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Monthly Archives: September 2006
It’s 2006
Words almost fail me. Nila are a commercial catering company based in Hanwell. It says “taste and quality” on their website but that is sadly lacking on their front line of advertising: the vans that deliver the food. More on … Continue reading
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You boiled your young?
Bad Eggs (Marti Noxon) I am prepared to be contradicted once I rewatch Beer Bad but I think this is the worst episode of Buffy. I can’t even be bothered writing about it but it can be summarized as the … Continue reading
Posted in Buffy Season 2, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Television
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Xena is no longer
Sad news: the dwarf planet nicknamed Xena has officially been called Eris which is fair enough because it continues the gods and goddesses theme of all the planets (except ours) but where’s the fun in that? At least Buffy is … Continue reading
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It hasn’t always been the 1950s.
Anne Karpf doesn’t actually remind us of this sort of thing but childhood (and adulthood) is not and never has been easy: the world is changing rapidly for all of us and this change is is both scary and exciting. … Continue reading
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Small things do matter
In a discussion about Mercedes McNab posing nude, there is this gem of a comment that sums up my irritation over the use of the device in an argument of the “there are worse things, you know” distraction.
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Feels like home. If it’s the fifties and you’re a psycho.
Ted (David Greenwalt and Joss Whedon) I liked this episode a lot though it was an uneasy mixture of deadly serious (Buffy thinks she has killed an ordinary human – a situation not dissimilar from Faith and her killing of … Continue reading
What a cat
A cat of many talents: particularly good are fetish, stealth and thief.
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Adam
The summer holidays are over and it’s back to school tomorrow: year five.
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