Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.

'Underneath'


Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura

Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina


amych - Aug 15, 2007 1:07:01 pm PDT #1084 of 6786
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I think Buffistas would be fun even discussing navel lint.

I wouldn't be surprised if we've done just that somewhere.

Adding my thanks to the pollsters, and everyone else saying spicy-brained things in this discussion today -- it's that time of year when work isn't cooperating with my desire to make big thinky navelgazing statements, but I've been reading along and nodding. Sometimes nodding at both people on opposite sides of a given question, because y'all are smrt that way.


Connie Neil - Aug 15, 2007 1:07:13 pm PDT #1085 of 6786
brillig

How far back is that nifty table that listed the various threads and their rankings in the "experience"? (I always think of Prince when I think of "experience." Your Hendrix may vary.)


-t - Aug 15, 2007 2:00:42 pm PDT #1086 of 6786
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Liese's table: Liese S. "Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job" Aug 14, 2007 6:38:01 pm PDT


Frankenbuddha - Aug 15, 2007 3:07:47 pm PDT #1087 of 6786
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

"not interested in participating in the social threads"

This to me means they want to talk about specific show threads or specific topics (e.g. Movies, Music, Literary, probably Box Set). They don't want to wade through Natter or Bitches for glimpses of same.

Doesn't mean they don't want to talk to people here; I think they just want some more focused threads to do so.


Sue - Aug 16, 2007 3:06:03 am PDT #1088 of 6786
hip deep in pie

because I sort of think Buffy is the heart of this board-- the one thing we all have in common.

I had a similar thought while cleaning out the Kitty Litter last night. While There was Buffy, Angel, and Firefly we argued about thread proliferation, but since we had something that was a clear focus, it sort of the other thing we did on the board, besides talk about the Jossverse. Now the other stuff is what we have to talk about and we don't have a single opinion on what that should be.

Clearly our solution is that Joss or Tim (or both together) need to put on a new series that captures our hearts (and lasts more than 13 episodes.)


Sophia Brooks - Aug 16, 2007 3:37:40 am PDT #1089 of 6786
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I was wondering if we should think about discussing the Buffy comics, perhaps in whitefont, in a thread that gets more traffic than the comic thread, to try and give discussions some focus. I am not wedded to this idea, but I tend to forget the comic thread is there, even though I am reading Buffy.


amych - Aug 16, 2007 3:44:38 am PDT #1090 of 6786
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Speaking from (not for) the comics thread, please no.


Jessica - Aug 16, 2007 3:50:02 am PDT #1091 of 6786
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I can't see the logic in creating a separate thread to discuss the thing that the comics thread was originally created to discuss (i.e., Joss-written comics in the BtVS universe). The only reason it morphed into the general comics thread at all was because Fray had such a limited & unpredictable run.


Sophia Brooks - Aug 16, 2007 3:59:51 am PDT #1092 of 6786
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Oh- I wasn't thinking separate thread- I was think more that we could think about bringing it up in Natter as well.


Ginger - Aug 16, 2007 4:04:37 am PDT #1093 of 6786
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

My thought about the comics was that if they're Season 8, they should be discussed in the Buffy thread.