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So, I watched the Superbowl on Sunday. There are two reasons for this. One is that I'm now living in a house with two guys, and one of them is a huge football fan, and Joel is slowly being converted. The second reason I watched it was because, well, lets look at the teams involved here. We have the Oakland Raiders, with their eyepatched pirate football player logo, and then the Tampa Bay *Buccaneers*. So, basically, what was allegedly the 'Super'bowl was really the *Pirate*bowl. And the real pirates (the Buccaneers) won. Also, there was lasagne and chocolate chip cookies. aharr.

Something else I watched this morning: an Episode of Forever Knight. NOw, this was a Canadian made show, set in Toronto. I don't knwo if it ever got much play in the States or overseas, so I'll explain it a bit. It's about this Vampire, see, with a conscience. And he has to go around helping people out, to assuage his guilt over all the great evils he has done in the past. Now, this show first aired in *1992*. Anyway, it amuses me, to see that Angel is so like this show in someways. I think Nick Knight was older, though (embraced in the 1200's), and he sire, LaCroix, was certainly *fathoms* above Darla in coolness as a sire. He had a good voice, and cool characterization, and the guy who played him (Oatmeal commercials aside) was an awesome actor. Nick is a night beat cop, and his partner's name is Skanky. No, really. Nick calls him Skank. :D
Anyway, the episode was the one with the Vietnamese Vampire, for those of you who know the show. Basically, when Nick was in Vietnam (as a red cross doctor, already doing his repentence schtick), some American marines killed a whole village for no real reasn (trigger happy). Nick rages on about how it isn't fair. Back in the modern day, it turns out that the captain of that squad has moved to Canada with a false passport, etc, and is now helping out street kids. But someone has been methodically hunting down all members of his squad. Nick and Skank figure out the easy bits, and then Nick realize that it is a Vampire killing them. He locates LaCroix (who is an awesome night time radio DJ... he goes by Nightcrawler. And all his lines seem specifically designed to taunt Nicholas) and confronts him. It turns out that LaCroix turned the last surviving villager, so that he could avenge his friends and family. He did it because of Nick's desire for vengence, and hey, isn't that what he is getting? Of course, Nick now has to stop the Vietnamese guy (who is hot, btw). He catches up with the marine and the vamp at an airfield. There ios confrontation. The marine just wants to know, in the end, whether or not the guy was Viet-Kong (or however that's spelled. you know what I mean), since that was the reason they were in the village and interrogating people, when the killing started. The guy says yes, the marine shoots himself (guilty over having let the massacre happen), and then the Vietnamese vampire walks out into the sun.

Arr, that was a good show.

yay, my Diablotin character jsut eloped :D Go Kalman :D Although I don't envie his first day of married life, when he has to confront his parents (who have Bad History with her parents), and her parents (who have said history and also just dislike him because he took away their daughter's precious flower at the tender age of 14 ;)

Anyway, that's enough for me :o That was very exciting, though. I'm glad I have to walk home and 'cool down' before I have to sleep ;)