dancinguniverse | The hardest to learn was the least complicated

So tonight Firefly airs again on SciFi Channel. About frakking time. I'm looking forward to Stargate and Battlestar, both new episodes, but I am looking forward to Firefly with almost the same amount of enthusiasm, and isn't that sad, because I've already seen all of those episodes enough to have them memorized.

There's a great article on why you should watch Firefly on SciFi if you haven't seen it yet. Let's go with "devoted," because "dangerously obsessive" sounds so negative. Also contains the line, "And remember, every time you support a canceled Fox show, somewhere a network executive loses his wings."

And I finished that Tanya Huff book . I loved it. Partially because of all the pop references (they mentioned Smallville and Buffy, just for starters), not the mention the main character is this guy named Tony who has just recently gotten out of a relationship with a vampire, Henry, because Henry was too possessive. And I thought this only happened on Angel slash sites.

All that aside, it was a really good book, nice characters, and that fun mix of fantasy and real life. I'm all for princes (well, Henry was a prince, but whatever), and dragons and castles, but it's just so much fun to have wizards and vampires running around in the streets of L.A. or New York or Newford (cookie to anyone who gets that reference). I wanted to get more of her books out of the library for the beach next week, but the entire county system only had one other book, it was checked out from another branch, and it wasn't part of the series I had just started, nor of the one involving any of the other characters from this book. Looks like there's a trip to B&N coming up.

I still want the Angel and Serenity comics, so maybe this is a good thing. Or a bad thing, since I will be spending a good deal of money, it appears, the next time I hit a bookstore.

And I have finally at least started my

alphabetasoup stories, but I stupidly did it on my new laptop. It has no A drive or internet, the memory card doesn't work on the desktop that does have internet, so my only option is to waste a CD by putting one Word document on it. Maybe I'll wait a bit, see if I can get a few more so it's not a total waste.

And I finally saw the new version of Peter Pan. Wow. It was great. That completely unrealistic beauty, and Peter was wonderful. He was just golden. No other word. And Lucius/evil man from Patriot was Hook, which was wonderful... just a great movie. The end of Peter Pan always kills me. I mean, I always loved the Disney version and the musical version I used to watch (Mary... someone, played Peter. I loved that version.), but it's only been the last few years that saw staged versions with the final ending, with Wendy grown up. Once you've seen that with adult eyes, you start seeing how the rest of it... I can't say it's not a kids' play. But I think it's perfect in that you don't see anything but the fun of it when you're a kid. It's only when you grow up that you miss that carefree attitude, that Neverland feeling.

Who doesn't wish they could be a kid forever, sometimes? For me, it's going back to playing kickball with the neighborhood kids until the late late hour of nine o'clock. It's playing fantastic games with nothing but Dad's old ties, sticks, and some stuffed animals in Mr. Carlos's backyard. Climbing trees and not caring about bugs and dirt and being really sweaty; new tennis shoes for summer and never caring about what you wore as long as it was good for playing fifty different versions of tag (freeze tag, toilet tag, regular tag, ball tag) and SPUD.

I miss those days a lot, sometimes.