Hey! What a surprise! Hostile 17! Can I get you a drink, Hostile 17?

Xander ,'Dirty Girls'


Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.


Rayne - Oct 01, 2009 11:08:51 am PDT #135 of 3094
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire

Hi! I'm Rayne. I haven't posted here in ages, but I lurk all the time, so figured this would be a good time to delurk.

I used to provide super secret underground scripts for Buffy, Angel, Firely and Wonderfalls.

I moved to Los Angeles from Ohio a couple years ago and recently moved from Westwood to El Segundo (right next to LAX... go airplanes!) I need a job.

I mostly lurk in the tv threads (you guys got me addicted to BSG and SYTYCD!) literary, etc. I'm oddly addicted to the gaming thread.

Now that I've delurked, maybe I'll actually start posting in the threads I read!


Frankenbuddha - Oct 01, 2009 11:14:41 am PDT #136 of 3094
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Hi Rayne! I remember you from back in the day, or at least you being referenced.

And I recogonize ThomasW, who is NOT the TomW who is married to Nora.


amych - Oct 01, 2009 11:20:01 am PDT #137 of 3094
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Happy re-de-lurking to Rayne and ThomasW (both of whom I remember but haven't seen in way too long)


erikaj - Oct 01, 2009 11:20:22 am PDT #138 of 3094
Always Anti-fascist!

Rayne, Still dig that tagline...

Thomas, Seriously? We're funny enough without L'amour Buffy? And I thought I was the group's unlikeliest member what with all the "Bodies? Cool! and the fact that I thought I would have to apply for asylum for being non-geeked about Star Trek 3.0. Wanna hug it out?(I still must lobby for the next BUreau being "Bitches Hug It Out..." it's a long shot, but I'm compelled to ask.)


Sue - Oct 01, 2009 11:25:09 am PDT #139 of 3094
hip deep in pie

Rayne! I also remember, Thomas W. I think. The memory is not what it used to be. I'm also high on cough syrup.


Ginger - Oct 01, 2009 11:26:49 am PDT #140 of 3094
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I came to the board in late 2002 by following some kind of Firefly-related link. I had been hooked by Buffy since Cordelia said, "I see you've seen the softer side of Sears." The warmth and comradeship of b.org was something I needed very much at that time, and I will be forever grateful.

I have been a writer, magazine editor and Web designer for many years, mostly for electricity-related companies. In 1998, I had a terrible vision of the decades of staff meetings ahead of me and left my job to start my own company. These days I write a column about energy for a local utility; do some Web design and content; and look for new clients, since my old ones have been heavily affected by the dismal economy. I live in the Atlanta area with thousands of books in a house run by a Jack Russell-Corgi mix named Mr. Peabody.

I was a moderately active in SF fandom in the '70s and '80s and my first online fandom was rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.

I am a terrible procrastinator, which is why I have an ABD and not Ph.D. in English literature. My area of study was late 19th century American, and I have been known to go on at length about Hawthorne, Melville and my personal obsession, Henry Adams, as well as about my loathing for Henry James. I have written to AP Style since my writing was done on a Royal Standard, and I am therefore unable to use the serial comma.

I am found mostly in Bitches, Great Write, Literary, Jossverse, Minearverse, Tech and Procedurals. My current state of not enough work means I'm currently caught up in Natter.


SailAweigh - Oct 01, 2009 11:45:23 am PDT #141 of 3094
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Oooh, welcome lw, ThomasW and Rayne! New peeps to me!


Nora Deirdre - Oct 01, 2009 11:49:15 am PDT #142 of 3094
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Aw, Rayne! Man, it's been an age.


DawnK - Oct 01, 2009 12:16:25 pm PDT #143 of 3094
giraffe mode

Hi! I’m a “forced” lurker due to work/life busy-ness. Loved Buffy from the first shot of Xander on a skateboard.

I’m a resident of suburban Los Angeles (Torrance to be exact. South Bay represent!). 4th generation Californian, a rarity, almost everybody is from somewhere else. 52 years old, married, 2 kids ages 18 and 13. We used to live on a 50-foot boat in Marina del Rey but my MiL was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s last year so we had to move into her house to care for her. I’m still adjusting to that. It’s been a process, that’s for sure. It’s surprising that this has been a larger adjustment than going from a 1,000 sq foot house to the boat. I work for a small-ish company tangentially related to the entertainment industry which keeps me very busy but I love it tons. It’s very nice to like going to work again. I used to have a soul sucking job at DHL which was affectionately called by my children “DH-Hell.

I found Buffistas way back on WX by following a Tim post that got shared on the net. I sorta lurked at the original Bronze and the Beta, but Buffistas is home. The only good thing about DHL was that it allowed me to post a bit more regularly and hang out with the LA-istas, but now? Not so much. I check Beep Me and Press every day and try to catch up with the show threads at least once a week. I try to keep up in Natter and Bitches but sometimes that’s a lost cause.


Mala - Oct 01, 2009 12:32:37 pm PDT #144 of 3094

Hi. I lurk and post like once every two years or so, which is strange because I'm not usually lurky on sites, but I started reading this board when I had this soul-crushing job and didn't have much free time and I always think of it as "that board I read but don't have time to really participate in." Except that I have more time now so I need to get over that. That was too much of a tour of my brain, wasn't it?

Bio stuff: I live in Pittsburgh and I'm a geek. I love science fiction tv shows and genre movies and books and comics too. My current tv-watching obsession is Farscape. I code like a girl and have two cats and a spouse.

I read Boxed Set, Other Media, Procedurals, Minearverse, and Buffy/Angel. I on a random delurking helped to come up with the notion of the Jossverse thread, but don't watch Dollhouse so I don't read it.

I should delurk more often.