Vanessa Fox. Nude.

If it’s Tuesday, it must be Buffy night. Tonight, we’re watching one of my all-time favorite episodes, The Dark Age. It includes this classic exchange:

Willow: I’m in Florence, Italy. I’ve rented a scooter that’s parked outside, and I’m in a little restaurant eating ziti, and there’s no more tables left, so they have to seat this guy with me, and it’s John Cusack.
Buffy: Very impressive. You have such an eye for detail!
Willow: ‘Cause, with the ziti.
Xander: What are you two up to?
Buffy: Just having a quick game of “anywhere but here.”
Xander: Oh. Amy Yip at the waterslide park.
Willow: You never come up with anything new.
Xander: I’m just not fickle like you two, okay? I’m constant in my affections. Amy Yip at the waterslide park.

Clearly, I’m making ziti tonight for dinner.

Speaking of Buffy, surely you all saw how the touring show of the Buffy musical episode: “Once More With Feeling” was shut down for so-called copyright infringement. You can sign the petition to voice your outrage. Or order some musical kits from the uncoolkids site and hold your own Buffy musical party. Having attended the touring show before it was so cruelly shut down, I can tell you that the kit and an assorted group of friends who will loudly (and badly) sing along are worth every penny.

This has been your regularly scheduled Buffy blogging. Tune in every random Tuesday for more Buffy goodness. Bonus Buffy mention at Search Engine Land.

ETA: True story that I just was recounting to a coworker and meant to include originally but clearly I haven’t had enough Diet Coke today. I was talking to Eytan, who you may have seen around, and I was saying that I wasn’t sure what we should munch on during the Buffyness. And he was like, ziti! ‘Cause the cheese! And yum, who doesn’t like cheese. And then I started thinking about how the episode we were going to watch featured ziti, as evidenced above. Only I didn’t mention that at the time since I figured knowing a random Buffy quote about pasta might be a little frightening for someone who I think still is a little scared every time he comes to Buffy night and quite possibly pauses at the door and wonders if he really wants to brave the kooky intelligent and insightful Buffy crowd. However, CLEARLY if he was thinking ziti for the same night we were planning to watch the ziti episode, he must, deep down, be a fanatical Buffy fan. He just doesn’t know it yet.