gusthaus

Can I guess? I think this must be the dignified Swiss version of that great American invention, the Yummy Hut.

(There really is a Chinese takeout place near me called the Yummy Hut.)

Can't resist poking my UnAmerican currently-mostly-lurking head (which is like mostly-dead, in Internet meaning, I guess, because how much you're alive on the net is measured by how much you post, right? So if you mostly-lurk, then you're mostly-net-dead, but you don't need a miracle in order to get back to life - or, well, in the current state of things, with this unending paper to hand at the end of the week, maybe what I need really is a miracle. Preferably with chocolate coating (do you think they make kosher-chocolate-coating for kosher-keeping miracle-seekers?) and how can I get this sentence more convoluted and with more parenthases?).

Anyway.

All I wanted to post was: Fiona! Gus! Fay! Angus! moonlit! jimi! Fellow UnAmericans! Fellow UnUnAmericans who visit the UnAmericans thread!

There.

(I do not, however, wear any black mask, have any skill with a sword, or had built any immunity to any sort of poison. Also, none of the professors who keep giving me work has six fingers in any sort of hand.)

Hey unamericans -- Whedonesque had some entry (which I can no longer find) about Buffy and Angel "character" dvds -- it looked like they were sets of dvds with episodes of BVTS or Angel featuring specific characters.

I don't know whether this is really of interest to anyone -- but they are apparently in existence or will be soon.

Also, Angel Season 5 Region 2 won't be out 'til 2005.

(I hope Region 1 won't have to wait to get it -- I had suspected that we'd get season 5 in Feb. 2005, but if region 2 isn't getting it 'til then - - who knows?)

t quashes a suspicion that Nilly has been at the espresso, again

When it comes down to being a romantic place for the beginning of a relationship, Switzerland does not suck.

Oh, you have to get used to people all around you hocking up German like so many cats with hairballs all day long. There is nothing to be done about that. The scenery, though, and a certain centered geniality on the part of almost everyone you meet, makes up for that.

Today was a walking tour of Bern, followed by elaborate dining. Now comes the sleeping.

Hey unamericans -- Whedonesque had some entry (which I can no longer find) about Buffy and Angel "character" dvds -- it looked like they were sets of dvds with episodes of BVTS or Angel featuring specific characters.

These are they: They look a bit rubbish, with awful selections:

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Jim, can you shorten those URLs? They're stretching my screen rather a lot.

Yeah, they're pretty bad, even considering how difficult it would be to choose representative episodes. I think the Spike one has the best selection. The Willow one is more about her relationship with Oz than about Willow herself. The Faith and Angel ones are just weird and lopsided.

wow, talk about milking it for all it's worth. If they get released in Oz I'll be hiring and ripping the special features but there ain't no way I'll buy them.

Hmm. What would I consider key Willow eps, I wonder, if one was doing a Willow overview?

Off the top of my head: Welcome to the Hellmouth. I Robot, You Jane. Gingerbread. Halloween. Choices. Dopplegangland. The Freshman. Wild At Heart. Something Blue. New Moon Rising. Triangle. The Weight of the World. Bargaining. All the Way. Tabula Rassa. Wrecked. Seeing Red. Villains. Grave. Same Time, Same Place. Conversations with Dead People. The Killer in Me. Chosen.

Huh. And that even works out at 22, which is a nice round number of eps for a DVD collection.

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...somehow I posted this in COMM initially. And I wasn't even looking at COMM. How the hell did that happen?

t baffled

I agree that it is totally milking the concept and really -- if they were going to do that -- they should have chosen better episodes or perhaps asked us (and others like us.)