Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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Just checked EBroadcast.com.au and Buffy and Angel are listed for next Tuesday and Wednesday night respectively, in Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth. They're on a day earlier in Brisbane and Sydney. All are being screened at 10:30PM.
EBroadcast have also put together this neat little Buffy Buyers Guide.
I really like the Buffy cars they have listed, though it's a shame they got Xander's car wrong. The Chevy he drove in "The Zeppo" was green and white, not red.
*adding more shit to his list of shit to buy soon*
FWIW, I used to work in a school library and had the grat joy of removing and discarding a book published in 1936 about Barbary pirates. Let us simply say that the maps of modern Africa were very confusing, and not mention the general aspersions cast on the character of all Africans.
This was also the library which was struggling to go from card catalogue to computer, a problem compounded by the last 30 years of US cultural history. Because it is a school dedicated to diversity in collection, the card catalogue had subject headings for literature under AFRO-AMERICAN, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, BLACK, BLACK AMERICAN, and a few doughty frayed titles under NEGRO. Each term having been politic and polite at one point in the past 50 years.
From my more conservative Christian days in college, a bunch of us used to use this book called "Operation World" in our prayer meetings that had you pray for every country in the world over the course of a year.
::shudder:: Thanks for the freak-ass church flashback. Cause we did this.
If it's any comfort, at least some Episcopalians do it too, although I don't know if they're using "Operation World" as a guide.
I know my last Episcopal church did this. It was sweet.
Question for Australian unAmericans.
An Australian acquaintence complained that Americans are too goddamn senstive to argue with - a few friendly insults and wander off in a huff "like an elderly maiden aunt". Now aside from the sexist metaphor, I can think of lots of criticisms that can be made of Americans. "Overly sensitive" does not strike me as a usual one. Have I missed an entire stereotype?
Gar, it depends on the topic. Every nationality has their sensitivities, and I've never found Americans as a whole particularly stoic about ignoring slights.
OK-- we really need pictures or I need to stop scanning. I've just confused 'Typo Boy' with 'Trudy Booth', and I am forever mixing up Ellen and Emily.
An Australian acquaintence complained that Americans are too goddamn senstive to argue with - a few friendly insults and wander off in a huff "like an elderly maiden aunt". Now aside from the sexist metaphor, I can think of lots of criticisms that can be made of Americans. "Overly sensitive" does not strike me as a usual one. Have I missed an entire stereotype?
I believe what they may be referring to is that (IME) Aussies tend to pepper their relationships with more ribbing, digs, putdowns and such like. The 'it's a joke, Joyce' factor doesn't always translate well. (I do know of Aussies who've come to the US and got in trouble with that.)