Author Archives: Anton

what’s on my mind this week?

Posted on Monday, 2004 March 08 by Anton

Slept very poorly last night; dreamt of vampires and spaceships. My ship and Spike’s ship were intangible to each other, but not so their occupants.

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smoke optional

Posted on Sunday, 2004 March 07 by Anton

Video Feedback Fractals: no computers, just a camera, two monitors and a mirror. (Cited by Andrew Bulhak.)

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expecting the exotic

Posted on Saturday, 2004 March 06 by Anton

Flipside of the previous: at the beginning of the Buffy episode “The Initiative” (4:7), we see Spike wake up in a strange white room, and he’s translucent: the lines of the floor can be seen through his black coat. No, … Continue reading →

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The Rockford Fangs

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 March 03 by Anton

I’ve just seen the first four episodes of Angel: what a disappointment! Didn’t I see more or less this same series twenty-odd years ago? In the episode “I Go to Pieces” I had the solution as soon as the exposition … Continue reading →

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go have your fun

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 March 02 by Anton

In 1997 I decided that the symbolic pleasure of spitting in the wind was not worth putting my new home address on record. So, in defiance of any number of Hollywood talking heads who admonish us (with surprising accuracy) that … Continue reading →

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grab-bag

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 March 02 by Anton

I removed the Paypal button at the bottom of this page. It was a bit embarrassing to have it there, particularly when (I feel as though) I haven’t had an original thought in months. The rainy season is a fickle … Continue reading →

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the Slayer and the Snob

Posted on Thursday, 2004 February 26 by Anton

In two or three evenings my rentmate, the snob, has sat through four episodes of Buffy with seeming pleasure. She says season four is more endurable than the foregoing because most of the teenage angst has been more or less … Continue reading →

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