2004-06-14 - 5:33 p.m.

Slayage 4, dudes! First, this stuff:

Merritt gave me a unicorn vibrator for my birthday!

I like to wear diapers full of broken glass!

Sydney says we’re the last couple in “Coffee and Cigarettes!”

The last session was a panel of people who have B/A books out or coming out soon. A book all of Angel critical essays is due next spring! Finally! David & Rhonda who did “Fighting the Forces” were the hosts of the entire conference, and there was also the “What Would Buffy Do” lady and Nancy Holder was there, she has a novel coming out this year with J’Heira in it. There is also a book on Buffy & gender due out next year. We found out that Joss was disappointed when the first Watchers Guide came out, he thought it’d be more scholarly. He was invited to the conference, but sent word back that he’d be starting shooting Serenity then. David & Rhonda were completely happy, & talked about how nervous they’d been & how they don’t know when another one will happen but it will. Maybe they’ll be floating, in different countries each year, or maybe only every few years. Oh, the woman who is editing the Angel book said the publisher almost didn’t want to sign her when word broke that the show was cancelled, but they did research & found out that people would still totally buy it. This led into a lot of talk about Buffy Studies, and how with all the papers and discussion that happened over the weekend, we’d really just barely scratched the surface of what there is to be studied. Here is where I get all weepy. It was really one of the best things I’ve ever done in my life.

Tish & I had a super long delay at the airport, & then a really long flight. We talked tons about the papers we’d heard, & invented a bunch of brilliant shit including a B/A spinoff! In L.A., it’s Gunn, Anne, Faith, & Robin. And that black Slayer – Rona? And maybe some of the other Slayers. Maybe that Chinese Slayer who was such a joke & I hated it. On our show she gets to be a real character & school them on how not to act when you don’t speak someone’s language. And Joss takes on race, and redeems himself for that weakness in his other shows. And there are tons of black kids from Gunn’s old crew & Robin is maybe principal of a school & it’s all super complex & awesome. And Spike is on sometimes, and has to deal with Rona and Robin and what he did to Robin’s mom. And of course other people from the ‘verse come in and have nice arcs. And Buffy will come on & talk about Kendra & we can get some Kendra historical episodes, maybe.

What do you think of it?

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