Fandom Radio, November 10 (Tuesday)

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Lacey: Hi, everyone. Happy Tuesday! At least, I hope it's a happy Tuesday. One thing you can say for sure, today's going to be hard to beet, huh?

Katchoo: I'm going to hurt you. If I don't hurt you before we even get to the notes it'll be a miracle.

Lacey: Aw, come on, what's wrong with a little humor? Lettuce enjoy this while we can. Endive right on in. *giggle* Having a little fun with this isn't that chard, is it? Tell me, honestly. Have you ever bean mallow?

Katchoo: Hurting you. So. Bad.

Lacey: Have you never tried?

Katchoo: I'll give you something to find inside if you don't quit with the punning. Like jammed down your throat.

Lacey: I might leek it.

Katchoo: *FEEDBACK*



Classes

Lacey: Well, I don't know if I could've pulled it off, but score one for Anemone keeping the vegetables at bay in the library by eating one in front of them.

Katchoo: Some people might say that's kinda hardcore. Speaking of which, World Wars and the Media covered D-Day today, complete with lecture and film clips, and Dinah the TA. Mitchell believed Kate about missing class last week because she was a cat, but not so much about the vegetables. HOW COULD YOU MISS THEM? THEY'RE FRIKKIN' EVERYWHERE! Dinah told him she was off to go kill things -- only in this school, I swear. Jenny Sparks told Mitchell she hoped he'd cover some Winston Churchill speeches this semester. People are just suckers for a good speech sometimes. Classical Genre . . . heh. They got to stare at Rick standing on the desk, fending off vegetables with a broom. They could've talked to him, too, if they wanted to fight their way past the squash. So what'd they do? Discuss what James Bund would've done. I'm thinkin' something involving a stupidly high-tech SlapChop.

Lacey: But hopefully minus the crazy infomercial guy.

Katchoo: Now you're getting a ShamWow for Christmas. I hope you know that.

Lacey: Oh, sure, ruin the surprise. Helen's TA duties today probably included helping to defend against the vegetable incursion. Meanwhile, in Anyone Can Cook, Chef Tatou threw out the week's lesson plan in favor of sending her students out to chop -- or cube, or dice, or mince, maybe -- vegetables. Just remember, you have to hold the knife properly to --

Katchoo: Yeah, you're not the one teaching the class, Lacey.

Lacey: *sigh* People could read about Thanksgiving, if they weren't up to veggie wars, or possibly boggle at Helen's knife-arm, the way Colette did. Or they could sign up to bring dishes for Thanksgiving dinner. Kate apologized to Colette, too, for missing class due to last week's case of felinity, and Priestly my intrepid employee was around for TA duties. Which reminds me, if any of you other kids are looking for a job, I do have --

Katchoo: LACEY! God. Fandom in the Real World talked about gremlin bites, and I hope you get bitten by one. Somewhere during the lecture, Raven and Mat talked about whether they've been gremlin bitten. They haven't. And now I hate you both. Jason's back, and talked to Aeryn about making up the work he missed. This is gonna be a theme, since he did the same thing talkin' to Kirk after Sex Thru the Ages, all about how important virginity is in modern society. One word. Overrated. The whole importance thing is, anyway. So's the movie they watched, at least according to Diana during the discussion. Where Karla explained stuff about how it is back home for her. Nobody talked to Algren, though. Bummer.

Lacey: That is a shame. He's preeeeeeeeeetty.

Katchoo: I think you've taken one too many rutabagas to the head today, Lacey. Fred was eating the attacking baby carrots in his office.

Lacey: Oh, gosh. All wriggly and everything?

Katchoo: Ew. Summer got attacked on her way into her office; you could tell by the state of her clothes. Anakin was on an online toy-buying spree, and I don't know why he even tries to do things in his office some days, with all the visitors he gets. Today it was Hayley, who had no clue . . . about the vegetables, Jaina, who filled him in on the last couple of rough weeks, and Raven. Someone make that girl a t-shirt that says "Groupie" already.

Dorms

Lacey: Looks like the Reserves got to do their thing today out behind the dorms, defending students from the rampaging radishes and such. Arthur and Leto teamed up to do some chopping, and a bird -- *chittering* Who is Merlin, apparently? Took on some cabbages, and dropped a tomato on Leto. Oops?

Katchoo: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH GAWD.

Lacey: Right. Jennifer Walters was green, to match the vegetables, I guess, and Arthur hoped she didn't give the island ideas about zombie lettuce. Oh, I hope not. I'm having enough problems with my compost bin as it is. Illyria was, and I quote, "not taking any crap" from the vegetables, to the point that Arthur was almost impressed. Kennedy was annoyed that she had to fight vegetables and got yelled at by Arthur to pay attention, then teamed up with Dinah to slice up pumpkins. Dinah and Arthur tried to figure out what was going on, and Karla was excited about the insanity. And then started rhyming at the vegetables with Dinah. Aww, that's cute. Ben Skywalker told Arthur he wasn't about to lose to vegetables, and Mat's disgust at them got him a history lesson in the mutant alligator invasion from Arthur. Tahiri's Jedi veggie-fighting got grudging praise from Arthur, and then she and Ben teamed up to smash a gourd.

Katchoo: . . . that sprayed its guts all over Mat and Kennedy. Tiny Creepy Kid, I don't care if that was an accident, I'm giving you points for that just this once. I can't decide if I like her less than you. Karla took veggies out with magic, and Arthur told her to create a barrier between them and the dorms. Can't say I'm complaining except for how I had to come down here. Other stuff happening this morning and afternoon: Cordelia got gremlin-bitten. Oops. Kate got a visit from Leto, probably a good thing that it happened after she showered cucumber gunk off. Joan found someone's stuff in her room -- turns out it's Penelope's since she's back and all. Claire's relaxing evening in got a wrench thrown in when Sam Winchester came to give her bad news about Peter. Least Dinah and Jon O'Neill were around to do the support-and-comfort thing. Kennedy was up on the roof tonight whining on the phone about having to fight vegetables. Oh, geez. Get over it.

Lacey: This coming from the queen of water under the bridge . . .

Katchoo: IT MEANS I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. Raven offered to heal her, because she does that, and Kennedy thought it was a come-on. Bet Raven didn't get why. Leda asked Raven about her day and talked to Kennedy about the evils of asparagus. Whaddya want? It's less messy than the frikkin' pumpkins.

Lacey: Not if you overcook it enough . . .

Katchoo: Thank you, font of mostly useless knowledge. Francine's up in our room with way too much food -- save some for me, Francie? Arthur came by to -- WHAT? WHAT?

*chittering* *cash register ka-ching sound effect*

Katchoo: Bite me, fuzzballs. I'm not paying him. And Merlin -- heh, bird -- was there and I better not find a present on my pillow, is all I'm saying. And we got a late report here about Elena channel-surfing in the fifth floor common room. At infomercial hour. Fun.

Town

Lacey: Vegetable invasions aside, some people had quiet days in town. Book Haven was safe for Hinata, Covent Garden Flowers's inventory didn't rise up and go after Ino, the only thing getting attacked at MHA was the paperwork Loki was stabbing -- and sometimes it wasn't so quiet. Cafe Fina's staff was safe thanks to Lion-O's spirited defense --

Katchoo: You sound like a sports announcer trying too hard.

Lacey: -- and Momoko thought the vegetable stew special was funny. Didi got driven out of Turtle and Canary when the canned vegetables got loose oh my gosh my storeroom it's not like the cream soda wasn't enough of a problem as it is. Layla was hiding in a Barbie-guraded box fort at Things Reborn, Ellie told the Gig horses they weren't getting carrots today while Mr. Twain stomped on vegetables. That might put a cramp in the carrots thing. There was an artichoke incident on Apocalypse Avenue that Gibbs sent Ralph and the troopers to handle, Oz was kicking vegetables at Coyote Medicine, Jono tussled with salad mix at Groovy Tunes, Tim declared the Android's Dungeon a vegetable-free zone, Sophie was picking off veggies from the roof of Fourth Dimension Art Gallery with a BB gun, a gremlin-bitten Cordelia was trying on every skimpy skirt at Pixie Dust, and Jack O'Neill picked them off from the deck of his boat.

Katchoo: Mary was hiding under the desk to stay out of vegetable range, and Arya wanted to know if she wanted to know what was going on, but what I want to know is, did you help her? Castiel was smiting the vegetables away from the church, and Francine -- Francine? -- helped out with an umbrella and got offered sanctuary inside the church. Tyler met and bonded with the guy over killing things. Figures. Gabrielle was there too, smashing tomatoes. Then there was Jak, no-K, smashing tomatoes in the streets with a rickshaw. Momoko thought this was awesome, apparently.. At Dite's Decadent Delights Raven got traumatized by the living vegetables until Aphrodite showed up with a butcher knife to fight them off and I'll take sentences I never thought I'd say for $1300, Alex.

Lacey: Drake was in the park, trying to reason with the vegetables. I'll never be able to look at FarmVille the same way again. Diana got the veggies to explode by throwing a pizza box at them, and in exchange got to hear all about how the vegetables were nibbling Drake's butt. Drake helped Robin the frog deal with a bunch of onions, and luckily he likes them on pizza. Sirius wanted to know if this was a hallucination, and when he found out it wasn't, he traded wand jokes with Drake.

Katchoo: Men. They never grow up. Sophie had to flee asparagus while putting up posters for the benefit for the Boards, and got rescued by Priestly.

Lacey: That's my employee! I'm so proud.

Katchoo: Yeah. Robin went for the scotch as soon as she got to Caritas tonight. Think the vegetable goo kinda justified that. Damon got to meet her, and if you go by Lacey's flailing and 'eeee'-ing over here that oughta make up for his ruined shirt. Tyler and Tony-the-pony -- heh -- showed up for booze and Robin wasn't sure how to take the pony thing. Then again, Tyler didn't know how to take the vegetable thing either. 's what happens. Tully needed rum, and pumpkin pie recipes. Pretty sure Caritas was more likely to have the rum.

Lacey: And that's it.

Katchoo: Yay. Now we get to go home.

Lacey: Through the piles of vegetable goo . . .

Katchoo: Work's gonna be fuuuuuuuuuuuuun for you for a while, innit?

Lacey: Actually, work'll be fine. It's just . . .

Katchoo: Yeah, I hope you're turned off that stupid FarmVille game for a while now.

Lacey: No. Never. And since we're done, good night, Fandom!

Katchoo: She's gonna have nightmares ab-- *click*