row row row your boat...

So the family finally has a decent guess on the "Where is Brian today?" question. My dear brother is currently somehwere between Hawaii and North Korea, which we all now think will be his eventual destination. His ship is the USS Antietam, which if you watch the news, you'll know is with the Carl Vinson Battle Group, based out of San Diego. This article talks abit about it, mentioning that the battle group is being sent to Korea instead of the Persian Gulf in response to "an announcement by North Korean officials that they are restarting a nuclear reactor."

My parents think its worse that his ship is being sent to Korea and not Iraq, and I agree, because North Korea has a lot more formidable means of weaponry and attack. My brother seems pretty cool about it, and not overly worried. I told him to take lots of pictures, to buy himself something neat & forgein, and that if he gets to stop in Japan he'd better buy me an anime poster, to which he laughingly promised agreement.

good stuff

There's this very funny mocking of The Matrix and Livejournal to be found here. I don't know the people talked about, but the parody hella amused me anyway.

This is a hilarious post by my :Igor voice: hehhhhh....massssssterrrrrhhh, Ultimate Drew, on the Buffy Bronze Beta (see here).

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Drew Goddard says:
(Sat Feb 1 06:02:44 2003)

Hey gang,

Can’t stay and talk, so save your “Sweet Drew Goddard, I bow at your knee and worship your every move-s” for another time. Just wanted to do a quick drive-by because I’ve been thinking about it and I’ve decided that spoilers are bad.

Now, I know I’m not saying anything new here. I’m realistic. Let’s face it – those of you who read spoilers aren’t going to stop just because I tell you not to. So I’ve decided to come here and make you all an offer. Here it is:

Anyone who can remain spoiler-free for the rest of the season – all the way through the finale – will be immediately and passionately French-kissed by me.

That’s right – I will French-kiss anyone, woman or man, who can avoid spoilers for the rest of the year.

Ho ho. How does that sound? May want to think twice before clicking on your spoilerslayers or your cross-and-stakes or your whatevers now, won’t you?

I mean, ol’ U. D. is gonna French-kiss the hell out of you if you’re good. That’s a sweet deal. I mean, it’s just five months, spoiler-free…

And seriously, I’m an awesome Frencher. And for the rest of your life, you’ll be able to tell everyone we Frenched.

Nice.

Now, I know I’ve been off the radar for a while, but they’ve been working us hard here in the coal-mines, so please forgive me. As soon as I’m done working on this script, which should be next week sometime, I’ll be back for a good round of Hose Down the Slip-and-Slide (what the hell does that even mean? Sorry – it’s late.)

But in the meantime, the offer’s on the table. Hey – if you want to look at spoilers now, it’s up to you, but man, you’re gonna be missing out.

To my Minions, well, I love and treasure you all. I honestly don’t tell you that enough. You know… come to think of it… I don’t give you enough free stuff either. In fact, let’s have some sort of contest. Dachelle, do you want to judge a contest for me? I’m thinking a “Praise Goddard” Contest. The rules are as such: the object of the contest is to praise me in the best way possible. Entries can be in the form of a song, a poem, a sculpture, a t-shirt, a painting, an interpretative dance… really, the sky’s the limit on this, okay? Whatever the hell you can think of. Top three entries get a bunch of cool Buffy stuff.

We’ll figure out the logistics of it all next week (Dachelle, I’m gonna get a hold of you next week anyway – sorry it’s taken me so long.) But in the meantime, start thinking of those entries.

I like this contest. It celebrates the very spirit upon which this group was founded in the first place – praise and worship of me. Ol’ U.D.

And don’t forget about that French-kiss deal, either. How ‘bout that? Tonight’s turning out to be real sweet for everyone involved. Real sweet, I tell you.

Don’t doubt the clout.

-Ultimate Drew

:giggle: Now can you all see why I'm a minion? Because he's funny. And his Buffy episodes are the best.

::pout::

Well, it's done... I'm not a Mod at CW anymore. ::sniffle:: I had to do it; school is getting to be too heavy. But I'll miss it... being able to rant freely about my mod angst... being able to laugh privately at the B/A reactions to S-7 episodes... :pout: Good times, good times. But I'll get to go back again, at least. When my life is once more easy and simple.

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I sang kareoke today, at school. "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gainor. Because it was the only song we could think of that all three of us (me and two people from my PoliSci class) knew mostof the words to. And it's a fun song that makes people laugh wiht you instead of at you.

My first time at kareoke on a stage. Was fun. Looked at the monitor the whole time for fear of looking at the audience. Was quite enthusiastic wth the singing though. Apparently we were exceedingly funny.

"Observe my bitter ranting!"

Ok, not really.

Cause honestly, I loved this episode. Loved it to bloody bits. So wonderfully pleased I was unspoiled. Every time I get the urge to spoil myself, a great episode like this comes along and cures me of that silly notion.

Hah! And since everyone has already said it, I'll just reiterate:

( ....still... )