Got this email from a random person… why on earth it was sent to me I can’t fathom… oh yeah, I’m obsessed with Orli. Point is, I don’t know who Jarek Koziol is. Weird.

Hey…do you like orlando bloom????

I just LOVE him!!!!!!

He’s tall, hansom, brown eyes, and English!!!!!!! Yummy!!!!!

Excessive use of punctuation, anyone?

Forums 4 Fans: Cherishing Max and Liz #445…”Please say honestly you won’t give up on me…” (Roswell (1)) In the end it’s not the years in your life that matters, but the life in your years.

~Abe Lincoln

Thanks to Destiny_sucks on ff.

Wait, there’s more….

What Lion King Character are You? by Prism.
And if I cared about Mario Kart at all, I’d be happy with this… I usually lose, though.

and I knew I would get this one:
It’s not easy being green…

	You are Kermit! Though you’re technically the star, you’re pretty mellow and don’t mind letting others share the spotlight. You are also something of a dreamer.
Take the What Muppet Are You? Quiz!

Okay, that’s it for tonight. I need to sleep. Quel kaima!

I’m a top hat:

Take the Monopoly Piece Quiz!

What

internet slang are YOU? | by brit

And Harry… one day I will get around to reading the fourth book…

What Harry Potter student are you?

And now for something completely pointless…

The Completely Pointless Personality Quiz

And yeah, it’s all about the brains, baby! Which are feeling pretty damn lackluster

right about now, and just a little inferior…

What is your meaning of life?

not like I remember the 100-acre wood or anything, but if I were a Pooh character,

it’s this one (and I don’t know any better as to if this is good or not):

Take the 100 Acre Personality Quiz!

Although it’s comforting that I am not 100% addicted like my mother says, I

don’t think I’m quite this balanced…

Engineer, know thyself. I knew I was a green person! (Hey, I am the Green Lady (Calenhíril))

Okay, I think that was all. There’s a survey so you can learn all about me,

once I actually do it, so look out for that at some point in the future. Might

not be near future, but give me time.

I’m tired of being alone, so hurry up and get here

You’d be so good, you’d be so good for me

–John Mayer

Arrgh. Carrie has been here. I had this huge post of quiz whoring. And my post on the roswell thread isn’t showing up. Grr, arrgh. I’ll see if I can reconstruct it.

Which Classification are You?

PG-13

Now we’re getting somewhere – your actions are
now past pre-teen level, and you’re beginning to
display some more mature content in your life

“Which Movie Classification Are You?”
Test created by Jamie – take it here.

You are the classic yellow squeeky toy.

Find your inner rubber ducky.

Haha. It’s kind of sad that I took a test to find out something that I already knew… I fully know that I am NOT Canadian in any way:

I am 33% CANADIAN!!!You must be a foreigner, you aren’t very Canadian at all (Take the Canadian-ness test)

Last one:

Which Video Game Console are you? brought to you byStan Ryker

you know it baby! Quiz whore strikes again!


Just stuffed full of surprises. No one ever knows what you’re going to do next. The greatest mystery to you is, naturally, “how do they get the caramel in the Caramilk bars?”

Roswell – Why You Should Care About Alien Teenagers

By Brian Ford Sullivan

Indeed why should you care about a television show that has aliens posing as teenagers?

The short answer is you should, but of course I wouldn’t need to write this if you did. The truth is that it’s very rare that something original is made on television. As much as I love the medium it’s bound to stay close to the status quo. New hits like “Judging Amy” and “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” while interesting in their own right are still nonetheless the status quo revisited. Cops and robbers; going home to reevaluate your life; we’ve been down these roads before. As nice as it is to revisit such things it is nonetheless a road travelled. It’s for these reasons “Roswell” is so special. It is a road not taken.

I don’t even want you to think of aliens or anything of that sort right now. I want you to think about your experiences growing up (or if you are still a teenager what’s going on in your life right now). Think about the loneliness you felt, the times when you just wanted to fit in for once, the heartache of unrequited love. We’ve all felt these things because they are universal to every one growing up. They are the moments in out lives we never can quite forget or outlive. They are memories that define who we are and what will become of us.

So what does this have to do with aliens? (I told you not to think about that yet.) Actually I was just getting to that. You see in the quest for originality on television, we’ve only begun to stumble on the power of metaphor. Generally confined to hard science fiction, metaphor was used to tell stories about ourselves involving groups of people vastly different from us. Shows like “Star Trek” and “Babylon 5” used these heavy-handedly to illustrate themes of everything from racsim to xenophobia to exploring dreams and fears. It was only recently that this storytelling method was brought out in a less overt form to the television landscape. In Joss Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” the themes of literally “high school is hell” and questions about identity, honour, and duty were dealt with in a show about a girl who hunts vampires and other undead creatures.

Sounds impossible doesn’t it?

As insurmountable as it sounds, it’s not. I mean think about it. What makes you pay more attention – a show that tells you what it’s about up front or a show that you have to read into? I’d take the latter anyday.

Now let’s jump back to when I was talking about your experiences growing up. Think about if someone told you about their experiences as a metaphor. I mean all the fables we listened to as kids were metaphors for experiences we would have. Why then does it not make sense to make the stories we listen to as adults metaphors as well?

Make no mistake this is no easy task. Shows that use fantasy or science fiction elements as a means to explore the human experience tow a fine line between alianating (no pun intended) the audience with something totally unfamiliar to them. That’s why it takes a special group of writers, actors and directors to pull it off.

Such a show is “Roswell”.

What’s so great about Roswell you ask?

Well here is an AMAZING article by Brian Ford Sullivan who answers that question much more eloquently that I can. 🙂 It was borrowed gratiously from Mr. Sullivan and no infringement is intended! 🙂

Found this on this page. It’s actually an old article, but it’s still valid. I still love Roswell. Sigh.

I’m dreaming, I know.