Mayor Wilkins: This year is too important to let a loose cannon rock the boat. … “Loose cannon,” “rock the boat.” Is that a mixed metaphor? Boats did have cannons. And a loose one would cause it to rock.
After finishing “Angel,” revisiting Wesley’s first appearance in “Buffy” season 3 is a real trip.
That visual gag of Wesley and Giles taking off their glasses and cleaning them with a handkerchief in exactly the same way at the same time was a great touch.
When the crew think Willow has been killed and turned into a vampire –
Giles: She was truly the finest of all of us.
Xander: Way better than me.
Giles: Much, much better.
(Joss wrote this episode.)
Angel, distraught, having escaped from the Bronze under siege by Vampire Willow: “Willow’s dead.” Then, casually, when living Willow steps out of a corner: “Oh, hey Willow.” Pauses, does a double-take.
Xander: “Right there with ya, pal.”
Willow: That’s me as a vampire? I’m so evil and skanky. [quieter] And I think I’m kinda gay.
Buffy: Willow, just remember, a vampire’s personality has nothing to do with the person that was.
Angel: Well, actually– [Buffy gives him A Look] – that’s a good point.
Foreshadowing?
As a side note, I love the way Vampire Willow says “Bitch!” when Human Willow shoots her with a tranquilizer dart.
I like how when Angel has been de-souled again and he and Faith run into Xander, Angel(us) casually punches Xander out and says “That guy just bugs me.”
Oh wait, he wasn’t actually Angelus. He just punched Xander for the hell of it. Or to make it more convincing? I’d like to think it was because Xander really does just bug him.
“Earshot,” the episode where Buffy starts hearing people’s thoughts, starts out so funny and gets so sad. All the girls thinking about how much they hate their bodies.
And then it got funny again. Buffy to Joyce: “You had sex with Giles? On the hood of a cop car?! TWICE?!”
Then later, to Giles: “Sure, we can work out after school. If you’re not too busy having sex with my mother.” … whereupon he walks into a tree.
Mayor Wilkins: This year is too important to let a loose cannon rock the boat. … “Loose cannon,” “rock the boat.” Is that a mixed metaphor? Boats did have cannons. And a loose one would cause it to rock.
After finishing “Angel,” revisiting Wesley’s first appearance in “Buffy” season 3 is a real trip.
That visual gag of Wesley and Giles taking off their glasses and cleaning them with a handkerchief in exactly the same way at the same time was a great touch.
When the crew think Willow has been killed and turned into a vampire –
Giles: She was truly the finest of all of us.
Xander: Way better than me.
Giles: Much, much better.
(Joss wrote this episode.)
Angel, distraught, having escaped from the Bronze under siege by Vampire Willow: “Willow’s dead.” Then, casually, when living Willow steps out of a corner: “Oh, hey Willow.” Pauses, does a double-take.
Xander: “Right there with ya, pal.”
Willow: That’s me as a vampire? I’m so evil and skanky. [quieter] And I think I’m kinda gay.
Buffy: Willow, just remember, a vampire’s personality has nothing to do with the person that was.
Angel: Well, actually– [Buffy gives him A Look] – that’s a good point.
Foreshadowing?
As a side note, I love the way Vampire Willow says “Bitch!” when Human Willow shoots her with a tranquilizer dart.
I like how when Angel has been de-souled again and he and Faith run into Xander, Angel(us) casually punches Xander out and says “That guy just bugs me.”
Oh wait, he wasn’t actually Angelus. He just punched Xander for the hell of it. Or to make it more convincing? I’d like to think it was because Xander really does just bug him.
“Earshot,” the episode where Buffy starts hearing people’s thoughts, starts out so funny and gets so sad. All the girls thinking about how much they hate their bodies.
“We need campaign finance reform, and we need to fix gerrymandering. But the sort of bald, outright, muscular voter suppression that Republicans are now engaged in cries for an even more immediate response. It is one thing for us to have a system designed to be undemocratic, necessitating a structural change; it is another thing for Republicans to simply abuse their power to bully and harass vulnerable people away from the polls. Until the Democrats can somehow get enough power to make the structural changes, they need to stand up against the bullying and racism and xenophobia that are now accepted as normal parts of electioneering. The House can hold hearings on voter suppression. They can start immediately. They can subpoena every fucking Republican secretary of state who can reasonably be judged to have assisted in the suppression of minority voters. They can subpoena law enforcement officials. They can subpoena campaign staffers. They can subpoena poll workers. They can call in all types of political science professors and statisticians and sociologists to explain in detail what is happening. They can invite Michelle Alexander to read the entirety of The New Jim Crow into the Congressional record. They can draw attention. They can make noise. They should, and they must. The more you let the overt oppression slide, the more it will be seen as the standard playbook for the next election.”
^THIS^ is exactly where the new House should start. Give the voters a reason to trust the integrity of the voting process. And, the public will see the Republicans REFUSING to support the proposed actions to make voting fairer for ALL citizens.
Why are kids these days always saying things are “subjective”? In the papers I’m grading, on this hellsite… just because disagreement is possible, even reasonable disagreement, doesn’t mean it’s merely subjective. Saying “it’s subjective” just ends the conversation, whether that’s about different cultures’ standards of morality, different interpretations of texts (including popular movies), or different tastes in art. Chocolate vs. vanilla ice cream, that’s subjective. About other things, there are facts that can be agreed on, there are rules of rational engagement, there are interpretive constraints and some basic principles that the interlocutors probably have in common. I’m getting to be as sick of the word “subjective” as I am of “problematic.”
Loki is the Philosopher King 