Christopher Marlowe - white wings is in Austin. IrishLady is somewhere near Lubbock. We had someone near McAllen but I don't remember who it was. That's not even mentioning the others in Austin, the Houston contingent, or 4paws near Fort Worth.

It's been raining most of the day in Atlanta. Earlier I walked into the foyer of a public library and encountered half a dozen open umbrellas whose owners had left them to dry. What does one call a gathering of open umbrellas?

WG

According to the Wikipedia article, Ross Martin spoke seven languages.

Beldin white wings is a Texan, but I'm not sure exactly where. She mentions traveling to San Saba, so I imagine she's that area.

Comma What have you been up to?

They are considering cutting anti-smoking education here in South Dakota to help solve the budget problems.

Here now.

medusacascade - It seems possible that you are in Texas, going to Austin for debate and all. I am in Lufkin; valMichael is in Baytown and Menomegirl is in the Golden Triangle area. Back in the heyday of the Bronze we had a fairly large Texas contingent.

Core School Standards: http://www.corestandards.org/

75% of new HIV cases, in the US, will be African American females, age 18-35. A lot more education is needed in this area.

CC

Algerina That limerick almost makes me feel like I have a sore throat.

Leather Jacket's Finish The Limerick

A woman named Katie McGrote
Had a scratch and a rasp in her throat
she was sick as a dog
in her throat not a frog
but a lump the size of a goat

medusacascade Yes and No. I'm not surprised that a single item was discussed that long. However, I was surprised that this particular item generated that much discussion. Most if it arising from one councilmember.

Christopher Marlowe - And this fact about committees surprises you?

neonate - win. :)

Old One Did you tour Vancourver a little bit while at the Olympic events?

neonate LOL!

tea Time is I don't know. I'm a bit hungry so I may try a chai with a sandwich.

Foot Tapper: Nice to see you stop by, but sorry to hear of tehcircumstance, although I have never seen that movie.

Trivia girl: Fowl is when you don't hit the ball straight, while I have provided examples of fine poultry below.


Some diseased limericks:

A woman named Katie McGrote
Had a scratch and a rasp in her throat
To her chagrin
Out crawled an alien.
She screeched in a very high note.


A woman named Katie McGrote
Had a scratch and a rasp in her throat.
Her infection grew stronger
So that soon she could no longer
Scream, when the Gentlemen by her window did float.


A woman named Katie McGrote
Had some scratch and a rasp in her throat.
She coughed up the money
With the help of some honey.
But the file required a stronger antidote.

Adri Still being chased by ARchie the Whup Monster?

At at committee meeting right now as part of the audience. They've spent close to 45 minutes on a single issue.

medusacascade I am counting my blessings that the snow isn't sticking to the roads much. *g*

Morning Tea Time was Twinings Peppermint Tea.

Leather Jacket - Well, dying and STAYING dead, for once. Her and Spike. They're like cockroaches. So a proper death in which the corpse doesn't get back up. Ever. (Or, in Spike's case, the dust doesn't become a vamp)

Christopher Marlowe - I have seen snow a total of twice in my life. I missed it this year cause I was in Austin for debate. Count your blessings. :)

Sunnydale's Trivia Pursuits

Category: nature
What is the difference between poultry and fowl?
Answer: Poultry is domesticated birds

Trivia Chicken Whisperers: notsoShyGirl, mMrs.Beasley, valMichael, Algerina
Trivia Chickens: wolfguard, Leather Jacket

Leather Jacket's Finish The Limerick

A woman named Katie McGrote
Had a scratch and a rasp in her throat
She tried taking a turn
Playing Katherine Hepburn
Had the voice down but couldn't emote

OMF

Foot Tapper: I only just found out about Corey Haim too. Damn! Might go and watch Lost Boys tonight!

Happy Birthday Anwyn-na-gig & Piper Angel (Angelique's childe) !

YayOfTheDay : I would probably call Buffy season 7 epic.

Trivia Girl : When you leave poultry in the fridge for a couple weeks, it turns fowl.

valMichael : I can't even spell Alquidcondot.

DaddyCatALSO : My list was by no means meant to be all-inclusive. It was meant to be as inarguable as possible.

werewolf123 : Again in re Bullock buscar Oscar, why are you posting to me in languages I don't speak?
And I have seen plenty of crappy old truck drivers.

meduscacascade : Why do you think Buffy dying would give us any more closure than the first two times?

lostinamerica : Having not seen any of the movies up for best picture, several factors could have influenced the choice of The Hurt Locker without it being a "slow year". There were ten choices this year, which could have diluted the voting pool. There most certainly was some anti-Avatar sentiment as it was both science fiction and heavily CGI. The same would apply to District 9. Up was animated, which may also have some negative sentiments as far as best pictures go. (Industry professionals may want to see actors actually act, not just speak well.) There could have been anti-sports-film sentiments against The Blind Side. I'm sure there are more.

Finish the Limerick

Thanks to the folks who played yesterday:
Home Town Hero: Algerina
Youch!: Old One
Cleverly done: buffyrat, valMichael
Sweetly done: buffyrat
Made me laugh: buffyrat (cause I'm evil that way)

Today's Limerick
A woman named Katie McGrote
Had a scratch and a rasp in her throat

meduscascade This snow looks like it is goign to stick around for a while.

Christopher Marlowe - It is currently so hot where I am I've had to wear a t shirt for the first time in... well, three months

deadguy memorial angel wednesday: For Angel, definitely Season 5 in points of total epic. Very depressing, but definitely epic.

Christopher Marlowe: Good to see you too. Lost Boys was one of my all time favourite vampire movies, I just adored the humour, dialogue and crazy story :) *sigh*

Happy Birthday Anwyn-na-gig & Piper Angel (Angelique's childe) !

Foot Tapper Glad to see you here, albeit under such sad circumstances.

deadguy qod The Jasmine arc is pretty darn epic.

Hey guys - sorry if I'm late with this but I just heard about Corey Haim.

RIP Corey - you were brilliant in the Lost Boys

FT x

Today is Wednesday, March 10, 2010 C.E.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV Show!

13 Years ago today, BtVS made its debut on the new WB Network.
Kudos to the executives at the WB who had the foresight to air BtVS.

We have TWO (2) People Birthdays!

Anwyn-na-gig
Piper Angel (Angelique's childe)

Happy Birthday from the Bronze
to
¡ Anwyn-na-gig & Piper Angel (Angelique's childe) !

If you want on the list, E-mail Birthdays and use Subject: Bronze Birthday.

Yay ¡ white wings !

Trivia Girl as others have said before: fowl are birds in general, while poultry are birds raised domestically usually as a food source, but you don't refer to a pet bird as poultry.

deadguy QOD Epic stories? Buffy/Angel romance; Faith and the dark side of the force; A goddess just trying to go home; The attempted destruction of the slayers and the council; The empowerment of all potentials (being worked out now :)

Trivia Girl
Sunnydale's Trivial Pursuits
The are both used for birds, but fowl metaphorically wear little black leather jackets and are wild things*cue Steppenwolf*, and poultry metaphorically wear little French maid outfits and are domestics domesticated.

Trivia Girl
Fowl can encompass both wild (game) and domesticated birds, while poultry is used almost exclusively to describe the domesticated birds.

yay white wings!

today's deadguy memorial angel wednesday question

Season 5

Trivia Girl
Poultry can be fowl foul but fowl can't be poultry? *g*

Fowl is a word for birds in general but usually refers to birds belonging to one of two biological orders, namely the gamefowl or landfowl (Galliformes) and the waterfowl (Anseriformes).

As opposed to "fowl", "poultry" is a term for any kind of domesticated bird or bird captive-raised for meat or eggs.

Drive-By

Trivia Girl,

Sunnydale's Trivia Pursuits

What is the difference between poultry and fowl?

Fowl are smarter than poultry. *g*


WG

Sunnydale's Trivia Pursuits

Category: nature
What is the difference between poultry and fowl?

Christopher Marlowe: Well, over here it's supposed to get in the 60s. It may finally melt away our snow remnants. It's almost spring, you know.

lostinamerica: Of course CNQ was not with you. Why would you think that? She is an agent of all that is good and true and right and taxpayer-supported, while you, my love, are not.

CNQ: Good work infiltrating LIA's lair. I told you going undercover as one of her kids would work, and she would never suspect a thing. Who knew you could actually play soccer that well?

But this recent chit from the LV Bellagio--please explain!

All-wet limericks:

There once was a young man named Jake
Who wanted to sit by the lake
But he had to recoil
When the water started to boil.
Pompeii was not a good place to take a break.

There once was a young man named Jake
Who wanted to sit by the lake
But soon he was captured
By a large hard-shelled creature
Which made Jake a part its clam bake.

let's hear a great big bronze cheer for white wings!

yay white wings!

today's deadguy memorial angel wednesday question is brought to you by:

the book nook - featuring the best-seller "what's the plural of apocalypse?" by alexander harris

which season of btvs or angel would you call epic (or the most epic - which doesn't necessarily coincide with the 'best')?


Happy Non-Angel Wednesday!

Doest anyone have Jack Frost's number? I want to give him a piece of my mind.

Oh sure, dump another snowstorm on us why don't you?

Belated happy birthday lostinamerica!

RedCrayon: There are many forms of flash fic. But here I am trying a really simplified form: I provide a phrase prompt or prompt words and the players have 8 minutes to write something using the phrase or word prompts. any genre, any subject. No judging. It's just a fun way to get the writing juices going :)

Finish the Limerick by Leather Jacket
There once was a young man named Jake
Who wanted to sit by the lake
to Minnesota he came
land of 10,000 lake fame
to see if the claim was a fake

Yay Muffy the Vampire Annoyer!


Christopher Marlowe,

Just math.


Deadguy Memorial Buffy Tuesday Question

Years from now, if BtVS were being done as a 10-hour mini-series, which story arc should be told?

Pffft.

Not 'should be,' but have to be. A story needs a beginning. You'd be wanting to draw in new viewers as well as old fans, so you have to avoid an Uber-Then. So, you'd have to try to collapse first and second season. The commercial hope would be new fans wanting to see another mini-series featuring later seasons.

OTOH, you could try something new, but I'd have to ponder on 'new' for awhile.



Good Night to All

WG

wolfguard Any interesting assignment from your goddaughters?

meduscacascatde He does some pretty wild a crazy stuff that not many other folks would attempt. Burton's hit or miss for me, but he's never boring.

Beldin, Christopher Marlowe - I'm definitely going to see it 2D. 3D makes my brain hurt. Tim Burton's usually pretty good, though, so I'm hopeful

medusacascade It made boffo box office, at least for 3D, I might skip and just see the 2D version. I've seen it heavily panned by some critics, though.

medusacascade - A friend saw it this weekend and said it was really good.

Beldin - *headdesk* So, uh, yeah... one of the my favorites, too...*headdesk*

Christopher Marlowe - Haha, yes. I feel marginally more normal. It's what I do when I can't write

Has anyone seen alice in wonderland yet?

medusacascade I've done that so many times myself. Just ask anyone on the board. *g*

Christopher Marlowe - In thinking about this movie it somehow reminds me of Twilight (the Gene Hackman, Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon movie – not the glittering vampire one). They are completely different genres but they, imho, share the same qualities. Nothing fancy. Nothing flashy. Just good, solid, intelligent movies that somehow slipped in under the radar. Most folks will never know what they missed.

Christopher Marlowe - I have yet to see Avatar but, from the trailers, I'd have to agree with you.


medusacascade - Pardon, your slip is showing. *g*

Beldin You scored a free copy! Excellent. I wished it had gotten more notice, it is really almost a polar opposite of Avatar in many ways.

Christopher Marlowe - Somewhat for school. It's something I've always been interested in, and my old English teacher is teaching dystopias this year, so I thought I'd write it up and see what he thought. He's one of the teachers I still keep in touch in, because as even he said, we basically had the same brain. (I randomly write English essays, yes. I have no idea why)

wolfguard - Oh, yeah, definitely. Just look at lj slang. But whenever it crops up it always serves (intentionally or not) as a barrier in some senses of the word. I would never be able to understand anything an engineer/fashion stylist said if they suddenly started saying 'frog' and 'sandbox'

Random note: I love how netflix shows that New Moon won at the Razzies.

Christopher Marlowe - I don't remember you recommending it. If you did, thank you, good job. The one I watched tonight was loaned to me by a friend at work.

Beldin HA!! I think I was the one that recommended that to you. Given the setup, I was impressed that they kept me engaged throughout the movie.

Just finished watching a movie called Moon. If anyone is interested in old-style science fiction in the strictest definition of the term, I highly recommend this. No light sabres—no action scenes even. Just a very good, thoughtful film.

medusacascade Well, dys-umm-function is a common topic of spam posts in any in-box. (Last I checked, the Beta blocks any post with the words m*le *nh*nc*m*nt anywhere in it.)
So, lots of spam filters look at the text of a message. I'd imagine soem even flag very short content posts extra closely. So, I guess the odd stuff they throw in there is a way of getting apst filters.

I wish my work filter kept more out; I'm sick of deleting them. And I don't need them since I'm not dating anybody.

I liked how Golden and Sniegoski had Tara relate to Fred so effectively in Monster Island. (In my not-worth-posting-by-itself fic "New MExico rocky Mountain High" I have them as the only ones who don't laugh at a teasing remark; of coruse, Fred's never met the person the others are joking about *g.)

meduscacascade Is the essay for schoolwork or something else?

medusacascade,

I suspect most every organization and industry has slang. There're words and phrases that compress meaning.

To test that suspicion, I googled¹ 'engineering slang' and 'fashion slang.' Some results ...

Fashion

frog v. to unravel a knitted garment. Also frog stitch v., to intentionally rip out a seam, and n., an intentionally ripped seam.

chicken cutlet n. a silicone breast enhancer for insertion under clothing. (posted May. 30, 2007

Source (doubletongued.org)


Engineering (Microwave Lab)

Scratting: The art of tuning softboard circuits with a very sharp modeling knife, sometimes a steel rule and occasionally optical aid to see what you are doing (thanks again, HB of Filtronic!) Opposite of dagging.

Sandbox: Any research job that has no end in sight is referred to as a sandbox, because it's pure play time. Not to be confused with the playground.

Seagull Manager: A Seagull Manager is one that swoops in from nowhere, squawks a bunch, craps all over everything and then flies off before he/she gets assigned any real work. Thanks to Frank!


Source (microwaves101.com)


The Bronze

Bezoar ~ An internet troll

Drive-By ~ Posting and departing


¹ Slang in action. *g*



WG

Christopher Marlowe -- I thought whoever was without sin got to throw the stone.

Christopher Marlowe, wolfguard - Definitely some parts of Buffy slang did pass into every day slang. I mean, I catch myself using some phrases from Buffy/Firefly. But a big part of slang, at the very least the motivation for it, I think has always been as a form of rebellion. It usually springs up amongst teenagers, who in a very big way do have a different language than, say, their parents. I mean, a really intense version of this is nadsat's Clockwork Orange, but even chatspeak basically works on the same premise
(I'm actually writing an essay on nadsat vs. newspeak, so v. interested in this)

Old One They should combine that: Jeopardy and curling. Whoever gets the jeopardy question right, gets to throw a stone.

wolfguard I remember that book. Thank you.

Not sure about jibe being slang or not, I don't see it being used in youth culture.

watching Jeopardy and curling, while the missus cooks a yummy pork filet dinner...

Yay MtVA

Happy Birthday wishes to Buffy-Addict, Buffy'sTB, Kallie, Nicholas King, No Surprises, Puckles, Rachel, & Skyler

Leather Jacket's Limericks

There once was a young man named Jake
Who wanted to sit by the lake
He took off his shoes
And immediately suffered the blues
As he unfortunately stepped on a snake.

buffyrat & Christopher Marlowe,

"...Noted linguist Michael Adams offers a synopsis of the program's history, an essay on the nature and evolution of the show's language, and a detailed glossary of slayer slang, annotated with actual dialogue..."

Slayer Slang (Oxford University Press)




Christopher Marlowe,

That's the 'definition' I cobbled up on the spot. It may not jibe¹ with a dictionary definition. And I do not know if a general dictionary's definition would agree with a linguistic definition. *g*

¹ 'Jibe' - slang?


WG

wolfguard, Christopher Marlowe

some time ago, listening to PBS, I heard a linguist discussing how common usage changes language. One of the ways was slang becoming accepted language and another was regularizing (a word?) irregular verbs. Over time the number of irregular verbs in a language diminish, a bad example--
"go, went" becomes "go, goed".

Here now.


Christopher Marlowe - Cool. Thanks. Zebraman is in my queue. It's nice to know it was good enough for them to make a 2.

medusacascade It's not bad, I wouldn't rank it up there with Who or Torchwood, but a vampire, ghost and werewolf as roomies is not a bad premise.

wolfguard Thank you. I wasn't quite sure how you could define it, but that works.

While Buffy certainly had some unique dialogue, I'm not sure it is slang because it is on tv and not part of any subculture. However, if real life folks use it, then it becomes slang?

Christopher Marlowe,

Relatively new words and/or words originating and used within a sub-culture. In time some such words become accepted by the general population.

WG

Christopher Marlowe - Yeah, the boards seem fairly calm, but I guess it's a surprise that they're even alive so long after Buffy/Angel were cancelled.

And yeah, I do. I love Brit comedy much more than American (fawlty towers, my family, chef!), and I regularly keep up with Skins, some Leverage, and others... what do u usually watch? I've heard of Being Human... is it good?

wolfguard How would you define slang?

ETA

Beldin Takash Miikes has a new movie coming up and it looks pretty zany Zebraman 2

medusacascade Geez, there is usually more regular folks here.

Do you watch other Brit shows? I saw the first season of Being Human, but havent' seen the second season yet.

Whew...back home and staying home!

Tea Time Was Peppermint Tea. I'm really liking it. It is just the thing in the morning or afternoon!

Leather Jacket's Limerick

There once was a young man named Jake
Who wanted to sit by the lake
But he got confused
over which lake to choose
If you knew him you'd know he's a flake

Sunnydale's Trivial Pursuits

Category: Quotes
Question: Who said An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"?
Answer: Ben Franklin

Trivia Historians: OldManfan, Algerina, valMichael
Trivia Students: Leather Jacket, Mrs. Beasley

DaddycatALSO - How does that info help them sell drugs? :)

Okay, this was the cotnent of drug sale email I recieved at work:
"The Canadian Army in western Europe was a part of the British 21st Army Group under Field Marshall
Bernard L.
September 16 - Peter Falk, actor.
Precinct is located in Menard County, Illinois.
The development of mass-production techniques enabled cylinder recordings to become a major new
consumer item in industrial countries and the cylinder was the main consumer format from the late
1880s until around 1910.
The Egyptian government remained officially neutral during the war, but King Farouk allowed British
troops to use Egypt as a base of operations and placed his Navy at the disposal of the British.
Irish Sellafield appeal ruled illegal The Guardian, 30 May 2006.
May God be in us and may we abide in him.
Lindsay picked Sharon because she lacked the technical stuff.
The Banu Musa also invented an automatic flute player which appears to have been the first
programmable machine.
"

Interestign facts; out of cotnext so it doesn't look like spam to a detector! Grrr!

Leather Jacket's Limerick

There once was a young man named Jake
Who wanted to sit by the lake
With his girlfriend at hand
he drew hearts in the sand.
Proposing, he started to quake.

Leather Jacket's Limerick

There once was a young man named Jake
Who wanted to sit by the lake
He sat in his car
and it rolled down too far
as he furiously stomped on the brake

Today is Tuesday, March 9, 2010 C.E.

We have EIGHT (8) Birthdays!

Buffy-Addict
Buffy'sTB
Kallie
Nicholas King
No Surprises
Puckles
Rachel
Skyler

Happy Birthday from the Bronze
to
¡ Buffy-Addict, Buffy'sTB, Kallie, Nicholas King,
No Surprises, Puckles, Rachel, & Skyler !

If you want on the list, E-mail Birthdays and use Subject: Bronze Birthday.

Yay ¡ MTVA aka Muffy the Vampire Annoyer !

Trivia Girl an aphorism from Poor Richard's Almanac that is attributed to Ben Franklin (I'll be he heard it somewhere and just printed it :)

deadguy QOD it would have to be the season one and two Buffy-Angel arc.

Finish the Limerick by Leather Jacket
There once was a young man named Jake
Who wanted to sit by the lake
He found a nice spot
By lake Alquidcondot¹,
But was scared away by a big snake!

There once was a young man named Jake
Who wanted to sit by the lake
The sun was so hot
He found a nice, shady spot
So he woundn't sunburn and bake!

1. Bonus points for anyone who can find the lake on a map!

Christopher Marlowe Thirteen notes per octave. I haven't heard that but i'll bet it sounds odd. :) Sevearl cultures around thw world have 24 note scales that are based on 1/4 steps instead of 1/2 steps between the notes. And many places until recently were using natural tuning, instead of the well-tempered tuning as most of the western world does. Once you get used to well-tempering, going back to a natural scale is a bit different.

Holy crap! Hasn't anyone at CERN watched Flash Forward? I'll have to make sure I know exactly when they're planning to run these tests, so when I flash forward several months into the future I won't be driving!

CERN to replicate Big Bang

Thanks for the birthday wishes Beldin, Old One and wolfguard! After exercise class I had my second large piece of birthday cake with lots of frosting and now feel ill, so that's enough for me!


Christopher Marlowe, wolfguard, medusacascade--The Hurt Locker is about just such a soldier, one who does better in war than real life. And when you think about it, every army needs people like that--I wonder what the percentage of "professional" soldiers currently make up our army? Are they a small group or not?

As for the movie itself--I was surprised it won Best Picture. It was good and all, but I don't know if it was the best. Maybe it was a slow year for movies.


Yay! Muffy the Vampire Annoyer!

DaddycatALSO - Oh, that would be fun. I miss Tara. And Fred, too. I think Fred and Tara would work amazingly together. I'd really like for them to finally kill of Spike/Buffy once and for all, though. I love Spike, but he's managed to die about four times now and they keep on bringing him back, and Buffy's died twice - I'm worried that when they finally do, I just won't care.

KAM My sister has been recounting some shenanigans at her workplace. She thought her position was going to be transferred to another state, however it looks like there was something hinky about how that decision was made, so she still has her job for now.

ETA

deadguy qod - Hmmm. For Buffy I think the Faith arc would do quite nicely. For Angel, I think the Darla arc would be perfect.

medusacascade I agree with your thinking in one way, While the shows were on the air, it made sense to treat them as separate continuities with separate integrity.
And continuing it in the comics (besides being mandatory because Fox sold the rights to each show to different publishers) made another kind of sense because each show ended with very different open storylines.
But as those are resolved in the comics, the fact is it's a single universe and there's no reason why any further shows have to be seen as continuations of either of the original two.
(My own "award-winning" spin-off idea was Spook Squad centered on Tara, Wesley, Jonathan, and possibly 2 other main characters, plus Flutie in the "Bosley role.")

ETA: I'm following S-8 and she does seem to be mellowing a bit.

DaddyCatALSO - She gets worse when she isn't self righteous. I think Holden put it best, "So, you have superiority complex and inferiority complex about having a superiority complex." I think by the time she's cookies, though, she will have mellowed at least a bit

Leather Jacket You left off her more general attitudes of being more self-righteous than she ought to be very often and being rather a bitca on a consistent basis. Among other things. cc wolfguard
As I've said elsewhere, by the end of Angel S-5, the only 'verse characters not dead or presumed dead whom I still liked were Faith, Lorne, and Harmony.

ShadowQuest # songs on the Hall of Fame show Sunday reminded me of your posts; "Tulsa Time," Luckenbach, Texas," and "Georgia (On My Mind.)" The theme for the week was "Zip Code Country," which is for songs about places. Next weekend of course, with St Patrick's day coming up, "Country Green." (I'd probably call it "Keltic Kountry" but that's just me.)

YayOfTheDay Buffy Tuesday Memorial deadguy Question: Uhm, I would really like to see some mixing with the Angel-verse if they did that. Since Angel S. 5 gave us such a vague ending... or possibly just a final, epic battle (against Twilight, possibly) in which Buffy finally dies. For the closure

Chrisopher Marlowe, Beldin - Is XXXHolic good? The only manga I've ever read is Death Note, and I loved that, but since I've been unable to find anything as darkly enjoyable...

Leather Jacket ; Spanish,maybe Italian,
buscar= to pick up. Sandra Bullock to pick up Oscar. Would have made better sense two or three days ago.

Warfare and truck driving are intense ecological niches, people who are not good at those jobs die young. Which is okay except they tend to get other people killed when they go.

Trivia Girl - Poor Richard

Yay, Muffy the Vampire Annoyer

If you should see this, many old friends have been wishing you'd visit the dark side and join facebook. I'm not sure I have all the people who wished this remembered correctly, but I think it was some of these Bronzers, ClosetBuffyholic, Mia, kim!, moppety, Hollyn, Leather Jacket, Beldin....

Trivia Girl
Sunnydale's Trivial Pursuits
Hippocrates ;-)

Trivia Girl - Poor Richard aka Ben Franklin.

OMF

YayOfTheDay Buffy Tuesday Memorial deadguy Question : Since so many of the stories I would think to do were done in the original series...
How about a story where Slayers are dying off and it's up to One Girl to find out why and stop it.
Or, they could do Fray.
Or seeking out the newly-formed Slayers and forming a training facility (meh, hard to have a beginning, middle and end).
Or, they could do Buffy goes to Cleveland.

Trivia Girl : That was my mom. But how did you know?

wolfguard : Encouraging Willow to "Live in the now" in Welcome to the Hellmouth when Buffy supposedly "knew the score". Sleeping with a vampire she barely knew in Surprise and not killing a vampire she knew was evil in Innocence. Not killing Spike in Lie To Me Becoming Lover's Walk. Letting a vampire bite her in Buffy vs Dracula and then scolding Riley for doing the same thing about a year and a half later. Spuffy. I'm sure with enough review, I could come up with more.
Of course, there's actually a difference between "guilty" and "not innnocent", hence the cutting of slack.

Algerina : What was Agatha Christie's body doing in the library? :-D
When I saw "scarlet rain fall", my first thought was the Ten Plagues of Egypt. Then I decided I wanted a better challenge, something where I used each word separately.

werewolf123 : In re "Bullock buscar Oscar", I'm sorry, what language is that?

wolfguard, Christopher Marlowe : Anyone who thinks a professional is better at his/her particular task has never seen most professional truck drivers. :-p

Finish the Limerick

Thanks to the folks who played yesterday:
Creatively done: Algerina, valMichael
Cleverly done: neonate (twice)*
Made me chuckle: buffyrat

Today's Limerick
There once was a young man named Jake
Who wanted to sit by the lake

(I'm ignoring my efforts to be equal-opportunity boy/girl because I want to sit by a lake today.)

A fellow who won an award
Made a speech where he sounded bored
His ungrateful fans
Grabbed pitchforks, torches -- and pans?
And turned into a rebellious hored

*neonate : You know four score and ten years ago is 90 years, right?

Sunnydale's Trivial Pursuits

Category: Quotes
Question: Who said An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"?

yay muffy the vampire annoyer!

today's deadguy memorial buffy tuesday question

I agree with Kam It would need to be the classic Buffy/Angel arc

Adri flash fiction

wolfguard - I love your entry something very noir about it

Christopher Marlowe - has such expectations

medusacascade - yours is heart breaking

CNQ - very traditional

Leatherjacket - both BC and AD

Shadowquest - yours was very visual

neonate - very timely

Good Morning Everyone,

YAY MUFFY TVA

Deadguy QOD: I think it would have to be the B/A storyline--essentially S2, with a bit of S1 thrown in.

Christopher Marlowe: My work load is ok right now, but some very bizarre things are going on around the workplace that are very...not good. I am not directly involved, but could be dragged into it.

KAM
Ty King Fan

let's hear a great big bronze cheer for muffy the vampire annoyer

yay muffy the vampire annoyer!

today's deadguy memorial buffy tuesday question is brought to you by:

mini-series, inc. - we can turn gold into crap and crap into gold... we're just never sure which we're doing

years from now, if btvs were being done as a 10-hour mini-series, which story arc should be told?


Happy Non-Buffy Tuesday!

Everyone sleeping in this morning. Good for you!

KAM How goes work?

RedCrayon Not sure if you are still around, but flash fic is a mini-story you create in a very short period of time.

Good morning. I'ts 6:30 am where I'm at right now.

Adri
I should have read this. What is Flash Fic?

Had a really long, tough day so it
made me smile a lot to read all the
Flash Fic responses. Thanks to
everyone who played!

Is anyone here tonight?

Beldin The manga is being too coy for its own good? I've had the same problem with the LOST tv show, it is nothing but hints.

Time for me to head out. Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.

Yay Bossy the Cow!


Happy Birthday Lostinamerica!



Adri's Challenge


Four days now, no wind. Mostly quiet, broken by coughing, meaningless murmuring.

We removed sails from the wagons and fashioned shelter to cover the Jacobs, Miss Sally and the apothecary. He's too gone from the Scarlett Fever to tell us what more we can do. Still have two barrels of water. Could be enough - if the winds rise soon.

'Rain,' Zan whispers. I look where he stares, to the west. Rainfall far off towards sunset. Might as well been China.



Good Night to All

WG

valMichael In my internet wanderings, I discovered the Bohlan-Pierce system I guess a musical scale that is based on a 13 scale instead of a 12.

Christopher Marlowe - Oh, yeah, if you're listening to the English dubs of XXXHolic, Colleen Clinkenbeard, who is the English voice of Yuko, is the voice of Rin. And Monica Rial is the voice of Sayara Yamanobe in Rin Episode 1, one of the unnamed girls (Girl 3) in XXXHolic Episode 3, and Kirika in Noir.

Christopher Marlowe - Yeah, I know what you mean. It's like a bookstore having volume two of a series and not having volume one. Here's a review of Rin. ETA: I'm getting frustrated (in a good way) with the XXXHolic manga. There are hints (there were in the anime, too) that something is off with Himawari. Either she's evil (which doesn't really fit what we've seen), she's possessed, or she's just bad juju for Watanuki. I read issue seven this last week and it ended on such a hint. But they won't come out and say what's wrong.

Beldin I can see with a character that cannot die, that there would be a good deal of blood. I might give it a try.

I've moved XXXHolic to the top of my queue, apparently my Sugar Fairy dvds is on a long or short wait. It's annoying when the first dvd is on a long wait, but the second one isn't

Christopher Marlowe - I have watched two episodes and am now in the commentary of the second ep. I'm learning some things about the series. For one, it's only six episodes long (two discs). There is quite a bit of blood. The sex scenes are not (have not been) too explicit (I've seen much more detailed scenes) but I understand that they (1)escalate a bit as the series progresses and (2) are mostly, if not exclusively, lesbian scenes. But besides all that, the story itself is interesting; a chick who cannot die acting as a kind of private detective.

Christopher Marlowe,

That's true, but they're not the ones who I posted on. Some wars offer opportunities for some people to do and get things they would not otherwise be able to do or get. Often times, these folks are doing and getting it off civilians. The Balkan wars of the 1990s had such people. So to the Congo War.


ETA Professional carries the meaning of one who earns their living in the given trade. It's assumed because it's how they make their living that they're good at the trade. There're many wars fought by people with little professional training, but various degrees of experience. They make their living through war, but they're not professional in the sense the word is used in the West.

WG

For Dr. Horrible fans, an Evil League of Evil shirt:

http://store.quantummechanix.com/Evil-League-of-Evil-Official-T-Shirt_p_91.html

Beldin I suppose I could handle some mild hentai as I could blood play. I don't go seeking it out though.

wolfguard I know there is a phenomenon of former soldiers who miss being in action, however horrible it was.

"You are green it is true. But they are green also. You are all green alike."

- Abraham Lincoln to Gen. Irvin McDowell


WG

Arrgh!!! That went on far longer than I wanted.

Comma - Good to see you again.

Christopher Marlowe - Okay. Maybe some hentai.

Yes I am still alive. Leave war to us pros.

CC

Christopher Marlowe - I finished the first ep of Rin: The Daughter of Mnemosyne. You should definitely give it a try. I think you'll like it. Note: It says "For Mature Audiences" and there is nudity and a mild torture scene (I know, contradiction in terms) but, so far, it's not true hentai.

ETA: Hate the music in the opening and closing credits.

Happy birthday, lostinamerica!

Yay, Bossy the Cow!

Dianne - I did love season seven. I think it does everything a final season should, and had some pretty spectacular episodes (Lies My Parents Told Me)

Christopher Marlowe, lostinamerica - Personally, having been in a war zone (as a civilian), I cannot imagine why anyone would willingly put themselves in a war, and I respect the people that do to protect their country. It was the worst month of my life, and certainly one I won't forget. Hopefully the Hurt Locker showed more of the inglorious side than most war movies do.

ETA: That said, I don't have anything against the military. I do realize some wars do have to be fought and we have to have an army - I just know when the time comes I won't be amongst them, and the best of luck and my prayers to those that are in combat right now.

Further ETA: Adri's Challenge

6 min

She stared at the stairs for a moment before the vision forced her to look away. The blood was touching the corner of her foot, so she moved it, but the scarlet stain was spreading out on the pavement. It was raining outside was that why, perhaps? Running too fast upstairs, as if she hadnt told him hundreds of times that it was dangerous? That he could fall? And when did kids ever listen, that was what she wanted to know.

She laughed bitterly, forcing her eyes back to the scene. She might as well look it would be haunting her for the rest of eternity, so get a good, good look. You might as well see your ghosts. But no matter how she forced herself, she could never see anything except a little boy and scarlet. As if he was just playing with paint and had made a mess. It was better for her sanity, she decided. Some things, you werent supposed to see too much or know too much. The word fall would do. He fell. You never really had to say how hard, and most people didnt bother to ask.

She waited until the police had come and questioned her sufficiently to appease to them to break down.

Christopher Marlowe - Food fights are one thing but throwing plates is entirely something else. ETA: Got disc one of a new anime today: Rin: Daughter of Mnemosyne. Just about to start it.

Lostinamerica,

Some people embrace some wars.

WG

Beldin Update on that food fight at a middle school. Seven students suspended, seven detained. I'm guessing the seven being detained were ones who threw plates that hurt other students.

Dianne, medusacascade Forward or backwards, it's good either way. *g*

offline for an hour or so

RedCrayon--I'm sorry to hear about your mother :( I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers and hope the coming days are not too difficult.


neonate--Uh, I don't know what CaughtNTheQuiet has told you but she wasn't with me. You really need to keep a tighter rein on your agents.


Maverick, Christopher Marlowe, wolfguard--According to the writer, "hurt locker" is a term he heard a few times while embedded in Iraq. It's a place where you're in a world of hurt, physical or mental. Somewhere you don't want to be. Which to me would be pretty much any war zone.

The BBC article I got this info from Saturday after we watched the movie also said it's been used many times in other venues, like sports. So apparently it's not just a military reference.


Yay! Bossy the Cow!


Belated Yay! Octoquad and halfrek!


Thanks for the birthday happies from Algerina, valMichael and Christopher Marlowe! And now I'm off to have a very large piece of cake with lots of frosting!

Now here. But probably not for long. Forgot there was a DAVA meeting tonight.

Beldin Here later.

Leather Jacket,

What do you believe Buffy was guilty of?

WG

medusacascade -- I'm just the other way around. While I will always love BtVS, the final season/s hold up better for me. I'm currently working my way through season 7.

Leather Jacket's Limerick

A fellow who won an award
Made a speech where he sounded bored
it was his 4th time for gold
and it was getting so old
still it was applause he adored


Happy B-Day to JoAnne, LadyVamp, lostinamerica, NTMT, Sam Hain, & thatcrazytara !

Adri's challenge.

8 minutes,

Rain, scarlet, fall

For the last few hours Scarlet waited in the library for night to fall. Luckily the shelves were well stocked with mysteries of all things. She giggled to herself as she reread Agatha Christie's Body in the Library. The rain was an unplanned addition to her plot. It would keep the neighbors inside. There would be no spying eyes to see her move the Body into the trunk of her car. Mr Body would disappear and no one would have a clue. In the meantime Scarlet would wait in the library with a candlestick and a really good book.

Here now.

Spik! How are you doing these days?

DaddycatALSO I cannot imagine rewatching all of BtVS. I loved everything up until the end of season five, but I don't know if I could really rewatch all of season six. But I agree. Season five, especially with the Body, was when it seemed like Joss and Co decided, let's really start hurting people now. (although not touching the emo depths of Angel S. 5)

Leather Jacket's Limerick

A fellow who won an award
Made a speech where he sounded bored
He spoke to a crowd
who were rude and loud
Wasting their time his spirits soared

Christopher Marlowe Because everybody was happy then.

More specifically, following from that moment, with no real alternative, are all the story incidents which have caused me real pain.

Then again, it has spurred me to write prequels to my original "Children of the Dale" idea (which, at first, just ofcussed on the Scoobies' chidlren in 2026, and didn't really inspire many story ideas) and I've been looking for a spur to my writing since the early y70s so maybe Joss gave me what I needed, d*mn.

Leather Jacket:
Bullock buscar Oscar.

DaddyCatALSO Why do you want to stop before the rainstorm?

Slow Monday for sure. *g*

After watching "NFA" a few weeks ago I decided to go back to "WTTH" and re-watch all of BtVS. (I skipped "Bad Eggs" and "Reptile Boy" and slept thru "Intervnetion" since I've watched it so often.) I'm up to "OMWF" and it's been a struggle.
I still fixate on the beach scene in "B vs D." I want to stop everything just before the rain storm. I've had to push thru the rest, despite the good episodes it includes.

Sunnydale's Trivial Pursuits

Category: Crime
Question: Who did bodyguard Slippery Frank Cline protect?
Answer: Al Capone





Trivia Dons: Algerina, mrs.Beasley, valMichael

Ack!1 trivia answer later!!

Christopher Marlowe -- I lurk, therefore I am.

Leather Jacket " I'd have a hard time saying Buffy was innocent."
Heckfire, I wouldn't even try to say that *g.

Yay, Bossy the Cow

Happy(?) Birthday, LIA

Trivia girl: Nobody, after he got iced.

Some boring limericks:

A fellow who won an award
Made a speech where he sounded bored.
Said he, "Four score and ten
Years ago, gentlemen.."
I slipped out and a tall beer I poured.

A fellow who won an award
Made a speech where he sounded bored.
His voice pounded and pounded
Like a foghorn he sounded,
And his thoughts drifted like a cruise ship unmoored.

Happy B-Day to JoAnne, LadyVamp, lostinamerica, NTMT, Sam Hain, & thatcrazytara !

Today is Monday, March 8, 2010 C.E.

We have SIX (6) Birthdays!

JoAnne
LadyVamp
lostinamerica
NTMT
Sam Hain
thatcrazytara

Happy Birthday from the Bronze
to
¡ JoAnne, LadyVamp, lostinamerica, NTMT, Sam Hain, & thatcrazytara !

If you want on the list, E-mail Birthdays and use Subject: Bronze Birthday.

Yay ¡ Bossy the Cow !

Trivia Girl Al Capone (Franks real name was Franklin Rio according to Wikipedia)

Finish the Limerick by Leather Jacket
A fellow who won an award
Made a speech where he sounded bored.
His audience yawned
But he prattled on,
With language stilted and stiff as a board.

DaddyCatALSO : I'd have a hard time saying Buffy was innocent.

gazoo : Hm. I found Curse of the Werewolf on YouTube. I may have to try to watch that later.

Trivia Girl : Sticky Fingers Sam.

Finish the Limerick

Thanks to the folks who played over the weekend:
Tastefully done: buffyrat
Creatively done: Algerina

Today's Limerick
A fellow who won an award
Made a speech where he sounded bored

Y'all are d@m lucky the only word that rhymes with Oscar is Oskar (according to RhymeZone.com).

buffyrat : Scott should have known better than to go jogging in a Speedo.

Adri : Flash Fic Round 2:
Tutenhakken ran screaming into the house as scarlet rain fell from the skies. "Momma! Pappa!" he yelled, but of course in Ancient Egyptian.

:-p

Scarlet stood out on the front porch of her small Atlanta home, watching the rain come down. It was late October and while the ground needed the water, it also added to the chill of the fall early morning. Which also added to the funk she was already in.
"Hey, Scarlet, seen Rhett today?" a boy in a slicker yelled from the gravel road before running to catch the bus.
Once again, she cursed her mother for naming her after that character.

Trivia Girl
Sunnydale's Trivial Pursuits
Al Capone

Good Morning Everyone,

YAY BOSSY THE COW

Trivia Girl
Al Capone

Sunnydale's Trivial Pursuits

Category: Crime
Question: Who did bodyguard Slippery Frank Cline protect?

Good Morning Everyone,

YAY BOSSY THE COW

Christopher Marlowe: Yes, we finally kicked off that Groundhog curse around here as well. We hit the low 50's this past weekend.

And teas...yes, Tea made the world go 'round in the past, or so Great Britain would imply.

KAM
Ty King Fan

Christopher Marlowe medusacascade I think I see Twilight's reasoning. He knew there would be an inevitable attack-response towards the Scoobs and the New Slayer Army, so he put himself in place to take control of a large part of it and thus perhaps reduce the negativity of the outcome.

Leather Jacket I can see cutting Ben some slack. What frosts my bee's hind is that so many (and I'm not saying you're one) portray him as an innocent when he, well, isn't (One of the topics I addressed in my letter to the old Buffy magazine after a Charlie Webr interview. Altho it my 2 spin-off suggestiosn which got me Letter of the Month and a mongramemd photo of Marc MEtcalfe.)

Yay Bossy the Cow!

An easy work week for me so far, with the exception of today. *g*

KAM It it starting to feel like spring around here.

Adri's challenge.

8 minutes, ok, maybe nine to correct the spelling.


Rain, scarlet, fall


Fall around here is usually dry and dusty. But I woke up this morning to the 13th straight day of rain. They say Eskimos have something like fifty words for snow. I have only one for this rain. Depressing.

What shall I do today? Head off to work?

That was a joke, in case you could not tell.

So, the president of the university called me into his office, right at the end of August. Wanted to know what the scarlet contraption they had found in my lab was. I told him, quite truthfully, I was attempting to follow the path of my recent research in quantum dynamics, and build a time machine.

It was not my fault, I argued, that the faulty wiring of the old physics lab led to the fire that burned down the building. Such a breakthrough could have been quite a feather in the universitys cap. In research, you have to take some risks.

He guffawed. The beedy eyes of his bulbous head looked at me in greed and miscomprehension. So, I snapped, strangling him until his whole head turned scarlet. I let him fall. Justifiable homicide, I am sure most of my fellow physicists would agree.

Scarlet. I miss you, terribly. Incomprehensibly. I am working hard to try to travel back in time to see you again. But it looks like my work will be further delayed, until they let me out of this cell.

let's hear a great big bronze cheer for bossy the cow!

yay bossy the cow!


Goodbye Blue Monday!

delurking

Gazoo! I just happen to wander by the Bronze during old LOSER hours, and who do I see is here? How many thousand years has it been? Still living behind the jukebox?

BH

relurking

Flash Fic 2: Prompt words: rain,
scarlet, fall

She strode with brisk, purposeful
steps thorough the fall rain. Not
because she was in a hurry to get
out of the cold and wet but because
she she would procrastinate if she
allowed herself to and that would
only make things harder later. She
really did not want to visit her
late father's fifth, and last,
wife.

It was still better'n a poke in the
eye with a sharp stick, right?

She smiled involuntarily as she
recalled that the goofy phrase was
something her father used to say to
her whenever she whined about doing
something. He had been a smart,
hard working, and funny man and a
kind and caring father. His main
weakness had been his dismal
decision-making in picking spouses.
Perhaps it was his unflagging
optimism that allowed him to keep
trying to find the right wife.

Her father had died earlier in the
week and now she was on her way to
ask his widow to please behave with
some dignity and discretion to
protect the memory of his father
and to protect the business he had
built.

Her smile froze and then evaporated
as she spotted her father's widow
in a tight scarlet dress that
barely covered her assets. The
widow teetered on spiked heels as
she giggled and clutched the arm of
an unnaturally handsome man.

Zoom through

Adri's Challenge

I challenged myself and combined both sets of words, since I missed it last time.

The scarlet drops slowly ran down the edge of the razor-sharp blade and dripped onto the still warm body. She turned her head slowly and scanned the lush landscape, but the last of her enemy lay at her feet.

The heavens split open with a deafening boom and icy rain began to fall. She tipped her face upwards, eyes closed, and let it wash over her, let it wash the gore from her body.

After a few minutes, she heaved a sigh and headed for the castle, wanting nothing more than to curl in front of the fire with a glass of wine. But a Slayer's job, it seemed, was never done...

Zoom, zoom

quick slip-n-slide through

this one was tougher...*grins*

Standing on the porch, he looked out over the drying fields. There had been no rain for a month and the irrigation ditches were starting to run dry. Another two weeks and the crop would be a total loss.

He wiped the sweat from his brow and stared at the scarlet sky that promised no rain would fall tomorrow either.


*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

The scarlet sky opened up and acid rain began to fall.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Frankly, Scarlett," Rhett said as he opened the door, "I don't give a damn."
She refused to beg, refused to fall to her knees, even as teardrops fell like rain from her eyes. "Tomorrow is another day."

(yeah, I stole that one, obviously...took some liberties and paraphrased badly)

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

CNQ

Dianne Good Evening and Good Night. I miss you around these parts. *g*

'Night, Bronze!

Whew...and the oscars are over for another year. Congrats to the winners, although I would have picked a different set. *g*

SweePer - I think it's some kind of archive. If you look at the url you'll see it's reocities, not geocities. I thought it was a misspelling in the link and changed the r to a g and got a error message. I changed it back to an r and it worked.

Good to see you here, btw.

gazoo - Couldn't see the pics? I wonder why.

The Oscars are going at a glacial pace tonight

Adri: rain, scarlet, fall.

Dinah looked unseeingly out the window, not noticing what lied beyond her window. Her eyes just kept following the paths the rain was making as it struck the glass.

She always preferred the spring rains to the fall snows and she was very glad that she moved to Georgia where the rain seemed every present.

She stroked the scarlet velvet curtains that framed the rainy windows with her fingers, not really feeling the texture, but soothed by the movement anyways.

She faintly heard the clock tick as she awaited her lover to come home.

Christopher Marlowe,

A history book is an interpretative synthesis of which memoirs might be one or more of the sources used to weave it. A writer might do several hundred interviews of people who lived through some historical event or era¹ and organize them into a book. How she selected those interviewed, organized the interviews and commented on them - if she did, might be first steps towards making the collection a history.

A historian would try to corroborate the contents of the interviews; search for connections, common denominators, discrepancies and the like. He'd look at how the results fit into the larger picture and/or how the results might suggest the picture be rethought. Paul Johnson and Howard Zinn's histories of the United States would make one wonder if they write about the same country. *g*


¹ e.g. civil rights movement, the rise of Thatcher, the experience of migrant workers in China over the past thirty years or the near collapse of the US financial system in the fall of 2008.


WG

SweePer: Hi! I was looking at the site and telling my evil step twin that I still have the gazoo doll (with dingoes) proudly standing on my dresser. *g*

gazoo

Beldin: Whoa! I didn't know the geocities pages were still around. That's so cool! Thanks for sharing!

gazoo!!! Hiya! "you" were at the SJBW+10! Ha! Miss you! HUGS!

Beldin: Couldn't see the pics. I miss going to all the places with the bronzers and seeing the sights. *g*

wolfguard: *G*

gazoo

gazoo,

LOL!

WG

gazoo - I heard a rumor you were on Facebook. Closet Buffyholic, I think it was who mentioned it. ETA: gazoo pics

wolfguard: Yes, Virginia, there is. *g*

gazoo

There's an It facebook?!

*g*

WG

Flash Fic Round 2 (I'm going to be
afk for most of mon and tues so am
posting it now). Again, 8 minute
time limit, you have to use the
phrase prompt or all of the word
prompts. any genre, any topic.

Prompt words: rain, scarlet, fall.

Beldin: Not doing much really. Trying to figure out facebook and if I want to put a "gazoo" picture up. *G*

gazoo

gazoo - Hey, you hung around this time. What's been going on?

Christopher Marlowe - We look good by ourselves, too.

Beldin, gazoo You two are so cute together. *g*

Beldin: Hello!

gazoo

Hi, gazoo!

Christopher Marlowe : We wanted gazoo's post to stand for posterity.
Blew that, though, dincha?

I guess not. *g*

Anyhow, that post will be for posterity, gazoo!

gazoo! Lets hope others are paying closer attention this time.

Howdy all

Leather Jacket: Lon was the best werewolf (Oliver Reed is second even tho he was a "blond" werewolf).

Hi Christopher Marlowe

gazoo

Shoudl I try to get gazoo to make a post for posterity? *g*
ETA

meduscacascade I thought both Buffy and Angel will be available for online viewing on Netflix. I've only tried the instant play a couple times, once for a silent movie and another for Spartacus.

*peek*

Algerina : People complain when the rhyme is too hard. People don't play when the rhyme is too easy. I wonder how many words rhyme with Oscar.

There once was a young man named Scott
Who set out one day on a trot
Running through Central Park
Much too late after dark
Intelligent? I'd say he's not.

Christopher Marlowe : The only connection I have to any of the movies is that I read The Blind Side. I loved the book and wish the movie all manner of success, but I still haven't seen it.

Dear Sherry Shepherd: Didn't Lon Chaney play the most famous werewolf in movie history?
Idiot.

medusacascade - I don't do instant play but I will queue it up.

Christopher Marlowe - I practically live off of netflix. And hulu. It's what I do when my brain is too tired to read. (And work is NEVER an option, of course)

Hopefully Angel will be up on instant play soon, since hulu abandoned us

medusacascade I love netflix, although I'm almost feeling guilty for neglecting Blockbusters. *g*

Leather Jacket's Limerick
(and Algerina)

There once was a young man named Scott
Who went out one day on a trot
He thought he looked cool,
thought the girls would all drool
When he passed by they yelled out, "Hot--Not!"

Beldin - Okay, so definitely adding to netflix queue. More things to become addicted to. :) If you get a chance, I would definitely watch Ben X on instant play. The ending is a bit... well, cheesy, but the rest is actually pretty good. Of course, Battle of Algiers is just epic win.

medusacascade - I should point out that Miike is credited with over 80 titles. I've not scratched the surface even if most of them are repeats on a previously used theme.

medusacascade - I don't think he has a theme. SPOILER WARNING There is The Great Yokai War, full of Japanese spirits and demons; yet it is a preteen film. There is Ichii, the Killer, which I've read enough about to know I'm never going to watch it. There is Visitor Q, about an extremely dysfunctional family where the son beats his prostitute mother and the prostitute daughter seduces her father, a reported doing a story on the city's prostitutes. There's One Missed Call, a typical Japanese horror movie and there's Gozu about a Yakuza who's murdered, comes back as a woman and gives birth to a full-grown man—himself. There's Audition, another Japanese horror movie with a twist, and there's The Happiness of the Katakuris, which also has people turning up dead but is a musical. Then there's perhaps my favorite, Sukiyaki Western Django, which is a parody of the "Spaghetti" Westerns. Zebraman and The Last Life in the Universe are still in my Netflix queue so I can't really say about them.


Note: These are quick synopses, of course, and the movies are much more involved.

Note 2: Miike is most often referred to as a horror director.

Beldin - I haven't, sadly. What's the general theme of them? (Dark, starnge, so on...)

wolfguard I wonder how much reconciling there is between memoirs and history books. Which one should be considered the more reliable source particularly over differing accounts of the same event?

Christopher Marlowe,

But where do we get 'history' from? *g*

ETA In high school, I read book on warfare by Robert Leckie.¹ I do not know if he was a historian, but he was a professional writer and had served as a Marine in the Pacific during WWII. The book has a chapter on writing military history and/or propaganda. Leckie told of how one history of one Pacific island battle had said there were no Japanese snipers riding on top of Japanese tanks. He said this was recorded, because the historian had as his source a Marine General who had walked the beach after the battle and had seen tanks - likely destroyed - without snipers on or nearby (bodies). Leckie begged to disagree, insomuch as he had fought the battle and had seen Japanese snipers on top of Japanese tanks. I believe Leckie said the Japanese carried away their dead. Of course, here I am trying to remember what I read from several decades ago. *g*

¹ Leckie wrote his own memoir of the war, ~A Helmet for My Pillow~, published in the 50's. I've heard it's just been recently made as a movie.



WG

medusacascade - Have you watched any of Takashi Miike's films? You can't get any stranger than some of them.

wolfguard Thank you for the Jarhead lin.

I found the following comment really interesting.

2. I agree that the book is rife with innacuracies, exaggerations and downright lies. Then again, it is a memoir, not a history book.

I know memoirs can be iffy as far as interpreting facts because it is mostly based on memory and emotion associated with that, but I hadn't see this spelled out so clearly before.

"...The title is slang for being injured in an explosion, as in 'they sent him to the hurt locker'.[5][6]...

...At the blog Army of Dude, infantryman and Iraq veteran Alex Horton noted that "the way the team goes about their missions is completely absurd," though he went on to call the film "the best Iraq movie to date."[40]...

...Writing for The Huffington Post, Iraq veteran Kate Hoit said that The Hurt Locker is "Hollywood's version of the Iraq war and of the soldiers who fight it, and their version is inaccurate." She described the film as being more accurate than other recently released war movies, but expressed concerns that numerous errors in the portrayal of military conditions would prevent service members from enjoying the film.[38]...

...On the other hand, Henry Engelhardt, an adjutant with the National Explosive Ordnance Disposal Association and a man with 20 years of experience in bomb defusal, praised the film's atmosphere and depiction of the difficulties of the job, saying, "Of course, no film is realistic in all its details, but the important things were done very well."[44]..."


All from Wikipedia's well-footnoted article on the movie, The Hurt Locker



ETA 'War' is a short word for what is often a very complicated streams of events for thousands-to-millions of people. What a person experiences depends on what stream they're in and how they think and feel comes more from inside than outside. Anthony Swofford wrote Jarhead, an account of his experience as a Marine. The link is to Amazon. There are over 400 reader reviews, many of them by Marines. Some strongly agree with Swofford and others strongly disagree. Some are ambivalent.

This is where Joss gets it wrong on people serving in the military. He seems to rely on stereotypes.


ETA 2 If you try the link, then take a look at the second reader review by "Moto 0331."



WG

Christopher Marlowe - Probably one of my favorite foriegn films is Ben X. It was released in 2007, I think...

wolfguard - Yeah, that pretty much covers most of the major movies. I suppose I have pretty strange taste - typically, any one of those things would automatically put me off a movie (but that's what indie's for, anyway).

As for the Oscars, personally I'd bet on Inglorious Basterds. The Oscars seem to have an issue with SF, so that weakens Avatar's chances. I agree with Leather Jacket, though not each of these is worthy. At the very least, Blind Side really shouldn't be on there.

Just reading back over the board I see that there is only one response to Leatherjacket;s

Finish the Limerick

Come on its a easy rhyme


There once was a young man named Scott
Who set out one day on a trot

Maverick I'm not sure exactly what the 'Hurt Locker' is as a term, I will guess that it refers to locking away your pain in an internal locker of sorts. I know the movie is about a elite group of bomb defusers who get a leader who takes insane risks.

Leather Jacket I've only seen UP and Avatar as the best pictures. I would give Avatar a bit of an edge as for Best Picture, oddly, although I enjoyed Up more than Avatar. However, I could easily see the best picture going to Inglorious Basterds, which doesn't have the current baggage of either Avatar for being a mega-billion movie or 'Hurt Locker' as yet another indie film (and possibly overrated).

Christopher Marlowe - Good deal.

Back from the petition drive. Looks like we got the fifty we need to get my name on the ballot. Now we just need a little extra to cover ourselves.

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wolfguard There really should be some sort of rating or awards for how good movie trailers are.

I really don't know for certain what "The Hurt Locker" is about, but if it's about defusing unexploded ordinance or defusing bombs, then an excellent British Series that covers the same territory is "Danger UXB." UXB was unexploded bomb. Certainly worth another viewing. P.S.: When I first heard the term "Hurt Locker" I didn't understand and thought it was a German word like hurtelocher or something. Evidently, though, Geoffrey Feiger (Jack Kervorkian's old attorney) has filed suit against "The Hurt Locker" trying to get compensation for the real person the story is based on.

Maverick

Angel Theme

Christopher Marlowe,

There should be an Oscar category for best trailer. *g*


Leather Jacket,

Not Dietrich, but operant conditioning. I cannot recall a Dietrich and I'd not be surprised if it's a name the writer chose based on a friend. *g*


medusacascade,

"...And I really don't understand why..."

If you don't please enough people, then you don't make enough money to make the next movie and stay in business.

In The Big Picture, author Edward Epstein list the ten billion-dollar earning films from 1994-2004 (his book was copyrighted in 2006). He said they all followed the same formula and he listed the common denominators. Here they are, straight from the book:

"1. are based on children's stories, comic books, serials, cartoons, or, in the case of 'Pirates of the Caribbean', a theme park ride.

2. feature a child or adolescent protagonist.

3. have a fairy tale-like plot in which a weak or ineffectual youth is transformed into a powerful and purposeful hero.

4. contain only chaste, if not strictly platonic, relationships between the sexes ...

5. feature bizarre-looking and eccentric supporting characters that are appropriate for toy and game licensing.

6. depict conflict ... in ways that are sufficiently nonrealistic, and bloodless, for a rating no more restrictive that PG-13.

7. end happily, with the hero prevailing over powerful villians and supernatural forces ...

8. use conventional or digital animation to artificially create action sequences, supernatural forces, and elaborate settings.

9. cast actors who are not ranking stars - at least in the sense that they do not command gross-revenue shares."


Personal note on item '9.' If a movie becomes a blockbuster, then the actors maybe able to demand more compensation if and when a sequel is planned. I do not know where Johnny Depp stands in the Hollywood hierarchy, but he strikes me as an actor who would take a lesser compensation package to do a role that interest him.



WG

wolfguard : I took an introductory psych class in college. I don't remember Dietrich. Of course, I have a memory like a sieve.

medusacascade : Honestly, I'm really not especially interested in the Stanford Prison Experiment. Unless somebody was making the quarterback their *****.

wolfguard, Christopher Marlowe : I haven't seen any of the movies that are up for Best Film Oscar. This is nothing new. However, I have my doubts that there really were 10 movies worthy of an Oscar. (Of course, I have my own feeling that Avatar should only be up for the animated film category, but see above in re not seeing any of the films.) What increasing the nominees to ten does is increase the likelihood of diluting the voting pool.

As to wanting to know what you're getting when you pay $10 for a movie ticket, I do not want to know how the movie is going to end before I go see it. (This often reduces my interest in romantic comedies.) Of course, I also don't want to pay $10 for a movie -- I usually get the discount tickets or go to a matinee.

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medusacascade What foreign movies have you enjoyed?

I had a lazy day this morning, but soon I'll be pounding the streets getting signatures for my petition to get on the re-election ballot. With a little help from some of my friends.

I just woke up, it's noon our time. I'm not an early...anything.

Personally, I love edge in movies. Donnie Darko and Fight Club rank high amongst my favorites, and my biggest issue with US movies (that aren't indie) is there's this sense of 'we can't go too far out, we can't be too unusual' in them all. And I really don't understand why. Yes, the road less travelled, but all the ones that take it and do it well usually hit cult status at least. As opposed to making a predictible, bad movie

Here now.

It's been a busy day already. Went to church; fixed a leaking tire; had my cordless air compressor freeze up; bought a new one.

Zoom through

Tony Head speaks on liking the lines on his face and other words of wisdom.

Christopher Marlowe, valMichael I only know Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre" and "Carnival of the Animals." I will never be able to listen to that without hearing James Earl Jones intoning:

[introducing the Carnival of the Animals] "Here the sensitive strains of impressionistic music combine with the subtle artistry of the animator to finally answer that age old question: What is man's relationship to nature?

[is handed a note]

Oh, sorry... That age old question: What would happen if you gave a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?

[turns to look off-camera]

Who wrote this?"

And now I must away for a homework marathon. Bleh.

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wolfguard I think it is generally agreed that increasing the number to 10 allowed inclusion of more 'blockbuster' type movies and not just 'oscar bait' movies that are more unusual or boutique in some way.

I'm not a big fan of increasing the pool to so many, but there is precedent within the Oscars for doing so. Whether they'll continue this, I'm not sure.

The purpose of trailers is to entice folks into going to the theater. Essentially spoiling the movie before you even get there removes one of the reasons to even go. However, I do think trailers can be misleading or promise something that isn't there.

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Christopher Marlowe - thanks for laying out the brekkie.. :0)

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Christopher Marlowe,

I want to think about Dollhouse before reading the article. I will likely reply later tonight, since most everyone will be watching the Oscars, which I will not be watching. *g*

So, what are your thoughts on the idea of increasing the number of nominations to ten?

Just listened to a person say The Hurt Locker kept her on edge ~too much. Last night, one of the evening news programs ended with a piece saying movie trailers were now spoiling movies by suggesting how a movie would end. One 'expert' interviewed said a trailer should go no farther than the second act and to go to the third act or beyond was wrong. The piece ended with a quote from some ~studio head who said, ~ people do not want to be surprised. When you pay ten dollars to see a film, you want to know what you're getting beforehand.

So, how much 'edge' can you and do you want in a movie?



WG

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Christopher Marlowe Breakfast sounds like it is to die for! :D I had my holiday coffee this morning, even though Im not celebrating any holiday today. The Planets concert sounds good. Our classical/NPR FM radio station KUHF (Univ. of Houston) has been playing a bit more of the music of 20th century composers . There is a lot of really good music out there Ive never heard, and some not so great music too, as you might expect. You can go to KUHF and stream the 24 hr classical channel, or stream the 24 hr NPR channel. They even have a third channel for other stuff and Spanish language broadcasts. Locally KUHF broadcasts in standard FM and 3 channels of FM-digital, which is a much better and much more high fidelity signal.

Looks like everyone else is still asleep.

lays out a breakfast buffet of pancakes, waffles, steaming ham and eggs, hot hash browns and losts of fresh fruits and cereals

Whew...I thought the beta would never come up.

medusacascade I'm not sure I've noticed. I just started watching Caprica (like last Friday), so I havne't really thought about it.

It wouldn't surprise me though, as former Whedon writers are/were on Dollhouse, BSG and Caprica.

And as It is midnight here, I'm off to bed.

*while watching ep. 3 of caprica on hulu*

Am I the only onegetting the feeling that Caprica/Battlestar Galatica and Dollhouse are stuck in this weird loop where they both pay tribute to one another's plot lines in random ways? (Like Pria. And the avatar trying to fulfill her original self's plan.)

valMichael It appears that the symphony's next performance is "The Planets" Suite by Gustav Holst along with outer space film scores. I'm wondering what scores they'll choose.

I'm definitely going to that one.

valMichael I guess relatively new according to the program notes I have.

Alexander Arutuniun is well known in Armenia and seems to be still alive. He did the Elegy for Trumpet.

Sergei Wassilenko did the other trumpet piece and he's Russian who died in 1956.

wolfguard Found this fairly thoughtful analysis of Whedon and Dollhouse.

Dollhouse Post-Mortem

an excerpt....

I don't know if Whedon would see this as an insult, but I've always considered him to be a fervent moralist, someone who truly believes that human beings cannot be happy without acting according to their conscience (or without being sociopaths). This sense of morality doesn't necessary have to be connected to religionWhedon has never been shy about admitting that he's an atheistbut it is rigidly defined, and he seems uncomfortable at putting his characters into no-win situations without giving them a way out involving self-sacrifice. This is true of almost all of his work, with the possible exceptions of a few storylines in Angel (which has always been the black sheep among his shows, since it's the one that was most clearly influenced by his collaborators) and the film Serenity, which didn't have enough time to set up the ruthlessness of its milieu without forcing the characters to get their hands dirty. I don't know if Whedon has it in him to develop a character as conflicted as Battlestar's Lt. Felix Gaeta (Alessandro Juliani), an idealist who does terrible things in the name of what he believes is right, and who is neither reduced to a villain nor offered any sort of redemption in the end.

Christopher = Yeah, I'm figuring with EVERYONE dead, except for Jack and Gwen, there probably isn't much hope for a continuation... although there's some news in the works about Fox doing an American Torchwood.

No way in hell that can end well. If it's good, Fox will cancel it. If it's terrible, it will play for five seasons and I'll be compelled to watch because it might just MAYBE become good again.

medusacascade I'm reserving judgement on Smith as well. Yes, I watched Torchwood, but with killing off almost all their cast, particularly Ianto, I'm seriously put off the show.

Havent' heard thing one about a possible new season of Torchwood

ETA

valMichael Because I'm something of a real homebody and I knew that the Schubert Symphony might be a long one.

Christopher Marlowe That's a lovely concert. I haven't heard the trumpet peices. Are they new works? The names sound like it. Dvorak's Slavonic dances are all fairly short. :) Saint Seans' Rondo Capriccioso is one of his best loved works. Schubert's 9th is called "The Great" for a good reason. It's a shame you missed it. Why did you leave at intermission?

Christopher Marlowe - Yeah, I'm a prety big Doctor Who fan. I LOVED Tennant, but so far I'm waiting to judge Smith. I want to see him act first, and Moffat is an incredible script writer, so hopefully it'll all end up for the best. Do you follow Torchwood?

Leather Jacket - If you're interested, I'm pretty sure the Stanford Prison Experiment (the college students playing prisoners/guards) can be found online, on youtube. There are videos, I remember looking them up a few years ago for an essay I was writing. They're pretty disturbing, though, be warned.

Oh, and a quote I love from Sandman (paraphrased): "Do you know what Freud said about dreams of flying? It means you're really dreaming about having sex."

"Indeed? Tell me, then, what does it mean when you dream about having sex?"

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DaddyCatALSO,

I just looked at Yale's online catalog of programs and departments. It's a long list. Of interest ....

- An interdepartment program in neuroscience

- The Psychology Department's program in behavioral neuroscience.

- Yale Medical School has departments in both neurobiology and neurology.

- Interdisciplinary program in cogntive science.

Off the last, when I was an undergraduate I took a course in both "Learning & Thinking" and "Cognitive Processes." A few years later, I was seeing references to both 'cognitive psychology' and 'cognitive science.' In the past decade or so, I've seen 'computational neuroscience.'


In the end, it's all about the brain as studied from different perspectives.



Leather Jacket,

I'd think anyone that has taken an introductory psychology course, in high school as well as college, has been exposed to operant conditioning. Most writers are always looking for ideas, and many writers record unusual, useful and potentially interesting information in notebooks.¹

Shortly after the Abu Ghraib story broke, several journalists were noting the similarities with what happened there to Stanley Milgram's famous social psychology experiment. Nutshell: Milgram hired college students to role play prisoners and guards and matters got out of hand. So the Abu ghraib story puts a decades old social psychology experiment on the front page. Guess what?

Veronica Mars' 3.2 episode, "My Big Fat Greek Rush Week" has a second story where Logan and Wallace take part in prisoner-guard role playing psychology experiment. *g*


¹ Physiology Professor Jose Delgado used electrodes to control a bull's behavior, c. 1960s.

Delgado's Bull (YouTube)

Portents of Maggie's Adam! *g*


WG

CM's Mini-Adventure tonight.

I headed out the door..it wasn't quite raining or drizzling out tonight, but it was wet. I hit the ATM to get money to pay for the symphony concert that started at 7:30 pm. $12 for a seat in the balcony, which I thought was more appropriate as I was wearing jeans.

First up was Slavonic Dance No. 7 by Antonin Dvorak. A nice piece but a lot shorter than I had expected.

Next was Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint Saens. The violinist for this was Brian Goetzinger, the Young Artists Solo Competition Winner. I can see why Brian picked this particular piece, it was very lively and varied and he was pretty energetic throughout.

Next was two trumpet with orchestra

Elegy for Trumpet and Strings
Concert-Poem for Trumpet and Orchestra

Both performed by Trumpeter Christopher Hahn.

I preferred the Elegy to the Concert-Poem, but I'm not exactly sure why.

During intermission I talked with some folks I know and bought a raffle ticket for a basket of goodies.

I left during intermission and came home, so I don't know how Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C Major turned out.

According to the program there were four movements.

Andante-Allegro ma non troppo
Andante con moto
Scherzo. Allegro vivace
Allegro vivace

I think those terms related to the tempo of the movements, but I'm not sure.

cc valMichael

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Christopher Marlowe,

Very shortly after Restless first aired, Joss said the cheeseman had no meaning. He may even have emphasized this by saying the cheeseman was the only thing in the dreams that had no meaning. Joss said he put the cheeseman into the dreams to be the nonsensical elements common to most dreams (thought Joss said this jossspeak). So, to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a cheeseman is just a cheeseman. *g*


WG

Zoom back through the other way

CaughtNTheQuiet What's this about slipping into the Dark Knight?

Shadow rereads the post.

Oh.

Never mind.

Zoom, zoom

quick slip-n-slide through

neonate deep cover is
taking its toll...yes, I have
learned many useful ...erm...
techniques from lostinamerica
Eric *was* the evil
counteragent...he has
disappeared...apparently the jungle
claimed another victim. Yes.
Cleveland. Paradise. Indeed. Sorry
I neglected to sign that expense
report, chief...but they were
necessary expenses to make sure our
problem disappeared for good


looks furtively about before
melting into the shadows and
escaping into the dark night

CNQ

Zoom through

WOO and a really big HOO!

I love Goodwill! I am now the proud owner of the soundtrack from that fantastic Liam Neeson/Catherine Zeta-Jones vehicle The Haunting. Talk about a totally random find.

Jerry Goldsmith composed some really beautiful music for this film; some haunting, some menacing, all atmospheric. "The Carousel" makes you feel as dizzy as Nell & Theo felt stepping into that bizarre room, while "Curtains" invokes the spirit of the children of Hill House.

Hmm. I think I might want to watch it again. The movie itself is wonderful, but the documentary after is just as good. Not only on the filming of the movie - FX, cast, the usual goodies - but also a bit from actor Roy Dotrice of an actual haunting he experienced with his family.

Best line from the commentary: Liam Neeson calling Catherine Zeta-Jones the "Welsh gazelle" and referring to himself as "old Dobbin."

Off to fine-tune one of my sales fliers for next weekend.

Zoom, zoom

Cheese by Texture.

# hard
# Pressed%2C%20uncooked
# Pressed%2C%20uncooked%20
# Semi-hard
# semi-soft
# soft
# soft%20centre%20with%20rind
# Soft%2C%20flowered
# Soft%2C%20flowered%20
# Soft%2C%20ripened
# Soft%2C%20washed
# Spotted
# Spotted%20

meduscacascade Sorry for the weird postings tonight. There doesn't seem anyone else online, so I usually got nuts with random stuff.

ETA

Since things seem to be a bit quiet tonight...I think I'll go out and do something wacky for an hour or two and then post about it when I come back.

It's T-shirt derby time again. And yes, I am almost ready to give up ... almost. Instead, I did three designs this week hoping at least one will catch on:

I Make My Own Luck

Luck Dog

Flip A Coin

Votes are always appreciated.

DaddyCatALSO, wolfguard, valMichael : I doubt Mutant Enemy did a lot of research into psychology vs psychiatry vs surgery (despite wg's excerpt which gives the appearance that at least some research was done -- maybe a writer or other staffer has a psych background?), but what we saw (other than demons existing) can be made to fit into the real world. I just wouldn't try to get too specific about it lest I be wrong. (See getting psychologist and psychiatrist backward.)
As to Ben and summoning a quellor demon and kidnapping dawn, the guy was forced to host a hellgod for close to 30 years, during which he was surrounded by hellminions and lost time in a number of instances. I cut the boy a boatload of slack.

Christopher Marlowe : The pommel horse is a thing of beauty when done correctly. Romania's Marian Dragulescu was/is an expert.

Christopher Marlowe, valMichael : I was watching an Abbott and Costello movie today on TCM (Buck Privates). I can't say I'd forgotten how brilliantly funny these two were, but damn! Brilliantly funny.
"You've got ten dollars in one pocket and five dollars in another pocket. What have you got?"
"The captain's pants."

medusacascate I take it from your posting name you are a fan of Doctor Who? If so, what do you think of the new Doctor?

Personally, I loved the cheese man. I was always hoping he'd show up again. He just seemed so wonderfully random.

Yeah... it's awful trying to get the Buffy/Angel comics where I live, I can only ever find a couple. And after season five of Angel.. well, you had to read the comics.

A longer piece.

An Analysis of Cheese as a Metaphor on buffy[/b]

*pokes board*

Sigh, Time to bring out the big guns....


ETA

Randomly found Analysis of the Cheese Man from Restless.

The cheese man. I think he stands for the chaotic and amusing nature of existence. His interpolations make no sense at all, but they are funny. When Buffy sees him, she demands an end to the dream and to the world of the slayer. The cheese man is the opposite of the slayer's world where only action and death exist. He's the concretization of the slayer puns and the good times Buffy has with her friends. He's the fun of being part of a group as opposed to the loneliness and silence of the first slayer.

[n]medusacascade[/b] I've read it. I was spoiled about Twilight long before so the issue didn't surprise me. I am still puzzled by the reasoning behind who is Twilight and I'm not sure I like the path they are going down, but it didn't make me want to toss the issue or stop reading the series.

Anyone read Buffy #33 yet?

DaddyCatALSO I wonder what degrees are needed to become School Principals.

Leather Jacket valMichael wolfguard An MD or OD who also has a PhD could easily have one in experimental psych. (Probably soem combo MD/PhD programs in this exist. I know they exist with PhDs in "behavioral neuroscience," which on the udnergrad level falls into the Psychology continuum.) From her apaprent hands-on attitude with Adam, I hjave a feeling her lab experience went beyond Skinner boxes, EEGs, and tachistoscopes.
Or maybe the writers of the show are just ignorant about stuff like that.

As to Ben, he was bit of a sociopath himself, at least in the whole matter of the Queller demon. (Of course, I'm assuming in death he and Glory were finally separated.)

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Leather Jacket,

A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who did their residency in mental health and is board certified for same.

A 'psychologist' is not so well-defined. A psychologist who helps people with mental or behavioral problems¹ likely has a PhD² and would be called a clinical psychologist. Clinical psychology is only one specialty, many PhD's are experimental psychologists.


From Lessons ...

Willow: Hey, do you know if we're going to be studying 'Operant Conditioning' in the first semester? 'Cause I hear that's kinda Professor Walsh's specialty.

Riley: Absolutely. Do you know her treatise on Dietrichs work?

Willow: I know of it.


This suggest Maggie was an experimental psychologist. OTOH, those clinical psychologists who favor behavioral therapy would include operant conditioning in their tool-kit.


¹ The western medical world has a relatively solid concensus on how 'doctoring' works, i.e. the body is a biological machine which through physical and chemical manipulations can be repaired and maintained. I do not think there's such a solid concensus on what constitutes a 'mental' problem or what's the best way to approach one. There're certainly schools of thought who believe they know, but the fact there're schools shows lack of concensus.


² A person can work as a professional in mental health care with a master's degree, but I do not know if they could call themselves a clinical psychologist. They'd probably be called counselors or therapists.

Once upon a time, a person who wanted to practice as a psychoanalyst had 'simply' to graduate from an official institutional of psychoanalysis. This leads to the question of who accredits worldviews? Consumers? Governments? Insurance companies?



WG

Old One LOL! *looks up*

I do believe there is. *g*

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Christopher Marlowe - there must be sky to dive from there? ;0)

Beldin It snowed last night. But fortunately it's just barely warm enough that it is melting today.

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valMichael Rodney Dangerfield jokes never get too old.

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Henny Youngman/Rodney Dangerfield Joke My wife is such a bad cook that when she make alphabet soup, it spells out "Help".

Leather Jacket It's actually the reverse. A psychologist has a PhD in Psychology and a paychiatrist has an M.D. degree, as a minimum requirement. But either could both have both degress if they desired and did the work.