bold Ulysses by nursery rhyme and Firefly

Oh, like anyone is going to notice.

Via WHEDONesque, which I would check more often if I weren't spoilerphobic (not even an issue there) and especially stupid:

`Buffy' writer may be TV's best

[Joss] Whedon is a true child of television, figuratively and literally.

In the literal sense, his grandfather, John Whedon, was a comedy writer on the ``The Donna Reed Show'' and ``Leave It to Beaver'' in the 1950s and 1960s. His father, Tom Whedon, was a writer on series including ``Alice'' and ``Benson.'' And right after graduating from college, Whedon himself got a job as a story editor and writer on ``Roseanne'' in the early (and very good) days of that series.

In the figurative sense, no one working in TV has a surer sense of American pop culture and television's place in it than Whedon. His shows are studded with neatly phrased references to everything from comic books and pop music to obscure films and old TV series. It's as if several decades of cool poured into Whedon's brain and now come out through his fingertips.

``Benson''?

I could mention the comic

Oscar nominee Joss Whedon is one of Hollywood's hottest writers, having scripted several hit films and created one of television's most critically praised shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Now, the celebrated Whedon is bringing his talents to Dark Horse Comics, where his eight-issue supernatural suspense miniseries Fray debuts in June.

In the future, the world is a manmade, hopeless hell, riddled with radiation and disease, and populated by the masses who suffer the ill fate of mutation. Add to that vampires, demons and other grim, supernatural threats -- unrecognized by the world at large, but still a constant and deadly reality -- that cower in shadows and skulk late-night streets. When the forces of darkness come calling, a young and incredibly tough girl named Melaka Fray will be transformed from street urchin of a disposable society to its only savior.

Fray marks Whedon's comic writing debut, but this visionary series is a product of the writer's life-long fascination with the comics medium. "I've always wanted to write comics, and after establishing this relationship with Dark Horse on the Buffy books, I was thinking about it even more. I also saw how much fun the writers -- including guys like Doug Petrie, who works with me on the show -- were having with the comics, so I decided to abuse my vast power and force Dark Horse to let me do a series."

but then Jason would probably strangle me.