FUTUREMRSFILLION

Thank you all. I was feeling really down, and I came here and saw all the words of encouragement. It means a lot and I really really thank you. It is hard living in a town where the only people I know are the assH()e and my mom and kids. So kisses and hugs to all. :biggrin: last one on the slip and slide is......well the last one. P.S. I didn't tell you, but if you go to

VINTERDRAKEN

Just came home from a LARP I held (changeling not firefly though) and im a bit run down from running around all day stressed up. Also I got into a discussion about Firefly with a babylonian? baber? Dont really know what Babylon 5 fans call themselves... Anyway he started giving me all these arguments for why Firefly wouldnt be reaired (evil man) and also he pretty much reafermed my belief that I have no chance of becoming a producer / director in sweden (great chance to study to it, no chance to get work) since he is in the same line of education as I am. Been a stressfull, gritty and slightly dispairing day, so basicly.. I could use a Hug.

MAGHAFFAR

Well, I got this e-mail from Netflix saying I could invite Friends and Family to try Netflix (renting movies online -- free delivery & return) free for one month, and I'm thinkin' Shiny! I got me about 20,000 "Friends and Family" so maybe some of them haven't tried Netflix. Good only for USA Browncoats, tho. If you sign up, you gotta rent Firefly and/or the BDM -- especially on June 23rd. Enjoy & stay shiny, people. --MAGhaffar ******************************************** * NETFLIX * Friends & Family - 1 Month FREE* ******************************************** Dear Mohammad, For a limited time, we're offering you a special opportunity to give your friends and family one month of Netflix service for FREE--that's twice the length of our regular free trial! This special offer expires 5/09/2006, and quantities are limited, so forward this email to your friends and family today! -Your Friends at Netflix ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Month FREE DVD RENTALS FROM: Mohammad Ghaffar EXPIRES: 5/09/2006 (Quantities are limited.) Mohammad thought you might enjoy the Netflix DVD Rental Service and has sent you an invitation to try Netflix free for one month. To redeem this special offer, just use the link below.

MAGHAFFAR

Or as real as I'm probably gonna find within 15 miles of my home. So I'm at the Upland, CALIF. Lemon Festival at our Mosque's book stall and something tells me a gotta saunter on down the street and take a looksee around. I go on a Walkabout and stop in front of a shop window that has long coats & western wear / native american stuff. That brings me into the shop. Still lookin' for a browncoat... So there's nothing really Browncoaty in there, so I start looking around elsewhere and see all these old west reproductions of guns -- Winchester's, Henry's (rifles), plus Old West handguns. So I ask the shopkeeper if he's got any 1858 Army or Navy Cap & Ball pistols -- this is the basic design that got turned into Mal's "Hero" sidearm with the octoagonal barrel. So the shopkeeper says, "no 1858s per se -- but he does have a reproduction of an 1851 Navy version. The gun frame is brass and the cylinder and barrel are black, plus the stock is standard, not elongated like Mal's. But the good news is it's a real working pistol, not a toy! For sales purposes, he can't have fully working firearms in his shop cuz he doesn't have a fire-arms dealer's license. But all the gun is missing are the "nipples", which act sorta like firing pins to actually cause the hammer energy to get transferred to the cylinder chamber and ignite the black powder primer. Long story made short, I am 3 days away from having in my hot little hands a potentially (in the future) fully working Mal's gun -- sans the prop add-ons and other stuff on the actual 1858 used for Mal's gun. Plus the guy has holsters, so gotta see about getting the whole holster and belt setup to go with it. Also at this place, were several other 1851s -- one a Confederate style with all silver metal-work with the high-raised thumb hammer and another all black, also with the high-rasied hammer. But these last two are not working guns and can't be modified to actually fire. But for a prop to go with a Mal costume (especially the all-black one) these 1851s would have the weight and feel of a real gun, instead of the Resin prop things. It gets better people... So without me even asking him if he's got any dusters of a 'brownish" color, he volunteeres that he's getting in some "Tombstone" style long coats and dusters that a place in Arizona makes -- they made them for the actual movie. Of course, I ask if they'll come in brown, and he says, no all in black. So I then start enlightening him about Firefly and the manic obsession that Browncoats have obtaining their own real-life Browncoats, and how if he could get a sizable quanity of under $300 browncoat dusters, he'd have the possibility of selling them potentially thousands of us Browncoats. I recently picked up the Serenity graphic novel and showed him the browncoat Mal wears, along with his gun, explaining the as many reasonable facsimiles of these two items as he could procure, I could find buyers for. The shopkeeper is a big Western fan -- has watched "Tombstone" and "Open Range" the way we all watch the BDS and BDM -- so I explained how Firefly was an outer space western, with six-shooters, horses and that great Civil War-era music & chivalry thing going on. So he asks me what's up with show? Why'd it get cancelled, etc. Told him it was too good & well-written for all them Neilson viewers (all 5,000) who decide what's a hit and what's not. Plus how the network execs were brain-dead pencil-pushers with the heads up their pi-gu's. Anyway, I'm enthusing away about the show and then you should've seen his eyes get huge when I told him that this 3-month-run cancelled Fox TV show from 2002 has sold 500,000 DVD boxsets of the series since it came out -- and that it spawned a movie in Sept. 2005... and that translated into a whole passel of folks with cashy money just waiting for their own real Browncoats and 1858's of their own and how he could make some serious ka-CHING out of it... Plus he's aBrowncoat waitin' to happen, I can tell. In the store window of his shop is that famous poster of Geronimo or crazy horse -

EMMARIGBY

Can someone let me know what is usually written in these things? I wasn't sure whether this is the the right place to put this, but I wanted to let people know that I have 8 chapters of my story Winding River written to date. Should I post them all at once or space them out a bit so that you don't have a big wait for the end of the story? It should reach about 14 chapters in all. Hope it pleases! Let me know how I can improve it. Thanks.

LILKAYLEE29

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JESHIKAT

[b]To the beautiful shiny stars in the 'verse who have kept my future bright and kept me away from the darkness of despair - [u]I truly love you :)[/u][/b] I have realised something through the people of this site and that is you don't always have to say something to make someone feel better - all you have to do is listen, think of them from time to time and be there to pick up the pieces. I have always been under the impression that in order to help someone that you need to fill their void with words (sometimes just the same monotonous jargon used to for the last friend in need) but my perspectives have changed... nice words are, well nice but they are just a band-aid. What a real friend does is be there when it all falls apart, listen to their worries and smiling. I'm a smiler, always have been and always will... I guess what I'm trying to say is another HUGE thank you (though that really doesn't sum up my gratitude) to you all - for sticking it out, for being here for me and for teaching me a valuable lesson :) If any of you ever need a friend, know that you can call on me! Love Jessica x