We are finally redoing Franny's room and the living room, so if anyone in the LA area wants either a couch (dark green with pillow back) or a double bed, drop me an email and I'll send pics. The couch is fairly new (we bought it about 6 years ago), no rips, etc., just a bit worn. Otherwise, we'll be donating the both of them.

My column on writing, "How to Succeed as a Failing Writer," gets its cranky back with: You Are DOOMED!!!: Face it, technology has turned you into a wuss.

And if you're the sort who likes their crankiness in person, come see me read Tuesday at GotPoetry Live:

August 15, 2006
GotPoetry Live

Reflections Cafe
8 Governor Street
(at Wickenden)
Providence , RI
7:30 p.m., $3

Hear ye! Hear ye! The Lightbulbs thread is open to discuss the following proposal by Allyson:

Please to add another Boxed Set thread to the TV folder, tentatively titled, "Boxed Set: Premium."

The purpose of the thread will be to discuss current season shows on HBO/Showtime, like Deadwood, Big Love, Entourage and such.

DXMachina "Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!" Aug 14, 2006 4:43:48 pm PDT

F2F2007

We have a poll about the dates. Please answer both versions if you can. Discuss in F2F thread.

Poll will close Saturday at Noon.

Hear Ye Hear Ye

Voting is now open for the following:

Proposal: That we add a new thread to the TV and Film Discussion Folder specifically dedicated to HBO and Showtime original programming, series, and specials.

The tentative title is Boxed Set Premium, with the description specifying that it is for HBO/Showtime.

The thread shall be designated as NAFDA.

Discussion for this proposal starts here.

Voting closes Monday, August 21, at 5 PM (PST).

VOTE NOW

(questions should be posted in Bureaucracy)

I'm getting rid of a ton of VHS tapes, both professional and me-taped. These are yours for the cost of postage, and I would be thrilled if you want more than one tape. Plus, I take PayPal, checks, even cash. I am just that easy.

Professional VHS tapes (i.e., the kind you buy)

• Alien
• Battle Arena Toshinden (based on the video game of the same name. In English.)

Fan-taped VHS tapes (i.e., I pressed a button on my remote). If not otherwise specified, you can assume that these are taped on EP.

• Buffy ("Normal Again") and Smallville ("Zero"), SP
• Buffy ("Out of My Mind" (EP) and "No Place Like Home" (SP)) and Angel ("Untouched" (EP) and "Dear Boy" (SP))
• Buffy ("Something Blue," "Superstar," "Buffy vs. Dracula," "The Real Me") and Angel ("Judgment," "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been"), EP. Also includes about 40 minutes of "The Replacement" in SP.
• Buffy ("Checkpoint", "Crush", "I Was Made to Love you") and Angel ("Blood Money", "The Thin Dead Line", "Reprise")
• Buffy ("Gone", "Doublemeat Palace", "Dead Things", "Older and Far Away", "As You Were")
• Buffy ("Bargaining", "Afterlife", "Flooded", "Life Serial", "All the Way")
• Angel ("Sanctuary," "That Vision Thing," "That Old Gang of Mine," "Carpe Noctem," "Fredless," "Billy,") plus about half of the Farscape episode "Through the Looking Glass" and the whole episode "Season of Death"
• Angel ("Waiting in the Wings," "Couplet", "Loyalty", "Sleep Tight", "Forgiving", "Double or Nothing")
• Nikita ("Charity", "Friend"), SP
• Nikita ("Mother," "Treason"), SP
• Nikita, ("Soul Sacrifice", "Old Habits", Double Date", "End Game", "Looking for Michael", "Someone Else's Shadow", "Opening Night Jitters", "Gates of Hell"), EP
• Nikita ("Spec Ops," "Third Person," "Approaching Zero"), SP
• Nikita ("New Regime" (SP), "Darkness Visible" and "In Between" (EP))
• Nikita ("Hand to Hand" and "Before I Sleep" (EP), "I Remember Paris" and "All Good Things" (SP))

E-mail me at my profile address if interested.

Final date poll results: [link]

Discuss in F2F thread.

Chicagoistas! My roommate is selling a fabulous little black dress (size 14) and metallic shoes (size 8):

[link]

Results of the Premium Boxed Set Vote:

Total votes: 53
No: 11
No Preference: 11
Yes: 31