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She is absolutely breathtaking. So chic, so refined. The total opposite of, say .... me.

But hey, that's variety, right? The spice of this old life.

I disagree. I think she's truly everywoman. That's why I like her so much.

You could die happy, that is if you weren't one just one of my alternate peronalities.

They don't make Republicans like him anymore.

You know that part in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" when Audrey is singing "Moon River" on the balcony and after she finishes she looks up at George Peppard and says, "Hi."

Sexiest word ever spoken on film.

Goatse Guy.

I dunno, Audrey Hepburn has that little boy quality that gives me the vague creeps. Is enstamping limited to American women? If so, then someone ought to think about Gina Gershon - she embodies American can-do spirit coupled with a pragmatic moral ambiguity, looks great in a pair of jeans, and has the lovely dark eyes of an Assassin. If not... well, I think we should seriously SERIOUSLY consider Lena Olin. That nonspecific but wonderfully aristocratic accent side by side with a pirate-smile worthy of Blackbeard himself? Wuff. She could make me take up philately and philandering.

I don't think we should discount the mesmerizingly feline presence of Fairuza Balk as a potential candidate, either. Perhaps for certified letters...?

I seem to recall from a brief adolescent fling with philately that you have to be dead to get on a U.S. stamp. Is that still true?

'Cause I'd be a shame to whack Gina Gershon just to get her face on my cable bill.

How about Pete Best-the dude who got kicked out of the Beatles or maybe the network exec who canceled Star Trek or the guy who came up with "New Coke." I don't need illustrious or noble people on my bills and overdue notices, I feel bad enough about the money I owe. We need stamps commemorating fuck-ups, losers and aldo rans is what I say.

Stavros...

...you'd lick the goatse guy?

he already has!

In Stav's defense, it was college, they were drunk, and silly...

We've all been there.

Yup, you've gotta be dead (scroll down to Criteria section).

I think we need some robot stamps. Robbie the Robot, maybe Twiki...Dagget the Cybernetic Dog from Battlestar Galactica.

I mean, they have duck stamps. And the mallard is a sorry excuse for a duck.

Up robots!

you've gotta be dead

Oh that SUCKS. OK, cancel mine. Stupid government.

Sorry, Lena. Here, let me make it up to you...

Wait a minute, does that mean the ducks are dead?

Oh man that's so sad....

isn't there some rule that says as soon as you mention robots in a thread the discussion is over? Net ettiquete dictates that we should....ah never mind.

i think america's most wanted would make great stamps.

oh, and Daggit from Battlestar galatica wasn't a dog per se, but a Daggit. Boxey and Muffit? one was a real Daggit and one was a robot? Something like that?

Actually, the way I hear it, when they wanted to make a duck stamp, they held a little "contest" not unlike Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" in which one duck of each breed was sacrificed for the stamp. Can you imagine the bravery of that little duck, as her name was drawn, stepping up quietly and nobly, resting her little duck head on the block for the good of all duck kind?

Or maybe she wept and struggled as the ax fell, rending the very souls of the onlookers.

O, brave and true Unknown Duck!

The duck died begging for mercy like a cowardly pig.

Heyyyyyy - pig stamps!

Wasn't Boxey the kid?

$20 says whoever that was who played Boxey is wearing lipstick and huffing stolen aerosol paint behind a 7-11 right this instant.

Interesting link, witchy -- I thought stamps' subjects had to be American. Turns out they just have to be "America-related", which is I guess how Audrey got in there.

Man!

That was a pretty lame robotic Daggit thing

http://www.geocities.com/athenaluvsstarbuck/bsg/Boxey/boxey.html

btw, notice the touching "athenaluvsstarbuck" in the URL.

I would just like to say that the mere mention of Daggit was enough to make me buy Battlestar Galactica on DVD during my lunch break.

I'm a viral marketer's wet dream.

Chalk up another one for the glorious Cylon Empire!

Ha ha, Lupo!

What about people with some evident connection like Terence Stamp or Emily Post?

I vote for the Miguel stamp! It's beautiful. Look at the detail. But go for the 3 cent, not the 38. You know, every time they raise the darned postage, people need the little stamps!

I'm proud'a you, Norm.

Jean-Luc Godard. That way you can send Alpha mail.

*rimshot*

ah. you are correct about boxey. that daggit thing always spooked me out...the eyes reminded me of a Spider.

and here is a link for you dong_resin...you may be right about him, though he was Atreyu
in Never Ending Story, which is worth some kudos, and he has all these martial arts hobbies now...so be nice. weird, he is a few months younger than i am, i guess he was the character i was supposed to relate to?

and of course, the wacky mormon connection to battlestar galactica, which was why my family watched it when i was a kid...

Wow. What an incredibly lame existence the mini-bio:

In his spare time, he tries to get out to the track at Willow Springs, California, to race in Super Sport motorcycle racing. He has tended bar at several LA clubs and has several tattoos. He holds black belts in Tang Su Do

Sounds like every pool boy/actor-producer wanna-be I ever met.

Aaah! Yes, tizzie, yes! Oh, and you might like this, tiz.

Smoke a fucking peace-pipe!

Something to warm Chico's Canadian Cockles, here. I'm enetering data on a double live album from Nova Scotian boogiemeisters April Wine. Remeber them?

Around 1980-82 they were all over radio and MTV. "Just Between You And Me" is one of the ultimate power ballads. Nice to see they're not playing dives in the Yukon for beer money. Although if chico's told me correctly, Canadian hard rock acts are always taken lovingly to the Canuck bosom, to wit Myles Goodwin will never have to buy his own drinks north of the border.

Wow. Some story, Ufez.

Ufez, how bizarre. I remember reading about her when she died.

"Everyone loves a true story, the stranger the better."

Wow, Ufez. That's worth posting on the blue.

you'd lick the goatse guy?

An US postal stamp with my face on it, is not worth me licking, I'd have to die first.

Go for it, vidiot. I haven't got the time.

The guy who wrote the article and made the film seems a bit creepy.

Why did everyone assume she was trying to find the money from "Fargo"?

It seems like they misunderstood because she didn't speak English and the cops didn't speak Japanese. When she showed them her sketch, they thought it was a treasure map.

Jesus. Christ.

Cylons were cooler than stormtroopers. They're shinier. And have that cool roving red eye.

And have that cool roving red eye.
Then they transfomed into: night rider, kit.

ceylons and stormtroopers all have the same problem. All that helmet means they can't shoot straight.

It's impolite to disparage another man's helmet.

Cylons were cooler than stormtroopers.

Nothing but Cybermen wannabes!

Hey, you can buy one of those suckers too...

Sorry, been away all day.

Jon is quite right about April Wine. The Canadian Summer fair circuit is rather short, but The Wine (or what's left of 'em), Molly Hatchet, Max Webster, Helix and Kick Axe (or what's left of all of them) are rockin' every flatbed-truck stage north of 49.

High Rollers, Baby, they were.

::::rushmc::::

Hiya! Big shiny hello to ya! :)

Does anyone else remember a Battlestar Galactica episode where Starbuck crashes on a planet and he runs across an also marooned Cylon? They end up becoming buddies until the end when the Evil Cylons come for Starbuck and the Good Cylon saves his life and dies in the process?

I swear I didn't hallucinate the thing but I'm getting nada searching episode guides so I'm starting to doubt my geek cred.

Apropos, of nothing, via my co-worker Pete.

Hardcore Puppet Action!!!

NSFW. Or Maybe Not. Not Safe For Puppets At Any Rate.

I was emailed this by a good friend...And I thought it was a riot!!! Enjoy;-)

Cyrano, I totally remember that episode. It probably made me cry or something.

Ahhh...'Tis all clear now. What we're remembering is the Galactica: 1980 episode "The Return of Starbuck."

*feels rush of Geek Cred returning*

Phew! I was starting to think that maybe I was really remembering an amalgamation of The Lost Warrior and The Young Lords.

What??? Fred Astaire guest starred on an episode?

He probably choreographed the touching dance number between Starbuck and Cy.

and today I find out THIS?

They have a woman cast as Starbuck?!?

I'm not sure how I feel about that, but I'm leaning towards, "affront to both God and Man."

And from the triva page, we have a monkey sighting:

"The chimpanzee inside the Daggit suit was named Evie, short for Evolution."

Ah yes, knowledge of the forthcoming "BG" (as we who have devoted our every waking moment to the collecting of tiny plastic Balthazar and Centurion toys call it) miniseries has been a lighthouse to me these last few months, and I have circled it, mothlike, searching for meaning.

A battlestar with no Lorne Greene at the helm is no battlestar, as far as I'm concerned.

Personally, I'm waiting for Martin Landau to reprise his role as Commander Koenig on Space: 1999 - the Miniseries Event.

I kind of like the idea of a woman playing Starbuck. Because nobody really wants to see the aging roue known as Dirk Benedict in the part at this point anyway.

I find the producer's answer interesting:

Why did you choose to make Starbuck a woman, rather than just adding new female characters?

In truth, there was less agonizing over this decision than you might imagine. We wanted to demonstrate how men and women fight alongside each other in this world (which, to further my "contemporary reality" reference above, reflects a modern truth that's different than it was in 1978), and how their loyalty to each other as soldiers and warriors supersedes stereotypical relationship dynamics (sexual tension, etc.).

In the original Battlestar Galactica, Starbuck and Apollo are the quintessential "brothers in arms" — a nod to the great male/male relationship descendants of William Goldman's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. So changing Starbuck to a woman — while maintaining the nature and energy of the Starbuck-Apollo relationship — seemed an appropriate way to make our point about warrior loyalty in a new way.

I'm sure it's going to be terrible. But, much like a train wreck, I will not be able to turn away.

How retro back can we go: future space battles from the 1970's...is this a prOn flic?

Sadly, my geekiness does not extend to Battlestar Gallactica.

I can pretty much follow the Kirk Star Trek, the Jean Luc Star Trek, Janeway's Voyager and a little bit of Babylon 5. Other than that, it flies over my head at warp speed.

So changing Starbuck to a woman — while maintaining the nature and energy of the Starbuck-Apollo relationship — seemed an appropriate way to make our point about warrior loyalty in a new way.

They are SO going to get it on, aren't they?

Raider and Viper
Dancing naked space tango:
Apollo and Starbuck

I'm a little out of practice on the whole syllable thing.

It'll come back, grasshopper.

Everybody knows that Boomer had a crush on Starbuck.

Which made Jolly jealous to no end.

(And since he came up, did anyone else have that "Boomer!" moment near the end of Apollo 13 when they're talking about all the things that could go wrong on re-entry?)

test

we're back.

w00t. very w00t.

In keeping with our theme:

Cuz I'm the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star...on the big screen?

Speaking of which, when I was growing up, my mom would periodically try to get us kids to say "fellow" instead of "guy." So finally I said "So, what do we call it, The Fall Fellow?" At that point she realized it was a lost cause.

**belches**

**Cranks up Wendy O.'s "It's My life"**

**smiles**

*finally stops twitching*

We seem to be having a dual theme: Updated 80's TeeVee and Glen Larson shows.

Fellow Smiley also isn't quite the same.

Lupo fixed us! Hip Hip Hooray! He is my hero.

Finally. I just wanted to let you all know that I saw Peter Gabriel last night and not only did he have a segway, a suit jacket with lights all over, and a giant inflated ball that he rolled around in like a hamster...

He played "Shock the Monkey".

Peter Gabriel actually looks kind of like a monkey now, doesn't he?

Wow, similar to Ufez seeing Peter Gabriel, I am going to see Poison, Vince Neil & Skid Row tomorrow night.

Wait. I'd rather see Peter Gabriel, although I wouldn't laugh as much or wear a wig. Was it fantastic, Ufez?

Nice Fellow Eddie

Yeah, but when you go see every stop of the Poison tour, it stops being a joke and gets to be a serious behavioral disorder.

This one's for adampsyche:

Fellow LaFleur

Last one (I promise).

Fellow Lombardo

When going to a Poison show, it is imperative to play the "how many times does Bret Michaels let you see his hairline?" game.

Hats and bandanas, there will be aplenty.

Was it fantastic, Ufez?

He put on a damn fine show, although I was in the lawn seats so my view sucked and the sound wasn't ideal. He played for about 2 and a half hours, which was real nice. And he had the band from Uzbekistan(sp?) that opened come out and guest on the 10-minute version of "In Your Eyes" that, of course, brought my girlfriend to tears. But yeah, for an old(er) guy he still has a lot of energy and his voice is holding up pretty well.

(And it's a shame they aren't touring with Cinderella again. That was the best part of the show last year.)

I went to the last Roger Waters tour, so I'm not one to talk. And I also wish I could talk the wife into going to Neil Young with me.

I fear this will not transpire.

I caught Neil Young in '97 on the HORDE tour that included him, Morphine, Primus, and some other less notable bands. Young closed and put on one of the best performances I think I've ever seen. He's playing here this Summer too (like a week after Crosby, Stills, and Nash, oddly enough) and I'd love to go see him again, but I'm afraid I can't afford it.

*weeps for missed concert last year*

Nobody ever sees Brett Michael's hairline. Ever. Because he doesn't have one.

although I was in the lawn seats so my view sucked and the sound wasn't ideal

I've gotten to the point in my ripe old age that if I can't get a good seat to a show, I won't go. I get too cranky.

Concerts suck. There's too many people at them.

Yeah, Gabriel was the first big concert I've been to since '98 when I say the Beasties at the Fort Worth Coliseum. But I got the tickets to Pete for free (from a friend that got them from the car dealership where he's a mechanic). Otherwise I probably wouldn't have gone. Club shows are always better.

Fuck, I really need to get some work done...

I know what you mean, witchy. I lucked my way into a front row, center seat for a Sammy Hagar show (yes, yes, I know...blah, blah, ROTH! blah, blah, blah...) and it's ruined me on anything less since.

And of course we can't forget November 5th: Fellow Fawkes Day.

That's kind of the problem for me too, what with this house thing and all. I'd also like to see Lou Reed in a couple weeks in L.A., but I probably won't. I have almost seen him any number of times, the nearest of which was when I had tix for him in Berkeley the day after the Rodney King verdict, and he cancelled.

By which I mean the money thing. That's what I get for leaving a comment up and then going to a meeting.

Very simple to understand, kaf, no worries.

House=Houses of Parliament
Lou Reed=Guy Fawkes

Well, I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this.

I had a dog called Boomer. He was a good dog.

I just tried three times (unsuccessfully, of course) to load 9662.net.

This tells me:
1. I am an idiot.
b. I need to come around more often.
4. where the hell have I been?

He's come to!

Lupo, give him another shot!

I had a dog called Boomer. He was a good dog.

All dogs are good dogs. Period. Even the ones that attack little kids. They do it only because they sense evil on a level that we can't understand.

4. where the hell have I been?
Posted by: ColdChef on June 12, 2003 09:23 PM

I think we've all been wondering that. The honeymoon must be over by now, right?

ufez, don't think CC ever left the hotel...

We're just following
Ancient history
If I strip for you
Will you strip for me

Apparently I'm psychic--I just wore my "Free Adam Ant" t-shirt the other day.

Free Adam Ant with the purchase of two Eurythmics.

Speaking of "free," I grew up in Hippie Holler and many of us were to greater or lesser degrees plagued with crunchy names.

The worst was Fyre Genie and her brother, One Free.

You can see where this is going. "Buy one Fyre Genie, get One Free." We thought we were hilarious.

Fyre Genie became Diane, but as far as I know, One Free remains "One who is free."

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