Weirdly enough (it's not my product group, so no vested interest), I'm glad to hear it.
(Part of my product group. I edited a tiny bit of the docs.)
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Atropa - Aug 08, 2008 8:53:55 pm PDT #2026 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
P.M. Marc - Aug 08, 2008 8:55:26 pm PDT #2027 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Aha! I know some people in my org worked on it pre-reorg, but I wasn't sure where it wound up.
Atropa - Aug 08, 2008 8:58:57 pm PDT #2028 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Slovenia!
(Hey! quit cutting away from the Slovenes, dammit!)
Aha! I know some people in my org worked on it pre-reorg, but I wasn't sure where it wound up.I'm not the main editor, but I've done a fair amount of back-up work for them.
§ ita § - Aug 08, 2008 9:54:13 pm PDT #2029 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, the flame lighting is a bit of a moment.
Atropa - Aug 08, 2008 9:57:05 pm PDT #2030 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Okay, the flame lighting is a bit of a moment.
Yeah, yeah it was.
§ ita § - Aug 08, 2008 10:01:18 pm PDT #2031 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, god, I'd missed the story of the kid. I'm kinda glad I did, to save the sniffles until now.
Atropa - Aug 08, 2008 10:03:07 pm PDT #2032 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm kinda glad I did, to save the sniffles until now.
Oh, I've been blinky-eyed off and on through the whole thing.
Consuela - Aug 08, 2008 10:12:50 pm PDT #2033 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I loved the drumming, and the printing press bit. and the Tai Chi folks running in circles. On rewind, I could see the earphones, which at least begin to explain how they were so perfectly in unison.
Pretty awesome.
I also loved the Ghana-an outfits. Whereas the Hungarians --was it the Hungarians with the red flowers all over the women's outfits? -- ought to be ashamed.
Also, the American hats were dorky. Esp since the broadcasters kept calling them "berets". They're driving caps, doofuses. Sheesh.
Still, that was... pretty damned remarkable. Except that it was clear a ton of those people weren't actually athletes, so now I don't know whether the Iraqi woman is competing, or is just a friend/assistant/coach/whatever.
billytea - Aug 09, 2008 12:30:58 am PDT #2034 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Dude, in Australia an archer lit it from hundreds of feet away.
No, that was Barcelona. If Australia went that route, we probably would've had someone cracking a tinnie, finishing it, stuffing the torch inside and bowling it overarm into a giant wheelie bin.
Most of those pictures seemed to say "Welcome to China. We have a fuckton plus of people. Just so you know."
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Stephanie - Aug 09, 2008 12:55:55 am PDT #2035 of 10003
Trust my rage
I fell asleep last nightbefore the athletes. Yay Tivo.
The globe and the dancers/acrobats were extremely cool. There were so many time when it looked like gravity did not exist.