Link, and My Mayor

[stoney321]

First, the glory that is Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert from an old The Daily Show clip, Even Steph(v)ens.
And if you want the soundtrack to Little Miss Sunshine, grab it while it's available. (Thanks again, A for sharing it with me in the first place!)

Second, because I upped my mileage today and I'm probably not going to physically be able to move from this chair for a while, here's one of those "My _____" things.


My Mayor Richard Wilkins the Third

• Met Edna Mae at a county fair where they both tasted lemonade for the first time. She was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.


• It was love at first sight.


• when they realized that having children weren't in the cards for them - and he went to several readers. They literally weren't in the cards for them - tried to change his pending immortality for a family.


• The sorcerer kindly didn't kill him for that request.


• And Richard sent him a fruit basket in thanks every year after.


• told his wife that a tonic he took every morning was the reason behind his "forever young" appearance.


• hated lying to her.


• held her hand while she died.


• told her she was still the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.


• It was the last time he would let himself cry.


• years later had the movie quote "I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me" inscribed on her tombstone.


• agrees that the golf course is the best place to do business.


• Except with vampires, because night golf is just hard on the eyes.


• really admires Tiger Woods' dedication and devotion to his father.


• But mostly it's that back swing. Gosh! Just perfect, every time.


• really loves a parade.


• saves lemonade for special occasions.


• always has a meat, two veg, and a starch for dinner.


• And a tall glass of milk.


• sent Allan Finch to Costco bi-monthly to buy a gross of Wet-Naps.


• says the alphabet while he washes his hands to make sure he cleans them thoroughly.


• believes dodgeball to be the perfect game that illustrates life.


• started watching that movie until the team came out in S&M outfits because honestly! Did they need to go there? Up until then it was good clean fun.


• buys the sanitized versions of blockbuster movies from that outfit in Utah.


• With the exception of his director's cut of The Godfather, because that's just good storytelling.


• mouths "take the cannolis" along with Clemenza.


• "tsks" every time he says it, because he knows it's grammatically incorrect.


• And would it have hurt anyone to know how to properly pluralize a word?


• wished people focused more on the three R's in school like they used to when he was a boy.


• has meatloaf every Thursday with mashed potatoes, carrot dimes, and peas. And apple pie for dessert.


• recycles.


• loves judging the Pinewood derby every year and feels a twinge at not having a son to compete.


• loves to unwind with some Sousa marches.


• also plays Sousa during staff meetings to pump up his employees.


• likes business casual - he wore a tie every day for 92 years, after all.


• thinks Mr. Trick is fun, but wishes he'd wear a muted-colored suit every now and then.


• appreciates the work ethic of Allan Finch, but doesn't like him very much.


• I mean, there's loyalty, and then there's being a boot lick.


• Which is why Snyder irritates him.


• has never used a computer, and doesn't plan on changing that.


• Mostly because he won't have hands soon.


• Or people to use them.


• thought he was going to be killed when he opened the door and saw Faith standing there.


• she had shiny hair just like his Edna Mae.


• marvels that this broken kid is his most trusted employee.


• never EVER thinks of her as just an employee.


• was positively horrified when she called him Sugar Daddy.


• sat in his leather office chair for two hours thinking about what must have happened to her to make her not recognize the difference between that and a daddy.


• wishes she wouldn't swear so much.


• And would it kill her to sit up straight? Posture is the key to good health.


• thinks Faith looks like a natural putter, but ran out of time before he was able to take her to the club.


• knows Buffy is the better slayer, which upsets him more than he can say.


• because above all else, Richard believes in loyalty.


• which is why he will kill Buffy first.


• ...or maybe let his Faithy do it. Heck, she's great at killing, the little sweetheart.


• ...maybe he'll just knock Buffy around some. He wouldn't want Faith to not have the advantage, nosirree.


• has penciled into his calendar for the day before his Ascension to be sure and cancel his subscription to Reader's Digest.


• has had that subscription for over 75 years.


• is going to miss reading "Family Circus" once he becomes a pure demon.


• hopes slaughtering everything in sight will take the edge off of that.


• admires Mr. Giles, but wished he was just a bit more evil so they could have been cronies.


• didn't know about "Ripper."


• wouldn't have liked him if he did know, because gosh darn it, Ripper had no goals.


• And you didn't get to be over 100 years old and the politician with the longest term in history without having a few goals.


• You kids would do well to heed that advice, even though you'll think it's "square.".


• couldn't sleep that first night that "Angelus" took his little girl out for a night of killing.


• not that he thought Angelus would hurt his Faith, it was the "other stuff."


• Because kids today don't have the same respect for their bodies that Richard's generation did.


• was bothered by Faith's lack of self-esteem.


• Sure she talked big, but he could see his little girl's hurt buried inside, and that upset him more than he liked.


• practically glowed any time he could get her to smile and laugh.


• touched Faith for the first time when she was lying in that hospital bed.


• She really did have hair just like his Edna Mae.


• completely forgot about the Ascension as he pinched Buffy's nose shut and felt her teeth against the palm of his hand.


• knows to have a contingency plan, so makes arrangements for Faith to get what she's always wanted.


• It makes him sad to know what she really wants, because he thinks blondes look cheap.


• went straight to his office to make a video for Faith, in case she woke up.


• It took two takes.


• The first was him staring into space.


• tries to get a good night's sleep before his Big Day, because he believes fervently in Ben Franklin's adages.


• ate a light breakfast the morning of Graduation, as he was obviously planning on having a large dinner.


• spent an hour going over his note cards, making adjustments, because kids today really should know that it's "cool" to be civicly-minded.


• spots Buffy looking right at him in her chair.


• wants to eat her first.


• except Snyder's there, so...


• ...he tastes like weasel.


• in the flash before the bombs exploded in the school library - which, did they have to destroy the whole school? That was built on taxpayer's money. Well, some shady deals, too, but mostly taxpayer's money - he had a moment of regret because he couldn't kill Buffy for his Faith.


• but maybe he'd get to see his Edna Mae again.

Comments

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I completely love you.

really admires Tiger Woods' dedication and devotion to his father.

but mostly it's that back swing. Gosh! Just perfect, every time.

Yes!

I need a Mayor icon, dammit.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

HEEEE!!!

It should come as no surprise that Mayor Richard Wilkins the Third is my most favorite villain EVER.

And seriously - the kid is amazing. I wouldn't be surprised if Tiger made a deal with the same sorcerer Richard did. ;)

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

I bow before you great mistress of the quirky, and hope when (if) my brain grows back in it will be just like yours.

Julia, needing to have a long talk with my doc about having perfect BP vs being hit by a bus

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

This is fabulous.

I seriously adore Mayor Wilkins's fatherly relationship with Faith, twisted as it is.

Heck, she's great at killing, the little sweetheart.
Awww! And..hmmm. And...Awww!

What kind of pie is Mayor Wilkins's fave? Apple? Or does he like another more?

[southernbangel.livejournal.com]

Met Edna Mae at a county fair where they both tasted lemonade for the first time. She was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

It was love at first sight.

When they realized that having children weren't in the cards for them - and he went to several readers. They literally weren't in the cards for them - he tried to change his pending immortality for a family.

held her hand while she died.

told her she was still the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

It was the last time he would let himself cry.

Had the movie quote "I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me" inscribed on her tombstone.

Dude, this has me crying. CRYING. *shakes fist*

I love your Mayor. And you. *smooches*

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Haha! Oh, Harry Groener. How I loved his characterization so...

*votes for high blood pressure over the bus, personally*

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Man, their relationship was WONDERFUL. Really one of the best daddy/daughter relationships on television, period.

You know, he's a nationalist. A patriot. So he's going to like apple pie, but only homemade. Cherry is a close runner up, but his mother made a rhubarb pie that would bring tears to your eyes. Never had another like it, bless her.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

DITTO!!!

(Um, the loving you part. Hee!)

And man, there really wasn't a wasted moment with that man on screen. I love love LOVE the Mayor, in case that wasn't clear. :D When he's really REALLY trying to give Buffy and Angel advice? And he's talking heartfelt about his Edna Mae?

Damn, I love Richard Wilkins. Even though he was evil.

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

AWwww, his mother's rhubarb pie! <3

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Ha, I know! I love that he didn't swear even to the end. Man, I love that character SO MUCH.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

(with a little strawberry to cut through the tart...)

and real cream!

[fotada.livejournal.com]

started watching that movie until the team came out in S&M outfits because honestly! Did they need to go there? Up until then it was good clean fun.

I right there with you, Richard. There's a line, and that line was crossed.

:)

Referred here by Julia. It's perfect!

[lettered.livejournal.com]

This is one of the best...one of these things I have ever read. I love the Sousa marches. I love this one:

sat in his leather office chair for two hours thinking about what must have happened to her to make her not recognize the difference between that and a daddy.

because I'll be damned if he didn't. And all the ways he planned for his Ascension? And Edna Mae? You make me happy with the perfection, here.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I have to say, the My ___ things are fun. I liked doing Snyder, too. *loves the unsung pests*
*also, makes notes to do an Andrew one*

GOD DAMN, I miss my show. I think I'll be watching S3 today, yes indeedy.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Heh - that's Richard. Clean inside and out. Good thing he got rid of that pesky soul - that was collecting some muck, I tell you. :)

Thanks for commenting! *sends Julia a pie*

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

This was fabulous! But I mostly just like the fact that you have a tag specifically for meeeeeeeeeeee!
I taste like weasel? Or is that just male Snyders?

[anelith.livejournal.com]

Oh, you did the Mayor... just perfectly. The way you began and ended with Edna Mae works really well. This part was so true to that strange and tender relationship between the Mayor and Faith:

knows to have a contingency plan, so makes arrangements for Faith to get what she's always wanted.

It makes him sad to know what she really wants, because he thinks blondes look cheap.


Had to laugh particularly at this one:

ate a light breakfast the morning of Graduation, as he was obviously planning on having a large dinner.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Hey, I just checked my old email account and found music from you! Thank you for all of that, btw!!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Heeeeee!! Well, heck, the way those high schoolers pack in the snacks and sodas, he'll have a high cholesterol meal. He couldn't get any intel on heart disease among demons, so he guesses they have different metabolisms.

But it doesn't hurt to be prepared. Stitch in time...

(And seriously: that moment he tries to kill Buffy? Check out his face! Excellent moment. He is just grief stricken and out for blood.) ♥ you.

[thepiratequeen.livejournal.com]

That was awesome. One of my best friends just saw Harry Groener in Spamalot and called me shrieking like a fan girl.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool!! I didn't realize he was in that! Good for him. I absolutely adored how he played The Mayor. (*cough* obviously. heh.)

*smooooch*

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Happy Birthday! hee hee. I've got a newer address for you now I think, (the one LJ forwards to...) so I'll use that for future music spam.

I would like to leave work NOW, k? Ugh! The day before a vacation is the LONGEST!

[lostakasha.livejournal.com]

You slay me. In every sense of that term.

Perfect characterization -- sending Finch to Costo?

I struggle to write one great line in every fic. Thank you for giving me 57 of them in one place. (I counted.)

[willowgreen.livejournal.com]

All I can say is, Wow.

Now I'm going to have to make some Mayor icons!

[thepiratequeen.livejournal.com]

He took over for Tim Curry. I saw him in Crazy For You a gazillion years ago and it remains the role I love him most in but The Mayor is also easily at the top of my list. And The Mayor/Faith relationship was one of my favorites on the show.

*blows butterfly kisses*

(Have you seen the Suri pics? I thinks she actually looks quite a bit like Tom in some of them)