Blooming Fandom and Help Needed
I went with my friend Hannah on Tuesday to see the season premiere of Veronica Mars, which they were screening at a local movie theatre. It was awesome. I feel a new obsession brewing here. When Buffy was cancelled it left a huge gap in my life, but with Veronica Mars, I sense there is consolation to be had. Which is of course what fellow Buffy fans have been telling me for ages. But I couldn't watch it back home! Here in the US, I have the opportunity; we will kick everyone out of the common room for one hour every Tuesday. The cinema showing was great btw: it was packed full of die-hard fans, there was trivia in the commercial breaks, and they gave me free home-made cookies for being a Veronica Mars newbie. Hannah and I went home and immediately ordered seasons 1 and 2 off Amazon.
So, speaking of Hannah "Battlecat" Baker, she has a radio show on Reed FM, which I appear on, every Wednesday at 4pm. It is primarily a talk show, with various half-defined segments and a lot of arguing. Every show starts with a serial, which Hannah writes, it is totally funny. The premise is that most of history's important writers have been transported to 21st century Portland for no apparent reason, and the action centres on Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, and Oscar Wilde, who share an apartment in the city. It is the best literary radio soap I have ever heard, no kidding.
Anyway, I was thinking that a cool thing to talk about on the radio would be English dialect stuff. Specifically I was thinking that I could read out a bunch of fantastic gritty Northern slang terms, and explain it to the stupid Americans on air. For education and for kicks. So I need your help Yorkshire folk, what should I talk about? What's your favourite Hudds terminology?
So, speaking of Hannah "Battlecat" Baker, she has a radio show on Reed FM, which I appear on, every Wednesday at 4pm. It is primarily a talk show, with various half-defined segments and a lot of arguing. Every show starts with a serial, which Hannah writes, it is totally funny. The premise is that most of history's important writers have been transported to 21st century Portland for no apparent reason, and the action centres on Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, and Oscar Wilde, who share an apartment in the city. It is the best literary radio soap I have ever heard, no kidding.
Anyway, I was thinking that a cool thing to talk about on the radio would be English dialect stuff. Specifically I was thinking that I could read out a bunch of fantastic gritty Northern slang terms, and explain it to the stupid Americans on air. For education and for kicks. So I need your help Yorkshire folk, what should I talk about? What's your favourite Hudds terminology?
posted by susie r at 5:13 PM
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Well I am forwarding the script to a few people (with Hannah's permission) if you're interested. I liked the second week's: Shakespeare got the internet and started up a flame war, but then Jane Austen threw the computer out the window for his own good. This week's ep guest starred George Orwell, being dead suspicious and wearing a trench coat.
I feel your pain re. Firefly. I just got myself a Serenity poster for my room, and am contemplating watching the movie again tonight instead of finishing my reading. Just because.
You should get one of them to sing On Ilkley Moor Baht 'at, that would throw them. Or have them faffing around a lot and squeeeing left, right and centre.
Good choice with Veronica Mars by the by, it's pretty good. I've just bought the complete series (it was cancelled after one) of Wonderfalls, a weird series that has built up a massive cult following that was done by the same guy who created *ahem* Dead Like Me.
I have no shame.
P.S. Glad the toothpaste arrived, unless someone else sent you toothpaste too. Maybe your whole room is now full of toothpaste and you're too polite to say? Or perhaps this is step one in your fight against Colgate?
Just put in a search on Google for "Geoffrey Boycott commentary quotes", and just try explain a bunch of them. That way, you can explain both Yorkshire dialect AND cricket. Two birds! One stone!
We, as a house, are going to work our way through Firefly at some point. It's been a good five months or so since I last watched it: five months too long.
Yes! That's the same poster! Serenity is indeed reaching across the US in poster form...as well as in awesomeness form of course.
I had a much bigger horizontal version of that poster in my room last year, that Cat got me free from the cinema. I missed it. It is a good poster.
Also, I am tempted by the Ilkley Moor B'aht'at idea. Except I don't want to have to sing it. That song is so dark- adultery, death from exposure, cannibalism.
That didn't stop you singing me every single verse of it for ten minutes, inculding alternative verses and choruses *grumble mutter grumble*
Or does that make me special in some way?
Oh, my bad, I think you're right.
I recently saw the last season of Angel by the way. It had the kind of ending which cancelled shows often have. Personally I think they might as well have left Angel himself as a muppet til the end of the season, but that's just a personal preference.
Buffy nearly got cancelled after Season Five I believe, hence the reason why it seems to conclude really neatly.
On the DVD commentary for the last ever episode, Joss Whedon comments on how it's not brilliant since he'd already finished the show and essentially had to then write another ending two years later.
I may be wrong here though; feel free to mock me with your superior Buffyverse knowledge.
OH EM GEEEEEE.
Veronica Mars amazingness.
She's so hot and SO snideyyy.
YES.
THEY SHOWED IT IN CINEMAS?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Seasons 1 and 2 are even better than season 3 so i'm sure you were in for a treat when they arrived.
lalalala.
omg Reed/Portland is teh best place in the world.
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