New concrete floor.
Right, right. Good choice.
You know, I really do have to dig my tape of A&OL out and watch it this weekend. Manic Grant is good for the soul.
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Beverly - Dec 03, 2004 9:08:31 am PST #3350 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Betsy HP - Dec 03, 2004 9:09:49 am PST #3351 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Whoohooo. I just came up with the best '30s mystery title ever, "The Case of the Fatal Martini", and as far as I can tell from MXBF, nobody's written it yet.
All your intoxicated snark are belong to me.
Beverly - Dec 03, 2004 9:10:58 am PST #3352 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
If anybody can do it, Betsy, it's you. Go for it!
Strega - Dec 03, 2004 9:16:16 am PST #3353 of 10001
In the joyous spirit of pedantry:
most violent crimes are perpetrated (is that the right word?) against women,
It is the right word, but it isn't true. More men than women are victims of violent crime, though the numbers have been getting closer over the years.
Allyson - Dec 03, 2004 9:18:46 am PST #3354 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
More men than women are victims of violent crime, though the numbers have been getting closer over the years.
Ah. Maybe I was confused, then, and it was that men are the most often the perpetrators of violent crime.
Betsy HP - Dec 03, 2004 9:18:56 am PST #3355 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Go women! Fill up that gap!
er, um
libkitty - Dec 03, 2004 9:19:46 am PST #3356 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I haven't read Minearverse since yesterday, and I must say, catching up was pure joy. It does my heart good to see Minearverse busy again. Almost as much joy as the thought of AB on The Inside.
After the movie delay and show delay, plus my life in general, which has not been great lately, I needed some good news. Many thanks to Tim, Kristen, Allyson, and Adam.
The second part is character development, and um, I say this without intent to stroke his ego, Tim is one of the few writers I've seen who genuinely understands that you have to earn the audience's heart and then break the fuck out of it and have to do it without losing them.
Jane brings in the lighter side of people's souls, and so I think the combination of the two producers is brilliant, since this show is so dark and creepy in that Angel-locks-the-lawyers-in-the-cellar kind of way.
Squeee!
I can't wait til Kristen releases who signed on to the show.
I'm doing a Snoopy Dance, myself.
The length of time between reading this and reading about AB was just enough to build up the anticipation. I shouldn't be this happy over a television show, but somehow I am.
Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease stay on the air!
Allyson - Dec 03, 2004 9:20:17 am PST #3357 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Does anyone know about rape statistics? Do they count prison rape?
Betsy HP - Dec 03, 2004 9:25:14 am PST #3358 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I think they only just started collecting prison rape statistics with the Stop Prison Rape act. Off to google.
Betsy HP - Dec 03, 2004 9:27:32 am PST #3359 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Bingo. Went to Stop Prisoner Rape's website (excellent people; I need to send them money this year.)
SPR is pressuring the FBI to reform its practice of including only female rape victims in its annual report on violent crime statistics. The FBI’s reporting procedures ignore the thousands of men who are victims of rape behind bars every year and promote outdated assumptions about rape and gender.
The answer to your question is "no".