March 16, 2004

• Way sad! I wonder if anyone had had enough interest to make sure that White was getting treatment for what appears to be an illness. It might have made a difference. And the_bone, sorry, I just couldn't find this humorous, though your comment was witty.
• It's a very dark, twisted humor to this. But yes, very sad. I would say he needs help more than he needs prison. Then after that, he'll need to deal with the guilt of having killed his friend.
• If there is not, as a result of this incident, finally a congressional inquiry into the works of Joss Whedon and their impact on our impressionable youth, I will be very disappointed.
• I saw he a goth message board that he was after this guy. Seriously, vampires do not exist. He gives Christians a bad name.
• religion + mental illness = watch your ass
• Oh, don't get me wrong; I found it more strange and sad than humorous (I have family members who are mentally ill). I'm just quippy about everything, whether it's appropriate or not.
• It's very hard to spot a Goth in FLA. It must be even harder to know they're not really a vampire.
• Sullivan: Once you've started believing in one bunch of imaginary friends, why not collect the set!
• Since we've been revealing deep dark secrets to our fellow monkeys, I'll take this opportunity to become closer to all y'all by admitting that I'm a big Buffy fan.
• I went to a conference on Buffy Studies last year. While I'm not going to give too much linky-love to it, I will admit that I had lunch with these people.
• PS
• "Spike's Hybridised Gender"? Dear me. I have boxes and boxes of the DVDs, but I think that's going a little too far. (Mind you, I think watching the ever crapulent Mr Boreanaz in his spin off is going too far as well. And I'm still torn as to whether it's worth having S6 and S7).
• As you know, in Am Pop Cult, homosexuals and villains and aesthetes have Brit accents. Are any Brits here offended because I left one or more of their salient traits out?
• *sigh* I wish I was a villainous homosexual aesthete. I mean, imagine being a vampiric Oscar Wilde. Hmm. Now that I think about it, there's a really so-bad-it's-good movie to be made about that.
• *more sighing* I wish my wife, her family, and my two best friends weren't Brits. They are homo aesthete villains, y'knew.
• Isn't your wife being a homo aesthete villian a problem for marital relations? I mean, a plain old aesthete villain, sure, but a homo?
• Funny how Spike kept his English accent while Angel lost his Irish one, innit. (Let's ignore, temporarily, the fact that James Marsters is actually from Texas, and also the fact that I am a total Buffy-geek.)
• Spike did, however, change his accept once he met Anthony Stewart Head and heard what a real common-as-much Pommy accent of the sort he was imitating sounded like. I will credit James Marsters with being one of the, shall we say, better preserved specimens of 40-something manhood I've ever clapped eyes on. (Saw ASH on Spooks with his real accept. It looks like Giles, it sounds like Spike, and it's a rogue agent...)
• I mean, a plain old aesthete villain, sure, but a homo? You forget the rest of her family. How did they make her? Where did they buy her? Fortunately, she's convinced I'm a lesbienne.
• Wow, I hadn't even heard this story. I've been out of touch for a bit. Since when did Buffy become so popular? I've never seen it.
• >>born-again Christian with an unusual preoccupation with zombies and vampires a winning combination!
• Oh, Wolof - it's now my lifetime ambition to win a Mr Pointy Award. I don't think the internet is the most risky place to admit to serious Buffy adulation. Nor indeed to occasional inappropriate thoughts about Spike. Nor even to analyse in-depth the relative accents of the cast members (I saw that Spooks episode with Tony Head too; it was a little unnerving, certainly. Kudos at least to James Marsters for doing a better British accent than several notable British actors have done on American TV series.) As you know, in Am Pop Cult, homosexuals and villains and aesthetes have Brit accents. Are any Brits here offended because I left one or more of their salient traits out? Where's the pompous, ineffectual bureaucrat?
• I'm not phased by the "How did they make her" - one of my wife's oldest friends is the daughter of New Zealand's most famous, gay, Maori author and his ex-wife, a lesbian who runs sausage sizzles at the local gay and lesbian fairs. It's an odd world.
• As you know, in Am Pop Cult, homosexuals and villains and aesthetes have Brit accents. And usually, that translates to Upper Class English accents. I'm look forward to the American films where the evil villian has a nice, incomprehensible geordie accent.
• Where's the pompous, ineffectual bureaucrat? Fat Controller!
• Moreover, where's the pompous, effectual bureaucrat? (Think Yes, Prime Minister).
• dng: See Sean Bean in his own accent in the B-thriller Airborne. Not a Geordie, but not RP either. Of course, I'm cheating, as this is a Canadian B-film - but it's trying to be American! I also got to meet the director, and stood there red in the face as my friend asked him where he kept his magic bag of cliches - fortunately he laughed - he is a good director, who was trying to pay the bills.