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POSTED BY: ANNIK
UPDATED: Monday, June 7, 2004 12:24
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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 12:18 PM

Hi Browncoats! I just got a letter from EW (re: the letter writing campaign on another thread).

**Entertainment Weekly is considering your letter for publication on our Mail page. We are writing to ask for your permission to do so, and we also want to confirm the following:
(and they do so: name, email, etc.)

Just for your enjoyment and edification, I'm reposting my letter below.

**Dear EW:

**Unlike many of my fellow Firefly fans, I'm delighted Fox and Mr. Whedon have
parted company. Firefly on Fox meant Firefly scattered over the television
schedule like a mosquito on a windshield, plus commercials. Thanks to fan
demand, we have a very shiny series of commercial-free DVDs and an upcoming
feature film that will kick the go-se out of Fox's pathetic attempts to kill
this fine creation.

**Respectfully,

I don't know if this publication comes up unaltered into Canada ... so can someone keep an eye on it and let me know if actually does get published? TIA!

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 1:05 PM

SHINY

HOORAY FOR ANNIK!!!!!!!!!!!

(I guess all of our other letters were too long...)

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:01 PM

MALICIOUS

Do they even know what "go-se" means??

Mal-licious

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:19 PM

GUNHAND

I doubt they know what it means, which makes it even more hi-lerious they're gonna print it.

~-~-~-~-~-~-~-
"Oh hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hanging
around playing art critic till I get pinched by
the Man, how's about we move away from this
eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our
increasingly eerie-ass day, how's that?"

My eerie-ass website:
http://gunhandsfirefly.homestead.com/Index.html

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:36 PM

KARENKAY99

shiney!! we get ew. i'll watch for it.

"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:40 PM

ANNIK

Quote:
Originally posted by Gunhand:
I doubt they know what it means, which makes it even more hi-lerious they're gonna print it.

Heh heh heh ... that's exactly what I was counting on. Joss ain't the only one who can get around the censors with foreign-talk.

Sadly, I didn't even try to use 'sanguine', which, while English, is a relatively obscure word with ancient roots ... and ... oh, darn it! Sorry ... got my college teacher hat on by mistake.

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:43 PM

ANNIK

One more thing, for those of you who don't live in mosquito-infested places (some of you don't, right???)

My own 'in joke' was comparing Fox's scheduling to a mosquito on a windshield.

The old joke goes:
Q: What's the last thing that goes through a mosquito's mind when it hits the windshield?
A: It's @$$hole.

(Pardonnez mon Anglais, please!)

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:45 PM

GUNHAND

Actually I've known all about "sanguine" for a long while now. It's in a line in a Megadeth song and I made sure I looked it up to know all the possible meanings for it. This was in High School which was...damn it was a long time ago.

I always "slip past the censors" in conversations where I want to really say what I'm truly thinking and yet not be ejected from the room. I'm particuliarly fond of using Farsi for this since no one ever has a clue what I'm babbling about.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:47 PM

GUNHAND

Quote:
Originally posted by annik:
One more thing, for those of you who don't live in mosquito-infested places (some of you don't, right???)

My own 'in joke' was comparing Fox's scheduling to a mosquito on a windshield.

The old joke goes:
Q: What's the last thing that goes through a mosquito's mind when it hits the windshield?
A: It's @$$hole.

(Pardonnez mon Anglais, please!)

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

Eeek, don't bring up mosquitos! Mosquitos were the root cause for me being gone for most of the week in a very odd (and long story-ish) way.

But that's a funny joke anyhow.

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 5:04 AM

ANNIK

Quote:
Originally posted by Gunhand:
Actually I've known all about "sanguine" for a long while now. It's in a line in a Megadeth song and I made sure I looked it up to know all the possible meanings for it. This was in High School which was...damn it was a long time ago.

I always "slip past the censors" in conversations where I want to really say what I'm truly thinking and yet not be ejected from the room. I'm particuliarly fond of using Farsi for this since no one ever has a clue what I'm babbling about.

Heh heh ... I usually accomplish the same by sticking with English. My favourite local letter-to-the-editor that got published was about this enormous statue of a baseball bat some doofus put up near our community ... and absolutely *nowhere* near the baseball field (of any sort ... pro or kids). We (community members) thought it was pretty stupid.

The letter went thusly:

**What were the powers-that-be thinking when they erected that shiny new monolith on the corner of my neighbourhood at 97 street and 118 ave? Oh well, I guess now we can ask, "Is that a baseball bat in your pocket, or are you just happy to see us?"

Other backstory: our neighbourhood is considered 'inner city'. I'd be willing to bet that IRL, Nathan Fillion first heard about prostitues and whores from the reputation of our community (his family lives in a bedroom community next to our city ... or so I've read ... never met any of them!). So ... many of us found it highly ironic that a giant phallic symbol would be 'errected'

on the corner of this region. LOL!

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

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Monday, June 7, 2004 9:59 AM

PSELUS

got my EW this month...your letter is in fact in there (and the only one)
funny thing though...your first line makes it seem like the rest of us AREN'T happy that Fox and Whedon have parted company...
you should have said "not unlike" instead of "unlike"

hope the point gets across though

good job

"Big Damn Heroes sir."

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Monday, June 7, 2004 10:05 AM

QUICKSAND

Very fine letter, and very fine of EW to publish it, Annik... but I would like to point out that Fox never scattered "Firefly" over their schedule. It aired consistently on Friday nights... when no one is watching TV.

Not that I'm defending Fox, just... throwin' it out there.

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Monday, June 7, 2004 10:57 AM

ANNIK

Quote:
Originally posted by Quicksand:
Very fine letter, and very fine of EW to publish it, Annik... but I would like to point out that Fox never scattered "Firefly" over their schedule. It aired consistently on Friday nights... when no one is watching TV.

Not that I'm defending Fox, just... throwin' it out there.

Really? Actually, I don't really get Fox directly ... just lots of their stuff replayed on a local network (Canada). And *here*, it was all over the place: Tuesdays, Fridays, Wednesdays. I don't think it ever played on a weekend, but who knows? Oh well ... I guess that's just a lesson that I can't be perfect after all.

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

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Monday, June 7, 2004 11:00 AM

ANNIK

Quote:
Originally posted by Pselus:
got my EW this month...your letter is in fact in there (and the only one)
funny thing though...your first line makes it seem like the rest of us AREN'T happy that Fox and Whedon have parted company...
you should have said "not unlike" instead of "unlike"

hope the point gets across though

good job

"Big Damn Heroes sir."

I wrote my letter after a bunch of folks here (on another thread) started a campaign to EW, and it seemed to me that most people were quite ticked at Fox getting rid of the show (as was I). So, trying to find the 'bright side' of the loss of our show allowed me to write the letter with a bit of conflict in it ... which often seems to attract TPTB in editorial rooms. Go figure!

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

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Monday, June 7, 2004 11:38 AM

WHOODAHN

Quote:
Originally posted by Gunhand:
It's in a line in a Megadeth song and I made sure I looked it up to know all the possible meanings for it. This was in High School which was...damn it was a long time ago.

I found out the other day that the lead singer for Megadeth is David Mustaine. I've heard of the group but I've never listen to any of their music. I knew David back when he was a little gap toothed blond haired kid that would follow his sister around. I use to run around with his older sister Debbie back when we were teenagers.

Damn....it was a long time ago.

"I ain't crazy and I've got papers to prove it"

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Monday, June 7, 2004 12:24 PM

GUNSLINGINBROWNCOAT

I read it in the magazine in my school library today! I believe it's the June 11th issue, on the mailpage under the heading "Firefly Fighter" Great job! Along with the article in the last one, Firefly is getting movie publicity in EW already!

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