Genius! Scary! Woo! (And other articulate comments.)

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/09/15/exclusive-ray-wise-moves-into-dollhouse/

What qualifications do you need to work for Hogwarts?

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:16:53 GMT

http://www.cracked.com/funny-339-dumbledore/

I am grateful to these people

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:19:55 GMT

Thank you, whoever devotes time to finding these gems. They are the gift that keeps on giving. So, I pass them on to you...with the reminder that your husband will leave you if you don't "douche with lysol"...

http://www.retrocomedy.com/2009/07/15-creepiest-vintage-ads-of-all-time.html

I don't want to overhype this but...

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:46:14 GMT

...I feel you might laugh, maybe. Just a bit. (It's a website detailing a man's search for his perfect "goddess" woman). I did. A lot.

http://www.findingmygoddess.com/

Gay marriage killed the dinosaurs...

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:16:01 GMT

http://www.geocities.com/patrick_farley/gayMarriageChart-large.png

I invented a new word today: swotspectation

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:53:15 GMT

This describes the feeling of eager joy tinged with fear that girlie swots (in the mould of Hermione from Harry Potter, or Willow from Buffy) feel when they're waiting for exam results/a mark on something that they feel it's their birthright to do well on.

If they get a bad mark in the end (ie an A-, or not enough complimentary waffle from the tutor or whoever at the bottom)....can you think of a word that would describe their utter crushing noncomprehension and disappointment?

Their pleasure at a fellow swots bad mark would presumably be swotenfreude (I know that doesn't work with the german but whatever. My journal, my linguistic rules).

Q: Why did the baker have brown, smelly hands?

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:05:59 GMT

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A: Because he kneaded a poo

(Thank you, I'll be here all week, try the veal)

Excuse me, miss, your obsession's showing

Wed, 27 May 2009 11:34:12 GMT

Whenever I look back at old fics, it's nearly always glaringly obvious which show (or which aspect of which show) I'm obsessed with at the time. I'm guessing I was watching a) season 2 of Buffy and 3) The Wire...

http://www.buffyforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2786

Lolfatcats

Wed, 27 May 2009 09:57:42 GMT

http://lolfatcats.com/

I never thought I'd see a lolcat with Hazel Blears. But now I have, my life is complete.

Buffy the (new) Movie

Tue, 26 May 2009 18:25:34 GMT

If they make a Buffy movie, I would like it to be set in the future with the woman who plays Lilly on Gossip Girl playing an older Buffy, matriarch of the slayers. Hmm... but who should play older!Willow and Older!Xander?

Also, there should be flying cars. I've been waiting for my flying cars since about 1999.

Roundheads and cavaliers

Tue, 26 May 2009 10:32:23 GMT

I just read the opening paragraph of an article in the Times which says:

"When I was a child, my grandmother used to divide people into roundheads and cavaliers: roundheads liked to make rules and stick to them and cavaliers gloriously liked to break them and confess their sins."

...which is really weird. I used to do the same when I was a child. Does that mean I was born an old woman who Benjamin Buttoned her way through life?

I still think it's a good way of divvying people up. Though it doesn't have to be Roundheads and Cavaliers... could do it with Buffy characters.

I'd say Buffy's a Cavalier, as is Spike. Angel's a Roundhead. So's Willow.

(Although Willow does break rules in a serious way, she believes in the value of rules deeply - to the extent that eating a banana not at lunchtime is a big deal).I suppose I wouldn't phrase it in quite the way in terms of breaking rules...I'd say that Cavaliers are just more liable to see rules as bendy, while Roundheads have a more rigid approach.

This may not be historically accurate, it was just my childhood perception of the two ways of being.

It could also be Milton vs Blake... or...can anyone think of any similar categories? Or would you divvy things up completely differently?

I think I do see vague categories (with loads of overlap and exceptions) of people - largely RULES versus IMPROVISATION.

For example, Willow likes to learn the rules and develop expertise. Buffy likes to ignore the rules and make things up as she goes along.

Angel's perhaps a halfway house now I think about it. He does change things around, though I feel he often still respects the idea of order and rules even if he doesn't necessarily follow said rules.

Anyway, this whole post came out of the strange feeling I got when I read that opening paragraph. Have you ever had that experience, where you thought you were the only person who saw the world in a certain way, but then you heard someone else expressing your secret ideas? (I suspect I have a different attitude to the distinction than this journalist's grandma, but still... it's so specific, we must have some aspect of brain twinning across time :D).

I'm waiting for my man...

Thu, 21 May 2009 09:55:01 GMT

I have that Lou Reed song in my mind this morning. I was listening to him on my ipod, but not that song - or even that album. Strange. But I'll always like Iggy Pop and David Bowie better. I'd like to listen to "The Idiot" again. Haven't ever since I got rid of my tape player and all my tapes - so many things I haven't replaced on itunes/CD. Much of it was teenage nonsense (I don't think I really need to buy "The Butthole Surfers" again...though I'm tempted to get Dinosaur Jnr again).

On a different topic, I was having a discussion earlier about whether you can rank TV shows (or anything, really). On the whole, I'm anti-ranking (it makes you blind). It's too like top trumps and not enough like proper discussion. Though ocassionally a bit of the old "boo" "hurrah" can be fun.

In that context, I'll always be Team Buffy over Team Angel or Team Firefly.

I don't normally think "aww, cute!" about children but...

Wed, 20 May 2009 10:20:17 GMT

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-12508.html

Oi, French, no!

Mon, 18 May 2009 08:43:11 GMT

Spaceballs is NOT a parody of Star Trek. Is the Guardian/Observer ever going to realise they need to employ factcheckers? That getting-the-names-of-countries-wrong thing in the geographical supplement was awful, but, surely anyone between the ages of 25 and 40 would know that Spaceballs = Starwars? Who did he think the "dark helmet" guy was supposed to be making fun of in Star Trek, exactly? A very shy Klingon?

But the new ST film was brilliant. Really, really recommend it as a fun night out. I hardly know anything about Star Trek, but I've watched enough in patches (repeats on Sunday afternoon type stuff) for the film to be very funny, and rather exciting as an idea, the way it opens up all kinds of possibilities for future films...even a TV show?

Though the big explosions etc were cool so perhaps a TV show would seem a bit of a damp squib after so much BOOM!

I'm not sure if this is 100 per cent confirmed but....

Sat, 16 May 2009 05:53:48 GMT

http://www.endofshow.com/2009/05/16/breaking-fox-renews-dollhouse-for-second-season/

Woo! (If true)

I am not what I am

Fri, 15 May 2009 15:16:50 GMT

I just did one of those "which shakespeare character are you?" quizzes. I came out as Viola. Weird. I was pretty sure it would be Falstaff, or possibly Prince Hal.

Can I rest now, Buffy? sizzles

Mon, 11 May 2009 12:06:30 GMT

I am tired. I want to sleep. But have to work. Sleeeeeeep! Poppies will make you sleeeeep!

In other news: Dollhouse finale....I think I have to watch again (and sleep) before I can say anything coherent on the topic. Buffy never left me quite as brain-boggled as this!

What I will say now is, Dollhouse is fascinating from a moral standpoint - the position it puts the viewer in. It's like a trap for the mind, but a trap that you're not even sure is entirely a trap. Are these people irredeemable? Is there a potential for good in the Dollhouse? How should you feel about someone whose job is somewhere between madam and slave trader, and yet... charming and witty and seemingly humane to some people?

And then there's Topher. Bless his cotton socks. (While part of my brain screams: "He's a sociopath".

No Bela Prize?

Wed, 06 May 2009 11:39:18 GMT

I am very sad to discover that no one seems to like Bela from Supernatural. She's awesome. I want to know what happened to her once she got to hell. I want her to get out again.

"What the fck was I talking about?"

Wed, 06 May 2009 11:23:02 GMT

(That's a quote from reservoir dogs - the "like a virgin" speech, if anyone's curious about my internal set of associations. Bueller...anyone...?)

Anyway. That is my point. What WAS I talking about (or rather writing about). I was distracted by an email and now I have lost my chain of thought. Train of thought. Why is it a train and not a chain?

Also, I just got an email from someone (not the distracty email, another one after that, distracting me from my distraction)....it's an invite to a party. But I have no idea who she is. Should I say yes and just hope it wasn't a mistake? Maybe I just don't know her surname?

Sometimes I think the Onion isn't funny any more

Wed, 06 May 2009 09:59:42 GMT

But sometimes I do...

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/for_gay_couple_fulfilling?utm_source=a-section

Duck and cover

Tue, 05 May 2009 21:03:43 GMT

It's interesting that the UK government guidelines about how to avoid Swine Flu are just the normal hygiene rules of any civilised society (don't sneeze on people, cover your mouth, wash your hands often). The Ancient Egyptians could've told us that much. Note to Science: TRY HARDER.

Oops. I just sneezed. On you. Mwahahahahahaha. You can has pigflu nao.

A topical Andrew-and-Buffy ficlet, as yet unnamed

Tue, 05 May 2009 17:17:01 GMT

Buffy was glaring at him.

"Andrew. Please tell me you didn't...and this isn't...except you did and it is, isn't it?"

Andrew nodded, then shook his head. "It is...sort of my fault...except...with the good intentions and unintended consequences, I'm not sure I can be held accountable, legally or philosophically...."

"Don't even try. I just..." Buffy sighed a deep sigh of exasperation-slash-patience-tested-to-its-outer-limits-slash-I'm-only-just-stopping-myself-hitting-you-in-the-face-with-full-slayer-strength. Then she took a deep breath. "Just tell me how you did it."

Andrew shuffled his feet. "Well, thing is, I thought we could use this demon virus against, you know, demons... and pig demons share a lot of genetic material with a surprisingly wide range of humanoid demons...so I started tinkering with the structure of this pig demon virus and then..." He gestured at the world around them. "Pig flu. Sorry."

"So, what you're trying to tell me, is you're responsible for the swine flu epidemic?" Buffy asked, pursing her lips into a thin, thin line.

Andrew nodded, hanging his head in shame. But, as he hung it, he heard Xander snorfle with laughter from the next room.

"Xander!" Buffy yelled. "No laughing! What are you laughing about? No laughing! You're totally undermining my authority!"

Xander came into the room, still chuckling. "I'm sorry Buff but...don't you see what this means?"

"What?" said Andrew and Buffy similtaneously.

"Andrew caused the Aporkalypse!"