I can't believe it starts tomorrow. In Juneau! I'm taking the day off work (I feel so decadent), and we're having a small shindig at a friends house (7-20 people). I wasn't sure what to serve, but have decided on Chinese appetizers and cut up apples (with one not cut up with a knife sticking out of it for a centerpiece). I would do strawberries, but I don't think I can get fresh right now.

As soon as I leave here, I'm off to buy tickets, having been scared by these sold-out tales. Unfortunately, I must walk through the pouring wind and rain to get these tickets, since my local theater doesn't participate in any online service. This just shows what a loyal (and loony) fan I am, though. Right?

I'm buying my tickets first thing tomorrow (cough payday) morning.

Serenity's up to 80% on Rotten Tomatoes.

I don't know if y'all were paying attention to the Bureaucracy discussion, but as of September 30th (board time, shall we say), ALL SERENITY DISCUSSIONS ARE BLACKFONT AND IN THIS THREAD.

FYI.

Whoot! Just chatting on lj with a friend - I stay with her for a few months when I first moved to Chicago, and when I moved out I accidentally left my Firefly DVDs behind. She sat down and watched one, and then got totally hooked and zoomed through the rest, and she's all fired up for the movie. Accidental toaster, you are mine!

Salon review of Serenity. Spoilery when you get to the middle of page 2. (eta: and as Sean K points out, And continues to be spoilery for a couple of paragraphs after that. Yeah, I shoulda made that more clear.)

Joss Whedon's feature-film debut, the science-fiction western "Serenity," is beautifully made, written with more wit and intelligence than we get from most contemporary movies of any genre, and features an ensemble of actors whose rhythms are almost supernaturally in tune. There's only one problem with "Serenity": It's not "Firefly," the TV show that first gave these characters, and this story, life in autumn 2002 on the Fox network.

eta: I suppose the link would be helpful: [link]

Spoilery when you get to the middle of page 2.

And continues to be spoilery for a couple of paragraphs after that.

I finished converting my friend.

After we were done, she said, "Why was this cancelled?"

"Ratings," I said.

She said she liked it better than Angel.

We're seeing Serenity in twenty-one hours.

Whee, toaster.

Yay Toaster!

Good review, the best I've seen yet -- but then Zacharek is admittedly a Firefly fan.

After we were done, she said, "Why was this cancelled?"

"Ratings," I said.

Anyone watch this week's Bones on Fox? At the end of the ep, they announced that the series was going on hiatus until the end of baseball. Fuckos. I mean, it's good they learned something, but Jesus.