Amber Benson (nerd alert)

AB plays an ethical vampire in an episode of Supernatural called "Bloodlust." Check it out at surfthechannel.com

One of the interesting twists on vampire mythology is that dead man's blood can be put on any stabby weapon, not just wood, and it has the effect of making the vampire sick or incapacitated.

Scooby Gang News!

With the BIG BIG Buffy News aripplin' thru town, it gives me great honor to forward the FCC's latest ruling on Alyson Hannigan--yay! What next--the Dushku/Whedon project to premier in my back yard?????


FCC Okays Nudity On TV If It�s Alyson Hannigan

"Cutie Patootie!" You've Just Been GINGERED!

Insomnia, Part II or "Blech"

Sorry--not in a good mood yet or able to write about anything funny. Feel free to skip this post, as it's more for my own diary purposes.

So I've been granted some relief from all the stress by re-waching Buffy (is there anything that show can't do?), but I got up this morning with dizziness. WTF? It didn't go away the whole day and I soon realized that it was yet another stress-related ailment, probably related to lack of sleep, but most likely not, since I have had insomnia without it. I had many stress-ailments during my dissertation writing/defense, all of which magically disappeared directly after, but my new job has brought some of that back, not to mention all the cult/family shit I've put up with lately.

So as I was going about my day, I remembered how in fourth grade we had to put on blindfolds and pretend we were born blind. This was to teach about how others have to deal with not being able to see. Today, experiencing this dizziness has given me some more "insight" into Queercat's situation. For me, it's not quite the same as being drunk, i.e. "roomspin." It's a more subtle uneasiness that suddenly hits you like a pang and before you know it you want to grab something and just be still. You close your eyes and the world keeps moving. I thought I'd include a picture. For some of you, this picture will be nothing more than a stoner poster; for others, it will make you look away. Blech.

Danny Masterson was NEVER on Buffy

But somehow my brain thinks this dude from That 70s Show WAS on Buffy. You see, last night I had a dream that I had moved to LA and occcasionally found myself at celebrities' parties. One night we were at Danny Masterson's and I noticed he had done some similar work on his house that we had. I asked for the tour, but instead of showing me drywall he showed me his entire TV on DVD collection. Lame! It was all King of the Hill and Brady Bunch, nothing obscure like Red Dwarf or something. I then asked why he didn't have That 70s Show or Buffy, since he was on both of them. He replied, "I don't collect the shows that I'm on." (Which is a lie. I looked him up on imdb and he was on King of the Hill, and of course NEVER had even a bit part on Buffy). But gullible me ate it up and I started asking questions about what everyone was up to. I really wanted to know about Amber Benson, since she's a writer and continues to inhabit the role of Tara. He dismissed her and the rest of them but EPECIALLY Nicholas Brendan, whom I soon realized was his arch-enemy for being just as much of a lazy and shiftless dude, but never actually smoked pot and finally did something with his life. Masterson didn't know what anyone was up to and acted as if he'd been stuck with the job of speaking for the show after the rest had moved on with their lives. When I realized he was lying, I nevertheless continued to stop over to his house to say hello. He'd ask me Buffy questions, but I'd change the subject to renovation and talk about how his 70s-era shag carpet was cool for the show but not for real life, so get rid of it. Eventually I stopped visiting.

What does this dream mean? I wonder if it means that those of my friends who are occasionally stoners do not like Buffy as I do. That there's something fundamentally non-stoneresque about Buffy and Angel. Despite it's monsters and such, it's not a "trippy" show at all, but rather appeals to computery-booky nerds on the whole. I will generalize that rarely do the two crowds overlap. My love of Buffy is somehow connected to being at odds with my hippie roots.