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Every time I see/hear/read an ad for that wretched-looking Cupid show with Simon Cowell, I flash back to wonderful Jeremy Piven's Cupid, and it gives me a little happy thrill. But it never lasts, it never lasts. Stupid Simon Cowell.

Bad Night in Action Figure Land

Goddamn it all to bloody hell. MAC has decided to cancel their Buffy and Angel AF lines, effective immediately. Which means no Buffy Series V or VI and no Angel Series II (here's the news on the Whedonesque boards- I'd prefer to link to Moore's own boards but they seem to have crashed under heavy traffic).

No Wesley. No Tara. No non-bunny Anya. No college Willow. No VampWillow. No fair at all.

Oh, but they'll be releasing the sculpts as (much more expensive) statues, and that's supposed to make up for it. Guys, I don't want statues. I don't collect statues. I collect action figures. This line has been a strong seller, as far as I've ever heard, so I don't get this cancellation.

In other AF news, Galadriel and Prologue Elf have not arrived. Will never arrive. They mock me. They sit in their warehouse somewhere in Nebraska and mock me.


And yes, I know how geeky it is for an educated woman of a certain age to be flattened by the news that she won't be able to buy more little plastic people. But hey, I've never claimed not to be a geek.

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I've just spent over five incredibly frustrating hours trying to get my computer to work, and it's still only barely cooperating. It's lucky that I don't have anything sufficiently heavy at hand, or I probably would no long have a computer at all. I'm so filled with techno-hate right now. I've been marinating some chicken in rum, lime and chilis for dinner tonight, and at this point I keep thinking "heck with the chicken, gimme that rum!" I will catch up with all my comments, emails and reading everyone's snappy posts, but it'll likely be slow going.

Remember writing on paper? I miss paper.


Book meme, nicked from zortified-

Book(s) I just finished reading:

Good Omens (reread #2079)
Black Orchids- Rex Stout
Prisoner's Base- Rex Stout
The Eyes of the Killer Robot- John Bellairs
Nowheresville- Mark Rickett (that's a graphic novel, actually)

Book(s) I am currently in the midst of reading:

Might As Well Be Dead- Rex Stout
Amphigorey and Amphigorey Too- Edward Gorey (childhood faves of mine)
Classical Turkish Cooking- Ayla Algar
The Blue Sword- Robin McKinley
Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail- Joan Druett

Books waiting patiently to be read next:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (baaaa)
Raising Demons- Shirley Jackson
The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt- John Bellairs
Maigret and the Nahour Case- Georges Simenon
The Music of the Spheres- Elizabeth Redfern

I always have a bunch of books going at once (obviously), and in the summer I tend to do a lot of rereading (and I read a lot of kids' books as well). 95% of those books I've already read. But they get me through the summer heat, which not my friend.

And this seemed apropos considering the meme. Nicked from declineandfall and kathlaw:

( Edward Gorey quizzie... )

Alright, time to play catch up. Stupid computer.