Uppity-Negro.com

I'd like it if your site stuck around.

I'd like it more if you posted more often.

I'd like it best of all if you followed your bliss, whatever in the world that entailed.

*clears throat*

Buffy: Does it get easier?
Giles: What do you want me to say?
Buffy: Lie to me.
Giles: Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always the stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats. We always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Buffy: Liar.
(Lie to Me)

Buffy: "World is what it is. We fight, we die. Wishing doesn't change that."
Giles: "I have to believe in a better world."
Buffy: "Go ahead. I have to live in this one."
(The Wish)

i have been looking for ages for the quote from the "outbreak" script where the president's advisor gives the passionate, pissed-off speech about how the people sitting around the table should look at the pictures of civilians that they are talking about bombing into oblivion and that they should let their faces "burn into their memories". i really wanted to post that one as a banner at the top of my blog weeks ago.

what was the other one...shoot, can't remember. maybe it was an excerpt from mike rennie/klaatu's speech at the end of "the day the earth stood still".

aaron, if you quit now, i'm going to get eli pariser to orchestrate an email blitz of all of your fans begging you to stay. we need you to keep up morale. and you know what they say about people who need people.....

I don't imagine that Aaron will really delete and retype all of this. I fondly remember way back in the day when Uppity-Negro.com was a hand edited affair. No, Aaron we love and want all of the archives to stay put. No more scare tactics or we'll hunt you down and hug you to death. It really does matter at least to a handful of folks and what more could you want really?

Nah, you need to stick around. And leave the archives for people like me who are just getting to know you. For example, what do you know, finally somebody else mentions Octavia Butler before I do. Ever since Parable of the Sower I can't go into a Sam's Club without shivering...

Seriously, though, we need to keep our voices out there. Did you read Darling Bri's blog? She, Heather, Deadcat, myself, others...we're getting seriously, seriously depressed about all this shit, and the only way we'll make it through is if we help each other. And your particular brand of rhetoric and invective helps a lot.

So keep up the good fight. Or yeah, we'll hug you to death. I'm a deadly hugger.

George, thanks. 'course, that reminds me that I missed Willow on Angel last week, because I suck. And I just noticed I missed a rebroadcast of that very episode last night. Yep, suckiest suck-ass in the history of sucking.

r@d@r, somehow I don't see myself as keeping morale up. . .

goneaway, I'm confident that between the Internet Archive and Google's cache, it wouldn't be necessary to retype all of this. And I'd get back all the cool old fansite titles, lost in MT rebuilds and most of which I've forgotten the names of.

Gray, nah, I really don't.

On Angel, Willow and Wesley did the traditional Joss-Whedon-esque catch-up dance: "So, what have you been doing?" "Well, I flayed somebody and tried to destroy the world." Still, fun to see Red interacting with Wes on-screen, especially seeing as they're, errm, close personal friends in real life. Of course, other things happened, but don't want to give things away. Too bad the Buffster didn't guest on that epi. Blah.

Did you say too bad or too glad?

Oh, don't mind me, I'm on a big buffy hate thing right now. The character not necessarily the show...although I've been told you can't love one without the other...much like troops and war.