Dec 22, 2010

it's been 10 days and my lungs still sound like The Blob's adenoids on cocaine
via asthma inhaler lost in the mail for 4 days

just realizing that Bruce Andrews is the perv of the group
via Temblor #4 in the bathroom

Akashic reprinted Matthew Stokoe's controversial book Cows
i read it in two days, i almost threw up 3 times, i have a strong stomach
via the Hagbeast bathroom/dinner scene

Laura Moriarty is buying us all Zachary's Pizza today
via SPD Christmas party

i'm reading The Complete Poems 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop
i'm having a hard time liking her early work
via my mind wanders midway through the poems

i'm very nearly out of food at my apartment, 2 cans of disgusting light Minestrone soup is all that's left
via i haven't been grocery shopping for months

this week is going on forever, i wish i had food poisoning so it was Christmas already
via i've been sick all week but still working which is still better than laying in bed all day watching 9 hours of Law & Order SVU on Netflix

going to miss my families Christmas party tonight because of the asthma
via don't want to scare off family members 

i'm about to play Secret Santa for 4 people and i can't wait
via HTML Giant and SPD


Johnny Sakkis the problem with Buffy is that we all talk about the great episodes. the "silent" episode, the "musical" episode, the "one where her mom dies and is convincing as a dead person" episode while ignoring the all the other totally shite episodes that make up the majority of the show. almost done with season 5 and to be honest, Buffy is not a good show. Buffy has neat episodes. but as a show? its just not very good.

December 16 at 8:31pm  ·  · 

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    • Johnny Sakkis thom donovan is a good show though...
      December 16 at 8:37pm · 

    • Stacey Adams i'm sorry but you're just so wrong about this. also. you write about buffy a lot.
      December 16 at 8:53pm · 

    • Johnny Sakkis 
      hi stacy. i don't think i am. everyone tells me that season 5 is the best of the series. that it should have ended in season 5. that 6 is actually not very good at all. but what's so good about 5? the god-monster who likes shoes? no. dawn as the key? hell no. buffy's mom dying. kind of, but even then it played out like a weak episode of six feet under. buffy is watchable, but really only after season 2. and then it peaks with the silent episode where you're like 'finally! the writers are hitting their stride!'...and then we get Adam, the lame frankenstein cyber monster...and it's back to square one.

      December 16 at 9:02pm · 

    • Stacey Adams oh my god the people who have raved about season 5 are idiots. it's all about season 6. no lie.
      December 16 at 9:06pm · 

    • Johnny Sakkis 
      at least 'buffy' wasn't one of my top 5 words. that would have been embarrassing. i guess i talk about it a lot because i've been trying to watch the show since 2006. on netflix. i've been slogging through the damn thing for 4 years. i watch half a season and then i get really bored and i stop, but then i'm compulsive so i go back to it and then i get bored and disappointed and then i stop, and repeat... i've put in a lot of time and work and i'm just realizing that if season 5 is the best joss whedon has, then this whole thing has been for naught.

      December 16 at 9:07pm · 

    • Johnny Sakkis also i think i really don't like sarah michelle geller's face. her face really bothers me. and her voice. her voice is disgusting. so, there's that...i wish they made a gilles and anya spin off. i wish they killed willow in the pilot. and it would have been cool if xander was a more consistent character. maybe it's the fact that he has a real life fraternal twin.
      December 16 at 9:11pm ·  ·  1 person

    • Johnny Sakkis i mean identical twin.
      December 16 at 9:17pm · 

    • Stacey Adams 
      i get that. stop and go watching can't/won't do. season 6 really is worth the time if you have it in you. plus. you've come this far so you should give it a go. or not.

      but. season 5 is the shits. that's the season with glory, no? yuck. and dawn? EGADS. i love buffy and hate that season...

      December 16 at 9:17pm · 

    • Stacey Adams i hated smg until the second time through the series. and despise willow. LOVE anya. and giles. i think you have buffy fandom in you yet...
      December 16 at 9:19pm · 

    • Stacey Adams also. i think if you watch the series as though it were a comic book, it becomes exponentially more valuable.
      December 16 at 9:19pm · 

    • Johnny Sakkis 
      definitely plan on finishing it, just very lackadaisically. i think part of my frustration comes from the feeling that the show completely and utterly fails as a comic book (though i've read that the actual dark horse buffy comics, at least the early ones, are fantastic). i'm a huge comics fan. and sci-fi fan. and horror fan. and cult and camp fan. but buffy is just too peripatetic a show to navigate any of these waters successfully. the writing is so uneven and the aesthetic so inconsistent that it feels like more of an accidental send up. like 'i get it, don't take you too seriously, but DO as well, and it's camp, and girl power, but also social commentary, and gender relations, and teenage angst and whatever else you want to fit into a shallow or deep close reading of the show...' sorry but no, i don't think the quality of the show merits the quality of the close reading.

      December 16 at 9:41pm · 

    • Johnny Sakkis all that being said, at least we're talking about it. i watched two episodes of gossip girl tonight (don't ask), and i have absolutely nothing to say about that show. good or bad. i kind of feel like i was picking at my thumb nails for two hours. an episode of the x-files...lost time.
      December 16 at 9:44pm · 

    • Stacey Adams hmm. maybe i went into it with such LOW expectations that i ended up pleasantly surprised. it sounds like you had people hyping it up before you started watching? i could see being disappointed after that... the show definitely suffers from creatively restrictive network television edits for the first 5 seasons and no doubt there is a serious resulting loss of potential. shrug. i choose to believe you'll love it in time. or you won't and that's ok too. let's talk post season 6...
      December 16 at 10:13pm · 

    • Stacey Adams gossip girl!?!
      December 16 at 10:15pm · 

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