In Buffy News, Willow Gives Birth

Flashback: she was vibrant and young...and wore less clothes.

We officially have a Buffy baby. Your favorite red headed, flute-toting, spell-casting, kindergarten teacher, Alyson Hannigan, gave birth to a baby girl, People magazine reports. Hannigan apparently gave birth to baby Satyana a week ago yesterday. The child is the first for Alyson and husband Alexis Denisof, you know, the British guy on Angel and NOT the British guy on Buffy.

I have nothing too sarcastic to say about this birth except maybe that I was the one who impregnated her during a drunken three-way that included her How I Met Your Mother cast mate Cobie Smulders, who I also knocked-up in the process. (ORIGINAL MENTION OF THE "KNOCKING UP") That poor bastard hubby of hers will take up the fathering role from here on. Thanks, dude! And my work here is done.

So That Demon from "Angel" Died

Andy Hallett. 1975-2009.

It's a slow news day today. Most of Tuesday's focus is actually on my "real job," what with all the plane emergencies and local store closings. More of a bummer. But yeah, that guy who played Lorne, the demon who just wanted to entertain, not possess souls, from Angel died. Andy Hallett (yes, he actually had a name and fair skin) was 33 when he died Sunday after his battle with congestive heart disease.

EW.com (GOD, I HATE ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY!):

Hallett was best known as Lorne, the friendly demon who reads people when they open up at the karaoke mic, on the TV series Angel. It was a role that show creator Joss Whedon wrote specifically for Hallett, after Whedon saw the entertainer performing the blues at a Los Angeles nightclub.

In 2004, just as Angel's run was ending, Hallett saw a doctor after suffering debilitating fatigue and learned that he had the degenerative disease. Too tired to take on acting work, he shifted back to singing occasionally around town and attending fan conventions when he could.

That's a real bummer because he was actually one of the bright spots of that Buffy spin-off. If they had any sense, the producers should have created a buddy dramedy with Lorne and Spike the vampire from the Buffy series...it could have been called The Odd Couple...from Hell.

The good news is that Charisma Carpenter, Cordelia in Buffy and Angel, is still alive and hot. (I really know how to bounce back from tragedy, do I?)