Darn your sinister attraction!

Buffybot ,'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.


d - Jun 27, 2004 5:35:56 am PDT #878 of 10001
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.

You can get pretty interesting mostly clear shower curtains that make the bathroom still look nice and yet prevent you from having the "I know someone is lurking in my shower just waiting to have at me" feelings. Also helps to keep your bathroom from feeling too closed in.

I don't mind Crichton, but I apparently have atrocious taste in fiction. Ok, I didn't like all of his stuff, but I was drawn to Timeline. (Castles! Jousting! Armour! What's not to love?) King novels I'm not so fond of, but his short stories can be quite creepy.

Back to that Tim guy.... I've been rewatching Firefly now that I've taken them back from my BF (who sadly wasn't watching them on his own). I think I enjoy them much more on rewatch than I ever did on tv. Oh sure, I watched faithfully because it was Mutant Enemy, but I don't think I ENJOYED as much as I am now. I think it's also more fun because I can't catch repeats on tv, so when I revisit them now after months of forgetting plot details it feels fresh and new. I was trying to emulate Allyson's brain-marination in Out of Gas. Not sure I accomplished it, but sure did enjoy watching it.


Kristen - Jun 27, 2004 9:37:17 am PDT #879 of 10001

I'm mostly okay with shower curtains. But thanks to The Legacy, I can't deal with shower doors.


Daisy Jane - Jun 27, 2004 10:16:28 am PDT #880 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

From way up

Do either of you eat Twix so that it breaks off just where the little holes are? The ones in the cookie part, I mean. (If you do this, you'll know what I mean -- if you don't, then I seem very insane right now.)

Twix are a whole process. First the bit of chocolate around the edge, then the caramel/chocolate top down to the cookie part, then the cookie part with the chocolate bottom.

Having not read any SF or horror lately, I can't contribute to the current conversation, except to say that I used to have a book of horror stories that had excellent Joyce Carol Oates and Bierce stories along with one by someone I can't remember about Jack the Ripper that I loved.


DCJensen - Jun 27, 2004 11:17:28 am PDT #881 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.

So, is this the final Wonderfalls show order?

00. Unaired Pilot (Wax Lion, but different)
01. Wax Lion
02. Karma Chameleon
03. Wound-Up Penguin
04. Pink Flamingos
05. Crime Dog
06. Barrel Bear
07. Muffin Buffalo
08. Lovesick Ass
09. Safety Canary
10. Lying Pig
11. Cocktail Bunny
12. Totem Mole
13. Caged Bird

Unaired pilot listed for completeness. I assume numerals above zero are what will be on the DVDs.


DCJensen - Jun 27, 2004 11:22:30 am PDT #882 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.

Twix are a whole process. First the bit of chocolate around the edge, then the caramel/chocolate top down to the cookie part, then the cookie part with the chocolate bottom.

Before the big D hit, I was enjoying the new KitKat Big Kat in a similar manner.

I would eat the chocolate off the ends, then the sides, then rip off the top and eat that, leaving the bottom layer to consume with what was left of the cookie.

Can't blame the sugar intake for Diabetes, tho. Dammit.


DXMachina - Jun 27, 2004 11:28:39 am PDT #883 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

So, is this the final Wonderfalls show order?

Daniel, here's Tim's list:

Tim Minear "The Minearverse: YExpirationDateMV" Mar 14, 2004 2:53:49 pm PST


Cranberry - Jun 27, 2004 12:26:32 pm PDT #884 of 10001
I was fine when existence had no meaning. Meaninglessness in a universe that has no meaning -- that I get. But meaninglessness in a universe with meaning? What does that mean?

Barrel Bear doesn't fit late in the season, though -- it makes no sense stuck in the middle of an arc it has nothing to do with. It was written as episode five (the previouslies for Muffin Buffalo show a bit of it), and FOX moved it because they thought it was weak. Bryan says in retrospect he thinks it fits best as episode seven, after Muffin Buffalo but before Lovesick Ass. Apparently they haven't decided exactly where to put it on the DVDs yet.


Allyson - Jun 27, 2004 12:33:08 pm PDT #885 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

It's a coaster.


§ ita § - Jun 27, 2004 3:16:54 pm PDT #886 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, they should give it its own disc.

OR they could have everyone do commentary on it, including Rue. And they should be all soused or snarked up or ... something. It's a definite hiccough.


victor infante - Jun 27, 2004 4:50:38 pm PDT #887 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

He's generally a good gruesome twisty conspiracy-theory-ridden nutbag of a storyteller, and a big guilty pleasure, but there are whole chapters in each of his novels that I have to read with one eye closed or my brain turned off. When he decides to write like a real Writer and Ahh-tist, he's absolutely unbearable.

He also once spent the better part of a book signing hiding in the back room and having books ferried in to him to be signed.

I kid you not.