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.my new favorite.

.the one with number two pencils.

It's random survey time!

Today's topic: The Best Recurring Character on Friends.

Note: for the purpose of this survey "Recurring Character" will be defined as a memorable character who appears in several episodes that span across several seasons of Friends.  While there were come great guest appearance from big stars (like Reese Witherspoon, Sean Penn, Hugh Laurie, Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis... I could go on forever) they don't count here unless they fulfill the aforementioned criteria.  Same goes for boyfriends/girlfriends that fall off the face of the show once their relationship with the Friends character ends, regardless of how awesome they were.

Here are your choices:

1. Jack and Judy Geller

2. Janice

3. Dr. Richard Burke

4. Frank and Alice

5.  Ursula Buffay

6.  The Scientist Guy- David 

7. Gunther

8.  Susan and Carol

9.  Ben

10.  Estelle

Please bubble your answer in completely with a number two pencil.  Any answers not bubbles in completely and darkly will be marked as incorrect.

Write in answers are welcome.  Please use a bright pink crayon and write in Elvish or Ebonics only.

I look forward to tabulating your responses.

.today i love.

Actors who look awkward while wearing funny headdresses.

.signs.

.gavin and stacey.

.i love penelope.

Watching this movie is like walking into an Anthropologie catalog.

What movies are like candy for you?

.hello, pretty things.

I bought this hoodie from Old Navy a few days ago, and I haven't stopped wearing it since.  It's so soft and yummy, and flirty, and I got it just in time for the chilly, overcast weather to hit my town.  (yay for fall!)

Wouldn't it look nice with this sweet headband?  I found it in the Lupin Handmade shop on Etsy.  (There's tons of other cute stuff in there too!)

And I loooove this key necklace from CorrieBerry Pie's Shop

What new fall clothes and accessories are keeping you warm and cute this fall?

PS- While I was shopping a few days ago (and buying my new hoodie!) I saw so many oversized flannel shirts and faux doc martens that I now have this official conclusion and announcement to make:

Angela Chase is back.

 

*runs off to buy some red hair dye*

.if vampires get to go to heaven...

This is what it will look like:

(cred.)

And he will be there too,

otherwise its only a faux heaven.

.my favorite.

Oh, I just freakin' love this show.   Dare I queue it again, or just go ahead and buy it?  And when, oh when will series two be available in the US?

This show, by the way, is called Gavin and Stacey.

.embracing the geektastic.

I've been watching Season 1 of The Big Bang Theory from Netflix lately.  It's so cute!

I highly recommend it for people who like sitcoms about young people who live in apartments that they could never afford because they spend more time being silly and neurotic than working.  And for people who love the geektastic.

.while we're on the subject of buffyverse monsters.

Drusilla might be my second favorite monster. 

(In fact, I have this secret plan of getting  a pet rabbit and naming it Drusilla.  But only if it has dramatic spotting, is slightly psychotic and cracks me up.)

And with all the vampire popularity lately, why aren't there any fascinating female vamp protagonists?  The only interesting female vamp characters I know about are Drusilla and Darla.

And as fun and interesting as they are, they aren't protagonists.  And since they aren't protagonists I don't "know" them as well, and can't really name them as favorite monsters.  (Actually, I think I might getting a bit too Top Five Records with all this monster ranking).

I want to read about/watch an ass kickin', morally ambiguous, female vamp; I want to see want a gender switch will do to our culture's newest interpretation of the vampire.

Do you know of any?

.my favorite monster.

Ok, confession time.  I am a big ol' lovey dovey dork when it comes to the monsters roaming around my shop.  I actually missed them when I went to the UK for three weeks and I took them up to the lake a few weekends ago under the pretense that "someone might want to buy one."

But there was one monster that captured my heart before these little nippers came into my life.

My favorite morally ambiguous vampire from Buffyverse.  He's the only bad guy (on screen or in real life) that I have ever felt something other than exasperation for.  Normally, I don't go for the bad boy who walks with a swagger and cigarette hanging out of his mouth.  He's way too much work, and even if he does have a heart of gold underneath all the bad-ass-ness it's so wrapped up in confused emotions that its hard to find and rarely surfaces for any substantial length of time.

Nice guys are much more fun.  You don't have to spend so much time and energy peeling off their oniony layers, so you get to spend all that energy having fun, talking, drinking coffee, and making out instead.  The fights and the "why hasn't he called me in (insert pertinent time span here)" worries are virtually non-existent.

But Spike haunts me.  

Perhaps because he is actually a monster I re-set my expectations of him and can enjoy "the monster in the man" metaphor that James Marsters (the actor who plays Spike) and Joss Whedon (creator/writer/director) play out for us.  Perhaps by I am seduced by his English accent, spicy humor, and soulful declarations of love.  It's probably a combination of all of those reasons.

Regardless, Spike remains my first true monstrous love.