Hilary Booth... of course!

So to update my life:

The temp assignment ended on Friday with a bit of a whimper. The holiday party was on Thursday, so the bulk of the staff didn't bother coming in on Friday, so it was just the boss and me. That worked out well for a slow and leisurely day. During the day I learned about the impending snowstorm. So I trudged to the local store on the way home to load up on the essentials. Note to people in store: saving a place for someone in line is all nice and stuff, but when they bring in a massive cart of stuff? Don't expect the people behind you to be all friendly-like.

The snows are quite impressive. The white stuff has filled up the entirety of my non-balcony outside which makes for a scary sight. No power outages, thankfully. Hopefully all the roads and airports will be cleared in a few days when I disappear from DC for a week. Going from 30s to 60s/70s is going to be so much fun this year.

I spent some of the time emptying and deleting boxes, so I can return my apartment to some form of sanity. New bookshelves will just have to wait for the New Year, if at all. The amusing thing is I decided to try switching around some of the contents of said bookshelves to see if they'd fit better. So my skating shelf has been moved to a new location and I get to look at my writing and miscellaneous books from my bedside. suricattus gets good company with Nick Bantock & Jasper Fforde.

The only snag in all of this is on the technological front. I put together the computer, only to lack an internet connection. I have a cable internet/router combination. I think I have the correct ethernet/modem cables I just can't figure what goes where. And my entertainment unit is *still* in shambles. I really should have written down instructions for that. For a self-proclaimed geek, dvd/vcr hookups are strange and mysterious things. Plus finding the paper for the printer and the mp3 player cables...

Writing wise, not much to report, other than Yuletide successfully written and uploaded. remember_wenn is having its first annual fic fest in February and are taking prompts. I've dumped in a whole bunch of prompts.

Today was the anniversary of the D-Day invasion. My thoughts are with my grandfather who served in the war.

I spent most of the day listening to Rat Patrol Radio's annual Complete Broadcast Day. This year's broadcast was slightly different. Having discovered that he had a faulty copy of the CBS broadcast, the RPR's owner found the NBC version instead, which made for an interesting contrast. As I've recounted before, the CBS version switched to actual programming when they reached what we'd consider the prime time hours. NBC cast aside all of its programming and stayed mostly with the news. Occasionally there'd be music or prayers. Lots of requests for prayers. They even provided a "dictation speed" early version of FDR's speech, so you could recite the prayer along with him. The NBC version did not include King George VI's speech.

On a WENN note, there was a long program recapping the reactions around the country from Hartford to New York to Cincinatti to Oklahoma City. I kept picturing a similar news piece from my favorite station in Pittsburgh. Unlike "Some Good News, Some Bad News", there would be plenty of news to report. (*makes notes for old fic idea*)

Both versions are available for download off the Internet Archive if you search under "complete broadcast day". There was also a earlier complete broadcast from 1939 from the local DC station WJSV which became WTOP. Also a large archive of WWII related radio news broadcasts.

It was bad enough to see the "Mad Men" dvds on display in B&N last night.

Then I spotted the soundtrack.

*sighs*

Let's twist the knife even further, why don't we, AMC?

(I'm not hating on "Mad Men". It seems like a wonderful show and I'm glad that it's being received so well. It's just hard to take when "Remember WENN" received such a short end of the stick -- none of the budget or merchandising or promotion. Very very very short end of the stick.)

And now the gods are just mocking me.

They know I've decided not to go to MediaWest this year.

What do they do? They taunt me mercilessly by announcing a performance of Armchair Detective: A Remember WENN Mystery Musical at the International Mystery Writers Festival in June in Kentucky!

Of course it won't be the original cast. Of course it is only an adaptation of two existing WENN episodes (but one is my favorite!), but still new WENN!

And my fandoms collide in odd ways...

Remember I mentioned that Melinda Mullins appeared as a day player on the old NBC soap "Another World"? Her two episodes popped up on Soapnet's repeats, just before the cancellation. I was surprised to see an email she'd sent someone on the home page of the Another World Home Page recounting her experience working on AW. It sounded like a thankless job.

More dvd news: The final season of Pretender will be released in July, according to Tvshowsondvd. They also mention they're planning to release the TNT movies, although I almost wish they wouldn't since they confuse the Pretender family muddle even further. I need a Miss Parker icon. I haven't found any decent ones on LJ yet.

And RW fans, Kevin O'Rourke has a blog for his Testtube.tv site. Interesting to hear shades of Sherwood in his discussions of the future of tv and on-demand stuff. Very exciting!

I finished rewriting the FK/WENN crossover I mused on earlier. I think I originally started it when WENN was still airing. Proof positive that I eventually do finish stuff... even if it takes awhile. Which should give me some kind of hope for my writing future, right.

Another World continues to surprise.

I was watching yesterday's episode when Mary Stout appears as the person booking Felicia Gallant at the police station. As usual, she was a hoot, even asking Felicia to autograph her book. Then during the court room scene, I stared at the prosecutor, saying "I know her, why do I know her?" She was someone familiar from the soaps. The credits rolled and it was Ellen Dolan known better as Margo from "As the World Turns". Except she must not have lasted long in the role, according to the AW sites. In an even odder WENN twist, Donna Murphy supposedly plays that character. So the next batch of episodes will be quite interesting to say the least.

And Frankie should be on the scene in a month or two.

There are times when I desperately want to whap a fandom upside the head with a clue-by-four. The irony is that if this was any other fandom I'm around, they'd be arguing the subtext of every glance and every word. They'd be saying "See, see, how he's hovering over her" in the smallest of scenes. (Substitute "him" for "her" unfortunately and you'd describe most of the slash fandoms.) In "Remember WENN" fandom, they have no concept of this... unless it involves Saint Betty of the Purple Prosed Typewriter. A couple like Hilary and Jeffrey defies the normal, therefore they don't understand it. So they assume the obvious. They couldn't actually stay together all these years because they might actually care about each other? After all they rarely say so. And if it didn't say so in the script...

ARGH!

Ahem. Sorry. Really, I'm fine.