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Register for the MoveOn.org PAC Primary
In most presidential primary processes, pundits, pollsters and wealthy donors determine the outcome long before the actual primaries. By the time the rest of us cast our ballots, the nomination is typically a done deal. The MoveOn.org PAC primary will allow hundreds of thousands of voters to speak out now, adding their weight to the campaigns of their choice. Voting in the MoveOn.org PAC primary starts Tuesday, June 24 and will last 48 hours. Existing MoveOn members will be sent a unique email ballot, which is good for one vote only. People new to MoveOn should click here to register to vote in the primary.
Each of the nine declared presidential candidates has written a letter to the MoveOn membership and responded to seven interview questions. To read their letters and interviews and for more information about the MoveOn.org PAC candidate engagement process, please go here: [link]
A press release on the MoveOn PAC primary and a letter from Wes Boyd about the Gephardt flap are also available.
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!
Ok…too much for just that one post. Here's the list continued:
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.
Ooh! Are we giving things away?
Rio and I found a hot-pink pleather semi-bustier at a thrift store and I was supposed to send it to the LA F2F but I forgot. Who wants it? Size M. Tags still on, including most of the thrift-store tag.
Also, I have a NKOTB tshirt going begging. Doesn't anyone want this piece of American Music History? (Don't look at me that way. Someone gave it to DH as a joke and I can't bear to give it to Goodwill, for some reason. Probably because I'd only buy it back again as a joke, too.)
Profile addy good.
All gone. This is great! I'm gonna have Buffista anti-yard-sales ALL THE TIME.
VW Bug - I sent you an email earlier today, and just realised that it had the subject of just "Free Stuff!" Call me a fool. Let me know if you need it resent.
I just love erinaceous' "anti-yard-sale!" Yup...that's our very own lexicographer.
Just wanted to let everyone know that all of the Emily stuff is gone. Those of you who e-mailed me, you should each be getting e-mail from me shortly letting you know what was available when I got your e-mail. Because I feel badly that everyone isn't going to get everything I asked for, I feel the need to say this. I divvied up all the stuff in order of the e-mails I got...first come, first serve. It's as fair as I could make it. (Note to self: never again start a project like this at midnight of a day you're going to be away from the computer all day...poor people get all excited, and I have to let them down gently.)
Everyone enjoy your stuff!
ANNOUNCING the 2003 Buffista Movie Awards!!!
Nominations will be open for one month, starting now. Use the Movies thread to campaign for your favorites, and post your noms if you want, but remember nominations posted in the movies thread will NOT be counted. To be counted, nominations must be emailed to me at jessica@creepyturtle.net, or you may use the form below (check the form for the category list even if you'd rather email nominations by hand):
[link]
On July 26, nominations will be closed, I will count them, and then we will vote on the winners!
Have fun!
(Anyone wishing to make the Foamies even more like the Oscars may email me for instructions on where to send bribes.)
