Oh, sweet mother of Fred.

[camwyn]

Within less than a week of writing the story of Corporal Preston capturing his father's murderer, I find out that my mp3 collection of Challenge of the Yukon was missing several episodes- one of which was entitled "The Case THat Made Preston A Sergeant".

This, kiddies, is why we generally advocate reading/watching the entire run of a series before ficcing it. My only defense is that we're talking about a single half-hour radio programme episode from 1953, and that I had no knowledge it was even missing from my cd's. I swear, I don't even remember seeing that title on the one batch of episode summaries I managed to get hold of, and that was a VERY large batch...

*sigh*

Debating whether to buy the appropriate mp3 from someone now. Dammit, I've been Jossed by a piece of entertainment that ended before I was even conceived.

Comments

[kalikamaxwell.livejournal.com]

Just saying I read your article on how to pass for a Canadian, and had much fun. I actually learned a little about things I take for granted that americans may not be familiar with. ^^;; So yeah, kudos on that one.

[camwyn]

Thank you! Glad to know I rang a few positive notes tonight. Did I get anything wrong that you noticed? The original form of that article was in my LJ, and I edited it a bit to make it more suitable for a standalone form on my site...

[kalikamaxwell.livejournal.com]

Um, nope, sounds all good to me. Especially the poutine thing. Five years ago I couldn't imagine anybody didn't know what poutine was. Heh.

[camwyn]

Okay, cool. Thank you!

[ahayweh.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was looking for that last week!

(Um. Sorry. I'm Ahayweh, I check by here occasionally on account of being horribly addicted to pretty much everything camwyn's been serializing. *waves*)

I eventually decided I'd hallucinated the entire thing, actually. Uh, link? Pretty please with the small berry of your choice on top?

[camwyn]

http://www.megaloceros.net/passing.htm should do the trick.

[ahayweh.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see it's in the entry right below this one. I'll, uh, just slink back to lurking in my corner now. Sorry to have bothered you. *waves goodbye*

[camwyn]

No worries, hon.

[kalikamaxwell.livejournal.com]

http://www.megaloceros.net/passing.htm

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Rules of Sgt. Preston Fandom Section 1740042.1, paragraph 2e:

"Persons who had no knowledge of particular radio broadcast episodes from 1953 of said programme are not required to self flagellate when they inadvertently write fan fic describing a plot point that does in fact already exist in canon."

Case closed.

[whobunkyboo.livejournal.com]

New York Fries poutine is WAYYY better than Burger King, according to my sister in law. It's close to the authentic 'chip wagon' style served in Ottawa along the Rideau Canal (and of course in Quebec!)

And it's pronounced Nuh-NYE-mo, just in case anyone is wondering.
(Why yes, I do live nearby...)

[camwyn]

Having had both the BK poutine (in Vancouver Airport in 2000) and the New York Fries poutine (in a mall near Toronto in January 2004), I can tell you your sister-in-law is right. However, I'd like to cast my vote for the poutine served at the A&W near the 801 bus stop in Quebec City, which I had this past July. Nice stuff. I could hear my arteries hardening.

A & W

[whobunkyboo.livejournal.com]

I like their onions rings.

And I don't like onions. (In fact, I have developed a weird chemical sensitivity to them. Whereas most people's eyes just water from that chemical they release when you cut them, it has been known to cause me to vomit. Really.)

Re: A & W

[camwyn]

... dude, I think you're turning into a cat. I seem to remember onions aren't good for them either, in a puke-tacular kind of way.

Re: A & W

[whobunkyboo.livejournal.com]

Go me!

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

Certain interested parties have bludgeoned threatened bribed talking me into asking just how big the "Sergeant Preston" fandom is. I mean, are you it? Are you and three people you know it? Or is it a bit bigger than that?

[camwyn]

The Sergeant Preston fandom is divided, as nearly as I can tell, into two groups. One of them is comprised of people in the three generations surrounding World War II- that is to say, people somewhat older than my grandfather through people just a bit younger than my dad. The older ones, like Great-Uncle Vinny, remember the radio series for the most part (Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice, the cereal shot from guns, bring you another thrilling tale of adventure in the Great White North!). The younger ones mostly remember the TV show and comic books. For the most part their participation in the fandom involves collecting the old radio and TV show premiums and buying/selling tapes of the various series.

Then there's the rest of the fandom, among people my age- which seems to be me and something like six or seven other people, tops. I had one person friend me because their father raised them to appreciate old-time radio and classic mysteries and they read the Diary of a Mountie stuff; everyone else who could theoretically be called the fandom either played in the same League of Extraordinary Gentlemen game as me, or has been reading my LJ since day one. And of course there is jimismyhero, who was the only person on LJ before me to have 'sergeant preston' listed as an interest, not counting the old-time radio community. As nearly as I can tell, I'm the only person on the entire bloody Net writing Sergeant Preston fanfiction. I don't think the idea is really something that occurred to the older fans. So... yeah, basically the fandom is bloody tiny.

[camwyn]

Out of curiosity, why do they want to know?

[fireborn.livejournal.com]

We collect small fandoms.

[camwyn]

Oh? Cool, I guess... um, what do you do with them?

[fireborn.livejournal.com]

We harvest their blood by moonlight and use it for pagan rituals designed to raise the old gods from their long sleep.

....

Well, we could.

Actually we're putting together a site of Small Fandom archives (Small Fandoms Need Love Too!) and one of the sections we'd like to have going when we launch is for the fandoms so tiny there's only a handful of authors at absolute best, and only a few fics. MB mentioned you had a really obscure one; we pestered her to ask about it. (SLL is a good third her fault anyway.)

[camwyn]

We harvest their blood by moonlight and use it for pagan rituals designed to raise the old gods from their long sleep.

Well, yes, but which old gods, that's the thing-

Well, we could.

... oh.

Well, if you're gathering information on small fandom archives, that's fine with me. Feel free to add my page, such as it is- as I said, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one writing in the fandom at the moment, and I may wind up expanding the page a bit to introduce people to the fandom properly, not just to the fanfic. Glad to be of service!

[dragonwhishes.livejournal.com]

First thing: Fandoms have blood?

Second thing: Camwyn, if she's planning on summoning anything that gose by the name of Chthulu, can we make a bunker and hide in it with Charliesmum and a few other people? I don't want to be eaten.

[camwyn]

I'll get you guys the shovels if you like, but if she starts trying to summon Big C, I'm going on a road trip myself. I've got to get the Ghostbusters and then head up to New England to ring up Professor Derleth at Miskatonic U.

[dragonwhishes.livejournal.com]

Ah. Mind if I come with if she trys? I'm good for pumping gas and holding stuff.