It's crazy. It's like everybody online is British. We have this thing here where we like to build people up, and then burn them at the stake when they become successful.
every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.
I love Douglas Adams' Long Dark Teatime for the Soul for skewering this very thing.
Oh yeah, the Yanks are champs at the pedestal knocking off.
The Pruitt dude is/was insane.
The Pruitt dude is/was insane.
He sure was. But also the best fight choreographer working on TV. The fight scenes went from being exciting and character driven to blah-boring fast forward moments for me. I think his Buffy/Faith fights were the best.
Off topic - does anyone here collect the Buffy cards? K-Bug has a bunch of cards, seasons 4 - 7, in a nice Buffy album that she is willing to part with. She also has other assorted cards that were kept in cases.
She asked me to ask my "Buffy friends".
We used to get complete sets from inkworks for auctions. They did pretty well, I'd try eBay.
The sets aren't complete and she wanted to offer them to folks here first.
That's the kind of woolly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten
rewatching the Puppet show
Wow, somebody is trying to sell their fanfic: [link]
That idea just sets my teeth on edge. So much so that I didn't buy the Surfacing fanzines despite the inclusion of stories by three of my favorite fanfic authors.
Were those for sale for profit, rather than "recoup our printing costs" that's typical for zines? Oof.