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I'm a "Show Music" fan also.  I used to get the monthly "Playbill," but I didn't do anything with them and now there is the online version, so that’s one magazine that I let go of.  No one has mentioned "The Sondheim Review."  That's another that I love, but my subscription lapsed and I haven't notified them (yet) to renew and order any back issues that I've missed.  Otherwise, I have every issue since the beginning.

AND:

[shadow=red,down]WELCOME BACK, KERRY!![/shadow]

Or beat on his window with her broom!  LOL

I think I said before - the past few weeks, the TV GUIDE racks have been full - when before there had been many copies sold....  We are not the only readers who feel that way.  I began buying TV GUIDE when it was 15 cents an issue and stuck with until a couple of months ago......

If the excerpt had gone on one more line, you would have known that Arthur was the librettist.  I'm thrilled with the review.

I'm thrilled with the review.

As well you should be.  It's a terrific review, and I look forward to reading the entire book!

"Farscape" fans:  Are there any more out there?

Did you see the four-hour "Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars" last weekend?

If not, it's going to be re-aired, in its entirety, on Sunday.

I loved the show, but I hated to see one of the main characters die.  

DiT-great Scottish joke.

Kerry-it is nice to have you back.

Matt H, guess I didn’t need to tell you there was a spoiler.  At least it was only for the episode we watched last night.

Happy Birthday to Annette tomorrow.

Bruce I really dislike when reviews give me too much information.  

Congrats on the review, BK!  I'm glad it's the unrevealing version--I would rather not know who is knocked off in Writer's Block until I begin to actually read it.  Though I have to wonder if there isn't an actual clew in that review...
(Yes, I had originally typed excerpt--I meant to say review.)


Hmmm...I, too, have only one issue of Castle of Frankenstein stashed away somewhere.  I sense a pattern here...

I read once that the whole entire United States is sinking at a rate of one eighth of an inch a year.  This is due to all of the bundles of National Geographics that people have stowed in their basements.

During the late 80s or so, there was a briefly published mag called The Movies or At The Movies.  The first issue featured Lily Tomlin and her "Confessions of an Usherette".  I was hooked on its rather persnickery attitude towards Hollywood and immediately subscribed.  Alas, it only lasted about six issues, the remainder of my susbscription turned over to the more sedate Premier magazine.

BK - what a teaser that review is!!!  I'm sure all of us will be waiting with baited breath to read this one!!!  Excellent!

Oh yes, DR RLP.  We watched the first half of Farscape:  The Peacekeeper Wars on Sunday, both parts on Monday, the conclusion twice on Monday...

Quite up to their usual snuff, I must say, with all the whacky humor, the wonderful character interaction, the superb plotting, and, of course, the obligatory vomit jokes of the series.

Not to spoil, but the character who "died"--we didn't really see him die, you know.  And I cannot imagine that actor having decided he wouldn't do any more sequels.  Not like Virginia Hey, who left because the blue make-up made her skin break out--what we sf fans call "doing a Denise Crosby".

My main questions about the mini-series were:

1.  Why did the baby have to be born under water?

2.  Did he just cut a hole in her pants to deliver it?

3.  Did she really spend the next half-hour fighting it out with the villains in those same pants?

4.  Now that they have clearly explained why humans and Sebatians can interbreed--how about Sebatians and Loxons?  That beggars credulity.

Now, for those of you who are not Farscape fans--what the frell are you waiting for?

On almost the same subject:

DR Noel:  One of your main objections to sf and fantasy appears to be the set-up of the situation and the "rules".  Well, that problem really occurs in all literature.  It's called exposition.  It can be handled well, or it can be handled clumsily.  e.g. "As you well know, your second cousin, the hog-farm millionaire hasn't spoken to his sister since she married a transexual pilot and moved to Brazil."

In sf, some of this exposition is referred to as "techno-babble", a term that has escaped fandom and found its way into the scripts themselves on occasion.  But in the long run, it's no different from "you need fairy dust (pixie dust to the prudish) to fly."

It is beginning to storm here. Only in Arizona can you have a dust storm and a rain storm at the same time.

Re "I am dead:" I laughed when I wrote it.

TOD: I cancelled all my magazine subscriptions years ago. They added too much clutter. My husband receives magazines about flying, which are taking up too much space, in my opinion.

Oh, shoot! I forgot that I also subscribe to THE SONDHEIM REVIEW and have from the beginning.

Oh and yes, me laddies and lassies, upon the wee topic of the day  (Captain, these engines canna stand the strain!) --  actually when we sang that song in grade school, I thought it was "My Body Lies over the Ocean" and had this image of a huge corpse floating in the air above the sea...

But the TOD...

Childrens' Digest--I would wait in eager anticipation for each new issue, read it twice, and memorize all the jokes.

Scientific American  I subscribed throughout high school and college.

Playboy, when I was in grad school, when it was one of the most intelligent magazines for reading--Lord knows I didn't buy it for the pictures--I mean, who else was publishing Singer and Nabokov at your local news stand?

For several years I subscribed to a whole slew of Esperanto magazines:  Esperanto, Heroldo de Esperanto, Norda Prismo, Gazeto, Scienco kaj Tekniko, El Popola Chinio, Literatura Foiro, Fonto--and I was published in the last two.  Monato was a monthly news magazine that had the advantage of having articles written by people in the countries involved.  So, for example, they published stories about the Faulkland Islands crisis by writers in both England and Argentina.

But alas, I have let most of those subscriptions lapse.

Nowadays, I subscribe to The Advocate to get my gay news.  But I am increasingly put off by their concentration on the youngest generation.  I seldom have interest in what they think is the relevant music scene, for example.  And their shameless pandering reached its height last year, when the Supreme Court handed down its landmark sodomy decision, but their cover story involved two semi-naked reality show contenders.

We also subscribe to Smithsonian, and Joe devours his monthly European Car.  Somewhere in a box I have several years worth of Fantasy and Science Fiction.  I think I stopped subscribing when I realized I was reading Asimov's and Baird Searles' articles but not the fiction.

News magazines?  I read all I want in doctors' and lawyers' waiting rooms, where I've spent all too much time since Joe's illness began.

And oh,

Good health vibes to DnotR Cal Bolder!

When I was little, I thought the name of the song reference in the title was:

My body lies over the ocean,
My body lies over the sea....

So I was not alone.  Of course, no one is alone.  Oh, a S...

DAMN YANKEES on DVD came in the mail today, but it's a full night of TV watching, my first night off after a long spell, and I'm looking forward to watching TV in high definition.

If nothing happens and I get to see CSI and WITHOUT A TRACE tonight, it'll be the first episodes of this new season that I've been able to watch. I am SO looking forward to it.