Monthly Archives: September 2006

It’s 2006

Posted on Thursday 28 September 2006 by Hazel

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?

Posted on Monday 25 September 2006 by Hazel

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 →

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Xena is no longer

Posted on Friday 15 September 2006 by Hazel

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.

Posted on Wednesday 13 September 2006 by Hazel

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

Posted on Sunday 10 September 2006 by Hazel

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.

Posted on Friday 8 September 2006 by Hazel

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 →

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What a cat

Posted on Friday 8 September 2006 by Hazel

A cat of many talents: particularly good are fetish, stealth and thief.

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Adam

Posted on Tuesday 5 September 2006 by Hazel

The summer holidays are over and it’s back to school tomorrow: year five.

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