burning like matchsticks in the face of the darkness

Monday's xkcd strip = awesome.

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Marla-and-company's cookout started at 4:30, and I headed out around quarter of five, which meant I got there a little after five.  Sadly, it was like another hour before there was real food to eat.  (Used to Layna's and Nicole's parties, which admittedly start later in the evening, I hadn't eaten before arriving.)  There weren't a whole lot of people there, and no one was very talkative, so I kind of wished I hadn't come.  By like 5:30 or 6 it had picked up, though.

There were a couple volleyball rounds, but I wasn't sure how athletic I was feeling, and there was lots of goose poop so I opted to stay on the sidelines.  I had or listened to a variety of nice conversations.  This guy Shelby was talking about having downloaded a collected X-Men from beginning (1963) to present and how he thought someone should -- if no one has already -- do Ph.D. work on how comics reflect the society of the time and watching that change -- like one of the early ones had a scene with the X-Men all practicing their powers in the Danger Room and Jean's practicing honing her telekinesis by sewing.  He also was at one point having neck/back pain/soreness and sort of offhandedly said he needed a massage, so of course I got up and said, "What do you want?" and started massaging his shoulders and upper back -- for which I was rewarded by immediate orgasmic sounds.

By this point it was definitely getting dark (so like 8pm).  Later, Sean said something to me about how he'd heard I had a good time on my Europe trip.  I said I never know how much people wanna hear, so basically all I've been saying is, "Yeah, I had a really good time."  He said that he'll never get a passport that says he's male (he's trans) so he'll never be able to travel internationally, so he loves hearing about other people's international travels.

He had been smoking a pipe and asked if the smoke would bother me and I said I'd be fine, that I'd survived that night at the club in Prague after all.  So I talked about Prague and going to a Catholic church service in Czech, which led to talk about ecumenical church-hopping, and he mentioned Jehovah's Witnesses.  He had a question which I obviously didn't have the answer to, and I said I wished I had a laptop with wireless [we were in the backyard] so I could look it up, and thus I learned that he is totally one of those people after my own heart who always wants to have a "fact finder" handy for those questions that randomly come up, even when just watching tv.

At one point, Will went up to take care of something, so Sean invited Jayson to "join the circle."  The neighbors' dog Toby came by, and apparently Sean and the dog had had an "incident" earlier in the evening.  Sean and Jayson were joking so matter-of-factly about having sex with a dog, which I never would have expected.  Of course there were jokes about how we're an inclusive community, and Sean said that Tiffany did draw a line at hitting people in church even if you're in a consensual BDSM relationship, and I said I was there for that conversation.  This led to my usual hobby-horsing about how we're inclusive of everyone except the stupid evil conservatives.  Jayson said he thinks we need to draw a line, need to have standards, that we shouldn't be inclusive to the people who hate us.  I said that I would have a lot more respect for liberals if they were honest like that -- though I would still take great pains to remind Christian communities that they are called to love their enemies and would encourage them to, as per Tiffany's sermon, be at table with them.  He said he would love to be at table with these people, but that they refuse to let him be at the table -- cf. 1032, which allows pastors to deny membership to persons based solely on their being gay.  I said I have no background with the United Methodist Church, so I can't speak to the validity of his feeling of being denied a place at the table, but conceded that even with my sympathy for the conservative theological arguments I have a hard time rationalizing the membership thing because regardless of one's opinion on homosexuality, isn't the church for the broken and the sinners?

Later, Sean and I were talking about his personal history (springing from my question about his pipe).  Talking about Marla's husband, he said, "I was trying with Jake, and that wasn't working, because he's from Missouri and they're authentic there.  Which is confusing,  We're from New England.  What does 'authentic' even mean?"

After the umpteenth time he lit a match for the pipe, I asked, "Is it supposed to take that many matches?"
Sean: "Fuck you."
me: "Do you wanna take this inside?"
It took half a beat and then he made some impressed approving statement about that line.  He said he had wondered, "Are we at that point?" (where you can say stuff like that to a friend) and yeah, apparently we are.  I said I considered him a safe person and he had permission to say anything he wanted to me.  I also said that while I will complain about Smith, one thing I will happily credit it for is making me very sex-positive in sometimes inappropriate contexts.

He said, "I love that you traverse the spectrum from conservative to liberal and are sex-positive the whole way," saying that even in liberal circles there's some shying away from some of that.

About quarter of eleven people were cleaning up, and Sean asked if I wanted a ride home.  I said that I was happy to walk home, but that if it would make him worry I would take a ride.  (This is my response to anyone who offers me a ride unless I have a strong desire to spend more time with them.)  He was like, "Don't make me examine the feminist implications...."  I said it wasn't about that and we had some back-and-forth and I accepted the ride and tried to explain that I didn't interpret it as a patriarchal condescending thing, that usually the people who offer me rides are female -- since most of the people I hang out with are female.

Eric saw Serenity (the movie) this weekend and was hugely not a fan. ( Read more... )

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Rich saw "Shindig" and thought it has no redeeming value. This made me sad since it is one of my favorite/most-happy-making episodes. ( Read more... )

He was also surprised that nobody else picked up the show after FOX axed it -- since Joss has a big fanbase and all.

I woke up around 6:20 Friday morning -- which I do sometimes, even though now I don't need to get up until around 7 -- and I hadn't been getting enough sleep (due to the whole hot weather thing) so I definitely went back to sleep.  Got up to find someone was taking a shower.  And soon saw OriginalRoomie waiting to take a shower as well.  Dude.  Almost never is anyone even up when I get up.  Sigh.  I actually still got to work early.  My biggest complaint really was that I needed to use the toilet (and when living with near-strangers one really can't do that bathroom sharing thing I've gotten so used to from living with family).

Mary Alice and I had lunch outside again [the temp was off at a job interview].  It was hazy but a comfortable level of warm and humid.  Shortly after we came back inside, there was thunder and dark skies.  And it was very much raining when I left.  I was very glad my sandals wrapped around the ankle 'cause I think flip flops would have slid off my feet about a million times.  Sam has the entry on the weather that day, though I don't think it ever got that bad over at my end of town.

I made myself a veggie burger and french fries when I got home.  I'm unused to the smell of gas.  [This apartment has a gas stove, which I haven't had since we moved off of West St. the year I turned 11.]

I was feeling really tired, so around 7:30pm I lay down -- not actually really wanting to sleep much 'cause I thought that would screw up my sleep schedule (as late day naps sometimes do).  I woke up around 11?  I changed out of my clothes and went back to bed -- not wanting to wake myself up much.  I woke up a number of times in the morning and finally got up around 8:20 I think?  Yeah, apparently I needed sleep.

Saturday I went grocery shopping.  Stonyfield yogurt has pectin, which I momentarily couldn't remember what it was, but I bought the yogurt anyway and whee, it's a fruit bit.  "Pectin is widely used in the food industry as a gelling agent to impart a gelled texture to foods"
And they have the banilla yogurt that Smith sometimes had on the salad bar.  Now if only there were yellow bananas.  (The grocery store has green ones which seem to mostly skip the yellow stage on their way to brown in my kitchen.)

Sidenote: Those of you who live with people, how do you do the dishes?  Every time I wash some of OriginalRoomie's dishes when I do the dishes she thanks me, and today I said that I just figure I'll wash whatever dishes are in the sink, that I'm not invested in washing only the dishes I got dirty.  I'm sure I'm influenced by having lived with family for the past year -- where food, dishes, etc. are all communal -- and I'm trying not to begrudge her her method of letting the dishes pile up for a few days (and then soaking them in a sinkful of soapy water -- but not rinsing/soaking anything when she puts it in the sink originally) but I just get weirded by this compartmentalizing.

My new bag came today.  So many pockets.  And with actual closures (one of my big complaints about my Ten Thousand Villages bag).  I still need to set up my laundry bag which arrived earlier this week.  [Should probably go do that now.  Edit: Oops, need a Phillips screwdriver and I already gave OriginalRoomie hers back -- and she's out now.  Sigh; that's what I get for being lazy and putting this off.]

We showed the apartment again today.  Sabeena(?).  I was wearing my Smith: A Tradition Of Women In Exciting Positions t-shirt, so I learned that she graduated MHC 3yrs ago (B.A. in film and comp sci, now doing graduate work in comp sci at Tufts, and testing phones for Nokia).  Her current sublet(?) apparently runs through the end of August, so if she did take it we would have to eat the cost of August's rent (which we would have to do anyway if we don't get anyone ... and OriginalRoomie had already mentioned to me earlier today how she can't afford that).  I offered to eat the cost 'cause having lived rent-free for a year but been working full-time most of that time I can v. much afford it (and would rather eat the cost for one month knowing someone was coming after a month than eat it for an indefinite period of time).  I could have sworn OtherRoomie had said she'd be moving out July 1, though, and when I talked to the landlord when I filled out the rental application back in April he had talked about a "July-July lease," so I'm confused by the idea that we would only have to cover August's rent, but honestly, I can pay for two months so whatever.
Erica, assuming this girl doesn't take it I am in all seriousness offering you the third room in my Davis Square apartment if you are at all interested.

I was realizing this afternoon that I was actually comfortable in the apartment all day (wearing t-shirt, jeans, flip-flops).  Rock on.

P.S. Cat!!!
[And yes, it is all about mixing in milk -- or something like it -- while mashing the potatoes and then stirring with a fork.  Thanks, y'all.]

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executrix on the Joss' birthday screening of Serenity (which I didn't go to in my city):

I'm really excited, even though I don't even like the damn movie all that much because in our small and embattled fandom we Browncoats ("the fandom other fans are afraid of") enjoy opportunities to gather and moil about. And that is what I think capital-F Fandom is all about--as the operatic bit of As You Like It goes where they all stand around in a circle and talk about how being in love is to be all made of sighs and devotion even though they're all in love with the wrong person.

[emphasis in original]

Work was so slow today.  Which is extra weird since Fri.-Tues. were so crazy.  [4:15 she drops off a list of stuff to try to schedule.  Yeah, most of that is getting taken care of tomorrow morning.  Wrote ~1700 words of fic.  And got yet another cracked-out plot bunny.

Reminder: New CSI tomorrow night (9pm Eastern Time).

I read Joan D. Vinge's Eyes of Amber and other stories.  I think the stories get better as they go along through the collection.  Love "Tin Soldier."

     " 'Though inland far we be, our souls have sight of that immortal sea which brought us hither.' " Her hand stretched above him, to catch the sky.
     "Wordsworth. That's the only thing by him I ever liked."

Unsuccessfully planned lunch with Linda & Tretha.  Trying again for tomorrow.

Sunrise/Sunset is from approx. 6:30-6:30.  I learned that weather.com Business Traveler option gives you handy junk like that -- plus a "Daylight remaining" count.  (Noho has 7 more minutes of daylight than N'wood?)

Forgot to mention that I met RMK's RA yesterday.  The trend seems to be that all the HBS RAs are Dan Saltzberg knockoffs.  Which I am quite okay with.

My Smith-mail gets deleted on Friday, so I finally got around to clearing out.  Mostly I just ignored stuff and figured if I hadn't missed it I wasn't gonna.  But I did go through my grad school correspondence to print out stuff I wanna keep if I decide I wanna pursue that again (plus I got such wonderful e-mails from the UPenn profs that it's just ego-boosting).  Also went through my old Diane e-mails.  Had forgotten she had gotten into BtVS by the end.  Have been meaning to e-mail her for a while.  Reading the e-mails reminded me of what wonderful people I had right from the get-go at college.  I've drifted from some of the people who were such key support then, but to think back on the wonderful people who were a part of my life each year . . . wow.

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And did I mention when I briefly checked my yahoo mail during work -- on Monday I think it was -- I saw a Serenity ad :)

Allie says:

Right, so as it turns out, the 9:55 show tomorrow [by "tomorrow" I assume she means Friday] isn't exactly sold out.  Phoenix Games bought up a lot of the tickets, true . . . but you can get them from *them.*  I'm not sure if there's extra cost for the privilege of going to the "geek showing," but anyway, they have lots left.  All you'd have to do is call them (and make sure that they understand you want to reserve tickets to pick up at the theatre, rather than driving out to them; apparently they get confused).

However, going to the Big E Friday had already been put up as an option for us Lamont crowd, and I'm rather fond of the idea, so we (all 12 of us) are going to the Saturday 4:10.

(Oh, and today I got my Fandango "showtimes are now available for your zip code" e-mail.)

From the official board: Joss on Opening Weekend:

Well boys and girls and boys dressed as girls and girls dressed as Kaylee, the time is almost upon us. This Friday we take that old rust-bucket out of the shipyard and see if she can breach atmo. It's been a long (to paraphrase a band I like) strange trip, and it'll be nice finally to show everybody what it is we've been tinkering with all this time. You already know you have my thanks, from the hardcore fans to the softcore... fans.... let me try that again. From the people manning the booths, buying DVD sets for their friends, getting banners seen everywhere on Australian TV, raffling artwork for ticketholders (Adam Hughes, take a bow), to the most casual fan who just wants to see the flick and won't ever even read this. You guys are the fuel in the engine, the Fire in the Fly, the weird green stuff coming out of Serenity's butt. (Hmmm. Forget that last one. I'm a little bit out of control here.)

Everyone needs something to keep them going. Mal has his ship. Zoe has her integrity. Jayne has Vera. And I've got you guys.

So what now? There have been so many posts about seeing it, seeing it again, the first weekend, the second weekend, being enthusiastic without being obnoxious (and yes, it IS hard to see over the pom-pom of a Jayne hat), buying tickets in advance, making a noise... I honestly wouldn't know what to add. I can tell you this: the movie will play in about 2200 hundred theaters, which is a good number. Too many, and you get empty theaters with no energy -- not enough, and you get, well, not enough. It may be hard to find in some areas but it'll be out there. Leave no multiplex unturned! This is going to be a ground war, peeps -- we have to hold the valley for a long while. However it opens, it needs to HOLD. Instead of the Alliance we'll be fighting viewer apathy, fear of something new, the urge to wait for DVD, and Jessica Alba in a bikini. (Although I have it on good authority that she spends 90% of the film in a huge wooly parka. Make sure that gets out.)

The day this puppy opens, I'll be seeing it with my family (don't worry, there's a lot of them, and they're all paying) and then I'm off to Europe to learn the word 'Browncoats' in nine different languages -- 'cause like I said, it's all about holding. I'll never be far from a computer, though, so I can check in with y'all. Thanks for every damn thing.

And remember, amidst all the urgency to make this an event, all the work and the worry, to take two hours and just enjoy yourself. That is, after all, what all this fighting's about.

-joss

signed teddy bears for breast cancer (including a slew of Whedony people)

Also: I now have all 3 Serenity comics.  (covering [some of?] that time between "Objects in Space" and Serenity)  Two copies, in fact.  *waves at trijinx*  Am psyched that I will in fact get to read them before Opening Weekend.  Per usual, spoil me not.

Thursday night weather.com told me: Friday: high of 83, Saturday: high of 68.  Glee indeed.  Last night's low was 32!  Eventually I will close the windows, but for now there is no way I am shutting this air out.  And I do have blankets, after all.

The big weekend event was the surprise 50th anniversary party for Bob&Ruthie last night.  Was nice to see former-UCN people *not* at a funeral.

Ruthie had asked Bonnie (her daughter) not to throw a big party, but Bonnie already had it in the works.  "Just family," Ruthie said, -- but hey, we are her family, as somebody pointed out.  And she said her big worry was that people would be left out, but no one was.  (Jimmy -- Bonnie's son -- went through Ruthie's computer to get addresses, and the invitees were told to spread the word to anyone who had been left off the mailing list.)

When we arrived, we saw a young woman in a spaghetti strap shimmery magenta-pink dress and I realized it must be Kristi (Bonnie's daughter).  I immediately thought she was 16 -- 14 minimum.  She's 11.  (Jimmy's 16.)  She's tall -- though all straight lines -- and also has that easy confidence (nevemind high energy).

Eventually they opened up the dance floor, and her whole family seems to know how to swing dance, and when the music changed to stuff she didn't know she just faked it (and didn't care that she was dancing off-beat -- which I wouldn't even have noticed had she not mentioned it to me).  She took off her heels as her feet were hurting, and in her swirly dress I was reminded of River in "Objects in Space."  (Or really, River ever, since Joss is so in love with her feet.)

Has been about 11 years since I last saw that family -- i.e., since they moved down to the Cape area.

Also saw Hayley and Chelsey -- whom I used to babysit for and whom I've barely seen since they left UCN (while I was still in high school, I believe).  6th and 4th grade respectively.  Last time I saw them, that was approximately their ages.  They're much the same as I remember them, though also growing up.  Will be interesting to see whom they turn into.  I miss getting to see "my" kids grow up.

Did some unintended networking as I chatted with a woman I knew from my Food Pantry volunteering days who said there might be job opportunities at the company she works at.

Weekend glee included Justine loving my feedback on her "The Pillow Book of Inara Serra" latest installment.  ("You are the English Godess," she said.)

Ages back I wanted to link someone (probably Zia or Marauder) to monkeycrackmary's Rosie Cotton thoughts, but she had done lots of Internet freshstarting and I couldn't find it.  But lots of her website is back now, and rosiesamfrodo.com has this (see this in particular).

fabu has Pirates of the Caribbean Ghost Stories Challenge.  In her previous post she mentioned her Multifandom Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Challenge from last year, which made me think of fox1013's Firefly fic Day of the Dead.

From this article on Serenity:

Although the big screen adventure presents the same challenges for the crew, there were new ones to overcome for first-time movie director Whedon.

"It's a question of opening it up, and it's a question of closing it down," Whedon said. "You know, opening it up in the sense of: We need a giant, epic story that is not the kind of thing these people usually get involved in in a TV series, which is more mundane. You need a reason for this to be a movie. The closing comes in making sure that it is accessible to everybody: that you explain everybody as much as you need to, that you explain the world as much as you need to, that you begin and you end, that you have an arc for the character, as well as a plot that has a question and then an answer."

Whether or not Whedon succeeded in this endeavour, he evidently fired the enthusiasm of at least some of his cast for any sequels that might follow.

"Yes, I'm looking forward to sequels," said Morena Baccarin in an interview in Starlog magazine. "I would like to do anything Joss Whedon ever does.”

She described “Serenity” as an amazing movie and had no hesitation in recommending it to fans.

“The movie will be a roller-coaster ride for audiences and that’s what is so great about it,” she said. “It’s really funny; I’ve seen it three times and I laugh every time. But it’s also heart-breaking and gut-wrenching.”

So, I saw this via whedonesque this morning and read "According to a blog at KnoxNews, the online version of the Knoxville News Sentinel, InstaPundit’s Glenn Reynolds has 150 tickets to an advance screening of the film available for local bloggers." and thought, "I didn't know Glenn Reynolds was a Firefly fan." I checked his blog but didn't see anything about it. Then I came home from my full day and my dad had sent me an e-mail [this link has fairly non-spoilery images from the film] and DUDE [this link is nonspoilery save a small version of the US promo poster]. Advance Screenings that you get free tickets to provided you blog a review of the film. (Refreshing the flist now, I see the links have hit fireflyfans, and whedonesque.) There's a Boston one, which tempts me mightily. Though I've seen it already and I don't think anyone who reads this journal (can I even count this a blog?) has escaped my mad pimping of the show.

Not tropical temps, though. Which is a blessing. Though low 80s and humid is still rather oppressive. And my hair was kinda gross, which I was unhappy about. Yeah, I know, New Orleans and all and I’m griping about my hair.

[And my dad says the humidity’s supposed to last through Thursday. Blech.]

I saw TBQ’s post on Sunday and was inclined to vibe with her on the whole, “You build in an area like that, and shit happens.” That night, cousin Steve e-mailed being all “New Orleans is gonna end up flooded beyond repair and they’ll have to demolish everything and start over; tomorrow will be an historic day.” To which I was like, “Um, okay, whatever” ‘cause it’s cousin Steve. So today I was like Yeah, TBQ (on the news coverage -- of which I have of course seen none ‘cause I’m me).

Best thing I read today was possibly the following:

Wordsworth was a sentimental ponce, come down to it. He much preferred Coleridge. Or Eliot. Or really, Radiohead.
-Wesley in "The Truth Is" by Jennifer-Oksana

My brother had his first day of college classes today and my mom called him tonight (he was supposed to call this-weekend-that-just-happened) but he was in a computer lounge so he was kinda monosyllabic (as he frequently is with us anyway) so my mom said, “So basically, not much has changed; it’s just that you’re in Troy now.” I cracked up.

Finally touched base with le Cat, which was wonderful, and have been talking to some other people. Much gladness, as I miss people. And once Smith starts up for real I get to start poking people about conjugal mutual visits.

My staffing firm sent me 3 chocolate chocolate chip cookies plus a Ben&Jerry gift certificate.

In looking for a particular exchange I was reminded of how much I *love* Lilo and Stitch.

Okay, I probably knew that ID4 had Brent Spiner (Data - TNG) but dude, it also has Adam Baldwin (Jayne - Firefly). Clearly I need to rewatch this movie.

I enjoyed Cinema Blend’s Fall Movie Preview for the most part, though I’m less than thrilled with the bit about Serenity though it gives it an anticipation level of 4/5. (Includes one of the promo images that’s everywhere, so if you want the blurb&comments without viewing the site I’ll c&p.)

I wrote approx. 700 words of darkfic at work -- which seems pathetically little considering I had *nothing* to do at work all day. Want to rewatch a particular Angel S4 arc but 2 MLN libraries own it and both are out (and the system is overloaded with AV requests, so there’s a moratorium on them currently). Le sigh. Will abuse btvsangel_canon instead. Which, admittedly, is more time-effective. Though I did rather want to be able to immerse myself in the arc rather than trying to pick out which canon details I’m gonna need. [Though actually the canon questions I have currently are from a slightly later arc.]

Amusingly, one of the subject categories for the DVD [in the MLN catalog] is "Vampires -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama." And it’s only for that one season of Angel. Clicking on the link gives me a page of the following subject categories.

• Vampires Africa East [1]
  
• Vampires Alaska Comic Books Strips Etc [2]
  
• Vampires California Fiction [1]
  
• Vampires California Los Angeles Drama [1]
  
• Vampires California Los Angeles Fiction [2]
  
• Vampires California Los Angeles Juvenile Fiction [1]
  
• Vampires California Northern Fiction [1]
  
• Vampires California San Francisco Fiction [1]
  
• Vampires Case Studies [2]
  
• Vampires Comic Books Strips Etc [20]
  
• Vampires Comic Books Strips Etc Fiction [2]
  
• Vampires Computer Games [1]
  

The number of books MLN does *not* have is making me sad recently.

• The Life of Evelyn Waugh: A Critical Biography (Blackwell Critical Biographies) by my advisor (see my Brideshead Revisited entry)
  
• The Action Heroine's Handbook ("it's entertaining, practical, useful, and just all around fun as hell. And I'm planning to use some of the goodies in there if I write a story where Rose has to: win a catfight, drink someone under the table, outrun a fireball, fake her own death, or escape when kidnapped." -tenebraeli)
  
• "Dorothy Parker's Elbow which is about writing and tattoos, and Ovid Metamorphosed which is a reworking of Metamorphosis" -ladyvivien

I keep writing up pieces of an update, but bugger, tired.  (I now have sympathy for people who skim over my long LJ entries.)  So the basics are: I'm settling in, it reminds me a lot of my SCMA job, people seem nice, various stuff is frustrating, i'm front desk and don't know anything but i have a computer and lots of free time.

I'm getting lots of reading done on the commute, so there will probably be book reviews forthcoming.

I'm all caught up on my flist, though i've been crap about commenting.  Apologies.  Consider yourselves to all have open invitations to poke me about anything you want a reply to.

Firefly cast picture (from here).  So many of them look so little like their characters.

dorri6 has a silly fun fic challenge.

Love the banners here and here.  (Really must figure out how to do a fanart recs page.)

Snippets from the recent EW:

Whedon dreamed up Firefly six years ago after reading Michael Shaara's Civil War novel, The Killer Angels. He pictured a gritty drama about the rigors of frontier life — ''but on a spaceship, because I'm me,'' says Whedon, who saw Firefly as a scruffy Star Trek minus the noble causes and aliens.

[...]

'I was a Whedon stalker,'' laughs Mary Parent, Universal's now-outgoing vice chairman of production, who dug Whedon's vision and no-surrender passion. She also recognized a potentially marketable Cinderella story. A modestly budgeted film, Parent believed, was a gamble worth taking, and in September 2003, Universal optioned the rights from Fox. ''I thought this band of underdogs could make for a cool movie,'' she says. ''But I did want to see a script first.''

So Whedon wrote. And wrote. And wrote. And wound up with an unfilmable, only-for-the-fans 190-page epic — ''basically the second season of Firefly,'' he says.

*wants to read that we does*  When do we fans get this?

And since i foresee boredom at work tomorrow, memes:

- Name a pairing or character (that I'm familiar with, in a fandom I'm familiar with), and a one word prompt if you want, and I will write one* line of a story for it.
*for various values of "one" as the mood strikes me.

- Ask me my opinion on any character from any fandom, and I will say. If I do not know the fandom, I will say what I think I know based on fannish osmosis. (and no, I will not be counting lj or other lj users as a fandom.)

Alan Tudyk replaces Hank Azaria in 'Spamalot'
NEW YORK (AP) — Alan Tudyk will be Broadway's new Lancelot in Monty Python's Spamalot.
-from USA Today

(article with fuller bio here)


Also from Kate: Morena says, "We’re all still signed on to do three pictures." Alan's statement has been on IMDb trivia for ages, but i never did see the interview in question, so the confirmation was nice. (And Nathan Fillion says the same -- "We’re all roped into a trilogy. We all signed for a trilogy so if this first one does well, we’re going to do two more.")


And in other fannishness, not from diadeloro, an interesting post-HBP theory i haven't heard before.

The IMDb trivia for the Serenity movie? Totally includes a big ole spoiler. Am unclear as to why one would be clicking on the trivia for a movie you haven't seen yet anyway. I try to avoid checking sites like IMDb for movies i haven't seen period, since they often give away stuff in the summaries, and just a cast list can spoil the surprise that in fact two characters are the same person (or related, if the surnames match), etc.

I lurve ff_icons. And obsessiveicons. So pretty.

This includes an icon of a shot of Kaylee and Inara near each other that i haven’t seen iconned a million times before. Impressive, given how few shots there are of them together. I love this Firefly alphabet series -- spoilers for lots of episodes, so please don’t click unless you’ve seen the whole series (though i don’t think there are any from unaired episodes). And for anyone who’s interested, there are a slew of icons of Wolf from 10th Kingdom here.

monkeycrackmary has started watching Firefly. The real reason she wins is because she has an Eternal Sunshine icon with an image i haven't seen a million times already.

It occurs to me that i rarely rec anything in my LJ, usually just stockpiling until i update my recs pages on the first of the month. This is particularly ironical because i bemoan the fact that nobody on my flist posts fic recs (well none i’m actually interested in reading anyway -- though of course right now my To Read list is about as tall as i am, even if we only count fanfic).

( WWE giggle )