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My 20th anniversary college class reunion is coming up shortly at The People's Glorious Soviet of Middletown. It so happens that we will be in Maine that weekend for Dad's memorial service, so all bets are off.

I hadn't been planning to go anyway, but just might have changed my mind when I noticed this scheduled seminar item:

A Conversation with Joss Whedon ’87: Things and Stuff

Join this creator of cult figures who will talk about his career, thoughts on education and work, his life at Wesleyan and his future plans, plus anything else the audience wants to ask. Introduction: Jeanine D. Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, curator of the cinema archives, chair of the film studies program, and 1996 recipient of the Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching Presenter: Joss Whedon ’87, film and television writer who was the creator and executive producer of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly; he is known as an “A-list” screenwriter and script doctor, and has written/co-written films that include Toy Story, Alien, Resurrection, and Titan A.E.

Yeah, might have been worth it. My question? Why the hell he had to kill off Wash.

(Oh, speaking of Memorial Day travel plans, Sooper-Sekret Message to Gary and the Random Penseur - we'll be stopping in Stamford on Sunday and the Missus has already given me permission to hang out in the hotel bar while she takes the Llama-ettes swimming, so if you're interested in getting together, maybe we can work something out.)