Madrigal in Movies:

Warren Zevon, Leni Riefenstahl - I suppose this now means an actor with an unusual name with a cult following is next to die

Trudy Booth ripostes:

Somebody hide Pia Zadora.

In Firefly:

Susan W: On the weirdness of any fandom, I recently read a Dean blog kerfluffle that could've been transplanted wholesale to Buffy fandom on LiveJournal if you'd just gone through and replaced "Dean" and "Kerry" with "Buffy" and "Spike."

Wolfram: Try doing that with the infamous balcony scene...there's a mind scrubber.

Diet conscious Hec in Bitches:

I don't know why you two are trying to kill Sean. He just confessed to having black chunks in his tube of nacho rice last night. He'd be better off eating Bachelor Chow out of a dog dish.

Cindy gives us insight into the workings of her mind in a discussion on whether the Scobbies knew in Dead Man's Party that Buffy had to send the re-ensouled Angel to hell:

Given what DMP did and did not reveal, it's hard to know whether they didn't know, or just didn't want to know. Remember in Becoming part 2, that Willow was taken over during the Restoration spell. She, Oz, and Cordelia at least (because Oz & Cordy were with Willow) had reason to suspect that Buffy somehow killed Angel and not Angelus. Again, I'm not faulting DMP for this. It makes for a nice little game of brain ping-pong.

The Buffy-Empathetic Brain Cells (BEBC) are saying: They should have at least suspected!

The Scooby-Empathetic Brain Cells (SEBC) are saying: How could they have known? Once they figured out she killed him, they must have figured the spell fell flat!

BEBC: Well, then why didn't they accuse her of running off with a newly resouled Angel then? They mentioned that was a possibility at the end of Becoming.

SEBC: Look, Willow was still pretty green where magic was concerned at this point. Even though she felt the spell's effects, and Oz and Cordy saw them, none of them had much experience with regard to magic. How could they have known it might have worked?

BEBC: Over the summer, they must have told Giles what happened to Willow when she performed the spell, over the summer. Wait! No! They told Giles about the orb glowing and something going through Willow at the end of Becoming part 2.

SEBC: But...back then, Giles didn't know much about magic, either.

BEBC: Bollocks! Lie to Me retconned that point of canon. He knew a lot. He just pretended he didn't. And if he didn't suspect something was fishy about Angel's death, then later on in Faith, Hope, and Trick, why did he trick Buffy that he was doing a binding spell to ensure Acathla remained dormant?

SEBC: Just to make her get it all out, we guess.

BEBC: But...but...why...and how did they know she killed him at all? Nobody was left at the mansion by the time Buffy killed Angel.

SEBC: Good point... What are we fighting about again?

BEBC: I dunno. Where's the pie?

SEBC.: What pie?

BEBC.: You bastards! You ate all the bloody pie, didn't you?

SEBC: *brushes crumbs from corner of little brain celly mouths*

BEBC: *plunges sword through the SEBC and into Acathla*

SEBC: *get sucked into hell*

BEBC: *move to L.A. and start waitressing*

Edited to give better context.

DebetEsse in Literary:

Giving Tree strikes me as deeply Midwestern, in that we (at least in my experience) are trained from an early age to be helpful (and later to be bitter about being helpful). As a friends of mine and I have decided, we need 3 good reasons and a half an hour to practice before we can say "no" to requests for help. It's the price we pay for not being in therapy from the age of 13.

In Natter 15:

Madrigal: Woohoo, able to sneak into the ides, apparently just in time to catch the big stab fest - I mean, that is how one has to end an ides. It's traditionical.

Anne W: <hides knife behind back>

Here, Caesar, Caesar, Caesar....

flea: A big truck just dumped what is probably a literal ton of gravel in front of my house. It's so fun living in a sewer replacement zone! (Note: this is said seriously.)

Shawn: They should stop calling that stuff TCBY, while they're at it.

Madrigal Costello: Or at least specify which country the C in TCBY stands for.

high plains grifter:

No bees were intentionally hurt harvesting our honey, but they DID get all hopped up on second-hand smoke, and would often stay up late humming songs around the tiny bee piano, afterwards.

In NATTER 16: RIO'S MAKE-OUT DEN

ita:

I feel today just about like I did two weeks ago. Except -- this morning I felt fine. Coughing like a mofo, but I wasn't tired or achey or congested. Now I have a really bad sore throat, stiff neck and headache.

Someone evidently misrouted something, and I need to send these symptoms back.

Jacqueline Zahas:

TO: Powers That Be

FROM: JZ for ita

RE: Symptoms

The enclosed are being returned due to redundancy. The original shipment was received, in extremely vigorous working condition, two weeks ago. Refills not needed. Any subsequent orders should be cancelled and deleted; any subsequent shipments will be refused. The writer of this memo is not responsible for any damages, amputations, or ragged, infected, and suppurating wounds inflicted upon the PTB for their failure to comply with request of same.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

:jz

Encl (soreness, stiffness, ache)