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Mar. 20th, 2005 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nameandnatureSo busy. Jo had a party on Thursday at which there was dancing. The CDC Ball was on Friday, in the Guildhall in Cambridge. The floor was a little slippy, but it was good to have one in Cambridge as people could come and go as they pleased. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bluap had a pancake party on Saturday, at which I spent some time talking to jacquic about Buffy and enthused about Firefly (of which more below). I think I also mentioned the cats and robot vacuum cleaners link, so there it is. I want a robot vacuum cleaner.
Today was tea and cakes party, which seems very Cambridge, and a chance to catch up with people I don't see that often.
In other news, I recently finished watching the DVD of Firefly, Joss Whedon's science fiction series, which was prematurely cancelled by the US TV network which had sponsored it. It's the Western-in-space which Star Wars wanted to be, but better. The series follows the crew of Serenity, an unarmed freighter, as they make their living out of various dubious schemes and attract the attention of some very bad people when they give shelter to a couple of fugitives. It has Whedon's trademark witty dialogue, and presents a more consistent universe than Buffy (it's not hard science fiction by any means, but there's nothing so glaringly wrong that it distracts you from the story). Once again Whedon gives us a close-knit group of people whose struggles we come to care about. Fortunately, the show's cancellation wasn't the end: there's a film, Serenity coming out later this year.
bluap had a pancake party on Saturday, at which I spent some time talking to jacquic about Buffy and enthused about Firefly (of which more below). I think I also mentioned the cats and robot vacuum cleaners link, so there it is. I want a robot vacuum cleaner.Today was tea and cakes party, which seems very Cambridge, and a chance to catch up with people I don't see that often.
In other news, I recently finished watching the DVD of Firefly, Joss Whedon's science fiction series, which was prematurely cancelled by the US TV network which had sponsored it. It's the Western-in-space which Star Wars wanted to be, but better. The series follows the crew of Serenity, an unarmed freighter, as they make their living out of various dubious schemes and attract the attention of some very bad people when they give shelter to a couple of fugitives. It has Whedon's trademark witty dialogue, and presents a more consistent universe than Buffy (it's not hard science fiction by any means, but there's nothing so glaringly wrong that it distracts you from the story). Once again Whedon gives us a close-knit group of people whose struggles we come to care about. Fortunately, the show's cancellation wasn't the end: there's a film, Serenity coming out later this year.
