HIGHLA-L Digest - 4 Aug 2002 (#2002-116)
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Topics of the day:
1. 'The Void' on SABC
2. HL DVD's
3. Heads Up Re Priority Mail
4. The Void ... Amanda Tapping interview
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Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 14:29:42 -0400
From: KLZ3 <KZIMMERMAN3@cox.net>
Subject: Re: 'The Void' on SABC
> . I like the show, although its comic series roots
> sometimes show.
You mean that she's able to fight evil with a magic glove? I
guess if we could swallow a four-foot sword hidden under a blue
sports jacket, that shouldn't bother us too much. <g>
ZK (Debbie did an Admin post! Debbie did an Admin Post! We're
BACK!)(Now all we have to do is hit 150 posts/day :::: sniffle
::::)(I remember when... :::: rocking over Ginny's foot and
several ferret tails)
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Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 14:43:42 -0400
From: KLZ3 <KZIMMERMAN3@cox.net>
Subject: Re: HL DVD's
Claire Li wrote:
>
> The viscious tone of this discussion disturbed me back when I
> first posted my difficulty, and it it continues to do so.
Now, now, Claire. You haven't seen vicious till you've seen
listmembers drenched in the blood of PoRA(tm). Actually, Leah,
or was it Lynn? Or someone, brought up a point that I never
thought of - that a disk that's bad on mine might be just fine on
another. You apparently did think of that. Try to not take
things to personally around here; it looks like we may be headed
for some actual *discussion*; you could start a topic and maybe
we'll pick up on it.
:::: dusting off a box of flame-proof long johns and can of
Weezul-B-Gon ::::
ZK
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Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 14:48:52 EDT
From: Ashton7@aol.com
Subject: Heads Up Re Priority Mail
I just want to give everyone a heads up if you use Flat Rate Priority Mail
envelopes to mail anything. Yesterday, I was mailing a big batch of my latest
zine issue and I ended up having to bring quite a few of them home where I
now have to take the packages apart, redo all the labels and insurance slips,
etc. There has apparently been a "memo" given to the postal clerks that they
are to no longer accept FLAT RATE Mailers as FLAT RATE (even though the words
"FLAT RATE" are plastered all over the envelope) unless you use the *correct*
FLAT RATE mailer... a new one. It seems that some of the mailers have the
words "2 lb" printed on them. This Flat Rate that was in effect before the
first of July *was* based on a 2 lb rate; the new flat rate is based on a 1
lb rate. So, some official somewhere has made the decision that the Flat Rate
mailers that say "2 lb rate" on them will no longer be honored at...a Flat
Rate. They were going to mail them for me but they wanted to charge me a "by
weight" rate (which is much higher). Clear as mud?
Now, logically, to me Flat Rate means Flat Rate and it shouldn't matter
whether there is some verbiage on an older envelope saying it's based on the
2 lb rate or not, but apparently our esteemed postal officials disagree...and
I, for one, have a huge stack of envelopes that are now going in the trash.
What a waste.
Not to mention the fact that I spent several hours preparing zines to be
mailed and schlepping them to the post office...and I now have to do it all
over again. Sigh.
Annie
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Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 14:57:26 -0400
From: KLZ3 <KZIMMERMAN3@cox.net>
Subject: Re: The Void ... Amanda Tapping interview
> For me the beauty of Farscape has always been that it is an ensemble
> show, even with all the cast changes. Granted Crighton is the lead
> character but he would be nothing without the others and that's how
> the writers write it and that's how it is directed and produced. The
> makers of Highlander:TS never learned how to do that.
I think it was very hard to take a premise about a man isolated
by his immortality, and surround him with cohorts and good
buddies and make him a team player. Tessa fit beautifully
because she was in a isolated with him; Richie in early seasons
fit because he was isolated in another way - from family. Then,
when he became immortal, he became even more isolated. Duncan
spent a lot of time in early seasons stonewalling various people;
he couldn't reveal much about himself (other than certain bathtub
scenes, of course) :::: watching as listees swoon en masse ::::
Besides, they didn't have a Henson on board.
I wonder, though, if part of the attraction to HL was that
Connor, and then Duncan, were essentially alone. I've never been
involved in fandom before, and have always liked slightly weird
shows that nobody else that I knew watched. Like someone else
said, though, unless you're wearing pig noses, painting yourself
burgundy and gold, and freezing your buns off on a bleacher seat,
you're pretty weird. ;-D
ZK, who wondered once why Gigi Edgley got higher billing than
Rygel on the website, until I remembered that Rygel is a Muppet
at heart.
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