...for a select few people, and thanks to a friend, I got to be one of them! Meaning: I HAVE SEEN THE AVENGERS AND SOMEHOW, MIRACULOUSLY, HAVEN'T YET EXPLODED FROM SHEER JOY. You guys, it's really fucking good! I can't wait to see it again!!! Aaaaand that's all I'm going to let myself say because anything else might be considered spoilery ( Read more... )

Fifteen years ago on this day, Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered on the WB. I didn't watch it from the very beginning, but due to a friend's insistent praise of the show, I decided to check out the pilot.

And this was the first scene:


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Oh, Joss. You sneaky, sneaky beloved overlord, you went ahead and made your own version of Much Ado About Nothing while we were all distracted by the shiny Marvel stuff.


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Yesterday was spent at the NY Comic Con, where a few of us fangirls assembled (heh) to try to get tix for the autograph session in the afternoon, and also claim seats in the IGN theater for the Avengers panel. The autographs were impossible - the line was INSANE so we gave up - but we managed to get seats at the theater about ten rows from the ( Read more... )

Via sparky77, check out this short interview clip with Chris Evans in which he geeks out over filming The Avengers.

Relevant quote: "We're stuck in Albuquerque, no one is from there, no one knows what to do, so when we're done with work if we have a weekend, we all go get dinner, grab a drink, go to someone's house," he said. "It actually feels like a ( Read more... )

Did the American MTV ever air videos like this one? Because I remember watching "Taste It" and all its glorious bondage in Europe in 1992, on my TV, in the daytime, and... well. Anyway, this made me think of John Sheppard. And maybe a few other characters. Y-yeah. Dear writers, please bookmark for future inspiration.

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From Cary Tennis in today's Salon, the most positive advice to a guilt-ridden fanfic reader I've ever seen. Full text ( behind the cut. )

So, the amazing ahab99 drove us to an event today where we got to watch Joss go into full fanboy mode all over Keanu (yes, Keanu) in the SMARTEST WAY IMAGINABLE, and talk about the TV/film industry and feminism and the star status phenomenon and blogging and the cute bat from that ep of The Office, and after the talk he hung out for the longest time and ( Read more... )