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...AND ANY OTHER FANDOM FRIENDS.

Sat, April 24th, the NYC Star Trek Meet Up group is throwing AN INSANELY BELATED BUT STILL GONNA BE AWESOME BDAY PARTY FOR ME. I don't know the details cause those are a surprise for me, BUT YOU SHOULD COME!

THE POST ABOUT IT IS HERE.

LEAVE A COMMENT THERE IF YOU WANT TO COME.

I BETTER SEE ALL YA'LL THERE. JUST. SAYING.

I finally cave for the twitter craze...to make a fandom puppet with a friend.

In the fine tradition of FMLMccoy ncc_gqmf and I have started FML accounts for District 9 characters.

fookmylife - Wikus Van Der Merwe

CJohnsonFML - Christopher Johnson (WHY YES, I AM THE BELEAGUERED ALIEN. IT'S WHAT I DO, PLAY BELEAGUERED SORTS.)


God, I've got D-9 on the BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN....

Because a lot of people seemed keen when it was mentioned elsewhere, I thought I'd take a poll about who wants to meet up to see Trek again in the NYC area.

EDIT AS OF 5/27/09:THE POLL IS CLOSED, SEE POST HERE FOR DETAILS. HOWEVER, YOU SHOULD STILL FILL OUT THE POLL FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES, I PUT A LOT OF LOGIC BULLSHIT THOUGHT INTO MAKING IT. HUMOR ME.

( STARFLEET NEEDS YOU!!...to fill out this poll about a NYC meetup. AND THERE'S A REWARD FOR YOUR EFFORTS AT THE END. So even if you totally can't come thanks to geography/time, you should click this anyway, cause below is me trying to be clever.  )

AND SPREAD THE WORD TO YOUR MOTHAS EQUALLY GEEKTASTIC F-LISTS, THE MORE THE MERRIER.

Someone asked over at the STXI anon-meme asked for a Jeeves/Spock story (GOD, could you IMAGINE the eyebrow wars? Hell, even McCoy could jump in and try to hold his own, McCoy’s got a hellava eyebrow himself there…) but all I could imagine was Jeeves and Wooster...crewing the USS Enterprise.

CAPTAIN!BERTIE!: I say, Jeeves, is this thing on? Oh, good, right-o. Captain’s Log, star date 22…er…I say, Jeeves? How do these bally star dates work again? Well, that doesn’t make much sense, does it? I mean to say, good lord, could Starfleet have made them more confusing, what?

Oh, right, um, Space! The final whatsit. These are journeys of the Starship Enterprise--

( ALL THRUSTERS GO FOR QUICKIE CROSSOVER MADNESS!!! )

....AND SO ON. AND SO ON. OH GOD IT'S WRITING ITSELF.

So, this speech is old hat for me--found it LONG ago, back in my rabid Sherlockian days. And if I ever pick up a Rex Stout "Nero Wolfe" book, this speech--given at the Baker Street Irregulars meeting in 1941--is the prime reason.

For you see, my dear f-list, Rex Stout puts before his fellow Irregulars the theory that Watson was a Woman.


*Loves her some 1940's fandom crack!*

I'm floored. I can't believe I missed this...trainwreck back when I was all up in the LOTR fandom. lunar_wolf will find this interesting as it is very much in the vein of the chronicles of Ms. Scribe regarding the Harry Potter fandom, but one that conned not only internet communities and fans, but the fucking actors from LOTR, mainly Sean Austin.

Finding this has gotten me racking my brains, thinking back to spring 2002. I was in 11th grade, and Fellowship of the Ring had just been released that December. As is my way, I was hooked, and through the brilliant ploy of my fellow school journalist niftykracker, we managed to con for ourselves free press passes to ICON, in order that we might actually get to meet Billy Boyd. But, drunk on fandom, I went further than that.

Through Billyboyd.net, I meet a group of fellow fans that would likewise be attending ICON, including one particular girl that for the life of me I can't remember her name (but I can swear that "Amy" rings far to close a bell in regards to my dealings with the LOTR fandom, and if Nifty will step forward and either shot this down or support it, I would be most grateful).

As is my way, I meet new folk and then I disappear from their lives never to speak to them again. But niftykracker kept in contact with this particular girl. This was much to the chagrin of his friends, as it came to light that the girl and another of her friends were completely off their rockers: she believed in astral projection, but on top of that, once while she was driving with Nifty she was "possessed" by Billy Boyd, who was engaged in an astral war against psychic giants. As a result, her and her friend took it upon themselves to help Billy Boyd in this epic astral battle!

Some of the parallels between what I remember of the crazy shit these two came up with, compared with what is detailed at the livejournal of turimel hits a little close to home, and makes one sit back and shiver a bit.

The book is called When a Fan Hits the Shit: the livejournal of the author can be found here, and the book site is here.

Creepy ass shit yo.