Y'know that cold I had over the weekend? I gave it to my fiance. He can't complain, though, seeing as he willingly exposed himself to the germs...
The main reason I wanted to post in this thread was to reproduce the article about Buffy easter eggs (yes, they are available in the UK: don't miss out on the chance to combine Buffy and chocolate) that was in my paper today. Mucho amusing:
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Object of the week: Buffy Easter Egg
The oval that men doAccording to my source on these matters, the 1930 edition of the Waverly Children's Dictionary, presents of eggs have long been made at Easter, as symbols of the resurrection. The name Easter is itself pagan - from Eostre, the goddess of spring and/or the dawn - but the Waverly Children's Encyclopaedia is confident in its assertion that the egg thing is a Christian thing. That's why it's perfectly appropriate to purchase and consume a festive Weakest Link Easter Egg. It's still really about Jesus coming back to life.
But Buffy? It seems like Buffy and her mates have a pretty pre-Christian worldview, and yet I don't see the goddess of spring figuring too heavily in the story lines either. I somehow get the feeling that Easter is a low-key affair round Buffy's place; no bonnets, no egg hunts. You can make a tenuous connection with the Weakest Link Easter Egg (blessed are the Weakest Links, as Jesus might have said, for they shall inherit some lovely chocolate), or the Hear'Say Easter Egg (pop group dies, is reborn a few days later), or even with the Pop Idol Easter Egg (the dawn of a new singing career, Will Young's slightly egg-shaped head) but Buffy and Easter just don't sit right.
Of course, if you're the manufacturer, the connection is glaringly obvious: it's Easter, and we've got the Buffy licensing deal. The folks at Bon Bon Buddies, who make this product, have clearly taken their popular Buffy "Milk Chocolates with Morphing Mouse Mat" and hastily repackaged it minus the milk chocolates and adding instead a chocolate egg in purple foil. The juxtaposition of egg and mouse mat is odd in itself, although the mouse mat bears a Buffy quotation, "If the apocalypse comes... beep me", which is sort of Eastery. We can safely assume, however, that the connection was not intentional.
Of course it might be said that Buffy, in her role as a vampire "Slayer", acts upon the undead much in the same way that a crucifix does, albeit with more kick-ass force. The crucifix is the central symbol of Easter, indeed of Christianity, and we might care to regard Buffy as a modern equivalent. I would even dare to describe Buffy as a sort of all-American version of the Messiah (the mouse mat also says "into each generation a Slayer is born") unless there is some kind of blasphemy legislation pending that I don't know about. All in all, that's as far as I'm prepared to stretch the point; the Waverly Children's Dictionary is fairly reticent on this sort of thing, so I can't even check my facts.
(Original article here.)
I'm so glad that we in the UK get a 4-day week (Good Friday and Easter Monday as public holidays), so only 2 days to go...
Of course, I would have to have a 4-day week when I'm snowed under with all the work which built up while I was on holiday AND one of my colleagues is off ill so I have to do her work AND I'm doing extra work because another colleague is on maternity leave AND I have to show a new employee the ropes. Gee, d'you think they're trying to make my head explode with the stress or something? *sigh*
Anyway, enough rambling. Have a happy Tuesday, kitties!
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