Quote of the Day

Jadzia Dax: Worf, you’re practically easygoing. What’s next? A sense of humor?

Worf: I have a sense of humor! On the Enterprise I was considered to be quite amusing.

Jadzia Dax: That must have been one dull ship.

Worf: That is a joke. I get it… it is not funny, but I get it.

Jadzia Dax: I don’t know if I can get used to this “new you.” It’s kind of eerie.

Worf: Your problem is, you cannot accept change.

Jadzia Dax: *I* can’t accept change?

Worf: That is correct.

Jadzia Dax: Oh, you’ve gotta be kidding! I’ve changed bodies six times, Worf.

Worf: Yes, but you are still very set in your ways.

Jadzia Dax: And look who’s talking.

Worf: Well, I do not have to sleep on the same side of the bed every night, or brush my hair exactly fifty strokes every night, or eat the same thing for breakfast every day, or read the last page of the book before the beginning, or lift up the…

Jadzia Dax: I get the point! I don’t know how you can live with someone so monotonous.

Worf: It is not easy… *That* was a joke.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6: Episode 16 – “Change of Heart”

Book Review: Joss Whedon: The Biography

Joss Whedon: The Biography

*Update: I was informed by author Amy Pascale on Twitter that Joss Whedon: The Biography is not an “authorized biography” and have edited this review to remove any references to it as such.  I apologize for the mistake.

I had some mixed feelings about reading a biography of Joss Whedon.  For starters, I rarely read non-fiction (just as a matter of personal preference), but what made me more reluctant was my personal admiration and loyalty to Joss, the man who has created so many of my favorite stories over the past fifteen years or so.  The man who created “cult classics” like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly in addition to writing and directing The Avengers, one of the most successful films of all time, is certainly a subject ripe for study, but what to expect from a biography?  Could it capture the essence of this Lord of the Geeks that his fans all know and love, while managing to explain to the uninitiated why he’s worthy of our praise, while managing to find something new that will surprise even his most devoted followers or that could give a deeper meaning to his work?  While I found the book to be an enjoyable read, the bigger answers to these questions turned out to be something of a mixed bag.

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Quote of the Day

“There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from the darkness. Lord Voldemort, who of course secretly fears both, disagrees. But once again he reveals his lack of wisdom. It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling

Quote of the Day

When She Was Bad

Willow:  Giles!

Xander:  Yo! G-man! What’s up?

Giles:  Nice to see you. And don’t ever call me that.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2: Episode 1 – “When She Was Bad”

Quote of the Day

Behind these two booths was an enormous roller coaster, a phrase which here means “a series of small carts where people can sit and race up and down steep and frightening hills of tracks, for no discernible reason.”

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Carnivorous Carnival – Lemony Snicket

Tonight’s Movie: The Hunger Games

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Quote of the Day

Worf: Very well. Room service.

Jadzia Dax: Really?

Worf: Really.

Jadzia Dax: Oh, that was easy.

Worf: Did you want to fight over it?

Jadzia Dax: No, it’s just, I didn’t expect you to surrender so quickly.

Worf: Surrender?

Jadzia Dax: Bad word.

Worf: Very bad.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6: Episode 16 – “Change of Heart”

Quote of the Day

“I do not think you will count, Harry: You are underage and unqualified. Voldemort would never have expected a sixteen-year-old to reach this place: I think it unlikely that your powers will register compared to mine.”
These words did nothing to raise Harry’s morale; perhaps Dumbledore knew it, for he added, “Voldemort’s mistake, Harry, Voldemort’s mistake . . . Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling

Tonight’s Movie: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

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Quote of the Day

Scoobie Gang, Prophecy Girl

Giles:  The vampires?

Cordelia:  Gone.

Angel:  The Master?

Giles:  Dead. The Hellmouth is closed. Buffy… Buffy?

Buffy:  Oh, sorry. It’s just been a really weird day.

Xander:  Yeah! Buffy died, and everything!

Willow:  Wow! Harsh.

Giles:  I should have known that wouldn’t stop you.

Jenny Calendar:  Well, what do we do now?

Giles:  I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’d like to get out of this place. I don’t like the library very much anymore.

Xander:  Hey! I hear there’s a dance at the Bronze tonight. Could be fun.

Cordelia:  Yeah!

Willow:  Buffy?

Buffy:  Sure! We saved the world. I say we party! I mean, I got all pretty.

Jenny Calendar:  And what about him?

Buffy:  He’s not going anywhere. Loser.

Giles:  I’m not dancing, though.

Jenny Calendar:  We’ll see.

Willow:  You can come with us, Angel.

Buffy:  I’m hungry.

Xander:  So what’s the story with the car?

Cordelia:  Oh, that was me, saving the day!

Willow:  (to Angel) Get something to drink.

Buffy:  Is anybody else hungry?

Willow:  (to Angel) Well, no, don’t do that. Just hang.

Buffy:  I’m really, really hungry.

Angel:  By the way, I really like your dress.

Buffy:  Yeah, yeah. Big hit with everyone.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1: Episode 12 – “Prohpecy Girl”