Ducks: Queen of Frickin' Everything

So, I was talking to a friend recently. Her beloved sex toy of 13 years finally kicked the bucket, and she was wondering -- how to get rid of it? One of the dilemnas in trying to keep green is what to do with electronics when they no longer work, as the metals within can contaminate the environment when thrown away. Not to mention the fact that they'll never break down!

I did a little research. After all, many companies offer recycling for old electronics. So what about old sex toys, which are electronics too!

One company in Europe offers an alternative: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/good_vibes_gone_bad_sex_toy_recycling.php

Treehugger.com also offers some information on buying environmentally friendly sex toys! http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/01/sustainable_sex.php

In my travels, I found this service: http://www.sextoyrecycling.com/. I've just emailed them to find out how the whole thing works. Cool, man!

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I finally got all the premiere dates of my shows, and now, inspired by stephanierb, I present my FALL 2007 TV SCHEDULE GRID!

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
8:00	Fox - Prison Break Sept. 17	Fox: Bones Sept. 25	ABC: Pushing Daisies Oct. 3	NBC: Earl Sept. 27	CBS: Ghost Whisperer Sept. 28	NBC: Dateline NBC	ABC: EMHE (Sept. 30) or CBS: Viva Laughlin (Oct. 18/21)
8:30				NBC: 30 Rock Oct. 4
9:00	NBC - Heroes Sept. 24	Fox: House Sept. 25	ABC: Private Practice (Sept. 26) or NBC: Bionic Woman (Sept. 26)	ABC: Grey's Anatomy Sept. 27	CBS: Moonlight (Sept. 28) or NBC: Friday Night Lights (Oct. 5)	Varies	ABC: Desperate Housewives Sept. 30
9:30
10:00	CBS - CSI:Miami Sept. 24	CBS: Cane or Sept. 25 NBC: SVU Sept. 25	CW: ANTM Sept. 19	CW: Smallville Sept. 27	ABC: Men in Trees Oct. 12	Varies	ABC: Brothers & Sisters Sept. 30
10:30
11:00	Fox: Girlfriends Oct. 1	CW: Reaper Sept. 25	CW: Gossip Girl Sept. 19	CW: Supernatural Oct. 4	?	Varies	Varies
11:30	Fox: The Game Oct. 1

Show's I'll watch until mine come back:

Tues, 8 pm CW Beauty & the Geek - September 18

Wed. CBS Kid Nation - September 19

Sun. CBS Cold Case - September 23

Less than two weeks before the fun begins!

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Ficathon stuff!

1.) Don't forget to bid for lots of multi-fandom goodies over at fire_fic. I'm offering up the long-languishing (and otherwise probably permanently so) Something Old: Book 5 for $100 (if a few of you want to band together and say, donate $20 each, that would work too, as long as fire_fic gets the hundred bucks. The same holds true for the $75 Bitch (Part 4 of the Scratch series), and the $50 fic of your choice. The only thing I'm looking for individual bids is the $25 per B/A(us) fic of your choice.

2.) If you love our heroine Buffy, take part in the "Buffy is the Hero, Damnit!" ficathon, run by ruuger! The fics can be shippy, but the primary focus needs to be on Buffy as an individual, and a hero! Sign ups end September 9! There's a ton of Buffy/Spike writers there, I'd love to see more gen Buffy or Buffy/Angel people! *hinthint*

3.) The results are in for my polls about my upcoming Liam-Angelus-Angel and B/A(us) ficathons in celebration of the airing of Surprise/Innocence ten years ago this coming January!

* The Many Faces of Angel Ficathon! I'll be running this for people on both LJ and IJ, but the postings will go up on IJ, just to be safe. Instructions for posting will go on the angel_yay community. People with an IJ will post for themselves, of course, but have the option of letting me post on the group for them, either the entire fic or just a link to their journal.

Poll Results:
> 12 LJ/3 IJ Participants = 15 Total

> Traditional Ficathon w/Assignment = 4 Total Votes
> Free Form Writing/Art on the Celebration Theme = 11 Total Votes

Free Form Writing/Art on the Celebration Theme it is! However, PEOPLE WILL STILL HAVE TO SIGN UP TO SHOW THEIR COMMITMENT. I know how easy it is to let something without a real deadline just slip by.

* The Buffy/Angel Love-a-thon! Same set up as above, but the masterlist will appear on ba_ship.
-Interested in a B/A(us) Smut-a-thon: 8
-Interested in a General B/A(us)-thon: 7

Hm. It's split almost 50/50. How about we make it a B/A(us) LOVE a thon, and people can make it as smutty as they want? *G*

>Traditional Ficathon w/Assignment = 3 Votes
>Free Form Writing/Art on the Celebration Theme = 12 votes

Once again, Free Form wins it! Again, there will still be sign-ups.

The fics for both of these won't be due until January 19/20, 2008, so I'll wait a little while before starting sign-ups.

~WOW. Is Vicent Kartheiser the first Whedonverse alum to come right out and say: "WOW, that job BLEW, man!"?

As quoted from thechad on fodian's IJ:

Here is a link to the Giant Interview: http://www.giantmag.com/2007/09/dvds/mad-man-talks/1/

TheScanner: Speaking of Angel, you played a fairly divisive character on that series as well—Angel’s sullen offspring Connor. Were you aware of the strong feelings that character generated?

Kartheiser: I knew people were reacting really strongly to Connor, but I didn’t know why because I didn’t know the show’s history. To me, the character lost its thrill about four episodes in. From there on out I felt like I was doing the same scene over and over and over. Every week I’d show up and have a scene with Cordelia, then Angel would show up and I’d have some sort of conflict with him. There’d be a couple of fight scenes where I’d fight with them even though I didn’t want to and then I would sulk and leave. That to me was every episode. Ultimately, they wrote him into a corner. There was nowhere for him to go. I think the majority of the fans really hated Conner and really hated me and getting me off the show was the highest priority. And I don’t blame them.

The Scanner: What’s been the biggest difference between making Angel and Mad Men?

Kartheiser:There was a real sense on Angel that people were just doing a job. The grips, the DP, even the directors would kind of just show up, do their job and go home. On Mad Men, people really love the show and it means something to them. Every DP we’ve had has worked their ass off, we see directors we won’t be working with for two weeks walking around the set setting up shots and all of the actors come in prepared. People really care about this project. Not to say we didn’t care about Angel, but there was a sense we could do no wrong. We had our audience and regardless of what we did, we were going to keep that audience. On Mad Men we also have Matthew Weiner on set all the time whereas Joss[Whedon] was hardly ever on Angel. I think Joss was doing Firefly at that point and was in love with his next project. I had a friend who filmed a few episodes in the first season of Angel and said everyone was invested and there was crazy energy, so maybe I just came into it late. I let them know right off the bat that some of the choices they were making [about Conner] were wrong. I showed up to play that character and I had a lot of ideas. And they didn’t like any of those ideas. That’s okay, I’m in the business of having my ideas rejected.But after about 7 or 8 episodes of coming in with ideas and realizing it just didn’t matter, I became really complacent and jaded and angry at the project. I felt like it wasn’t a collaboration, that the people I was working with didn’t care to take risks. Some actors were able to find risks in there. If you look at Amy Acker, she just did an incredible job; she came onto that show with a developed character and stayed with it. She took a big risk and succeeded and I admired that.

TheScanner: Was it in part because of your experience on Angel that you chose Mad Men over another sci-fi series like Heroes or Jericho?

Kartheiser:That was more with Heroes because I don’t know if Jericho is that sci-fi. I was never a fan of Buffy, I’ll say it straight out. I was never a fan of Angel. I always found it hard to say Joss’ words. And that’s not a knock on Joss. I just don’t think I ever understood the show and my performance suffered because of that. They did the right thing by removing me. Then Spike came in the next year and he gave the show the shot in the arm it needed. That’s what they hired me for and I failed. So I didn’t blame that at all for wanting to try something new.I think it was a relief for me and for them.
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Damn, boy! I mean, as curious as I am about things that happened behind the scenes on the various sets, it's still a huge shock to hear it from someone so bluntly. Is it me, or does that strike people as kind of unprofessional? I mean, yeah, he's entitled to his opinion -- especially since it was such a negative experience for him. I don't know, I guess I feel some loyalty to the cast, at least, and the only one he had anything positive to say about was Amy Acker. That rankles a bit. I do feel a bit bad for the boy -- as someone pointed out, it must suck to feel that disliked in your work. I mean, he's no Mark Blucas/Riley, is he?

Still, it seems to me that some kind of acknowledgment should be given that the show gave his career fuel it never would have otherwise.

Ultimately, either way, I can't blame him. We all know I rarely have anything nice to say about Whedon myself. And that I resent the hell out of the way the original shows got flushed down the toilet so Joss could go play with his precious, flawless fucking Firefly.

I don't know. On one hand, I feel for him, and he's entitled to say whatever he pleases. On the other, it bugs me.

(Edited to make myself clearer and maybe stop the onslaught. And hey, how about the rest of my post, huh? *points up and down*)


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Fucking Jerry Lewis can kiss my ass. Dude, how stupid and fucking bigoted do you have to be to just start shouting "faggot" during a LIVE TELETHON? Yeah, ABC news, I'm sure he was shouting "Illiterate Fatty" -- 'cause that's such an effective insult.

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