Happy Hallowe'en!
Oct 31 2002 - 6:66 a.m.

Yep, when people are running around dressed like Darth Maul and not getting weird looks, it must be the Holiest Day of the Year. Have fun everyone! Play safe! Remember: straight-from-the-jugular blood can be significantly improved with a little Sweet N Low.

Also: let's say Shii Ann tonight. It's about time, isn't it?

Oh Come On It Wasn't THAT Expensive
Oct 29 2002 - 9:43 a.m.

Just got a call from Visa Theft Prevention. They wanted to make sure I actually bought that TV yesterday.... I guess it didn't seem "like me."

Again...
Oct 29 2002 - 9:25 a.m.

Ahhh!! They're just too fucking cute!!

Yep, the Trio's on Oprah today. Would you say this whole Harry Potter business has me:

1. excited
2. paranoid
3. funkadelic
4. weepy
5. briefly incontinent
6. all of the above

And because nothing follows an immature rash of spending like another immature rash of spending, I'm bidding on that Hermione banner I want on Ebay... Why? Cuz greasin' the Paramount Dude didn't work out.

They're saying Christopher Lee for Dumbledore in Azkaban... if true, it would officially confirm him as the MVP genre actor of all time. Saruman.... Dooku.... Dumbledore... Dracula.... Scaramanga.... does it get better than this?

It's All Gotta Be For Something...
Oct 28 2002 - 6:49 p.m.

So I went out to buy my brand-spanking-new gorgeous-as-hell TV today. The guy sets up the DVD player so I can test out The Phantom Menace on it, it looks absolutely incredible, I'm happy as a clam, I'm on my way out the door when he shows me this other TV.

Well long story short I bought the other TV for a hell of a lot more money than I was going to walk in there and spend. In the plus column I've got an incredible TV. In the minus column..... AHHHHHHH!!!!

But hey. A while back I said to myself, I'm gonna watch Episode II on DVD on November 12th in my new place on my new TV... might as well make it a good TV, right?

Unstoppable Yellow Wall
Oct 27 2002 - 4:21 p.m.

Yep, we lost. But it was a hell of a fun game (8-2) and we really tightened up our playing in the second half, becoming an Unstoppable Yellow Wall of defensive goodness. Link and Steve scored our two goals (? correct me if I'm wrong) and I actually managed a few decent defensive plays. Of course, I also replaced last week's header and asser with a facer and a nutter, neither of which filled me with bunly goodness, but for some reason today the pounding kind of helped - I fought off a nasty bout of allergies thanks to all the fresh air and shouting.

And in the car on the way home I really got my shit sorted and got excited about the next fourteen months.

Saw Comedian last night, here's the review.

How the East Was Won
Oct 26 2002 - 12:01 p.m.

Counting down to the Big Day... or Big Five Days as I should say. I take the keys on Wednesday night. Thursday is Cable Guy Day (with a healthy dose of Phone Girl Phun.) Friday is Attack of the IMAX, Saturday is Move Everything In A Van Day, and Sunday is Boy I Have An Apartment What The Fuck Do I Do Now Day. Also known as "Cooking For One: Sink or Swim (or Starve)."

So I shall proudly admit that yes, I shall be doing some Home Depot action today and a massive Ikea visit is in my very near future.

Once I'm in, I'm taking a long-promised Bearshark Break to get my shit together.... a New York trip is in the offing but who knows when that'll actually happen.... and I've got Lion King tickets for November 6. Yes Lion King. I'm finally going to see The Lion King. That's alllllll right.

After that it's just a hop and a skip until the big bad DVD slamdango we like to call November 12th, the day some marketing genius decided to release Attack of the Clones and the extended Fellowship of the Ring on the exact same galldarned day.

So right now my room is like a toxic waste dump; I just pulled stuff out from under my bed that has lain untouched for literally a decade. Packing packing packing so much packing.

More fun: here is a pic of me getting that straight-razor shave a few weeks back:

And here's an equally enjoyable pic of Matt and Mark having a sleepover:

Richard Harris Dies
Oct 25 2002 - 6:30 p.m.

Very sad to hear that Richard Harris passed away today at the age of 72. This was an actor, and a man, that I have long found endlessly fascinating and entertaining. For quite some time, I've held onto the somewhat vain hope that I might someday have had the opportunity to nail him down in a pub and get a few stories out of him. He will be missed.

I'm Better Than Everyone
Oct 25 2002 - 12: 18 p.m.

I think it's fairly safe to agree that crossed legs notwithstanding, my Dr. Evazan is still a helluva lot better than their Dr. Evazan (right). I love it when I don't have to buy their toys.

Meanwhile, the IBPPP (the Infinitely Brown Productions Preservation Project) is moving along... Just watched DuPont for the first time in years and man alive that's a funny motherfucker. It's looking like everything pre-Centipede is almost completely unrecoverable, everything Centipede to Stanley's Life is all right with some problem areas and everything post-SL is in pretty good shape. This would upset me tremendously were it not for the fact that I'm a glass-is-half-full kind of guy. Every frame I save is a frame gained....

Hogwarts tumble notwithstanding, I'm in a fine Potter mania these days. Here's a couple of pics of the three cutest kids on God's Green Earth:

Check out Rupert's hair! Rupert, incidentally, has been quick to affirm that recent news of the kids' retiring after Azkaban is nowhere near the truth.

Sookered
Oct 24 2002 - 11:09 a.m.

Happy Gene Roddenberry Deathday everyone. O'course the Great Bird has been spinning in his grave so long now he's probably worked his way right back out into the world. No wait... they fired him off into space, didn't they? It'd be lovely if some aliens picked him up; epitaph says "created TV show about you where you spoke fluent English. If you can read this: he was right."

Meanwhile, I got double or nuthin' on Zbacnik tonight. I'll pick up Shii Ann as a spare cuz it's clearly going to be one or the other. Chuay Gahn to win immunity but not the reward.... This paves the way for a Chuay Gahn dominated second half. I'd say Clay, Helen, Brian, Ted and Jan are in a fine position for final five, although I can't determine if Clay or Jan will be the fifth boot from the top.

Naked in a Bookstore
Oct 23 2002 - 10:28 p.m.

Caitlin and I saw Jamie Oliver tonight, doing his funky curry mojo at the Indigo at Yonge and Eglinton. About an hour before the show this bald dude came out and told us and everyone in line that we were too late, there was no more room, go home, etc. Kind of like the Fight Club thing I thought, so we stayed, and sure enough, we got in a few minutes later. We were way the fuck in the back and I had to put Caitlin on my shoulders but hey, it was pretty freaking cool to watch, and the lamb smelled incredible. His new book's fifty bucks... but I bought it anyway. Gotta cook sumthin' with that new stove next week....

It's Just That Cool
Oct 23 2002 - 11:39 a.m.

Yep, Cassie's web site exists. Nifty. And if you Google her, you can actually find it. (Indirectly.)

Meanwhile, Hogwarts fell victim to the horrible Gravitus Charm this morning... Gryffindor destroyed... Chamber of Winged Keys badly wounded.... library in a shambles. Peeves being held for questioning, Hermione Granger badly injured and found under a pile of debris, I live in a la-la-land that exists only in my mind.

That's Aud
Oct 22 2002 - 11:08 p.m.

All right, correct me if I'm wrong: tonight's Buffy, one of the best ever! Nicely parallelling the flashback structure of my personal fave ("Fool for Love"), this sensoramic look into the life of my least-favourite character did the damned-near impossible: made me feel like Anya isn't just a waste of screen time. If anybody knows for sure whether Joss wrote the musical number, let me know; I am equally hopeful that it was indeed Marti Noxon as Parking Ticket Lady and David Fury as Mustard Man reprising their roles as overheard songbirds outside Xander's apartment. Times like this, the show just fucking clicks. Really impressive, best episode since "Dead Things," I kneel before the Whedon and engulf his swolen member, etc etc etc.

And in also fun-ness: underwent a formal spotting session for Bone Daddy with co-musical directors Jason & Blair (band name pending). There's a demo track in place that's waaaaaaaayyyyy too good to put on Tederick.com, but suffice it to say: music yay!

DVD Madness!
Oct 21 2002 - 5:58 p.m.

Inching ever closer to putting all the IBP movies on DVD... I'm currently working on ten disks, five of which are anthologies and five are expansive "special editions." The plans fall thus:

IBP Anthology Disk 1: "When We Were Bad"

• The News
• Wall Street Week
• that dubbing swearing movie that still doesn't have a title
• Norwich Union
• Coors Extra Gold
• Man in the Closet
• Kit Kat
• The Cliff
• Choclairs
• Edith Trailer
• Milena's Birthday
• Evelyn's Birthday
• Nicki's Birthday
• Liz's Birthday
• Centipede

IBP Anthology Disk 2: "Everything After a Blooper is a Royal Flush"

• Infinitely Screwed
• Stanley's Christmas Carol
• Four Royal Flushes version 1
• Four Royal Flushes version 2: Enter Keramidas
• Four Royal Flushes version 3: The cRyan Game

IBP Anthology Disk 3: "Dealing in Dietrich"

• Dietrich
• Secret of Net

IBP Anthology Disk 4: "Los Annos Etudiaditas"

• The Donut Store
• Nasal Warts
• Rome & Julie
• Dupont
• Attack of the Warm-Blooded Dinosaurs

IBP Anthology Disk 5: "The Fall of the Empire"

• Crazy-Ass Trailer
• How to Piss Under Pressure
• A Message from Stanley J. Keramidas
• Cobra Commander is Gonna Buttfuck Homer Simpson
• Baby-Stealing Gypsies
• Stanley and Bone Daddy's Mission of Peace
• Stanley's 60th Birthday
• Who is Bob Ross?
• Veggie Dogs

Special Edition: "The Hunt"

• Featuring the original cut of the film in all its Hunterrific glory
• Also included: a special retrospective documentary, "The Hunt: A Special Retrospective Documentary" filmed on location in 2002
• Digital effects featurette
• Director's commentary track (WOO HOO!!)

Special Edition: "Fate of Dietrich"

• Original cut of the film
• Teaser trailer featuring Milena Dydak
• "Tempting Fate: Making Fate of Dietrich" featurette
• Featurette exploring the original scripted ending
• Director's commentary track

Special Edition: "Stanley's Life"

• Original cut of the film, remastered for maximum picture quality
• Original "Stanley speaks" trailer
• Director's commentary track
• Alternate opening sequence (YAH!!)

Special Edition: "Bone Daddy and the Big Score"

• Original cut of the film, direct from digital master
• If this film had a trailer, you'd be getting that trailer.
• Director's commentary track
• IBP commentary track with Matt & Mark
• Blaxploitation Selections with Matthew C. Brown

Special Edition: "Bone Daddy and the Fourth Reich"

• Original cut of the film
• Director's commentary track
• Trailers A, B, C
• Five original "TV ads": "Bad Motherfucker," "Sinners," "Pimp," "Underworld Informant," "Cast of Thousands"
• Deleted Scenes with profuse apologies from the director

Makes you wanna just run out and start plunking down money, don't it? The disks will probably end up costing around twenty bucks each but we'll see if we can get that down a bit further.

And I haven't even started on my own personal stuff... got big plans for the VCR Decalogue, Night of the Centipedes, and yes, even Absence.

But wait that's not all! Big studios release DVDs too! Tomorrow we're seeing the release of E.T., Star Trek III, and a seven-pack of noteworthy James Bond flicks. It's time to get reviewing. E.T., of course, I reviewed when it came out in May. Here's a blurb about The Search for Spock. And from the Bond set, here's Tomorrow Never Dies, Goldeneye, License to Kill and The Man With the Golden Gun a.k.a. my favouritest Bond movie ever. I'll get to the other movies from the box as soon as I can.

Look Out Sixth: Game Four
Oct 20 2002 - 6:46 p.m.

It's been a long day. Kinda satisfying, in a Jesus Christ I'm In A Lot of Pain sort of way. Had a good breakfast. Found the lynchpin of my Hallowe'en costume - pix to be posted first week of November. Also enjoyed trimming an additional, crucial, 20 seconds out of the Bone. The Phantom Menace gag is back in. (What am I talking about, Phantom Menace gag like there's only one. The Phantom Menace gag we cut out is back in.) And wipes - added a lot of wipes to the flick. Wipes are so cool.

Everything would have been a hell of a lot easier if the entire goddamned city hadn't been effectively shut down by the stupid marathon. Took me four buses and a cab to get to Dundas and Ossington this morning - I'd qualify that as extreme.

We played our fourth soccer game today, a rather heartbreaking 3-1 loss. (Or was it 4-1? Dunno. I think the accidental ricochet goal off Diane's thigh didn't count.) Dave scored a beauty of a single goal with an assist from Steve. Had my first successful header, which was pretty cool. Also had my first successful ass-er, which was not quite as cool but hey, given that I can do little with my feet, I say go with what works.

And yeah, less'n two weeks till the Big Move. I basically wander around the house thinkin' to myself, I don't gotta put up with _______ any more....

Oh Fabulous
Oct 19 2002 - 10:35 a.m.

Received a newsletter from MSCL.com this morning regarding the ongoing DVD insanity with AnotherUniverse... basically MSCL.com is now distancing themselves from AU due to the extraordinarily inadequate service being meted out by the retailer. Poor Jason has even resigned (!).

I feel a measure of responsibility in this, given that I recommended AU so highly at the outset of this project. I've dealt with them in the past on several orders, and even the ones they fucked up, they corrected quickly and efficiently. Aside from the fact that I haven't received my frickin' DVDs yet, I haven't had any problems with AU this time around either, but I know a lot of people are getting their orders cancelled, double charged, or some other apalling nonsense.

I'm going to stick with my AU order for another month and see what happens, but concerned consumers who still want the My So-Called Life DVD set are strongly encouraged to go to a more reputable retailer such as Amazon, who are now licensed to carry the set.

All That's Good in Leather
Oct 18 2002 - 2:13 p.m.

All right, all right, double or nuthin' on Zbacnik next week. Fuck all that. Going after my girl cuz she eats chicken neck! That's bullhonkey.

Meanwhile, Ep2 of Birds of Prey was even better than Ep1 of Birds of Prey, with the mega babalicious ass-kickin' craziness. And Smallville's doing very well this year, now that Pete's in the loop and Clark's hounding on Lana in a slightly more appropriate level of vigour.

And best new terminology I've heard this week: Dawn's sub-Scooby little grouplet of ghostbusters, provided they ever get any airtime, shall hereafter be known as the Scrappies. Obvious, yes, but damn funny.

Woogie spent the night in the hospital... they ran a battery of tests on him... blood... urine... thyroid... and what did they discover? Same thing we knew all along: the cat is frickin' indestructible.

Dorothy Zbacnik
Oct 17 2002 - 1:59 p.m.

Who knows where the "switch tribes" thing will end up but I'm still staking my claim on the Skateboard Strangler, Captain Anger Management, the Big Dummy, the Single Stupidest Survivor: Robb Zbacnik. Party on, dude.

Hogwarts for Some, Tiny American Flags for Others
Oct 17 2002 - 11: 24 a.m.

Check out the Gallery section for my latest photo exposé dedicated to my beloved, the Lego Hogwarts castle. I swear this is the last time I will talk about it. Until next year's Trelawney's Classroom set.

Hum-Nu?
Oct 16 2002 - 10:06 p.m.

If anybody can explain to me just what the hell happened on The Amazing Race tonight, please toss me an e-mail. How do you win a Fast Forward and come in dead last?

Got Slytherin House to add to my Lego Hogwarts... the official current love of my life... I'll (finally) post some pics tomorrow.

Close Shaves
Oct 16 2002 - 4:59 p.m.

If Erik ain't the mack, I'll eat it. He got me a DVD of Edward Scissorhands, signed by Stan Winston! That's just freaking cool. And I went and cut his ass out of Bone Daddy 2. I am a bad, bad man.

Also lost my wallet today, on QUEEN STREET FUCKING WEST, no less .... visions of $780 charges at various tattoo and piercing establishments ringing before my eyes... and then, like out of a damned movie, some kindly old lady turned the sucker in at the bank and I got it back. Man alive. So it's been a day.

Good news is, I have a potential venue for selling BD2 DVDs if and when the movie is ever finished....

(I'm saying 2003, but then again I used to say 2002, so who knows what I ever know?)

HP2 Trailer 3!
Oct 14 2002 - 11:20 a.m.

Final Harry Potter Trailer! WA HA HA HA HA HA HA!! Gilderoy Lockhart and parseltongue and Moaning Myrtle and a mouth full of slugs Flourish & Blotts and floo powder and poor, poor Errol! Of course, they give away the entire ending of the film but hey, they did that last time, too.... And besides, it's real cute with the hugging and the cheering and the general happiness and glee.

Here are some pics:

Harry and Ron, looking decidedly scary

Errol crashes into sumthin'

Knockturn Alley?

A very blond Lucius Malfoy vs. a very scary Harry

Running, running, and...

WHAM!

Moaning Myrtle: not so moany when it happens to you.

And it's official, for those keeping score: Madonna's song for Die Another Day sucks hard, hard ass. I don't get it. It's the 20th Bond movie, Shirley Bassey is alive and well, and they let Madonna come in and fuck everything up.

Baztacular!
Oct 13 2002 - 5:57 p.m.

I officially use semi-colons too much. I'm aware of it and I'm working on it. In the meantime, here is my long-promised (well, a week promised) review of the "Red Curtain Trilogy," being Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, and Moulin Rouge!

And for anybody who didn't catch it yesterday, my review of PDL is also up and running. All in all this has been a hell of a year for me: all four of my current filmmaking faves have put out flicks, and three of them hit the bullseye.

(Oh fine: Spielberg misses with Minority, but Lucas, Fincher and Anderson all give with the pleasant eye candy on AOTC, Panic Room and PDL.)

I will close with a note on the existential vagaries of dream narrative: I dreamed I was Harry Potter (the character) undergoing the events of the film version of Chamber of Secrets, and I was confused and irritated by the fact that I could remember events from the novel version, that had been cut out of the film version, thereby calling into question my perception of "reality" as dictated by differing original sources for the story in which I was currently living.

How to Edit: Vol.1
Oct 13 2002 - 5:57 p.m.

I've just finished (finally!) The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film. Leave it to Michael Ondaatje to write a book about a man who is almost entirely obscure to anyone who does not know a lot about film, and a living god to everyone who does know a lot about film, and make it an insightful, surprising, penetrating analysis of the artistic process itself. Well worth a read for any and all film fans. (Murch, the first editor-millionaire-playboy of the 20th century. And we all know who's nipping at his heels...)

Four Down...
Oct 13 2002 - 5:17 p.m.

....one to go. (big one)

Lather and Nothing Else
Oct 13 2002 - 1:48 p.m.

Well a whole bunch of shit happened in the last couple of days and I'd really like to talk about it but there's really nowhere to start so I'll just leave it alone. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

So Put Some Jello Down Your Pants
Oct 11 2002 - 11:51 a.m.

It's nine minutes to noon on October 11th, and currently 12 degrees in the city of Toronto.

Chuay Gone (alternate: Gone-dia)
Oct 10 2002 - 2:36 p.m.

There ain't nobody who can't see tonight's boot coming a mile away. Ghandia, it's time to put your big mouth out of its misery. Yet I am plagued by visions that Sook Jai might be losing a member tonight... so I'll peg Robb as my spare.

Three Birds and a Baby
Oct 9 2002 - 9:33 p.m.

It'll earn me a dead fish from Chad, but it's gotta be said: I dug the Birds of Prey premiere bigtime. As with any pilot there were more than a few shaky spots, but the babe-a-licious action won out in the end, and the photography was fucking extraordinary. I say, if they wanna mess with canon, they can borrow my cannonball.

Wow, I really wrote that.

I didn't find out Mia Sara was going to be playing Harley Quinn until about two hours ago, and I don't think I would have recognized her anyway. Although oddly enough I was contemplating Ferris Bueller only yesterday, specifically the scene where she asks Cameron if he watched her undress. Not that that's relevant. But there you have it.

Meanwhile, I went TV shopping today and successfully upped my own budget by about three hundred bucks. It didn't occur to me until this morning but I'm gonna be watching the Episode II DVD in my new apartment, on my new TV, which just goes (once again) to illustrate the power of goalsetting. What you hold true on earth I shall hold true in heaven. Etc. Etc.

As for the fear factor: (not the TV show although given my reality TV leanings I could see why you made the mistake) yeah there's a fear factor. The living-on-my-own, running-Tederick.com-from-a-small-apartment kind of fear factor. Actually it's more a the-amount-of-shit-I've-got-to-get-handled sort of fear factor. But it's there, it's omnipresent.

But enough about that. On to other things. I was going to make today Ferengi Appreciation Day but I couldn't find a suitable image of Broik, so instead I'll just include a Stupid Link to the complete list of the Rules of Acquisition.

Wait, you need more: along the lines of that ol' Make Yourself a South Park Character thing, here's Make Yourself as a Lego Mini Fig. Here's me:

I was gonna go full-Jedi but then I didn't. And then I was gonna go part Starfleet uniform but hey, I don't have a First Contact era uniform, do I? So the scrub shirt seemed the best option.

Which segues nicely into:

To continue my rather irritating habit of waxing philosophical about the size of my Hogwarts... MY HOGWARTS IS FUCKING HUGE. I've finished adding all the new sets. Actually I was up until 1:30 last night just laying everything out properly.

Well then. I think that's all. Actually I'm fairly certain that's not all and there's something else important I wanted to say... but.... OH YEAH. Go download THIS if you haven't already.

Fear aside... I'm having a great time....

MOVIN' ON OUT
Oct 8 2002 - 12:31 p.m.

So I'm eating a steaming plate of spaghetti when the phone call comes: I got the apartment, it's at Pape & Danforth and I'm moving in on November 1st. WOO.... HOO!! I'm now officially scared out of my wits.

So:

four hundred Star Wars action figures,

one very large Lego Hogwarts castle,

one hundred and twenty-six DVDs,

the entire Carl H. Brown memorial book collection,

two pairs of jeans,

and a very ratty old teddy bear....

on the move!

That's a Mighty Big Castle
Oct 7 2002 - 7:39 p.m.

Hogwarts has a new basement and man it's frickin' big now. It towers over my head when sitting on my desk, and all I've done is added the Chamber of Secrets - I have yet to even start on Dumbledore's office.

Meanwhile, a whole six weeks later, I've finally finished my bit on the Tarantino Trilogy, being a retrospective review of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. Intended to be the first part of a series - I'll be doing Kevin Smith and Baz Luhrmann in coming months.

Look Out Sixth: Game Three
Oct 6 2002 - 9:32 p.m.

Improvement has definitely hit: decked out in our oh-so-cheery yellow uniform t-shirts, Look Out Sixth chewed several pieces of the opposition and ended the game at a 2-2 tie. Now granted: I was completely fucking useless today, I was all over the field and was generally of no help to anybody. But everybody else is kicking some serious ass. With an improvement curve like this, we'll be dominating the league by end of season.

Meanwhile, I finally kowtowed to public opinion and saw My Big Fat Boring As Hell Greek Wedding and have even written a rather dour (and short) review about it. And I'm the mainstream sentimentalist in the gang, people....

Lego Is Too Expensive
Oct 4 2002 - 3:57 p.m.

Yep, Jason found the Chamber of Secrets set at the Lego outlet store in Cookstown... and I blew a whole lotta money over the phone. The Chamber of Secrets, Dumbledore's office, the Quidditch pitch (which does not come with a Bigger Staff), and Dobby hisownself. And the mini-fig roster is frickin' impressive: Ginny, Tom Riddle, McGonagall, Lockhart, Dobby, Lucius Malfoy, Madam Hooch... Of course, there's plenty more to waste money on in the months to come. Sigh.... (happy sigh). Will post pics of my now-super-ginormous Hogwarts as soon as I've got everything together.

Life in the Desert
Oct 4 2002 - 3:00 p.m.

We have no water in the house, because the plumbing main's being replaced today. No water in or out, which makes for a rather peculiar mental state. And I'm not really interested in leaving, either... I'm just kind of hanging out taking a sick day. Meanwhile there's a hole 12 feet deep in my front yard and I've spent most of the day watching teen dramas. Will I ever pull out of this funk? Will I ever want to?

A Plan is Forming...
Oct 4 2002 - 12:40 a.m.

Okay admittedly it took me two days but I've figured out who Lola was on Buffy this week... and Istanbul girl the week before... and if I'm right (and I think I am), I gotta throw out a big MWA HA HA to Joss and the team. With Faith coming back and the Dawn scenario rising and Beneath You It Devours (and "William, you're beneath me") it's all starting to come together like a delicious puzzle box from hell.

...Ya know, one of the trippiest Buffy-related moments of my life was in the Season Three finale when Faith says "counting down from seven-three-oh" and of course that was two years (730 days) to the day before Buffy died. It's all a big cosmic plan, people. The Whedon Hath Written, So Shall It Be Done.

Anybody Wanna Buy a GL-1?
Oct 3 2002 - 7:28 p.m.

Yep, Panasonic's got a 24P digital camera for about 4 grand U.S. Great, now I'm totally fucking tortured.

Oh Thank God
Oct 3 2002 - 5:04 p.m.

Finished. Finished finished finished finished finished finished finished finished finished finished finished finished finished finished finished. Hallelujah. Now excuse me I'm just going to crawl into bed and pull the covers over my head.

(Long Bearshark week, for those playing the home game.)

A - HA . . . The Tederick.com home game! Now that is a fucking brilliant idea. That's better than the Bone Daddy T-shirts. I'll toss together a mockup tonight and post it asap.

Say Goodnight to the Kiddies
Oct 3 2002 - 10:03 a.m.

I finally finished The Amber Spyglass yesterday and boy-oh-boy it wrecked me. I need to make up a little sad-face icon to go along with my happy-face icon. The same park bench every year.... GRR! ARGH!! And hey, any story that actually has humans winning a war against God is okay in my book. 'Bout time we took the old geezer outta there. (Hey! There's the smiley face.)

Meanwhile I am in Hell, hell all week and more hell to come. Not a lot of reports from the front because right now, honestly I can barely find enough time to dress myself. And some days I don't even bother with that.

In the plus column I figured out the Meaning of Life. (It came as a bonus when I figured out the Nature of the Universe.) Actually there was no lightning-bolt awareness, just the sudden realization that I'd known all along. Ahhhhhhhh.

I have yet to re-watch last week's Survivor but I'm staking my peg this week entirely on instinct to make up for last week: Stephanie gets the boot after Sook Jai takes the long walk o' shame. As for the Ghandia/Ted backdoor lovin', and the David vs. Goliath shenanigans of Clay and Robb's strangle-fight.... I have no opinion.

Morn Will Rise Again
Oct 2 2002 - 10:41 a.m.

It's official: Deep Space Nine will savage the DVD universe in 2003, along the same lines as Next Gen this year. I'm purple with excitement!

Dr. Phil Is In
Oct 2 2002 - 1:19 a.m.

Bring 'em to me. I'm smacking 'em out of the park.

In the meantime here's my Spirited Away review.

Things are "unique" and "interesting" right now. I say that in lieu of "complicated, strange and somewhat depressing" because as weird and relentlessly subversive as my life seems to be, at least I'm having a good time. In fact I feel rather tranquil. Maybe it's the jello?

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