Hi all. There's been a little discussion about sending a small gift basket to Joss Whedon and Kai Cole in celebration of their first child.

Have no idea when the baby is due. Unsure if I can get any additional information.

There's been a teensy bit of discussion about sending books and a charity donation to First Book, as we did for Marti.

This would be a Buffista project.

No decisions have been made yet, but I have put the books (minus the ones we sent to Marti) back into a poll, just in case we go forward with this project.

Sprog Poll

Please discuss whether you're interested again. My thoughts are giving the top 10 books, and $100 donation to First Book.

If you'd like to email me, privately, the address is Allyson000@aol.com

Okay, Paypal is open. Allyson@DavidFury.net

I'm assuming Buffistas would like their real names on the card? If not, please let me know otherwise. If any creative soul wants to put some input into a card, please give me a shout.

I finally caught up to Jess's wonderful review of Spirited Away in Natter/Angel.

I would just like to remind everyone that I am organizing an expedition to see said film this saturday at DC. The theater has easy access of the red line and I am targeting a 5pm showing.

Anyone who would like to see it, drop me a line at CaBil@aol.com

As many of you know, I just moved in with my Mom, and she has only basic cable. While I get UPN and WB, I do not, for some insane reason, get Fox. We're upgrading the cable, but that hasn't happened yet, so I find myself without Fox for tonight's Firefly premier! Meeeeeeeep! Who can help a girl out? Who can tape it and get it to me before next week's episode? Who likes homeade cookies and checks covering the cost of the tape and shipping? Who wants my undying devotion? Please???????? Let me know in Natter and I'll send you my address. Thanks in advance, for being wonderful and all that.

Hey! It's a big New York Times article about Joss! And it's written by my friend Emily! Go read it now!

[link] (registration required. bleah)

Hi all. I would like to close the voting on the books, on Wednesday, so that I can purchase them. Remember that we are only sending the top 5, so that our charity donation will be higher.

Currently, the stats are: Where the Sidewalk Ends (6%)

Grimm’s Fairy Tales (4%)

Bridge to Terabithia (4%)

Curious George (3%)

Make Way for Ducklings (3%)

Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (3%)

Light in the Attic (3%)

Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel (2%)

Pat the Bunny (2%)

Snowy Day, A (2%)

If you would like to mail your donation, please do so by Saturday, the 27th.

Please email me at Allyson@DavidFury.net if you would like to send a check or carefully concealed cash. Please include your board name and email address if you mail to me, so that I can let you know that I have received your donation.

Please let me know how you want your name on the card to appear.

We're up to $178 in donations, thus far!

LA-istas -

If you wanna come to the home of MM and Aimee for THE PREMIERE and Mexican, let me know. Profile addu good. Or through the yahoo thingie.

The host of SpoilerSluts.com has creadted a chat room, It's not listed on his site yet, but if people are interested, it is at:

[link]

Buffy, Alias, Angel and Smallville Spoiler fans, unite.

Hmmm... chat.buffistas.org has a nice ring....

Call for Papers: The Buffyverse pre and post Millennium (10/12/02)

Contributions are sought for an edited edition of critical essays to be published in The Refractory, an e-journal from the University of Melbourne, Australia's Cinema Studies School in January 2003. The collection will seek to explore the aesthetic (style, performative modes), cultural (apocalyptic themes, magik, supernatural), social (teen, mall life) political (feminist, critique of American life) themes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, including the musical episode, and spin off series Angel, and related industry products and people. Critical essays arguing against Buffy and her universe are welcome, as are fan invested critiques.

The Refractory: [link] is a peer-reviewed electronic publication that develops research into, and theoretical analysis of, the contemporary cinema, television, and new media and its connections to earlier cinema traditions, optical devices and technologies.

Essays should be between 3000-6000 words in length. Submissions are encouraged to make creative use of html format, otherwise should follow MLA guidelines. The deadline for completed essays is December 10, 2002.

Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to the editor via email by October 12, 2002:

Felicity J.Colman
Cinema Studies
School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Australia
fcolman@unimelb.edu.au