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TEA
TIME in L.A. (4-5 PM Pacific) 3/22 Friday's Topic: Joss Whedon
& The Bronze
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Tea Time 4:00-5:00 PM (Pacific)...
welcome
Posted by: forensicpopouri - Mar 22, 2002, 6:59
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TODAY'S TOPIC LINK: 5/21/2000
quote of Bronze post by Joss Whedon about
the
Bronze
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=48092
"It's
tea time in Santa
Monica,
the Pacific
breeze pushes the smog back downtown,
and the
"sharks" are still stuck not returning calls in
their nasty little offices
in
Beverly Hills." <smile>
Ooops ...
that was yesterday's greeting. Let me think
...
In every internet generation a
community is
born.
The
one community in all the world
chosen
to
fight the forces of social
degradation
and
lead humanity into the a new level of super
goodness. <smile>
TODAY'S
TOPIC is whether Joss still cares about the
Bronze ... do we care ...
does it matter ...
what flavor tea do you like best ...
... conversation,
poetry, philosophy, song ... and of course THE
CHEESE.
I'll be around 'til 5:00 PM
(Pacific)...
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OTHER BRONZE POST LINKS FOR
TODAY:
Sonnets:
Why I Post In Shakespearean Sonnets (4-Sonnet
sequence)
PART
1
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=48156
PART
2
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=48152
NOTE:
Rhyming couplet response
byskull_uk!!!
PREVIOUS SONNET
POSTS: tid=46649 tid=47071
tid=47636
you
speak
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Responses
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Delighted you all dropped by ...
POOF
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 22, 2002, 8:13
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I will be thinking
fondly of you all.
(And will read anything left
behind here later tonight)
POOF
For the
time being there may even be Tea Time on the weekend ...
<smile>
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Before I rush off into the night ...
(praise for skull_uk)
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 22, 2002, 8:07
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It seems it's actually
hard to do an exactly one-hour conversation
well
...
.. especially when you lost your broad-band
connection (due to
corporate insanity). I've got to
get on the ball and get another.
BUT BEFORE I GO:
I want to thank skull_uk for taking
a moment
to compose some verse in response to my
multi-sonnet
epic listed in the links
above.
And another bow to prunehilda for her
verses previously.
I'll look around again before
going POOF ... but I will soon.
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ah, the poet prunehilda arrives ... just as
tea time is almost at an end
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 22, 2002, 8:01
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My mind now wrestles
with which of all the other posts to answer
... or
can I combine them into one profound
response?
PG: Something beyond chat
obviously ...
but ... (thinking too many thoughts at
once.<g>
...
and running out of tea time
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Oh, tea nearly over...(whiskers
droop)
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 22,
2002, 7:57 PM |
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I like chatting with
you! (brush furry cheek against your hand.)
until
next time...
(flies away to the
east...)
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Again
| Posted by:
Tallian - Mar 22, 2002, 7:55
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Now you're talking
about those TV shows where they say "Log on now, and
help pick the winner!"
OK, don't mean to pick on you,
I know you're hoping for more than that.
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bye leg ... (passes spiked tea to Pleasant
Guest ... just because<smile>)
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 22, 2002, 7:54
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Ah the
military-technology complex ....
Something else
we must focus our Buffy-enhanced passions
toward
sublimating. <smile>
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Earl Grey, please. The sugar and milk
goes in first though.
| Posted by:
prunehilda - Mar 22, 2002, 7:52
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Or maybe oolong today.
I never gave any thought as to whether Mr. Wheldon is
overseeing the Bronze. I come here to see if others are
interpreting the events in the same manner that I do.
That's what makes it interesting. I have discovered that
not only does BtVs make you ponder but sonnets are an
excellent source of inspiration. By the way, FP, bravo.
You've been holding out on us and I'm going to try
harder in the future.
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forensicpopouri (check my chin please, did
I get it all off? purrr)
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 22,
2002, 7:52 PM |
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your comment is very
profound...
but there's already one series, and
talk of another...
I don't think about it that
profoundly, I just wanna enjoy a good show for as long
as possible.
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fpoetry
| Posted by:
Tallian - Mar 22, 2002, 7:52
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Aren't you essentially
talking about chat rooms?
And the bad tech at this
site is particular to this site. I would like to see
active threads stay at the top, instead of being pushed
off by hate-spams.
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I
slip legends the special bottle of spiked tea reserved
for profound posters <smile>
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 22, 2002, 7:49
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One question is
whether it will take a new series
designed
from the beginning to fit the two together
(Internet/TV)
...or does it makes (at least some
kind of sense)
to focus on how the value that
is stored "here"
can be used to help the
evolution.
(posting this while I think
more<smile>)
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Thanks for the tea
| Posted by:
legends - Mar 22, 2002, 7:49
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I must bolt. Have a
good one!
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forensicpopouri..of course technology is
bad at times!
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 22,
2002, 7:49 PM |
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look at all the
interesting high-tech explosives countries know how to
make!
(begins grooming extra milk off of
whiskers...)
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Pleasant_Guest, you are so
right
| Posted by:
legends - Mar 22, 2002, 7:46
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I do not want to see
the end, but my realist head says to my breaking
idealist heart that the end will have to come some day.
But I do hope and hope furvently, that the end will be
good.
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Oooooh! Highlander!
| Posted by:
Tallian - Mar 22, 2002, 7:45
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Bad movies, though.
They didn't learn the Star Trek lesson - go with your
strengths.
Actually, searching for info about
past Highlander eps is what ultimately brought me to the
Bronze. I thought, hey, if Highlander has a site, maybe
Buffy does, too!
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Now I begin to see (the vale lifts slowly
from the clouded mind)
| Posted by:
legends - Mar 22, 2002, 7:43
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The bigger
implications of what you are saying... Can we take the
tele medium and combine it ACTIVELY with the internet?
Skip the HDTV and other stepwise improvements on the
tele and really make television participatory OR
increase the entertainment aspects of the internet. Even
more broadly, by forming creative communities around a
story (for lack of a better word) have an evolving
tele/internet entertainment dohicky (no word comes to
mind) which is created both by the producers and the
consumers.
Oh, my, could you make my next cup,
decaf?
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a
quick tech comment about this board ... (copy/paste
tids)
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 22, 2002, 7:43
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Let us "ponder"
<serious smile> the absurdity of
having to
copy and paste tid's into the address bar.
MY
LARGER POINT: Is that technology has to evolve
to
facilitate "growth" of the social dynamics.
In
many cases, technology seems to even get
worse.
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The old episodes will always be
around
| Posted by:
Tallian - Mar 22, 2002, 7:41
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Because of cable and
satellite tv. All those stations need something to air.
For crying out loud, they're airing old GAME
SHOWS.
Buffy isn't the only show to have a strong
internet presence.
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legends, I live in terror that the show
will end abruptly...
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 22,
2002, 7:40 PM |
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I'm a terrible
romantic and I want a GOOD ending.
Like the
Highlander series ending...it was pretty good, although
the next motion picture confused me plenty
lol
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Will it have to come to
that?
| Posted by:
legends - Mar 22, 2002, 7:37
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Buffites/Trekies?
Sigh, at least the tea is good. Of course, the existance
of a continuing fan base means continued airings of old
episodes. All in all, good.
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Welcome legends (and all haven't yet
seen) ... as for Hollywood ...
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 22, 2002, 7:36
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No one is really ready
out here to wrap their mind around the
Internet +
Television connundrum (sp) ...
The value
(that is being overlooked) in "the Bronze
experiment"
is the passion (and, yes, the serious
cultural impact) of
this series ... in
connection with it's online
history.
(THinking more ...)
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Tallian...tea bags...
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 22,
2002, 7:36 PM |
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(squeezes eyes shut
and flinches in horror, whiskers curling.)
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Excuse me legends, didn't mean to igmore
your entrance.
| Posted by:
Tallian - Mar 22, 2002, 7:36
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And yes, hopefully
there will be new shows equally creative to inspire
us.
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Some will move on. Some will be stuck in
a time warp
| Posted by:
Tallian - Mar 22, 2002, 7:34
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Like
Trekkies.
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People of passion
| Posted by:
legends - Mar 22, 2002, 7:33
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My guess is that the
passion for Buffy would find a new outlet (just as we
were saying before about Joss finding new interests) and
that outlet may well have a forum that would fill the
void that would be the Bronze. Just my over
philosophical thought.
Green tea is always best
unsweetened, and as fresh and green as possible.
ummmm
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A
tea question for Pleasant_Guest
| Posted by:
Tallian - Mar 22, 2002, 7:32
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So now I'm assuming
you use loose tea rather than bagged? I've heard it
makes all the difference.
I'm afraid I'm a barbarian
when it comes to tea. T-bag in a cup of water stuck in
the microwave. Oh the horror!
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Tallian...
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 22,
2002, 7:30 PM |
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why would we keep
posting after the show ends?
Hopefully, we would
move on too, huh?
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Tee Hee T. <g> The black hole of
the 1,000-post ... apocalypse!
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 22, 2002, 7:29
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I guess I understand
why the "old timers" fought to keep
the linear board
here ...
... but in it's present form it can't be
but for a few folks.
New thinking
needed.
And that's why we're here!
<smile>
When we put our combined
noggins together ... (hmm,I forgot what I
was
saying.<g>)
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Whisper: I've wondered what the Bronze
will be like after the series ends
| Posted by:
Tallian - Mar 22, 2002, 7:28
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Hundreds of Buffyites
contemplating Buffy trivia ad infinitum
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Tallian...I am very fond of GOOD tea,
quite the epicurean actually...
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 22,
2002, 7:26 PM |
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a good quality tea
needs no sweetening.
But iced tea is best
sweet.
Them again (smile) I am sweet enough
already...
(preening, pleased you like my
feathers, lapping tea delicately.) =)
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May I join you folk?
| Posted by:
legends - Mar 22, 2002, 7:26
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I would love a cup of
green tea. I agree with PG that an artist needs to
evolve. An idea that you love in 1994 is less exciting
in 2002 compared to last year's idea which is fresh and
new. And in Hollywood, if it isn't new...
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If 1000 people were on a linear board at
the same time
| Posted by:
Tallian - Mar 22, 2002, 7:25
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It would develop a
state of conciousness and transport itself to another
dimension, leaving an internet hole that would
immediately be filled by porn sites.
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Yes, artists move on ... But let us
ponder the TV/Internet synergy of the
Bronze
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 22, 2002, 7:25
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What "story" was told
there?
Did we (society) learn anything about how
to do this kind of
community better?
Or did
things just "go down the tubes" as time when by
because
of, e.g., "too many participants."
(Or
jealousy about the Bronze Posting Party guest
list?)<smile>
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Yes T, it makes perfect sense for Josh to
post in the Linear board...
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 22, 2002, 7:21
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He certainly couldn't
go saying "hey" in all the threads.
<smile>
BUT When there are more than
a hundred (more than 20?)
people around ... how much
sense does posting in the Linear board
make?
IMAGINE ... if 1,000 people were trying to
hang out in the Linear
at the same time? And
talk!
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I
think it makes perfect sense for JW to be moving on to
other projects.
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 22,
2002, 7:20 PM |
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After all, he is an
artists and artists evolve creatively.
I know my
writing is vastly different than it was seven years
ago.
I think the mistake is in "whoring" the show
to other talent. I don't think the show is really bad,
yet, I'm expecting better things to come of it...but I
don't want it all dark soap opera all the
time.
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You surprise me, Pleasant
Guest
| Posted by:
Tallian - Mar 22, 2002, 7:18
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Being from the south,
I thought you would opt for Sweet Tea. (My daughter
lived in N. Carolina for 4 years and got hooked on it
there).
And I love your feathers.
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PG ... as always making a delicious image
of an entrance <smile>
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 22, 2002, 7:17
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(That is my typical
inscrutable smile, of
course.<g>)
I think their is hope
for the Bronze ... Whedon-wise.
But I am a
strange character. <g>
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It actually makes sense for him to be
linear
| Posted by:
Tallian - Mar 22, 2002, 7:16
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Its a much easier way
for a celebrity to connect with everyone. Big ideas?
Nope. I think he just uses it for
ego-stroking.
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Assam for me please two lumps of brown
sugar, heavy milk, no lemon! Smile
| Posted by:
Pleasant
Guest - Mar 22,
2002, 7:15 PM |
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(swoops down in avatar
form of a silver spotted tabby cat with butterfly wings
made of peacock feathers.)
Hello, all.
=)
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BTW ... Joss implied over at Bronzebeta
that he wouldn't post there anymore
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 22, 2002, 7:14
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Certainly, he's
winding down his personal Buffy-focus
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(thinking of what I was going to say next, I
forgot it <smile>)
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Tallian ... Do you think Joss ever had
"big ideas" about the Bronze
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - Mar 22, 2002, 7:09
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And I've read
somewhere that he doesn't understand Threaded
posting
... he's a Linear guy. <sincere
smile>
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