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Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their members. She is the Slayer."

My favorite television show. A blonde teenage girl turns reluctant saviour of the world. I love it because it’s dark and complex. The characters are three-dimensional, evil doesn’t always wear a black hat, and the show is filled with myth and magic. Created by Joss Whedon, it’s in it’s seventh season and is currently airing on UPN.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV Show on DVD

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – The Complete First Season (1997)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – The Complete Second Season (1998)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – The Complete Third Season (1999)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – The Complete Fourth Season (2000)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – The Complete Fifth Season (2001)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – The Complete Sixth Season (2002)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – The Complete Seventh Season (2003)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Movie on DVD

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The Movie with Kristy Swanson)

Buffy Music on CD

Once More, With Feeling (the Musical Buffy episode).

The Script Book to "Once More, With Feeling."

Great Buffy Websites

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Official Site from UPN.

Joss’ Stakehouse
A Yahoo Groups site where some of the best discussion of the show occurs, and where writers from the show post cryptic clues to upcoming shows under pseudonyms. Look for posts by "WilliamthePoet."

The Buffy Cross and Stake
A nice site for episode guides, and where one of the most active discussion boards resides.

Buffy Shooting Scripts
Dialog means everything on Buffy — and sometimes there are clues to what’s coming up hidden in dialog of previous episodes. If you find yourself saying "Wait, what did he just say?" even once, look at this site for the scripts.

BuffyWorld.com
Great episode guides, transcripts of the shows, news about the shows and cast. Also a discussion board, but I haven’t checked this one. They always seem to be up to date.

The Kitten, the Witches and the Bad Wardrobe
Willow and Tara shipper heaven. A discussion board for the fans of Willow & Tara, the lesbian couple on BTVS.

Buffy and Angel Music Pages
Welcome to the Buffy and Angel Music Pages, the information resource for songs and bands featured on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

Willow & Tara

Buffy Fan Fiction Websites

The Slayer’s Fan Fiction Archive
An Online collection of fan fiction for Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel: The Series.

Extra Flamey
A really fun fan fiction site devoted to the relationship between Willow and Tara.

I Kind of Love You: The Buffy/Willow Fanfic Archive
The official archive of Buffy/Willow slash fanfic! Visit IKOLY and find dozens of authors and well over one hundred stories.

BTVS Femme
All femme fan fiction, all the time.

Red Willow’s Fanfic
If you love the Scooby-gals with a dash of smut and served on an NC-17 platter, you’ll love Red Willow’s slash fiction. Be sure to check out the series, "The Spaces In Between" and the sequel, "Filling in the Gaps" — sizzle!

Willow & Tara
Willow & Tara

Books on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Watcher’s Guide

The Watcher’s Guide Part 2

The Monster Book

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 1

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayer, Vol. II

The Sunnydale High Yearbook

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale (Popular Culture and Philosophy Series)

Reading the Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)

Fighting The Forces: What’s At Stake In Buffy The Vampire Slayer?

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Script Book Season One Vol. 1

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Script Book Season One Vol. 2

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book Season Two, Vol. 1

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book: Season Two, Vol. 2

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book: Season Two, Vol. 3

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book Season Three, Vol. 1

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Shannen Doherty

“I don’t really like being touched. I’m unbelievably claustrophobic, and I have really bad anxiety. There were a few moments when I was very dramatic and thought, ‘I’m not going to live through this. I’m going to hyperventilate and just die. Right here in jail.'” — Shannen Doherty on the 10 hours she spent in a Ventura County sheriff’s department holding cell after her arrest for drunk driving last December, in TV Guide.
I love Shannen Doherty. She’s like a brunette, heterosexual, feminine version of me; prickly, melodramatic, show-offy, and with serious anger-management issues, inclined to drink, and despite all this, when she grins, you can tell she’s loads of fun. You go, Shannen!

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weird happy

The whole week has been…. weird and sweet, and, kinda happy in that weird way that happy has happened lately. After last week, with the depression and unhappiness going on… any relief has been good. I realize that much of my unhappiness was self-wrought… I could’ve dealt with it much more matter-of-fact-ly than I did. But I’m so used to being frugal and self-denying that I went overboard, really. That was pretty stupid: I don’t really have to anymore. Old habits die hard.
I bought ‘Sex in the City” the first season, after I watched the second. It might be good to watch them in order: I’ll make sure every one else does. Dan and Doug are moving this weekend. I don’t know whether to offer to help or try to stay out of the way.
Here’s a tip, though; don’t watch two seasons of “Sex in the City” right after watching the whole first season of “Queer As Folk.” Too, too much sex to see all at one time.

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The Road to Springfield

The Road to Springfield: [link deprecated] Vote on your favorite supporting character in NCAA playoff-style matches. To be eligible, the character must have appeared in at least two episodes. Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are ineligible.

This weekend was laid-back but pretty busy: I went to the lesbian picnic on Friday night. Saturday, we did a brief run through the Talbott Street art fair, peered in the windows of Dan and Doug’s new house (they’re closing Wednesday) and ate lunch at Bazbeaux. On Saturday night, I went to R. Bistro (Massachusetts Ave.) with Dan, Doug, Garrett, Amy, Jeremy, Jennifer, Barb, Michelle, and Ralph. David’s the manager, there; it’s a new restaurant. Nice place; definitely go.

I spend Sunday working on the lawn and “verandah”. I finished putting up hooks for hanging plants, then planted the Snow-in-Summer seeds and Black Eyed Susans, then I went and bought a hanging plant and a bunch of small plants for the front flower bed.

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birthday!

It’s my birthday, and Beth bought me new new comic book Fray by Joss Whedon, which is very cool. My co-workers took me out to dinner, despite my persistent grumpiness, and I got fortune cookie and free dessert. Doug called to wish me Happy Birthday. Very cool.

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Will & Grace, Things Are Not Better for Gay People on Television

Despite the presence of gay characters on TV, there are still no openly gay actors on television, and that’s a problem. The real problem with Ellen wasn’t that her character was gay, or that there were too many gay themed shows, as some people claimed.

It was that Ellen Degeneres, not the character Ellen Morgan, was gay. During the debate over ratings and issues that surrounded the cancellation of her show, the example that proves that point, the real reason the show was no longer on the air, got overlooked.

During Ellen’s last season, there was an evening in which Ellen show aired at 9 p.m. Airing that same night at 8 p.m. there was an episode of Spin City. On that show, the gay character Carter, (played by a heterosexual man) kisses the heterosexual character Mike Flaherty as a joke. The fact that it happened was practially ignored, except that it aired as the promo for the show for days before hand.

That same evening on Ellen at 9 p.m., Ellen Morgan, a gay character, kisses her heterosexual friend Paige as a joke. Not only was it a big deal, it was given a warning prior to the show, and was universally criticized afterwards.

What was the difference between the two events? Both featured a gay character kissing a straight character in a romantic way, but as a joke. The only difference was that one of the real-life actors in the second show was gay in real life.

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Young Americans

The summer season of the WB’s show “Young Americans” ended last night. This is, certainly, one of the strangest shows I’ve seen on TV It’s almost a homoerotic wet dream with dozens of gorgeous, doe-eyed, apple-cheeked, buffed young men running around at an all-boys pre-ivy league prep school. Almost homo. They try to clean it up a little to get it under the hetero radar.

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The Friends Refrigerator

I have the same refrigerator as Monica and Rachel. That old International Harvester from the 1950’s with the rounded top, and the copper-colored strip across the middle? The very same one. It even looks sort of the same as theirs on TV, with the pictures and magnets and stuff. Since I read an article about “Everything You Need to Know About Hard Water“, I am being able to manage the filter’s functioning that has extended my fridge’s lifespan.

Although, I’ll bet theirs doesn’t have a postcard on it that says “Be Gay in a Cotton Print” or my Madame Fortune magnet that tells you “It’s in the cards” when you ask it a question. I’ll bet theirs doesn’t have a metal gate latch on the side to keep the door closed because the handle is broken, either. And I’ll bet they don’t have problems with the tiny ice box type freezer icing up.

Apartment on New Jersey

I hate it when the characters on TV are supposed to be struggling financially, and they have all this stuff that’s supposed to be cheap, but it’s fixed up really cool in a way that would be so expensive that it would actually cost more than new stuff. Like really old jalopies that are totally tricked out and your dad would pay $50,000 for, instead of that crappy three-colored Chevette where the floorboard rusts through so when you drive it in the rain, your feet get wet.

Or furniture that’s supposed to look like they got it at a flea market, but you know if you ever found something like that it would cost a fortune. White trash people on TV never have furniture from Value City like they do in real life. You never see wood-grain laminated particle board furniture on TV.

Sort of like how the guy who’s the huge dork on TV, the guy that’s supposed to be not as good-looking or as cool as everyone else is really pretty cute and if he were in your high school, would have been really popular.

Like the whole quality scale in Hollywood is shifted upward a bit, so the low end of their scale is around the middle of real life.

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