Hey, preaching to the choir. I thought our Lady of the Perpetual Sea Breeze was the real deal until the Divine Miss J walked right through that door and right into my ass—which is where my heart is…physiologically. I could show you an x-ray.

Lorne ,'Time Bomb'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Calli - Apr 15, 2005 9:26:29 am PDT #5972 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Do we ever get to see Gypsies who aren't criminals (or likely to throw revenge curses)?

Well, on Highlander, I seem to recall a band of gypsies who were just a colorful, fun bunch of folks. Well, until one was murdered and then plottieness ensued. Being Highlander, plottiness involved swords and other violence rather than curses. And the vengency guy was more of an adopted gypsie than anything. For what it's worth.


sumi - Apr 15, 2005 9:27:17 am PDT #5973 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

The trouble with eating lots of delicious Indian food for lunch is that then you want to sleeep. . . and I was already sleepy before lunch.


sumi - Apr 15, 2005 9:29:30 am PDT #5974 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

Of course, on Buffy the Gypsies aren't actually evil, even though they have powers. I think that there was a very strong incentive to curse Angel. Not evil - but perhaps, mysterious and sinister.


sarameg - Apr 15, 2005 9:29:47 am PDT #5975 of 10001

I had faux asian dumplings for lunch. It was good.

Just found out that they completely gutted a department today. A small department, but buhbye, it ceases to be.

Ah the smell of layoffs in the springtime....


§ ita § - Apr 15, 2005 9:34:35 am PDT #5976 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sumi, I think that on Buffy, the gypsies were not good guys. Wronged guys, but not good. The curse was pure revenge, and didn't serve to (in theory) right wrongs, or prevent future ones. We just got lucky.


erikaj - Apr 15, 2005 9:35:26 am PDT #5977 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

That soapbox thing was too hilarious, ita.


§ ita § - Apr 15, 2005 9:36:19 am PDT #5978 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That soapbox thing was too hilarious, ita.

I Snopes-cured one person in my netlife (more than I thought I'd ever do), and she was the one that sent it. I like her even more now.


brenda m - Apr 15, 2005 9:44:07 am PDT #5979 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

We went to an Indian restaurant for Christmas dinner this year. It was Teh Yum.


Sue - Apr 15, 2005 9:53:26 am PDT #5980 of 10001
hip deep in pie

There's some wacky formatting going on starting with Calli's post.


Frankenbuddha - Apr 15, 2005 9:54:59 am PDT #5981 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Back to normal now, but I mentioned in the BBaBB