I reserve the right to look sternly over the top of my glasses at those who don't love Buffy or at least some part of the Whedonverse

I, on the other hand, am the nicest.

I, on the other hand, am the nicest.

You're scarier when you look sternly over your glasses than I am.

I wonder if you could make tomato jam with bacon.

I make it with horseradish and use it as kind of an upscale cocktail sauce with shrimp.

Going back to that story on tomorrow's Chicago storm:

Still ranking at No. 1, ahead of the storm coming Tuesday, is the Great Ohio Blizzard of Jan. 25-27, 1978. That storm produced winds that gusted up to more than 100 mph, wind chills of -60, and left snow drifts 20 feet high in some areas, according to published reports. Ohio was the hardest hit in that storm, but the entire Great Lakes region and Ohio Valley were affected. The storm was blamed for more than 70 deaths.

I remember that storm. I was in sixth grade, we were out of school for three days, and the whole family had to go outside every few hours to shovel the driveway to keep the drifts to a managable level.

I'm going to have to frown and look sternly over the top of my glasses at the notion of any one of us feeling insufficiently Buffista just because she doesn't like something someone else likes.

I was going to say.

Hey! Speaking of Allyson, guess what I got in the mail today???

I remember the Ohio Blizzard of '78 (not to be confused with the Boston Blizzard of '78). We lived in Washington, PA, south of Pittsburgh, and we had the most enormous snow piles at the foot of every driveway. I was a lot shorter then (age 5) but it seriously seemed like we got 6 feet of snow.

And, Bev, you make an amused face when I squeak and burble

Indifferent to the cars, love the squeak and burble.

My Buffista card ownership would be tenuous if not for The Book.

Pshaw. Or, you know, tscha, depending where you're from. You are the very definition of Buffista snark and wit and wits paired with genuine compassion and local activism. Sports? Fantasy? Fic? Mere accoutrements, not defining qualities.

Or, what amych said more succinctly and picturesquely.

My Buffista card ownership would be tenuous if not for The Book.

Nonsense. You are the reason I am here, and I'm not the only one. You are the epitome of a Buffista.

I, on the other hand, am the nicest.

The who with the what now? I expect you people to call her on stuff like this.

I so miss msbelle's old profile pic from Worldcrossing...

Just called this specialty grower about some apple benchgrafts. Wanted his opinion about taste since these are varieties too rare for me to ever have gotten access to an apple to taste. Sad to hear his tales of how the gravenstein orchards have mostly been ripped up in Sebastopol or of how Albert Etter's plant breeding farm has become completely run down from neglect. I got some good advice and will hopefully have several rare tasty rare apple varieties to grow and try to keep dwarvish.