Annotations

Annotations:

Spike: Acquiring Minds Want to Know
- Hisano originally appeared in my story �Occupational Hazards.� His physical appearance is based on Leslie Cheung in �Bride with the White Hair.�
- Spike�s conversation with the second guard, Isamu, about job satisfaction, is intentionally reminiscent of Ford Prefect�s conversation with the Vogon guard in �The Hitchhiker�s Guide to the Galaxy.�

Tara: Miss Kitty Fantastico Finds Love
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Cordelia: Greetings from Terminal Island, California
- Terminal Island is a federal prison. Thanks to wwolfe for telling me this is where Cordy�s parents would have ended up.
- This story is also the first mention of the feast season of the Saint of Torturers. This is a device I used to give everyone a vacation. Incidentally, the Saint of Torturers is me � it�s one of my Dark Side honorifics.
- Nature�s Spirit Body Shop is a health food and organic cosmetics shop in Havre de Grace, Maryland. My former sister-in-law used to send me birthday presents from there.
- Ben and Jerry�s Heath Bar Crunch is my favorite ice cream.
- The neighbor practicing his guitar is wwolfe, who we learned lives in Cordelia�s building in my story, �Touch the Ground.�

Oz: Boy on a String
- The title is from a song by David Mead.
- Thanks to wwolfe again for the gift of a book that supplied a good deal of information about day-to-day life in a circus.
- Enid is named for a Barenaked Ladies song.
- Bema says �shoosh.� Little SO to Xander�s Woman.

Riley: They Do the Walk, The Walk of Life
- The title is from a song by Dire Straits
- W.P. Kinsella wrote �Shoeless Joe,� upon which the movie �Field of Dreams� is based. The comment about �marrying outside the faith� is from a Kinsella story, as well.

A Mystery Guest: Part of the Solution
- A story-long SO to my friend Enigma (aka Enigam) for her birthday. In Buffy�s world, this might be what she went into.
- Phalanx in an ancient Roman military formation that was pretty much unstoppable at the time, allowing Rome to conquer much of the known world.

Wesley: Seven Day Cruise
- A cruise, in this context, is a road trip, not unlike wwolfe took a few weeks ago.
- Besides Tim Powers�s �Last Call,� this story has influences from Piers Anthony�s �Tarot� series and the song �Cat-Eye Willie Claims His Lover� by Dave Carter.

Giles: Open Mike Night
- The comment about bleached-blondes and red convertibles is from an old Firesign Theatre routine.
- The term �Javanistas� may be common now (I don�t know), but I first heard it at the �Godfrey Daniels� coffeehouse on 4th St. (positively 4th St.) in Bethlehem, PA. Ellen, Marsh, and Otto are all regs there, and the incident with the guitar amp actually happened (although it wasn�t really Otto who did it). They also do the thing with the Scrabble tiles.

Angel, Spike, Gunn: The Hunting of the Snark
- The title is from a poem by Lewis Carroll, but actually refers to all of Spike�s �snarky� comments (as they say over at MBTV).

Xander: The Great Outdoors
- All the nicknames: Captain Shaggy (Xander) from Shaggy of �Scooby-Doo� (of course). Psychlo- the name of the dread-locked aliens from �Battlefield Earth� (worst movie of the year). Chalupa- one of the specialties offered by the good people at Taco Bell. Zippy- from the comic �Zippy the Pinhead.� Ski- short for the boy�s real last name. All five boys (including �Dawg� whose name should be self explanatory) are based, I�m almost embarrassed to admit, on guys who work on the team I supervise at work.
- Comment about getting voted off the island- a reference to �Survivor� and a SO to my RL buddy djeber.
- Comment about the evil breakfast food- a SO to Bagel (of course).

A Lack of New Fanfic
- The comment about someone being so adorable you want to put them in your pocket is from David Sedaris�s radio essay �The Santaland Diaries.�
- The comment about the fries and dipping sauce is from the11thhour.com
- The comment about Spike�s cheekbones is from wwolfe.

Doyle: A Day in the Life
- The demon mocks Doyle�s accent with a line from an old Bugs Bunny cartoon (�ye might, rabbit, ye might�)
- Don Corleone is �The Godfather� from the novel and movie of the same name.
- Doyle is given the job of �Towel Boy� at Madame Dorian�s (SO to DB, my spiritual fianc�).

Spike: Hope I Die Before I Get Old
- The title is from the Who song, �My Generation.�
- The 1968 Chrysler Imperial- this was the car my mother drove when I was small.

Angel: Adventures in Babysitting
- As many of you noted, Angel is reading �Harry Potter and the Sorcerer�s Stone� as the story begins.
- The bobbin lace reference was a SO to Enigma.
- This story was influenced both by jenm and frogmomma�s baby discussions and a question XW asked about what babies are thinking when they hug you and squeal with delight.

Faith: And the Greatest of These�
- Title is from Paul�s first Letter to the Corinthians, verses 13:12-13, in the New Testament: �For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, and love abide; but the greatest of these is love.�
- Miriam (Rhonda Mae Gallagher) is modeled on several real-life women, most notably Karla Faye Tucker, who was executed in Texas last year.

Buffy: Surf City
- The three friends are from the �Buffy� movie, as is �Merrick,� Buffy�s first Watcher.

Joss Whedon: An Open Fanfic
- Gisele is the supermodel of the moment, rumored to be dating Leonardo DiCaprio. Thanks, �Rolling Stone,� for inserting that useless fact into my brain. This is why I let my subscription lapse, you should know.
- I have no idea how much search engine deals are made for, and to the best of my knowledge there is no real decorating style known as �neo-American.�

Words That Surprisingly (to me, anyway) Are Not Recognized by Spell-Check:
Showtime, Cartwheeling, Ursa, Crackhead, Chainmail, Crescendo�ed, Snark, Lockpick, Groundcloth, Sackful, Skanky, Drugmaker, Vampiric, Jello, Unlife, Alleycat, Seafoam, Latina, Chipperness, Ensouled

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