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Herongale ([info]herongale) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2008-02-13 23:29:00


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For all you Whovians! (aside: Whovians??!)
New article in today's Wired online: New Doctor Who Regnerates Fanbase

Quote:

The long-running campy BBC TV series Doctor Who is back on the airwaves after a 15-year absence, and the U.S. fan base is growing rapidly. This weekend, hundreds of fans will gather in Los Angeles for Gallifrey One, the biggest Doctor Who convention in the country.

"The Time Meddlers [fan club] has gotten a lot of new fans coming to our doors since the new show came on," says Aaron Cistrelli, president of the 20-year-old Los Angeles-based Time Meddlers.


I think it goes without saying that this is a US-centric article. Not without interest, however!


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[info]tofuknight
2008-02-14 06:00 am UTC (link)
For a moment I completely misunderstood the link and thought that the Doctor had brought the Snarry archive it killed back to life. That would have been *epic* wank.

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[info]ms_treesap
2008-02-14 09:32 am UTC (link)
Win.

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[info]eldritch
2008-02-14 07:20 pm UTC (link)
Oh gosh I LOL'd.

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[info]shinga
2008-02-15 12:02 am UTC (link)
Now if only the DVDs were... I dunno, affordable. :P

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[info]nekoneko
2008-02-15 01:09 am UTC (link)
That'd be nice. I'd love to get some Baker or Pertwee without it costing an arm and a leg. Between this and anime, I'm constantly broke.

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[info]scootermcgaffin
2008-02-15 02:07 am UTC (link)
Pertwee's entire run used to be on Youtube. But then it was taken down before I could finish it. :(

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[info]nekoneko
2008-02-15 02:17 am UTC (link)
Depending where you live, there's PBS. It really varies, though. I have to watch the PBS station from the next state at 12 AM Saturday to get anything. And I think they aren't playing 1-3 anymore. I see more Baker now.

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[info]zing_och
2008-02-15 03:12 pm UTC (link)
Whereas in Germany, they cancelled the show in the middle of the first (ninth? I'm unsure about Who terminology) run. Giving me another argument for how I'm completely justified in stealing my shows from the internet.

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whoville
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2008-02-23 07:10 am UTC (link)
I used to work at a pizza joint called Papa Gino's, which is a chain here in New England. Today, two guys came in, and they were very obviously a couple. Never in my life have I seen people this blatantly gay. Now, I'll be the first to admit that I'm a bleeding heart liberal hippie treehugger commie bastard, and I'm even bisexual myself, but DAMN these two were gay. Everything was going fine, right up until I served them their food. Instead of the usual "enjoy your meal" bit that I usually say, /b/ seized control of my brain.

"There you are, guys. Enjoy your AIDS." As soon as that A passed my lips, alarm bells went nuts in my head. But it was too late. I didn't realize what I had just done until I had finished speaking. The two guys just stared at me in shock for a momment, and I went pale. I knew that my days of free pizza and all the Mountain Dew I could drink were over in that one instant.

The two dudes go APESHIT. My manager comes over, and there's screaming about hate crimes, bigotry, lawsuits, and one of them even stood up and threatened to beat the shit out of me. We got into a fight, and my manager got scared, and said youre moving with your aunte and uncle in bel-air.

I whistled for a cab, and when it came near, the license plate said "fresh" and there were dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought "naw forget it, yo home to bel-air!"

I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabbie "yo homes smell ya later!" Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there. To settle my throne as the prince of bel-air.

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