Revisiting past fandoms.

While getting together some of my stuff for MW, I was seized with a sudden urge to go watch "A Coffin for Starsky" again. Now, back in the '90s I was a big Starsky & Hutch fan for several years, complete with lots of ficcing and compulsive re-watching, but after about '98 I sort of drifted away and haven't really gone back to it.

Anyway, I checked my tape index and figured out which tape it's on...only to find that, a couple of years ago, I had apparently cannibalized the tape for parts in order to fix another broken tape. I know which one, too: Bad News, which arrived from Amazon(?) with its tape case/reel partially shattered, and I could have returned it for a new one but I didn't want to wait any longer and so I transferred the whole thing to a different case right then and there. I can still remember sitting there winding the entire fricking tape onto the new reel by hand, all so I wouldn't have to wait another few days. Ah, fandom.

Anyway, I'm surprised to realize I haven't touched that tape in a few years now, and doubly surprised I picked tbat tape to cannibalize. I mean, "A Coffin for Starsky"? What was I thinking?

If you've never seen S&H--and I don't mean the Stiller/Wilson movie version--well, what are you waiting for? This series is fanfic come to life. ( pimp pimp pimp )

Think you've seen guys with no concept of personal space around each other? You haven't seen these two.

Anyway, I wound up watching "Shootout" instead. Not a bad substitute, not at all.

Revisiting past fandoms.

While getting together some of my stuff for MW, I was seized with a sudden urge to go watch "A Coffin for Starsky" again. Now, back in the '90s I was a big Starsky & Hutch fan for several years, complete with lots of ficcing and compulsive re-watching, but after about '98 I sort of drifted away and haven't really gone back to it.

Anyway, I checked my tape index and figured out which tape it's on...only to find that, a couple of years ago, I had apparently cannibalized the tape for parts in order to fix another broken tape. I know which one, too: Bad News, which arrived from Amazon(?) with its tape case/reel partially shattered, and I could have returned it for a new one but I didn't want to wait any longer and so I transferred the whole thing to a different case right then and there. I can still remember sitting there winding the entire fricking tape onto the new reel by hand, all so I wouldn't have to wait another few days. Ah, fandom.

Anyway, I'm surprised to realize I haven't touched that tape in a few years now, and doubly surprised I picked tbat tape to cannibalize. I mean, "A Coffin for Starsky"? What was I thinking?

If you've never seen S&H--and I don't mean the Stiller/Wilson movie version--well, what are you waiting for? This series is fanfic come to life. ( pimp pimp pimp )

Think you've seen guys with no concept of personal space around each other? You haven't seen these two.

Anyway, I wound up watching "Shootout" instead. Not a bad substitute, not at all.