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):

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Results of the Premium Boxed Set Vote:

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

I am doing some research for a WIP and would like some inpt from the Buffista Moms out there. And any Friends of Buffista Moms who are on LJ.

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Ok. This is a request. Let me state FLAT OUT I cannot pay a dime; I am making the announcement because Buffistas have the most amazing, weird connections.

I am requesting books. Free books. Any books, comics, graphic novels, non-fiction, books on cartoons, books on rappers, on athletes, on gangs, on beauty, on dating, on freaking blue pandas or astrology -- BOOKS.

Y'all know I'm an English teacher and many of you know I teach in a small charter school in KC which assists a mostly Latino population. We don't have a library. I have one in my classroom, but it's stuff culled from my personal collection and odd finds I get supercheap or free.

What's really spurring this...ad, plea, call-to-arms, whatev is my Appreciation of Lit elective. Now, most kids are in here because it fits their schedule, but today, over 80% of them told me they hate reading. HATE READING. Now, I know I'm not gonna make 'em love books -- not all of them, and not overnight -- but all the research I have furiously gone through tonight indicates that INTERESTING READING material, MODELING reading, and AVAILABILITY are key in helping kids to develop a relationship with reading.

I will model. Boy, howdy, will I. I will provide availability. I will provide as much interesting material as I can -- but my, and the school's, resources are limited.

So. Anyone gotta a book? One, two, twelve, eighteen, two hundred and six -- doesn't matter. You gotta book you think a teen would look at and you want to send it to me, please, please, please -- do.

Like I said, I can't give you anything except maybe a tax letter and good karma. But still. If you ever read a book and loved it; if you are appalled by the phrase "I hate reading"; if you ever hated reading yourself and read something that turned you on, e-me. Profile addy is good.

I answer all questions. No prob. I'll be putting any books I get into my classroom, and any kids in the school can come in and check it out. I teach more than half of the students in my school. I'll take pictures. Anything. But these kids won't read until I got stuff they will read. Yes, I will be pimping libraries -- but I need something they can touch, something I can pull out and read a page from, something other students can pimp out to other students.

If I ever leave this school, the books will stay there. I swear I won't sell them or...I dunno, kidnap them into white slavery. I really, really just want to put something into a "I hate reading" students hands and say, "Dude. Give it a try.You hate it? Give THIS a try."

Immediate. Simple. Constant. ACCESSIBLE.

And you are welcome to pass this onto anyone you think might help.

Thanks, guys.

We need a thread clearly labeled, "For Profound Thanks." If I'm in the wrong place, excuse it, please.

I've been going between printing and framing recent pictures we took, so the boychild can remember his dad, and reading today's mail, and I'm a puddle. There are some amazing people on this board. You made me speechless--no mean feat. And you made H tear up, also not an easy thing. StY just nodded--he knows you all by "Whatcha cacklin' at, Mom?" second hand, and M boggled, since he had never fathomed online communities until I explained them. And he is touched and grateful to all of you, as are we.

H says the gift will be very helpful and you are all amazing people, which I could have told him.

Thank you all, very very much.

Juliana wrote yesterday

Erin, for those of us who have recently done major book purges of one sort or another, can we PayPal you? With possible suggestions, if you're needing those?

The answer is yes, yes, of course! In fact, a couple of people have books, but shipping money is a problem. I could use Paypal monies for shipping and/or book purchases.

My profile addy PayPal uses is: eringriggs AT hotmail dot com

If you do want to PayPal me, please list your Buffista name, so I can add you to the list of donors, for thank you cards, and pix.

-- Erin