Discussion has started for the 2003 Foamies!

Jess PMoon "Buffista Movies 1: Go Monkey. Choose Monkey." Jun 19, 2003 2:51:03 pm PDT

Proposed start date for nominations is Monday, June 23rd. The list of categories is posted in the Movies thread.

NYCistas - I will be returning to NYC with The Pee Wee Fist next Saturday, June 28. We're opening for Clem Snide and Lisa Germano at the Bowery Ballroom. We are not playing at the second show on Sunday. I can't promise that I'll be wearing pleather, but it should be fun nonetheless.

Somervillians (and surrounding 'burgs) - The same line-up will be at the Paradise in Boston next Friday, June 27.

Any questions - email me or take it to the music thread (I can never keep up with Natter).

Attention Heartland-istas!

I will be travelling in and about your fair domain from (roughly) July 26-August 4 when I head out to Mt. Carmel Illinois for a family reunion. I'm flying in and out of Cincinnati and am looking to hit Chicago, Milwaukee, and wherever else the rare and lovely Buffista Midwesternus can be found.

Profile addy is good.

Minor braggity-brag and pathetic plea for audiences:

One of the smaller local papers published a rather incoherent but incontestably positive review of the show I'm currently in here (two reviews on that page; "Impossible Marriage" is halfway down).

Any localistas who have even the remotest interest in coming would be hugely, vastly welcome, as we are starving for audiences and could in particular use a sizeable influx of persons with a hearty appreciation of the absurd who are not afraid to actually laugh out loud, both qualifications which I am fairly certain Buffistas do not lack.

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Slayer Slang got reviewed in the Publisher's Weekly annex!

The online review annex at ww.PublishersWeekly.com has posted a review of Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon ($19.95 hardcover, 0-19-516033-9):

SLAYER SLANG: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon Michael Adams. Oxford Univ., $19.95 (320p) ISBN 0195160339 The cult TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which follows a California cheerleader's crusade against the undead, has spawned websites and posting boards, novels, comics and, in the academy, Buffy Studies. This volume, a glossary of the show's distinctive dialect ("Buffyspeak"), is a strange marriage of a fan guide and a linguistics textbook. Referencing the original 1992 film as well as the TV show, the almost 75 novels and novelizations based on the character, the official and unofficial web posting boards and other media associated with the "Buffyverse," the monograph comprises an affectionate but technical paean to American slang and youth culture in addition to its 150-page glossary. As a study of actuation (the origins of new words), lexical gaps (concepts without names), loose idioms, new syntactic patterns and ephemeral language in all things Buffy, the book may be slow-going for the average fan, but the glossary itself offers entertaining browsing for diehard and casual watchers of the show. "The micro-history of [the word] Buffy is a veritable saga," Adams writes with relish. Indeed, the glossary includes nearly 40 variations on the name: Buffyatrics (older fans of the show), Buffinator (Buffy herself or one who criticizes Buffy) and Franken-Buffy (monster in the guise of Buffy), to name just a few. Readers can also delight in a breakdown of Buffy's distinctive and amusing use of suffixes ("mathiness," "lunchable"), and its celebration of the prefix uber- ("ubernerd," "uberachiever"). Each exhaustive glossary entry includes parts of speech, etymology, definitions and illustrative quotations from magazine articles, posting boards and countless episodes (writer, date and speaker cited). Ultimately, the book is for a very niche audience of Slayer-obsessed linguists--other readers may be baffled by this blend of academia and pop-culture mania. (July)

So, does "Slayer-obsessed linguist" ring a bell with anyone?

Attention all Somervillians:

Check your e-mail. You should have received an evite to a July 3rd BBQ/fireworks at the Bug home.

I think we may have a couple more Somervillians that I don't have e-mail addresses for, so if you'd like an evite and didn't receive one, please drop me an e at my profile address. This also applies to anyone who might be in town for the 4th of July weekend and wants to kick it off with the Somervillians.

Also…I'll send out more info later, but I have a "save the date." I'll be turning 27 at the end of July, and want to celebrate with you all. So, there are tentative plans for a bowling/dinner day on Saturday, July 26. I'll e-mail with more details a little closer to the date.

Our very own Emily has been sorting through all the *stuff* she owns, and has decided she doesn't need it all. I, masquerading as a trash demon, have taken much of it off her hands. But, before it makes it to the trashcan, she made me promise to make one last-ditch effort to find homes for all of her belongings. So, below is a list of items that Emily would love to see find new homes among the Buffistas. Please e-mail me at profile addy if you want any of the items or if you have more questions about any of the stuff. Dig in, though...Free stuff! Oh, and anything not claimed by Thursday, July 3, 2003 will learn its tragic fate by the hand of the trash demon. It's calling to you...please save it from that fate!

tapestry fabric
• 4 yards of blue-green fabric
• 3 yards blue striped fabric
• 5 yards bluish/purplish/zebraish pleather
• collection of blue glass
• Huggermugger
• Crack the Case
• Collection of finger monsters
• Calligraphy Set
• Picture frame
• 10 yards of black and red ribbon
• Degas Dancer statue
• 1.5 yards red fabric
• Home dry cleaning kit
• Simplicity Pattern 9050
• Kwik-Sew Pattern 2499
• King Arthur playing cards
• Cultural Heritage Lacquer Paintings playing cards
• Old Bachelor playing cards
• Ducale Tarot cards
• Le Tarot De Marseille
• paperrweight
• Simplicity Pattern 8587
• McCall's Pattern 9427
• Knitting Made Easy
• Baby Afghans 2 book
• 1.5 yards gray linen
• Dashing Doublets pattern
• 10 yards red ribbon
• Bookrack

Ok…too much for just that one post. Here's the list continued:

Gray yarn
• Blue yarn
• Teal yarn
• Maroon yarn
• Wool and drop spindle
• Misc. knitting supplies
• Fabric scraps
• Decorative Rope
• Misc. sewing supplies (thread, buttons, needles, pins, zipper, elastic, etc.)
• blue and black chenille yarn
• white baby yarn
• Metallic yarn
• two crochet hooks
• Hat thingy
• Fabric dye

The pictures are a little blurry, but I'm too tired to retake any of them tonight. E-mail me if you need a better picture, and I'll send it your way.