Thanks. I am honored. And possibly certifiable. But mostly honored.And Daniel, what Deb said about your previous addition...I was left scratching my head, but not offended. I did finally clue in, though.

More Bayliss/Faith He thought he put her out of his mind for a week.It was Wrong, and bad and stupid. But, yet, every day, there she was. He looked forward to every dark-haired stranger on the street. He only put half his mind on The Job, which was so unusual Pembleton noticed.

"Hey, Bayliss, you look like your dog died. More than usual, I mean. And you haven't touched the Watson file in a week. You okay?"

"Yeah...it's complicated."

"Well, simplify it, Cause it's bad enough having a partner without having one with petit mal. We just don't have time for it. Period."
"Your compassion is breathtaking." (Like her eyes.)

"Save it for your mama, Tim." Tim's "mama" would think the girl was trash. Straight out of a trailer park or worse. Definitely not respectable or helpmately, not likely to impress the Rotarians. So young, so damaged. Not Martha Stewart. But Martha Stewart would never break a pedophile's arm in four places.

just caught up.

erika, thanks for writing the faith thing. you did her voice very nicely, and when I say nice I mean dripping with sex and tough. I *never* like cop shows, but you are getting me this close to hunting down some dvds.

victor. my boy.

“It’s like they manufacture them here,” she thought, “and America imports them. Like how all the toys are made in China, but no one there actually buys gorillas that dance to La Macarena or bendy rubber cowboys or whatever. Huh. "

Buffy began delicately folding the spoon into an accordion shape. Terry stopped talking.

These two bits are soooooo perfectly Buffy. I'm running out of ways to say I love it.

But Martha Stewart would never break a pedophile's arm in four places.

snerk.

"Besides, Martha doesn't slay."

"Oh, I hear she can, but she doesn't like to."

From Faith, Hope, and Trick, oh so coincidentally...

t does a faith happy dance

It's not your father's cop show, smonster.(But those words don't make sense to me much...I love cop shows. But "Homicide" is a different breed.)

smonster, my take on cop shows is that they either piss me off or leave me yawning. From Hill Street Blues to NYPD Blue? Nothing.

H:LOTS - best damned writing for network television ever.

And the best performed, week after week, stunning ensemble.

And filmed right there, streets and projects in Baltimore, not on some sound stage in Hollywood.

And the best villain ever written for television, in Luther Mahoney.

Really.

These two bits are soooooo perfectly Buffy. I'm running out of ways to say I love it.

Thank you. Wrapping up soon. Going to try to knock out "Terry's Day" tonight, and then the last chapter, in which all is revealed.

What Deb Said, minus "Hill Street" heresy. And the fact that I don't know who Mahoney is, yet.

And the fact that I don't know who Mahoney is, yet.

You will.

And I could see what they were trying to do with HSB; I just didn't care, mostly because I am apparrently allergic to Veronica Hamel, at the molecular level of allergens.

She makes my temper break out in hives, for some reason. I feel about her the way I feel about Lara Flynn Boyle, and how IIRC Plei feels about Julianne Moore.

Errands!

Can I tell y'all how refreshing it is to talk about my dialogue without someone saying "Could you watch the cursing?" I was in a group, but I quit cause they asked me that ALL. The. Time. Made me feel nasty. I wanted to pull a John Callahan and say "Fuck, no!" but I didn't have the ovaries.(And not just cause of the compliments...I trust you to tell me if it sounds weird, too.) Just rambling.