7
“If you spent your whole life on a motorway, he thought, you wouldn’t remember a thing.”
Rupert Thomson, Soft
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Buoyed by my activities, I got a takeaway curry, settled in front of the TV. Watched for a few hours without registering a whole lot. Then Buffy came on. Despite myself, I started to pay attention. Count Dracula had a guest appearance. Buffy asked him why he’d come. He hissed,
“For the sun?”
Was smiling despite myself. Angel followed next. He’s a vampire good guy. This episode, he was forced to sing in a demon karaoke bar, despite protesting,
“Three things I don’t do: tan, date and sing in public.”
He mangled Barry Manilow’s “Mandy”. But the MC, who was green and scaly with red eyes, was impressed, said,
“There’s not a destroyer of worlds can argue with Manilow.”
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