Buffy Anne Summers, aka

Apparently, I’m expected, by the force of mere words and personality, to jump start a community here. I gotta tell you, that’s a fairly tough assignment for a shadow guy. What I mean to say is, I fight evil, but I do it in my own way, sniping from the shadows. I’m a ghost, and I’ve mostly stayed away from the limelight, and being six foot five and built like a trash truck, that hasn’t always been easy.

Anyone who knows me knows this just ain’t my usual kind of gig. Ain’t. There’s that promised eloquence.

But a friend asked me to do it, and I owed him for getting me out of a tight spot, and so here I am.

Oh yes. And I do love Buffy.

Anyhow, our conversation went something like this:

"Hey, Eli, you like Buffy, I mean you watch Buffy, right?"

"Yeah. So?"

"How about hosting a Buffy blog on a new web site I have in mind?"

"Buffy’s beautiful, but blogging about her day in and day out’s not my sort of thing."

"But you owe me, and you can write, and you don’t have to stick with Buffy all the time, just kind of keep her a central subject from time to time, and you owe me."

Yeah. Well, in the interest of full disclosure, he didn’t actually say I owed him. I just felt that part was implicit.

So here I am. Not entirely comprehending how I got here or what is expected or what this blogging is really all about.

Maybe I’ll get a feel for it, maybe some kind souls out there will let me know what they expect, and what they don’t. Or maybe we can just get into endless mindlessness. Or whatever. Anyway, it beats bouncing, it beats shooting at strangers and being shot at, and I’d rather be blogging here in the States than dying over there.

I tell you I’m all done with war, man — or at least I wanna be.

So if you think this blog will be limited to discussions of Buffy, that’s not the intent. I’ll talk about the show and probably about the comic books, etc., maybe see what can be done to get a second movie in the works, but that’s not the sole reason I’m here, nor would it be sufficient.

Like I told you, I fight evil, and around here evil will be whatever and whenever I say it is, and as likely as not it often will be closely associated with politics and mass media and stupidity — and all the billionaires and wannabes who won’t be satisfied until they own all our souls — and if I then change my mind and contradict myself in the next post, that’s okay too. Every day above ground I’m just learning, just trying to make this life and times make some kind of sense, and I can’t claim I always do. That’s just how I roll.

Wishing you monsters. Until next time.