Bill Bodden's Blog - Posts Tagged "fans"
When Fandoms Collide
Recent events have called up memories of conventions past.
It seems some overly enthusiastic person(s) at Dragon Con this past Memorial Day weekend seriously injured two DragonCon attendees by throwing chairs off a tenth-floor balcony at one of the large hotels in downtown Atlanta. The current prevailing theory is that the person(s) responsible were...
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It seems some overly enthusiastic person(s) at Dragon Con this past Memorial Day weekend seriously injured two DragonCon attendees by throwing chairs off a tenth-floor balcony at one of the large hotels in downtown Atlanta. The current prevailing theory is that the person(s) responsible were...
To read the rest of this post, please visit: http://billbodden.com/2017/09/05/when...
The Price of Fame
As a youth, I collected autographs of baseball players the couple of times a year we were able to attend pro baseball games. I managed a few good ones too: Hall of Famer Paul Molitor, Bob Uecker, better known for his Hall of Fame career as a wisecracking baseball announcer than as a player, Cub great Ernie Banks, and former Yankees catcher and Hall of Famer Yogi Berra -- those last two at baseball card shows. More recently, I've collected autographs of Babylon-5 stars, including Jason Carter, Bruce Boxleitner, Peter Jurasik, Claudia Christian, and the late Steven Furst and Jeff Conaway. It's a fun, goofy way to capture the memory of a brief moment, and while I don't actively seek out autographs of the famous any more...
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Declaring War on Disney
IN a shocking development, there's a debate raging on the Internet -- I know, right? Anyway, a group of self-entitled fanboys are trying to raise money to REMAKE The Last Jedi. The Star Wars movie that JUST CAME OUT a couple of months ago. Disney apparently did it wrong, according to these folks.
The first thing that went through my head when I head this plan was: "Disney's lawyers will have plenty of work to keep them busy, I guess." The second thing was: what a colossal waste of time, money, and effort. Go out and create your own myths and legends if you don't like the ones being handed to you. The fact that folks feel the desperate need to protest something made for entertainment -- not for political or socio-economic reasons, but because it wasn't what they wanted -- makes me wonder...
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The first thing that went through my head when I head this plan was: "Disney's lawyers will have plenty of work to keep them busy, I guess." The second thing was: what a colossal waste of time, money, and effort. Go out and create your own myths and legends if you don't like the ones being handed to you. The fact that folks feel the desperate need to protest something made for entertainment -- not for political or socio-economic reasons, but because it wasn't what they wanted -- makes me wonder...
To read the rest of this post, please visit: http://billbodden.com/2018/06/22/decl...
