I may have had one too many matcha latte's today. Hopefully, I will sleep tonight.

Buffy Reboot Casting News

I'm not crazy about this? It feels too much like a retread. But I may be wrong? Also there's one too many new regulars or new characters, and none of them look intriguing. Plus a lot of men, and not many women - the original series had more women or female characters and built in new characters as it went.
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Here's IGN's take on the above:

https://www.ign.com/articles/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-reboot-casting-confirms-its-new-scooby-gang-backing-up-previous-leaks

"As previously announced, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong will lead the project, while Gellar will appear in its first episode, then appear afterwards in a recurring role.

The rest of the cast are all new to the franchise, TVLine reports, and include Severance's Sarah Bock as Gracie, Law & Order: SVU's Ava Jean as Larkin, and Faly Rakotohavana as Hugo. Major Crimes' Daniel di Tomasso plays Abe, while Frasier's Jack Cutmore-Scott is the mysterious Mr. Burke.

Gellar, meanwhile, was credited on the new script as Buffy "Anne" Summers, which some fans have suggested might mean the Slayer is once again attempting to operate under the radar, and using her middle name as a pseudonym.

While Gellar, who acts as an executive producer on the new show, has said she was keen for the reboot to feature a mix of new and returning characters, including those who were no longer alive, it's perhaps not surprising to see the series' core cast confirmed as all-new characters.
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And the casting breakdown leaked on LJ:

https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/130240609.html
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Again, mixed feelings? I'll try it of course. But I'm going in with low expectations. So much will depend on the writing? It can go in any number of directions.

Unfortunately, they may well need more than just Gellar to pull in the Buffy fandom, since the vast majority of it wasn't watching for just Buffy, and many were watching for the supporting characters.

That said? I remain convinced that Marsters is involved somehow. Along with many others from the original cast (or Disney wouldn't have stopped them from doing Slayers on audio books) and Marsters wouldn't be as tight lipped about it and what he's working on. They don't need to do much - just bring them in as ten minute cameos or recurring - to pull in an audience.

Also they are just shooting the pilot at the moment. Whether it airs, has a lot to do with how well the pilot is received by Disney.

They are also rebooting the Buffy and Angel comics, again.

Kelly Thompson Takes over the Buffy and Angel Comics

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Sigh. I have no idea who Kelly Thompson is? I liked "The Last Slayer" best, with a 50 year old Buffy. But that's just me.
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It's brutally hot here. In the 90s, feels like the 100s. (I let you figure out the translation to C, since I'm too lazy to google it.) The high today was 94, felt like 104 with the humidity. It's currently 90 degrees. I have A/C on and damn it's costing me a lot this summer. It has to be on all day - or it will work harder to cool down the apartment, and medications, etc could be affected.

Oh well, at least the smoke is gone - it's 58 air quality today as opposed to 100-138 over the weekend.

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I was enjoying the Billy Joel Documentary And So it Goes which is coupled with an album of over 155 songs also entitled And So it Goes, Sunday Night on HBO. It told me a lot of things about Billy Joel that I didn't know - such as how Elizabeth Webber was the love of his life and his manager for a good portion of his career. She's interviewed in the documentary, and is responsible for getting him situated in the music business, and ensuring his songs became hit singles - by picking the ones that would take off such as "Just the Way You Are" - she was a better judge of his music and what would become a hit than he was or his producer. Just the Way You Are - is the song that got Paul McCartney's attention and the one McCartney wished he wrote. (Seriously Paul? You can't write all of them.)

Just the Way You Are

Although my favorite Joel songs were the stories he told, such as The Piano Man and Scenes from an Italian Restaurant.

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I'm ignoring the news at the moment, and side eyeing it? Or looking at it from the corner of my eye. I can't do anything about it. And it's not like I don't care - I do. But I can't help the Ukraine (there's a lot of Ukrainians in my area and building), and I can't help Gaza. Or any of the other places around the world that are suffering and under fire (sigh, there are so many). I think humans like to kill each other? Today on the morning news - they informed me that over 3000 ghost guns had been taken off the streets. Ghost Guns = illegal guns, that have been purchased illegally. Also shootings have gone down in NYC since they've started the program. There was bad news too, but I jumped away from it.

Work was..frustrating? But I let it go. I edit, then someone else edits, then someone else edits, then I see it again - and I think okay, why did I bother? And why did they make those edits? I'm trying to copy their edits from other reviews, but they aren't consistent, and contradict themselves.
I'm also apparently the financial guru, by default - no one else cares about the financials. So someone has to - me. This amuses me to no end. Oh well, I only have three - four more years left, possibly just three depending.

Example?
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Here's a photo:

Battled a sinus headache from hell today - I blame the barometric pressure, which couldn't make up its mind - did it want to rain or not rain? Apparently not rain. Also, while the air quality was much better today - the humidity was at 77% and it felt like walking through a sauna, so still hard to breath? (Air Quality dropped down from the semi-dangerous and smokey 138 to 100 (pesky Canadian Wildfires ) horrible in upstate NY as well - at least I have the water to dissipate it a bit. )

Mother got to see Mt. Rainer and sent photos. I managed to download one and posted it to FB (private) - so hopefully you can see it? I really wish DW would let me upload photos from my computer or phone, but alas, no. Maybe I should join Pillowfort just to upload photos from? Instagram is useless in this regard. (Actually Instagram annoys me - it appears to be little more than a marketing and advertising outlet for people. Everyone uses it to market or promote themselves?)



Mother is enjoying her vacation from her island visiting relatives. The relatives she's visiting are her closest blood relations, and the ones she talks to incessantly on the phone.

She called me - gave me an update on what she was doing and everyone else was doing, then said goodbye and hung up.

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I slept better the last two nights, then I had on Thursday, so feel a bit more rested. Also working on the blood sugar - discovered certain things make it go high (grains of any type, and anything high in sugar content), while other things don't (veggies, eggs, fruit, seafood, fish, nuts, seeds). My digestive system seems to be happier when my blood sugar is higher - which is annoying.

I'm kind of frustrated. But maybe I can make it work? I do not want to take insulin or shots of any kind - I have issues with "needles" - it's why I don't sew. Me and needles are unmixy things.

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Due to sinus headache from hell - which lasted for four hours - I just watched television. Reading was out of the question. Did manage to work on my novel a bit.

Read something online recently - that learning to control emotions was important, also it was important to remember that what other people do, think, or say is not as important as what you do, think or say. True to an extent. Except to the degree in which it can directly affect one's own life?

Television shows watched today?

Untamed - a limited mystery series on Netflix, not many episodes, maybe four or five if that. I spun through it pretty quickly, and still managed to take a walk, pick up groceries, listen to an audio book, talk to mother, go through my mail, clean up a bit of clutter, fix breakfast and lunch, and watch some of a Billy Joel documentary.

It's a bit on the dark side, and I felt a tad rushed in places. But overall compelling and good. Scratched an itch. I'm in the mood for dark gritty mysteries solved by PI's or cops, and kind of twisty like a thriller in cool locals right now. I may start watching Big Sky Country on Hulu or Paradise. If you have any limited series or mystery series recs - that fit this type of format, gritty detective mystery arc, not serial killer, that takes place over a series of episodes (kind of like the old Prime Suspect or Long Mire or Dark Winds...) - rec away.

I'd liked this - it stars Eric Bana and Sam Neill, and is about a Federal law enforcement agent assigned to Yosemite Park, who is solving the case of a young woman who fell from El Capitan. There are other mysteries entangled with it, that may or may not be directly involved with her death. It's character driven, and kind of gritty, with great scenery. Yosemite is beautiful.

Billy Joel Documentary - got rec'd to me by four people, including a close friend. So decided to give it a whirl. It's good. But long. So will watch in snippets dragging it out. I'm learning stuff I did not know about Billy Joel - such as - he was in four different bands before he began truly writing his own music. One was a heavy metal band called Attila, which broke up when he had an affair with his band mate's wife, then was homeless, and tried to commit suicide twice, almost succeeded. The doc starts out, with him stating that he discovered that one learns best by failure, and recovery. Failing and trying again. He may have a point.

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Off to make dinner. Headache is blissfully gone along with sinus issues. Most likely because I took a generic form of Excedrin, and an Allegra. The combination of the two - nipped it in the bud. Difference between sinus headache and migraine? I can get rid of a sinus headache, also if I don't get rid of it - it will become a vertigo headache, which is never good.