genuine West Virginian version of Happy Birthday, to the tune of the Volga boat song:

Reminds me of the birthday song the guys wrote for Murderface in that episode of Deathlok...

something was growing inside your mother it was you

I'm not the only one who knows about that, right?

From Yahoo TV (Canada): 25 Best Whedonverse Episodes

Wow, some good memories there. I almost want The Prom on the list, but I love that episode to pieces (I call it George) for Johnathan's speech. The whole ep wasn't that important, but that speech really sticks out in my mind as one of the best Buffy moments ever.

Me too, Vortex. Guaranteed to make me cry everytime.

One of the things that I love most about it is that it answered the question we'd all be asking "how fucking stupid are the people in sunnydale not to notice this shit?" and the answer was "they notice, they just don't talk about it"

"Zombies!" "Hyena people!"

"Snyder!!!"

mac just broke out with the news that he would be ok moving to Texas after this year of school

God knows I can't try and second guess the mind of a little boy, but it is sweet that he wants you to know he won't be giving you a hard time about that if it happens. Which of course he will, and then won't, and then will again. Ah, don't listen to me, it has been a long day with mine.

fancy china tea set.

Aww, maybe I will get granddaughters to have tea parties with. We didn't have tea sets, but Brendon loved his Easy Bake oven big time.

Talk of The Prom is making me all nostalgic. sniff

eta after reading the episode list. Some fans didn't like Smile Time? What is not to love about puppet Angel?

I was just at a birthday party where the one toddler in attendance freaked out at the singing of Happy Birthday! I can see where it would be freaky the first few times....

"You're a wee little puppet man!!"

God, I love that ep! I literally (and I am not kidding) fell off the couch at the power shot of the team walking down the hall, led by puppet Angel, I was laughing so hard.

Highlights of tonight's sweet sixteen party:

-Divorced father of said sixteen y/o choosing to harass me instead of hanging with his ex-wife's cosmopolatin French family and the other ten adults failing to chaperone the party.

-boy in striped shirt peeing on the impatiens while I shone my flashlight on him shouting "Seriously?"

-another boy tumbling through the wildflowers in the dark and leaping off the stone wall, bringing boulders with him into the driveway

-finding the very old Jade plant completely defoliated on one side due to the bouncing teenagers

-taking joy in doing flashlight sweeps through the grounds looking for dead bodies and discouraging the teeners from doing teener things and laughing maniacally at them when the discovered me in the darkness of the driveway as they were about to get up to no-good-teener-doings

I don't think the twenty dollar tip was enough to not take the Jade plant out of their damage deposit. Not with all that horrid 90's music they played.

Waiter, There's a Hair in my Satire

"Fashionable" hairstyles for women began their vertical climb in the late 1760s, and with them rose the ire of social critics. Editorials appearing in London periodicals immediately decried the large headdresses that English ladies were all too eager to copy from their French counterparts.

Chronicling the rise and fall of the fashion takes us from the courts of France to the printshops of London and finally to the streets of Philadelphia in 1778, where all that the high roll represented in a new nation at war with an old empire was brought quite literally to a head."