OK - I know it's not nice to gloat, BUT I have to admit that I've derived some satisfaction from the fact that the two shows the WB picked over DS are both struggling in the ratings.

I'm gloating, MB!  Let's all be naughty and gloat!  To WB:  nyeah, nyeah, nyeah, nyeah, nyeah, nyeah!

I haven't seen either of the two new shows and have no interest in either one of them.

Gerard (Who Likes Being Naughty)

I, too, would've loved to have seen Elizabeth Eis at the earlier convention.  Buffy has always also been one of my favorite minor characters.  The one thing I loved about her is that she was the only character on Dark Shadows who had a television set in her home, making her seem one of the most "normal" and "regular" people to populate Collinsport.  Not even the Collinses, whether in NT or PT had a boob tube anywhere in site.

Gerard

Thanks, Bobubas!  And Ben, you had better plan on performing at a future DS Fest!  Someday I'm gonna get down to the Windy City to see you perform.

Gerard

I can't wait for the next episode!

Gerard

I hope my memory is serving me correctly here, and I'm remembering the correct Corman movie.

I have two favorite scenes from "Masque."  The first is when the guards are ordered to kill the peasants who come to the gates of the castle, seeking help.  Here these poor people are ill and hungry, just wanting aid, and they're slaughtered.  The second is when the figures representing death are sitting around discussing their "day's work" at the end of the film.  One of them mentions that he spared, I believe, one child in a village decimated by the plague.  What's so powerful about these two scenes is the way in which death is treated so casually.  The soldiers have no problem in dispatching the suffering peasants - they have absolutely no feelings of mercy.  And yet, in regards to the latter scene, the death-dealing figures are also very casual, but they spare the life of one child.  Here they do have just a tinge of mercy and compassion.  The significance of that to me is very telling (as given in the movie).  Humans have no mercy when it comes to dishing out death, and the death-dealers, although un-human, have just a tad of it even when it's their "job" to mow life down.  A possible moral?  That death can sometimes be more "human" than humans.

Gerard

Along those lines, I can see Mrs. Johnson getting sick and tired of her son, Harry, loafing off of everyone, including herself.  She gives him the ultimatum of finding a real job or else she will toss him out of Collinwood.  So now Collinsport has a very disgruntled Fuller Brush Man.

Gerard  (Who's Wondering Who Here Will Give Away Their Age And Admit They Remember What A Fuller Brush Man Is)

Annie, you're just a walking disaster area!  (I'm just teasing you, sweetheart - I hope it brought a chuckle to you, but don't chuckle too hard or else you could wrench that back again!)  Hope you're feeling better, and if you're not, you get yourself to that doc, you hear me?

Gerard