VETERAN

For the past 8 months I started my day hearing the words,"[i]Good morning geniuses, philospher kings and queens, working class heros, progressive utopians (with no sense of humor),and lurking conservatives..[/i]" It was the daily intro to a morning radio show called [i]Morning Sedition[/i]. The show, it's neurotic host (Marc Maron), his co-host (Mark Riley), and their bits really grew on me. Well the fact that I liked it must have brought on a curse, because it was cancelled. Friday was the show's last airing. [i] Morning Sedition[/i] wasn't cancelled because because the onair skits weren't funny or because the show had poor ratings. It was cancelled because one suit made a decision based on his personal opinion of the show's host. While this may make a some Dittoheads happy (although I bet a few were lurking and laughing along with me every morning), as a Browncoat I find I have the same old feeling I had when [i]Firefly[/i] finished it's run.

GYPSYLIFE

So I finally did it. I'd been toying with the idea of a fic for a while and Itsawash encouraged me on, so here she is guys. I lay her at your feet, to read, trample on, praise or spit upon. Shame there's not an emoticon for hopeful. Be gentle with me guys, I hope to make it into a long series, but we'll see where it goes.

SHINYTALENT

Ok I had *the* worst night of my life last night, and my fiancee happens to be in this whole other country. So I email him, early hours of this morning when I eventually get home from work- an absolute wreck! and he sends me back 4 lines, telling me it'll be ok and to calm down and that I'd see him soon?!?!?!?!!!??!!! All I wanted was some support and maybe a 5 minute phone call just to say that he loves me and he misses me. :fork: :blast: :bash: :knife: :pissed: Ok I feel a bit better now, I just wanted a hug, and he wasn't here to give it to me, I was so scared and I just wanted him to comfort me. But he didn't and I s'pose I shouldn't be so demanding, I was just frustrated. Sorry to anyone who reads this.

TRACY

I'm getting annoyed, which is never good. Annoyance turns to irritation, and irritation leads to nuclear explosions which we all know are never healthy for anybody - neither one doing the exploding, nor the people the explosion takes place around. (And besides, in the words of the philosopher Jayne Cobb, 'I don't wanna explode!') The annoyance is coming from those so-called "Browncoats" who, well... pretty much are writing the 'Verse dead. They take statements out of context (much like the press like to do) and just run with them as confirmation. When you correct their appreciation with facts, like I have the horrible tendency to do, then they don't reply, and look for something else that "supports their point of view," when in reality, if you read it, that something is saying exactly what you told them. Case in point: some fan who "promoted" Serenity (because more than promoting it, he/she was guilt-tripping us when it failed to meet unrealistic expectations at the box office) has now declared the franchise dead, because Joss said in an article in "Entertainment Weekly" that he had "closure with 'Serenity', I can now have it on a shelf at home and stop promoting it." The way I read it, it's "Serenity" that is done. Not the 'verse. Especially not after him telling us it wasn't at the Flanvention last Sunday. He did remark that it all depended on DVD sales. And DVD sales will be good, I'm fairly certain. Then why, I ask, being so negative about the future? I'm not saying, "Yes! Put on your blinders and desperately believe that the 'verse will continue." That would be, well, not smart. What I [i][b]am [/b][/i]saying, tho, is, "The DVD is coming out. Sales will be good. Have some faith. Don't count us out yet." Then go about your life, you know? Being positive towards something takes the same energy and the same amount of work as being negative. Only difference is, if you keep a positive attitude, good things happen to you. And wouldn't you agree, more stories in the Firefly 'verse *cough*with Wash*cough* would be a good thing? I'm just sayin'... :wink:

SMANOFSTEEL76

Bushwacked is a great episode. Mal is awesome. I think I wanna be as cool as he is.

SERYN

I couldn't resist, thanks to getting instructions on how to personalise google, there was this on my page - WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Forty drunken Santas rampaged through central Auckland, stealing from stores and assaulting security guards, the New Zealand Herald reported on Sunday, in a protest against the commercialisation of Christmas. Police said some of the Santas threw beer bottles, one tried to climb the mooring rope of a cruise ship and a security guard was punched during the fracas. "They came in, said 'Merry Christmas' and then helped themselves," convenience store staff member Changa Manakynda told the Herald, which reported the Santas also attacked a Christmas tree. The event organiser, Alex Dyer, had warned the antics would only stop when someone was arrested, said the Herald, which linked the incident to "Santarchy". Santarchy www.santarchy.com and online encyclopaedia wikipedia www.wikipedia.org record protests going back around 10 years in the United States, with participants marking Christmas in anti-commercial manner involving street theatre, pranks and public drunkenness. Police said identification was a key issue as they tried to sort out which of the 40 men and women had done what. "With a number of people dressed in the same outfit, it was difficult for any witnesses to confirm the identity of who was doing what," Senior Sergeant Matt Rogers told Reuters. Can you imagine the police line ups? ROFLMAO! :biggrin: