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Exclusive: 'Buffy's' Nicholas Brendon Talks Dog Poop!!!

by Giaco, Mon., Apr. 28, 2008 1:56 PM PDT

Some Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans might worry about Nicholas Brendon, a.k.a. the TV cult classic?s Xander. After all, he?s not starring in big-budget Hollywood films like Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar; and he?s not cast in a hit show like former castmate Alyson Hannigan?s How I Met Your Mother. But when we chatted with Brendon at last month?s Buffy Cast Reunion, the actor mentioned he does have some recent interesting jobs. Brendon mentioned his new horror film Blood on the Highway, which premiered at the recent AFI Dallas Film Festival, and that he was continuing to work on the TV show Criminal Minds. Then he let us in on a very special side project?

?Usually I wake up at seven o?clock, because my German shepherd Steve will lick my face, because he?s got to take a dump or a piss. There have been a couple times where I said, ?Dude, just give me second.? And all of a sudden I could smell poop. And it?s in the outside room. So it?s ripe.

And you need to take care of that?

?No, no, I don?t take care of it. I just let it crystallize?and then I sell it as ginger.?

That is an exciting side business. Who knew?

?Well, yeah, listen, you gotta subsidize, you gotta pay the bills somehow, you know??