GODDESSWARRIOR89

I've been waiting to post another entry until I got settled in here at school. I've been living here for six days and we just started classes today. I like my classes so far, I had three today including voice for the stage which is my first acting class here. I have three tomorrow but, unlike today, I don't have to be at class until 9. I have no air conditioning in my dorm but considering that I'm in the mountains I'm sure that won't be a problem for long. I really wish I had been able to get out to walmart today to get the CE of serenity. I feel like sometimes I'm alone in the black out here. I have no roommate and it just gets lonely at nights. Hah I already need to clean my room - oh well! anyways that's the update from my oh so amazingly awesome life! ~Lizzie~

CEDRIC

We're feeling very official! We got a show on the Concourse: 6:30 pm on Friday. Hope to see y'all there (and at our show in the Filk Room on Sunday at 8:30 pm), Cedric

PLASTICDINO

Where are the other racial groups of mankind, unrepresented in the few episodes of Firefly that we have seen? It seems likely that we can overlook small communities such as native Americans, Innuit and so on... they might well have opted for colonies far away from the Alliance, and we just haven't seen them yet. We see a few black faces in Firefly, but not many. Those that are seen seem to have an 'African American' background, rather than actually being from Africa. Still on an Earth that was failing, under ecological meltdown, where's the first place that will suffer massive famine? Africa. It seems plausible that these folks aren't seen in the 'Verse because they never got to leave Earth. Englishmen (of a kind) appear to exist, so it appears that the British managed to settle a world or two, thus giving us the lovely Badger and his colleagues. Where are the other Europeans? Well, again, it looks like they didn't make it. Much of Europe has a manufacturing economy. They import food. In the event of a famine (perhaps caused by oil supplies running low) it's no longer possible to import food from all over the world. Doesn't matter that you have Mercedes, Audi, Airbus, fancy pharmaceuticals... if people won't or can't trade with you, your country will soon dissolve into anarchy. The Chinese teamed up with the Americans in Whedon's "utopian" vision of the future... but we don't see THAT many Chinese. Maybe they like living cheek-by-jowl on just a few central planets? Where are the Japanese? A less corrupt nation with a more advanced space programme, you'd expect them to be in the 'Verse somewhere... unless Chinese expansionism means that there's no Japan, no Taiwan, etc., gone the way of Tibet. (The Americans turning a blind eye to this might have been the price of cooperation.) Where are the middle eastern nations? We know there are some Jews in the 'Verse, and Fanty and Mingo may have had ancestors from that region as well... but we see no Muslims. Where are the Indians? Remember that pretty early in the 21st century, there will be more Indians than Chinese. (Assuming Indians are still free-birthers, and Chinese aren't.) Humanity's most numerous population didn't make it to the stars? Here's my theory: they stayed behind. It would have been grim for decades, but eventually some kind of society could be re-established. Civilisation might be distinctly patchy, though! In the race to leave Earth-that-Was, and claim a piece of the new planetary system(s) that make up the 'Verse, I suspect that countless millions of people were abandoned. The poor, the unlucky, those with ineffective governments that failed to build arks. Remember, if you can terraform a world like Mars or Venus, and survive while doing it, you can probably survive on a polluted Earth (maybe not everybody, but some) and make it more 'Earthlike' again. Over time. I think one day the people of the new colonies will be hearing from Earth-that-Was again. Old Earth might become a new frontier, outisde Alliance jurisdiction. It might even be a hostile invader... or it might have sent colony ships elsewhere. We shall see.

ORPHEUS

The third episode of my podcast is online now. There's a review of "The Invasion", a review of "Superbad", and even a nod to the shiny new Serenity DVD. So give us a listen. Check it out at:

KAIN

you can e-mail me and get a shiny Tennessee Browncoat patch for your shiny browncoat! :cheers: they come in 3" and 4" sizes @ a piddly $7 & $10! check em out at www.myspace.com/tennesseebrowncoats So don't make me have ta show ya the ruttin chain of command! Just show them HUNDANS who ya are! :blast:

KAYNA

That's really all I have to say. Not much to put in a log I know but I just had to gush. I'm now going to go andwatch some special features before I have to go to work.

ABBEYGIRL

Oh my Goodness! I just went to a Border's store and purchased the CE (I didn't want to wait for it and just decided to go down there). It cost a bit over $28 dollars. Egads! I forgot how expensive they (Border's) were. When I got back home, I went on the internet. I got the DVD at familyvideo.com for $18.73! I will be returning the one from Border's (which is a bummer because I wanted to watch it later). But for $10 less, I can wait. Family Video has a policy that shipping is 99 cents, no matter how big the order. So if you plan on buying a few videos, whether it be the CE or the Series, this is the place to order (or at least I think so). Just wanted to let you all know.