Free Thoughts: July 2009

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Buffy Sims

This is from the Buffy eposide Once More With Feeling. I love that eposide. The song is called Walk Through The Fire

BUFFY:
I touch the fire and it freezes me
I look into it and it’s black
Why can’t I feel?
My skin should crack and peel
I want the fire back

Now, through the smoke she calls to me
To make my way across the flame
To save the day or maybe melt away
I guess it’s all the same

So, I will walk through the fire
Cause where else can I turn?
I will walk through the fire
And let it – -

SPIKE:
The torch I bear is scorching me
And Buffy’s laughing I’ve no doubt
I hope she fries
I’m free if that bitch dies!
I better help her out…

SWEET:
Cause she is drawn to the fire

SWEET: Some people never learn / SPIKE: She will never learn

SPIKE AND SWEET:
And she will walk through the fire
And let it – -

GILES:
Will this do a thing to change her?
Am I leaving Dawn in danger?
Is my slayer too far gone to care?

XANDER:
What if Buffy can’t defeat it?

ANYA:
Beady Eyes is right
We’re needed!
…Or we could just sit around and glare

ANYA, GILES, TARA, WILLOW, AND XANDER:
We’ll see it through
It’s what we’re always here to do
So, we will walk through the fire…

(Buffy and Tara’s following verses overlap.)
BUFFY:
So one by one, they turn from me TARA:
I guess my friends can’t face the cold What can’t we face
But why I froze, not one among them knows If we’re together?
And never can be told

(These three parts are sung mostly in unison.)

PART I

ANYA:
She came from the grave much graver

SPIKE:
First, he’ll kill her, then I’ll save her

TARA:
Everything is turning out so dark

SPIKE:
No, I’ll save her, then I’ll kill her

WILLOW:
I think this line is mostly filler

GILES:
What’s it going to take to strike a spark?

PART II

BUFFY:
Going through the motions
Walking through the part
These endless days are finally ending in a blaze

PART III

SWEET:
So one by one, they come to me
The distant redness as their guide
That single flame
Ain’t what they had in mind
It’s what they have inside.
She will come to me!

BUFFY, ANYA, GILES, SPIKE, TARA, WILLOW, AND XANDER:
And we are caught in the fire
At the point of no return
So we will walk through the fire
And let it
Burn
Let it burn
Let it burn! LET IT BURN!

All About Us

Magazine Promotes Sterilization For Women

A popular women’s magazine in the UK recently featured an article entitled, Young, Single and Sterilized, in which women in their 20’s discussed why they had undergone an operation to prevent them from ever having children. The article is little more than PR for a “women’s charity” called Marie Stopes International, an organization that carries out abortions and sterilizations and was founded by a Nazi eugenicist who advocated compulsory sterilization of non-whites and “those of bad character”.

The story appears in a weekly magazine called Love It . One of the women featured in the article, Chloe, explains why she decided to have herself sterilized at the age of just 20.

“By the time I was 18, I knew I was never going to change. I couldn’t imagine letting something take over my body and then my whole life.”

“I couldn’t even look at a baby without feeling uncomfortable.”

Following the sterilization procedure, Chloe celebrates the fact that “I’ve got a lifetime of going out ahead of me now,” presumably meaning going out, getting mindlessly drunk and having sex with random strangers, as is British culture, while not having to worry about the risk of pregnancy or the responsibility of looking after a child.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Things to Remember 2

More stuff that makes me feel old.
1)Sockem Boppers

2)Smelly Markers

3)Book It!

4)Lisa Frank

5)Slap Bracelets

6)Kool-aid commercials

Monday, July 6, 2009

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

Thank You Ms.Baker for this.

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs.

B is for Basil assaulted by bears.

C is for Clara who wasted away.

D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh.

E is for Ernest who choked on a peach.

F is for Fanny sucked dry by a leech.

G is for George smothered under a rug.

H is for Hector done in by a thug.

I is for Ida who drowned in a lake.

J is for James who took lye by mistake.

K is for Kate who was struck with an axe.

L is for Leo who swallowed some tacks.

M is for Maud who was swept out to sea.

N is for Neville who died of ennui.

O is for Olive run through with an awl.

P is for Prue trampled flat in a brawl.

Q is for Quentin who sank on a mire.

R is for Rhoda consumed by a fire.

S is for Susan who perished of fits.

T is for Titus who flew into bits.

U is for Una who slipped down a drain.

V is for Victor squashed under a train.

W is for Winnie embedded in ice.

X is for Xerxes devoured by mice.

Y is for Yorick whose head was knocked in.

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

Go to for the images to them
http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/stage/7535/gorey.html

Things To Remember

1 Sharptooth from The Land Before Time

2 "Topsy Turvy" From the Hunchback of Notre Dame

3 Heffalumps and Woozles
From: Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
Beware!