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coatkneedee needs about $200 to prevent legal action from being taken against her for an old tuition bill. $$, advice for dealing with collections agencies, job leads in the region, etc. all of potential use. (Go, Team Internet! the immediate part of the $$ crisis is solved).

The Yes Men are responsible for hoax about proposed (fake) bill requiring gay Utah citizens to accept "treatment" or leave the state. Who's more pissed now? Gay folks or Utah? via ravenskye8.

On the on sex and the off-label use of our bodies. via _fx. Note: this post is on the Blowfish blog. There's no NSFW images on the page, but it is part of the Blowfish sex-toy shop website.

Same-sex marriages start in DC today.

sparkindarkness has a roundup of anti-LGBTQ evil.

The more literate a country is, the more likely it is for its citizens to prefer boy babies over girls. via reannon.

Frozen Dead Guy Days 2010.

Okay, I've been a little grumpy about this Tron remake thing. I mean, I _love_ Tron, but it also seemed to be the movie on the TV every single time I wound up in the ER in college (from my own medical mishaps to friends getting gay bashed). But then popfiend linked to the trailer for the new thingy. Um, yeah, I'm on board. Also can I just pause to say that there were some things about the '80s that were fucking great? I loved how much time we spent obsessing on how sexy the future was going to be solely because we really fucking hated Reagan and hey, let's play Space Invaders.

Last night we finished season 3 or Buffy, and started season 4.

I really don't know why the Buffy/Angel plotline annoys me SO MUCH. It's well done. It hits all the right notes. It's the kind of emotional suffering I tend to care about. But somehow I don't get why either of them like each other. And I feel like a hypocrite about that considering I'm all over the Jack/Ianto relationship which has a lot of the same problems (they get together WHY? the age difference is WHAT?). Maybe it's just that David Boreanaz's acting is nothing to write home about. Don't know.

LOVED the moment when all the kids stand up to fight. That's some fantastic shit. Was, believe it or not, sort of sad to see the principal get eaten. Don't love the psychic coma Buffy/Faith crap (yes, I'm complaining about a lack of realism in a show with demon ascensions, shut up).

What the hell was that whole Wesley/Cordelia thing? Like, worst kiss ever because they apparently have negative chemistry in actual practice or because Wesley has no experience at all or what? Sadly, I still sort of like them together in a where's the Cordelia/Wesley pegging fic, thanks way.

And Giles! He gets around, now doesn't he?

Also, Sunnydale U. is so conspicuously the high school set redressed it's hilarious. (Except apparently I'm wrong and just think everything in California looks alike).

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[thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com]

Actually -- tho' it will become more apparent further into season 4 -- UC Sunnydale is actually located on the UCLA campus. :>

[rm.livejournal.com]

Some of those hallways are TOTALLY the high school set redressed.

[sanginmychains.livejournal.com]

I think it's just a really common style of architecture in LA. THe Buffy crew was not allowed to shoot in Torrence after they filmed the S3 finale -- the explosions pissed the residents off, and their permits to film there were not renewed.

Oh, the trivia I still have in my brain.

The Buffy/Angel relationship does require some suspension of disbelief. You sort of have to go, love, eh? and just roll with it.

You didn't like the psychic coma? I mean, once you got over the premise? Or was it the premise itself that you had trouble with? I sort of like the idea of a Slayer hive mind, and prophecy, when it's well done, always makes me thrill: what's next? what's coming? what what what?!

S4 is often criticized, but I think it has some of the most compelling episodes. I loved that the characters got to meet new people, swim in a bit of a bigger pond, delve into themselves a little bit more.

I'm enjoying the play-by-play blogging you're doing as you watch. I was SUCH a Buffy fan, and I like seeing the reactions others have to my favourite moments.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh, see the idea of a Slayer hive-mind is great. But I didn't get that from watching it. I got "let's have one last gasp for the Buffy/Faith frenemy sex we never got."

[sanginmychains.livejournal.com]

Well you know. Cheap excuse scenes, those are good too.

[thatwordgrrl.livejournal.com]

I find this amusing because, having worked at UCLA for three years, I'd never mistake it for anything BUT UCLA.

Although I suspect the school hallway interiors were all done as a set.

But really, we have different sort of architecture here in Lost Angels. :>

[sanginmychains.livejournal.com]

I was really struck by the buildings when I visited LA, briefly. Everything looked like TV. It was freaky. I saw similar buildings in El Paso, so I suspect it's a general south-western thing - those red clay tile roofs, the stucco.

My sister in law the architect would undoubtedly roll my eyes at my statement, but it's funny how we take for granted as normal something that is in fact unique. When I moved out West, I was struck by the total absence of brick houses, and by how flat the roofs are. Of course, when you're not handling extreme cold and lots of snow, brick and sloped roofs aren't necessary. But what had once been ubiquitous in my environment was suddenly entirely absent, and it felt strange and not all that comfortable.

[bugeyedmonster.livejournal.com]

Isn't that kinda' normal in sets; I mean re-using a set in something else. I swear I've seen the same indoor building in a dozen westerns, they've just changed the wallpaper and carpet and whatnot.