This won’t make a lot of sense unless you’ve played Apples to Apples. And if you haven’t… you should!
Marriage Proposal in a Box
MADISON, Wisconsin – People say romance can be a game, but nowhere was this truer than when Bill Becker got engaged to girlfriend Ashleigh…with the help of their favorite party game: Apples to Apples.
He actually got the Out of the Box guys to make a special “Ashleigh, Will You Marry Me?” red card that he could play when she was the Judge of the “Unforgettable” green card.
More in John Kovalic’s blog, including pics of the happy couple and their cards.
Want to own a piece of JMS history?
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Subject: from jms: too damned much stuff
To: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Date: 4/9/2005 9:11:29 AM
Okay. That’s it. I give up.
Over the last few days, I’ve been trying to sort through the tons of boxes that have for the most part been sitting in storage for the last several years to try and find space for all this stuff, and there just isn’t any. The floors are wall-to-wall with boxes, crates, palletes, you name it, the detritus of decades of making shows and writing comics and being a pack-rack. It has literally grown to overflow two rental storage facilities.
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So starting sometime probably next week, the week of the 11th, and from time to time over the next month or so, keep an eye on Ebay.
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The Ebay user ID is babylon5auctions.
JMS says in a subsequent post thay he’s going to ship everything FedEx, for like five bucks an item, so worldwide delivery won’t be a problem.
See the full post for an idea of the scope of this Straczynski bonanza.
Update: The first batch of auctions has gone up.
Predictably and depressingly, the prices, a day in, are already well outside my reach. I’d still recommend looking at the auction items, though. Joe has added a “director’s commentary”-style background blurb to each item. Neat reading.
Just ’cause I know some of you have been interested in the goings-on with JMS’ cat Buddy:
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:35:46 +0000 (UTC)
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Buddy seems to have leveled out (for now, they apparently grow for the first three-four years of their lives) at 15 pounds and 28 inches from nose to butt, not counting his tail, which is almost as long as he is…so fully stretched out he’s almost five feet from tip of nose to tip of tail.
His latest trick — he comes up with a new one every few days — is to go up the stairwell to the bonus room a few steps, so he’s already a bit high, stretch as far as he can, reach for the hand-rail, balancing like a ballerina on point, and peer around the corner when I come down the hall so that I’m looking at a cat head peeking around the corner at nearly eye-level. Completely wigged me out the first time he did it.
He thinks it’s great fun.
I’m having him committed.
jms
Relevant posts:
This sucks.
It’s not bad enough that the glimmer of hope that JMS could run a new Trek show of his own dashed soon thereafter by circumstance (as Noelle documented in her blog), but now I find out that the plans for a Babylon 5 movie have fallen through.
Read More…
And I want him to do it! Who’s with me in actually sending in some letters to encourage TPTB at Paramount to make it happen?
This would be so cool….
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:25:46 +0000 (UTC)
I’m trying this via google to see if I can access the groups, since I’ve been offline since AOL stopped carrying newsgroups.
I don’t normally do this…in fact, I don’t think I’ve ever done this in any group before, because I’ve always kind of waited to make sure it was worth doing, and that it would make a difference.
I’m sending this to both the B5 folks reading this and any Trek fans looking on.
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…and this is what she posted:
Posted by: anon-56471618@craigslist.org
Posted on: 2005-01-20, 9:51PM
I like driving around with my two cats, especially on the freeway. I make them wear little hats so that I can use the carpool lane.
See what my boredom’s done to me?? Entertain me. It’s too cold out on the freeway tonight.
(I scaled the pics down to 50% size so they’d display nicer; the thumbnails link to the as-posted versions.)
[tip o' the hat to Ames for the link]
My friend Sara has posted an account of when she and her husband Alex went to Disneyland’s famed Club 33 on her brand new blog!
Yes, Noelle, your link makes me very happy!
This should make Kevin happy
Bewitched teaser (with his soon to be wife, Nicole)
– posted by Noelle at 5:51 PM
