The Terminator rights are up for sale, and Joss Whedon says he will pay $10,000 for them. He posted a letter at the site Hollywood Daily that is fun and full of Whedon-style nerd-speak.

The rights really are for sale. That is crazy. Most of the time when rights are for sale, the thing for sale has never been made into anything except copies on a printer at the owner's friend's house.

But Terminator just had a a movie and a TV show. How did the owners get bankrupt? They must be Alabama politicians.

In a follow-up interview, Whedon said "It's just me being a dumb-ass." But he does love Terminator. He said he learned how to construct a story from watching the first movie.

So Joss Whedon changed the subject. All the nerd-o-sphere talked about Whedon-wise was Dollhouse tumbling into the abyss, until now.

But he still has to trudge back to work at Fox, convinced that maybe today's the day he'll catch Fox checking him out, or Fox will accept his phone calls. Give it up, man. Fox does not like you like that.