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From an article about James Marsters and Spike:

Having both battled and bedded Buffy, Marsters is asked which is more fun, the romantic relationship or the adversarial one.

"Man, it's one and the same, isn't it?" he exclaimed.

In "Buffy's" exquisite musical episode, "Once More With Feeling," Spike sang that "if my heart could beat, it would break my chest," later imploring: "Let me take my love and bury it in a hole six foot deep/ Why won't you let me rest in peace?"

But it wasn't long before his conflicted emotions exploded in "Seeing Red," possibly the season's darkest, most disturbingly violent episode, in which Spike attempted to rape Buffy on the floor of her bathroom.

"I can't watch it," said Marsters of that scene. "That's the hardest day of work in my life. I went home shattered after that. I don't think I've still picked up the pieces of that one. Sometimes the work gets real tough, I've got to say. When the writing is that good and they're cutting that close to the bone, it can surprise you sometimes how it can rock you."

The recollection prompted Marsters to depart from his lighthearted banter with the Shore-Leave fans. "Ladies, repeat after me," he said somberly. "If a man isn't good to others, he isn't going to be good to you."

He has a size 28 waist. 28. That's... like... Wow. Tiny.

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And on the note of me. Got massage. Massage was good. Afterwards my ears popped, my sinuses drained and my ankle was better. I was impressed. I got food, I went home. That's when thigns got kind of ... ugly. My mood started to disintegrate around 9 - 9:30. I noticed around 10 and by 10:30 I was forcing myself to go to sleep before I did or said anything more stupid than I already had.

It was too hot to sleep. I drifted in a haze of too warm and had some rather horrible dreams, most of which had considerable amounts of blood in them. Not pretty. Bleh.

Tonight will be better. I know it will. Stupid heat.

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Are there any characters in literature or theater or even just pop culture that you relate to? Anyone that spoke to you when you read them?

I used to relate to Eponine from Les Miserables. I can still see where I did, though I certainly don't now. (And for the record, I still have no emapthy for Cosette. None.)

I can't think of any character I've read recently that I identify with in that way.

Interesting...

http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/News/08/14/gay.comics.ap/index.html

Well, I'd been thinking about picking up Green Lantern for a look anyway...

*adds that to list of comic books to looks at and decide if I want them or not*

Wow. My name is cooler than I thought.

KATRINA f /ka-TREE-na/ English
Variant of CATRIONA

CATRIONA f /ka-TREE-na/ Irish, Scottish
Gaelic form of KATHERINE

KATHERINE f /KATH-u-rin/ English
From the Greek name Aikaterine. The etymology is debated: it could derive from the earlier Greek name Hekaterine, which came from hekateros "each of the two"; it could derive from the name of the goddess HECATE; it could be related to Greek aikia "torture"; or it could be from a Coptic name meaning "my consecration of your name". The Romans falsely derived it from Greek katharos "pure" and changed their spelling from Katerina to Katharina to reflect this. The name belonged to a 4th-century saint and martyr from Alexandria who was tortured on the famous Catherine wheel. This name was also borne by two empresses of Russia, including Catherine the Great, and by three of Henry VIII's wives.

http://www.behindthename.com Thanks le_merle.